Will there be a shutdown of butane gas outlets this Wednesday? That’s what is being threatened by Belize Gas Company Limited, Western Gas Company Limited, Zeta Gas Limited and Gas Tomza Limited. It all has to do with the production of butane by Belize Natural Energy, at prices that the importers say cannot be undersold. […]
The U.D.P. pulled a fast one on Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers. We reported last week that the party would meet to decide whether or not the mayor’s expulsion would be rescinded. Well, that meeting did take place on Saturday and Moya Flowers is still out in the cold. That’s because it was agreed that the […]
There are no murders to report tonight but there were three shootings over the weekend. Forty-seven year old Honduran national Miguel Marcia remains bedridden inside the recovery ward of the K.H.M.H. after being shot during a robbery attempt. Marcia, a local vendor, was on his way to catch a boat near the foot of the […]
The second weekend shooting also took place in the Old Capital, a stone’s throw away from the previous incident almost twelve hours earlier. Nineteen year old Clement Bol Junior, a construction worker and student of Gwen Lizarraga High School’s Evening Division, was shot on Saturday evening while walking along West Canal in the direction of […]
Five persons, ranging from age two to sixty-eight were involved in a traffic accident on Sunday night. According to police, Antonio Calderon was driving from Corozal to Orange Walk Town accompanied by his mother, sixty-eight year old Felicita Calderon, twenty-one year old Yesenia Calderon, twenty-five year old Abel Chan and two year old Elson Chan. […]
There’s grim news in cruise tourism; this week alone ten thousand passengers will not be coming to the Jewel. That’s because there will be a noticeable absence of Carnival cruise ships from our waters this week as four of its vessels; namely the Dream which was scheduled to call on Belize on Tuesday, Glory which […]
If you drove past mile three and a half on the Northern Highway today you would have noticed a long line extending into the highway from the building that houses a new company called Trextel Belize. The operators of the company did not return our calls but according to its website, Trextel would be conducting […]
The machineries of the both major political parties were in full gear over the past weekend. The opposition People’s United Party held two conventions; both were uncontested. In the Belize Rural North, after complaints by aspirant Jerome Wade that he was boxed out of the convention, Attorney Arthur Saldivar was endorsed as the candidate to […]
The other P.U.P. convention over the weekend was held in Red Bank. Like Saldivar, Rodwell Ferguson was endorsed as the Party’s candidate to run for Stann Creek West. Ferguson won the 2003 general elections but lost in 2008 to Minister Melvin Hulse and is now attempting a comeback. In his speech, Ferguson said he wants […]
A waitress of Punta Gorda and her nine children are homeless tonight after a fire destroyed their home. Thirty-five year old Rosie Canelo, told police that she was asleep at around two on Sunday afternoon when the blaze woke her up. Canelo says her children were outside playing at the time and none of them […]
A man walked free this morning for a murder which occurred back in 2008. In the first nolle pros for this year, thirty six year old Roger Anthony, a known figure of Ghost Town gang walked from the murder of Dillon Bennett who was gunned down in October 2008 at the corner of Central American […]
While Anthony is out of prison, Arthur Young was back in court today. Two weeks ago, Young beat charges for keeping prohibited material, drug trafficking and possession. He was charged along with Errol Haynes, who is still facing trial, after police found a silencer at a house in Vista del Mar. But Young was in […]
It’s an offence that is all too common, but often goes unreported and unpunished. Today a Belize City woman was charged with Child Neglect for allegedly leaving her three children alone inside a wooden house, with a candle burning and the door padlocked from outside. Twenty-eight year old Mary Tatum was read the single charge […]
There has recently been an increase in missing persons reported on the police blotter, but they are often followed by updates that the persons have returned home. That’s with the exception of cases like Janessa Jones, who was found murdered or Matthew Gonzalez who hasn’t been found at all. Tonight a Belize City mother is […]
There’s finally some good news for Christopher Bowman who has been suffering with a tumor for more than a decade. If all goes according to plan, Bowman will be flying out to the United States for urgent surgery. While his condition has worsened significantly, there is hope that the new round of medical interventions will […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and here is another portion of Sport’s Monday. The 2nd of the Belize Cycling Association’s weekend races for 2011 blasted off from I front of Leslie’s Imports on the Western Highway as 54 of the elite and Masters riders made a bid to complete the 26 mile ride in less […]
