It’s the countdown for Christmas and murders aren’t letting up. The latest took place in Dangriga over the weekend where Randy Vasquez lost his life when he tried to break up a fight involving one of his friends and a minor. The area is a known hotspot where many at risk youths hang out and […]
The Urbinas, Rosendo Junior and his wife Becky, along with a domestic, were assaulted by armed masked men as they were exiting their secluded estate in Honey Camp on the evening of December fourth. The extended family, including Rosendo Senior, the current United Democratic Party standard bearer for Orange Walk South, took flight to the […]
The Chiquibul Forest in the west has come under sustained plunder. We’ve seen the images of the illegal logging taking place and tonight, we’ll look at the lucrative xate trade. Xate are leaves from three Chamaedorea palm species. The palms grow naturally, in abundance and are harvested in the forests of Belize, Mexico, and Guatemala. […]
Five teachers and five students were involved in an accident on December fifteenth. The students were going to join over ninety others on a excursion to a new planetarium that recently opened in Chetumal as part of a program called Best Students. The van that the students and teachers were travelling in did not get […]
The Ministry of Education’s Belize City Office was burglarized over the weekend and the culprits managed to escape with thirteen thousand dollars in electronic devices and equipment; all property of the Government of Belize. And while two of the three suspects managed to escape, police nabbed nineteen year old Frank Trapp, who lives three blocks […]
Two men, who were convicted of Attempted Murder on December twelfth, were back in the Northern Session of the Supreme Court today for sentencing. But only one of them is in prison tonight after a decision by Justice Denis Hanomansingh. Darwin Diaz was sentenced to twelve years in prison, while Wilbert Cuellar was discharged by […]
A Belmopan resident will spend Christmas in prison for allegedly breaking into the home of Josephine Sanchez in Belize City and attacking her fifteen year old daughter. Today, the accused man, twenty year old Marin Alvarenga, appeared before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez and pleaded not guilty to a charge of Aggravated Burglary. The minor alleges that […]
Businessman Stephen Okeke, was running as an independent candidate for Belize City Mayor when that campaign came to a sudden end because he felt his life was in danger. Okeke has resumed his bid for mayor but today he had another startling announcement. He told the media that employees of his Joy Juice franchise were […]
Last week Friday, a bill called the Independent Commission Complaint Bill was withdrawn from the House because it was not ready for presentation. It would have provided persons an opportunity to be heard in respect of complaints against the police. Well, tonight a woman says that a bad breakup with a senior officer has turned […]
The Belize Audubon Society (BAS) traditionally conducts annual Christmas bird counts. BAS has compiled three Christmas bird counts so far. The first being the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary Christmas bird count held on December fourteenth followed by the Belize City Christmas bird count on December eighteenth. The next bird count is slated for December twenty […]
This year, the government is providing forty thousand dollars to area representatives for what it calls a Christmas assistance program. The PM said on Friday that the funds will be used to help select families during the Christmas season. Well, in the Mesopotamia division, a Christmas party was held on Saturday. It’s the yearly Christmas […]
There was another Christmas party over the weekend. It took place in Lords Bank, but was for students from Bermudian Landing and Rancho Dolores. The Belize Rural Primary School in Rancho Dolores was recently plunged into grief following an accident immediately in front of the compound, in which a toddler was killed. But over the […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The national Secondary Schools Sporting Association proudly presented its national basketball tournament at San Pedro inside the Angel Nunez Auditorium on Saturday and we join the championship match between San Pedro High and Sadie Vernon Tech of Belize City as Andrew Ortiz faces Charles Richards […]
