A shocking murder took place on Saturday night in Orange Walk Town. Thirty-seven year old Rodulfo Pererra aka “Boxie”, a businessman, was ambushed as he arrived home to his wife and children. He had just closed his business for the night and had headed home. Two men appeared to have been waiting to pounce on […]
In Friday’s newscast, we showed you the video of hundreds of persons lining up at the George Price Centre in Belmopan where they took the oath to become new Belizean citizens. The rush to process and bestow citizenship on hundreds of persons is telling because municipal elections are just around the corner. And with the […]
U.D.P. town councilor Willie Cruz remains the subject of a scandal involving the alleged rape of a teenager in the Corozal District on December twenty-ninth. The father of the girl came forward last week accusing the politician of forcefully intoxicating and carnally knowing the sixteen year old after offering her a ride home. Upon nearing […]
With elections around the corner, we asked viewers if they thought that the U.D.P. government had kept its manifesto promise to reduce the cost of living. The results are as follows: seventy-seven percent said no while the remaining twenty-three percent said yes. One viewer went further to say that; “No they have not. As a […]
There’s a sad story tonight about a six week old baby with a rare birth defect. In fact, statistics show that only one in five thousand babies are born with what is known as imperforate anus. Ronelia Ferguson was born with the condition, but it wasn’t detected until weeks later. Her parents, Tanisha Fortnard and […]
A father and his son are both lucky to be alive tonight after receiving varying degrees of injury during a freak accident along the Southern Highway in the Toledo District over the weekend. Anthony Edwards, his wife Justina and their children were returning home from church on Sunday afternoon when a flatbed truck carrying a […]
While the father and son survived the freak accident, in the north a man lost his life in a traffic accident over the weekend. On Saturday night Perfecto Victorino was travelling towards the Venezuela area of Corozal Town, but while on the Santa Rita Road, he was knocked down and killed. Victorino was part of […]
In court today, a Belize City man was charged for allegedly breaking into the Ordonez Street residence of his brother and stealing over a thousand dollars in items. According to Alvaro Avilez he became aware of the burglary when he saw forty-seven year old Andy Avilez, walking on Orange Street dressed in his stolen clothes. […]
While one man was remanded for stealing from his brother, another is prison tonight for robbing his friend at knife point. The victim, fifty year old Lloyd Griffith says that on December twenty-eighth, he was playing dominoes with friends, including Henry Lauriano, who he has known for nine years. As Griffith was leaving after the […]
The Gang Suppression Unit carried out an operation in the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena on Sunday morning; their targets were gang members and reputed drug traffickers operating in the Cayo District. At six o’clock in the morning, the GSU searched a house occupied by a reputed drug peddler on Flamboyant Street, […]
The history of Belize, from settlement to nationhood, has been written by renowned authors from just about every perspective conceivable. Throughout the years scholars have studied and published accounts of the Jewel’s colonial, political and cultural past with little to no emphasis placed on the economics that drive its people. Barbara Bulmer-Thomas and her husband […]
The month of January is considered “maaga season” since it follows a spending spree for the Christmas holidays. But that won’t be a problem for one lucky Dangriga resident who won the one hundred and seventeen thousand, five hundred dollar Lotto jackpot last Wednesday. Small business owner, Disarki Lewis, says he was in disbelief when […]
Manatees are endangered globally and in Belize, mariners have posed a major threat to their survival. But biologists and manatee researchers have taken up the challenge to rescue the mammals in distress. While a few recent rescue missions have been unsuccessful, today a manatee calf was captured near Duke Marine on the Northern Highway. While […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. While the movers and shakers in the football world try to establish an organized administrative structure, the beat still goes on with the launching of the Belize Bank Cup 2 weeks ago. Yesterday, we caught up with week 2 in this 4 team, single round […]
