Just after six this afternoon, a U.S. national living in San Pedro for some years was found dead in his rented apartment at the Reef Village Resort on the island. As far as it is known, there was one visible wound on his face, but it is early to say if foul play was committed. […]
CONCACAF dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when it officially wrote to the Football Federation of Belize that the Belmopan Bandits will not be allowed to play in the 2014-2015 Champions League. The notice to the F.F.B. was at four o’clock and immediately after, the CONCACAF website posted that Costa Club Sport Herediano earns a wildcard […]
As we said, the contract to upgrade the pitch of the F.F.B. Football field in Belmopan was issued to a Belizean contractor…but the work has not been completed so Belize is being penalized and cannot participate in the Champions League. According to Vicente, aside from the one hundred and fifty-two thousand US dollars that was […]
This morning twenty-two year old Noe Gonzalez, nineteen year old Angel Cardenas and twenty-eight year old Mateo Pott were escorted back to the Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court. On July ninth the trio were formally charged for the murder of seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes. One day after, they were charged for his kidnapping. The three […]
A pair of minors, ages fifteen and seventeen, both Guatemalan nationals, has been charged with kept firearm and ammunition without a gun license after being nabbed near the Caracol Archaeological Reserve. The teenagers, along with two others, were discovered inside Belizean territory by a patrol consisting of police and B.D.F. personnel, as well as a […]
About thirty-four million dollars is being spent on road works in the Old Capital. Today, Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley, along with the Taiwanese Ambassador launched another project to complement the ongoing infrastructure works, as well as the aesthetics of the downtown area. The official renovation of the Commercial Center is taking off immediately and […]
Sanitation has been in the news incessantly, with the B.M.L. situation threatening to blow up and out of control. A very timely intervention by Prime Minister Barrow in the form of a financial bailout saved the day. It’s not the first time the PM has provided some serious cash assistance to the Belize City Council, […]
Today, we can report that there is no give in the impasse between ASR/BSI and the B.S.C.F.A. Cane farmers have instructed the B.S.C.F.A. to ask for intervention from the Sugar Industry Control Board, which is government’s entity in the industry. The B.S.C.F.A. has done so. But the Prime Minister has stated that he is reluctant […]
A Belmopan mother was holding her three month old son when she and her family were held up at gunpoint by an armed man. It happened on Tuesday afternoon when the Guity family was preparing to leave the river located in the Riviera area in the outskirts of the capital. According to twenty-eight year old […]
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, on a working visit to Belize, called on Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington at his Belize City office this morning, where agreements were signed to formalize bilateral relations between Ecuador and Belize. Before now, neither countries had any formal ties with the other. So, the purpose of the mission […]
In the absence of an extradition treaty between Belize and Ecuador, thirty-nine-year-old Christian Ebanks, also known as Floyd Ebanks Jurado, wanted in that country for murder, remains a free man. In mid-May, Ebanks made headlines when he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being found in possession of an unlicensed firearm. He was […]
Earlier in the newscast, we reported that the Belmopan Bandits have been replaced in the 2014-2015 CONCACAF Champions League. That is news is followed by more bad news because up until today, the national team that is set to participate in the 2014 UNCAF Tournament in September, has been functioning without a coach. As incredible […]
Phase one of the infrastructure program in Orange Walk Town is underway, including paving of the Belize/Corozal Road, sidewalks and drainage. It’s a huge project, about four miles of road from one end of town to the other. It’s also been a long time in coming, much to the frustration of residents and the municipal […]
Mayor Bernard is so happy about the road work that he’s not even making much noise about the infamous San Antonio Road. U.D.P. contractor of choice, Imer Hernandez, who happens to be the nephew of Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, has gotten the two-million-dollar contract to pave the stretch of road. It’s not the first […]
If you can sing it, bring it, goes into semi-final round tonight live at the Bliss Institute beginning at nine p.m. At this stage of the competition, the challenges for the performers are getting way tougher. To win the grand prize, the finalists have to BRING IT on stage with a ten thousand dollar performance […]
