The heat from last week Wednesday’s House meeting continues to permeate the televised newscasts and radio shows. The special sitting of the House was apparently convened to introduce a motion in the House records to embarrass the current Leader of the Opposition and the former Prime Minister. But instead of the chastisement of the P.U.P. […]
Earlier in the newscast, we reported on the dispute between Minister Michael Finnegan and Dolores Balderamos Garcia resulting from comments Garcia made about the Mace Bearer Brian “Yellow Man” Audinette. Audinette spoke to News Five Jose Sanchez a few minutes ago about the incident and the photos circulated by the Belize Times. Audinette said he […]
Tonight, there is a new charge of brutality by the Gang Suppression Unit against two men, one not only ended up in the hospital, but also before the courts. Jermaine Ottley has a case pending for drug trafficking in the lower court, but before Ottley could make it to court today, he claims he was […]
A post mortem examination was conducted on the body of twenty-six year old police constable Roy Robert Fernandez today to ascertain whether the cause of death was the result of a violent thrashing he suffered at the hands of a pair of siblings in Georgetown Village over a week ago. Fernandez died in Independence Village […]
The performance of the Jaguars at the recent Gold Cup Games is still the subject of debate. The lack of resources was a rallying cry, but tonight here is some good news for the Football Federation of Belize. This morning the organization sealed a deal with a Central American company to modernize at least one […]
On Friday, members of the Belize Ex-Services League were alarmed when they discovered that the entrance to the building they have been occupying since the establishment of the organization decades ago, had been fastened with chains and locks. That action was taken by the National Executive Council, led by president Bernard Adolphus, following a Supreme […]
On September nineteenth the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an application for an injunction against US Capital Energy. The application was filed by SATIIM and leaders of four communities on the borders of the SarstoonTemash National Park. The oil company has built a large road into the park, has constructed a drill site and […]
The Government of Belize established the National Bank of Belize in April 2013. NBBL was formed primarily to provide concessionary credit to teachers, public officers and needy Belizeans. The state-owned institution is now set to open its doors, and the House has asked the Senate for approval of twenty-million dollars in capitalization. That matter was […]
A recent decision by the Caribbean Court of Justice ended before the House of Representatives when the government put forward a motion targeting the former prime minister and the then attorney general. At the Senate meeting on Monday, the motion was also debated. But there’s another side to the litigation story – the side which […]
A man hid marijuana inside his boxers, but that didn’t stop Police from finding the stash. Belize City resident Jermaine Alex Grant was searched by Police on East Collet Canal on Monday and fifteen point six grams of marijuana was found on him. Grant was arrested and charged for possession of controlled drugs and appeared […]
A woman who is engaged to a B.D.F. soldier is having second thoughts about marriage after he allegedly punched her, pulled a machete on her and threatened to kill her and her family. According to Melissa Jenkins, she and her fiancé Michael Zuniga were at a family function at her mother’s home when Zuniga got […]
A team of young football athletes is representing the jewel in the CONCACAF U-fifteen Championship being held in the Cayman Islands. And today in their first match against St. Lucia, team Belize beat that country one-nil. The tournament will see participation from Central American and Caribbean countries as well as CONCACAF member states. And Belize’s […]
A Utah born serial killer, linked to eleven murders in the U.S., was in Belize for a month in 2005. Israel Keyes slit his wrists In December 2012 while incarcerated for a murder in Anchorage, Alaska. According to reports in the international media, between 2001 to 2008 Keyes traveled to Canada, Mexico and Belize. The […]
It is coming down to the wire… Who will Be the Next Superstar? That’s the question in everyone’s mind and everyone has a favourite. Tonight, it’s down to three safe hopeful superstars and a knockout round will determine who else will move on to the finals. But before we get to that, the producers of […]
