Tonight, our Channel Five family is pleased to announce that we have onceagain made Belize proud of our regional accomplishments as a national station. This year, we won the most awards in television in the Caribbean. As a member of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, this station has always strived to maintain its high broadcasting standards […]
And that was the good news, but now to crime…Last week, the A and R Enterprise Limited was robbed of almost thirteen thousand dollars in cash. And this morning, robbers staged a brazen heist at the Provident Bank Limited located at the corner of Barrack Road and Craig Street. There were two of them, dressed […]
The peace and quiet of a sunny afternoon in the small village of Lemonal was shattered by the gruesome discovery of a body in a shallow grave, just behind the community school. It wasn’t a random discovery, but the result of a search for missing villager, twenty-seven year old Denvo Banner. The young man, an […]
In the Supreme Court, a major decision has been delivered about a sitting justice. Justice Courtney Abel handed down a decision last Friday on two claims: claim eighty three of 2013 filed by Dean Boyce and claim eighty five of 2013 filed by British Caribbean Bank Limited and Lord Michael Ashcroft. The claims challenged the […]
Justice Abel found “that the evidence put before the JLSC was capable of amounting to and therefore could have amounted to misbehavior. Likewise the question of inability to discharge the functions of the office related to the office of the Court of Appeal.” It is good news for the Claimants, says Attorney Magali Marin Young, […]
And in the Magistrate’s Court… A security guard of the A and R Store on the Phillip Goldson Highway was arraigned for conspiracy to commit robbery before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Twenty-eight year old Leroy Ciego is the first to be charged for the robbery, but it is believed he assisted in the […]
Robert Jeffries is tonight commencing a two-year sentence for handling stolen goods after being caught in possession of a laptop computer which was stolen from a law office in Belize City. Robert, who is the nephew of former Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries, is also the subject of a lengthy rap sheet for mostly offenses […]
Last week, Cayo cops detained nineteen year old Unitedville resident Steven Gomez for his involvement in the murder of Victor Vargas, of that same village. Gomez was questioned, released, and detained again. But today, it was another teenager who was charged for Vargas’ murder. Nineteen year old Joseph Vacario was arraigned this morning in San […]
A spray of gunfire on Friday night has left forty-year-old Ralph Martinez, known in the streets of Belize City as Mini-man, hospitalized for multiple injuries received during the shooting incident. Shortly before ten o’clock, police visited the K.H.M.H. where they observed Martinez in a stable condition. Reports are that Mini-man, a resident of Mayflower Street, […]
It made the news in mid-July when the European Union gifted the Ministry of Health with eleven brand new, late-model Toyota Hilux pickups. The vehicles were to be immediately deployed in the districts to assist in the ministry’s surveillance and prevention activities where vector-borne diseases like dengue are concerned. Well six weeks after, the vehicles […]
Over two hundred and thirty Belizeans have had an opportunity to study in Taiwan in past years. Some twenty plus students are selected annually from numerous applications as the lucky recipients of scholarships under the International Cooperation Development Fund of Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This year, a record number of twenty-six students from across […]
Also on Saturday, Galen University officially opened its Belize City Branch on Mercy Lane, located just next door to the office of the Belize Family Life Association. The event was held simultaneously in Punta Gorda where the university also opened a branch. With ten centers country-wide, Local Marketing Director of the University, Farron Louriano, says […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We begin with game 1 of the 3 game Championship series for the Firm’s Division title. We pick up the action in the 4th quarter with Belize Bank/Airport down 8 points to Complex. Cassian Flowers comes up with loose ball off this broken play […]
