The U.D.P. Caribbean Shores campaign was a month long; it was fought hard on the ground and on the airwaves by the three contenders. Two had strong political backing and on Sunday only one would emerge as the standard bearer for the constituency of four thousand plus voters that range from the affluent to the […]
On Sunday, November twenty-seventh, Castula Westby, a resident of Zericote Street in Belize City, was stabbed numerously; her family says as much thirteen times, while laying asleep inside her bedroom. The home invasion, it is believed, was the result of enmity between her grandson and a group of young men from the neighborhood over a […]
For a month five men were on trial for the murder of twenty year old Randy Coye. Late Friday night, a jury of twelve emerged from the deliberating room and announced that the five were found not guilty. It is believed that there were six perpetrators involved in the brutal killing; Edwin Flowers, Bandon Smith, […]
Javier Castillo, a former teacher from Escuela Mexico who was also once elected as U.D.P. Councilor to the Corozal Town Council was savagely murdered in October 2009 and Hilberto Hernandez from the village of San Narciso was initially charged with Murder. But during trial on November fourteenth of this year, Hernandez pleaded guilty to the […]
A Belize City young woman claims says she was raped by two men, one which is her friend. The rape case came up before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez today and the eighteen year old claims she was raped after having consensual sex with one of them. The alleged rape occurred last Thursday at the home of […]
Mexican national forty-four year old Martin Rafael Urias was busted with a huge amount of cocaine on Thursday night and by Friday evening, he was tried and convicted. Urias was sentenced to sixteen years in prison following the major drug bust near the Belize/Mexico Border in Corozal. It was not Urias’ first trip to Belize. […]
Emotions are running high on both sides of the fence locally as Caleb Orozco on behalf of UNIBAM is challenging Section 53 of the Criminal Code, but the Churches are opposed to that and have been organizing country wide. On Saturday, in down town Belize City, a rally was held, the numbers were not as […]
A family from Consuelo Street was able to save their house, but lost all their belongings when an early morning fire damaged a section of their home. Forty-four year old, food vendor, Shirley Trapp, along with her common-law husband and three children were sleeping when she suddenly woke up to a fire at the front […]
BELTRAIDE, the investment promotion arm of the government, signed up today with the International Development Bank for a major grant as part of the Compete Caribbean Program. The forty million US dollar private sector development program is jointly funded by the IDB, the United Kingdom Department of International Development (DFID) and the Canadian International Development […]
Two and a half months after his passing, the authorized biography of George Price is on sale at outlets around the country. It took Smith two years to conclude and publish George Price: A Life Revealed. He spent countless hours on research and interviewing the father of the nation, who was well known as a […]
It was an early Christmas for well deserved children from numerous children’s homes across the country. The second annual Spirit of Christmas Concert took place on Saturday morning at the Bliss. Over two hundred attended and left with gifts courtesy of the Special Envoy for Women and Children. News Five’s Delahnie Bain reports. Delahnie Bain, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Central Secondary School Sports Association Basketball Competition has been kicking up dust lately inside Belize City so we journeyed to the Civic Centre Friday night to find out which 2 teams would round out the final four since St. John’s College and Wesley College […]
