As we reported in our newscast on Monday, Justice Manuel Sosa has been sworn in as President of the Court of Appeal in what has been described as the Belizeanization of the Court. Justice Sosa was sworn in by Governor General Colville Young and the event was witnessed by Attorney General, B.Q. Pitts at the […]
It’s the first news out of Belmopan for the New Year and confirms what we reported late last week that government intended to appoint Justice Manuel Sosa as the new president of the Court of Appeal. Well, it became official today when Sosa was sworn in by Governor General, Colville Young, at Belize House in […]
There were a number of controversies in cruise tourism when we left off last year. Zoning of the Fort Street Tourism Village and the proposed introduction of cruise tourism in the Placencia Peninsula were the two hot button issues. And to begin our newscast for 2011, we report on another storm brewing for stakeholders in […]
Police detained three men at the close of 2010 for the murder of Nigerian taxi driver, Francis Chukwu. After a weekend in lockdown, Kendal Green, Egbery “Eggie” Daly and Jermaine “Bow Foot” Zuniga, were arraigned today. They appeared unrepresented before Senior Magistrate, Sharon Frazer where they were jointly read a single charge of Murder. It’s […]
On December seventh, government imposed an unprecedented ban on this station. Two weeks later, after discussions, Prime Minister Dean Barrow indicated that at the first meeting of Cabinet for this year, which is on Tuesday, he will prevail on the wisdom of his colleagues to remove the suspension of normal relations. We’re counting down and […]
New amendments to the Crime Control and Criminal Justice Act have now come into effect. The amendments were passed in the House and Senate last December as a way to clamp down on crime and violence. The act has gone through several changes and numerous of the latest amendments, gazetted on December eighteenth, are disquieting […]
The New Year got off to a rocky start for a Belize City couple; forty-nine year old Sherland Sanker and fifty-two year old Conrad Dougal. It’s so bad that Dougal ended up before a Magistrate today to face charges of Aggravated Assault and Grievous Harm. According to Sanker, she went to visit Dougal on New […]
Women moving several pounds of weed; it’s not a usual occurrence but that was the case down south on Friday afternoon. Punta Gorda police were tipped off by one of their own who saw Thomasia Rash entering a James Bus, on the Southern Highway, carrying bags believed to be used to transport drugs. The bus […]
There were two drownings reported since the start of the New Year. One happened in a lagoon at the Country Side Park in Spanish Lookout community around three on New Year’s Eve. It claimed the life of twenty nine year old Eddy Dueck, a visiting Canadian who was jet skiing in the lagoon. Police reports […]
This year’s first newborn at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is from up north. At eight minutes after three o’clock on January first, Refina Tun of Chan Chen Village in Corozal, gave birth to a baby girl. There were delivery complications but Tun was able to deliver a healthy eight pounds, two ounces bouncing baby. […]
The number of Belizean students pursuing tertiary education in neighboring Mexico has increased significantly on an annual basis since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in that country began offering scholarship opportunities for studies in various disciplines. Another group of Belizeans will be enrolling in universities across Mexico as twenty students have been short listed for […]
Remember Christopher Bowman? Since the age of ten years he has been living with a rare condition called a bleeding tumor which, as far as we can tell, has only been detected locally on him. Bowman is short by four months of his twenty-fourth birthday. But as that milestone quickly approaches, the bleeding tumor continues […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Folks we head north to the Santa Elena Border for the 21st running of the New Years Cycling Classic by Krem. On this New Years Day 86 elite riders are in the hunt for the glory including 6 Mexicans, 2 Costa Ricans, 1 Venezuelan and […]
