There is breaking news. A Cayo resident has died at the police station in Caye Caulker. Police are not talking about this incident, but Gilbert Zotz died in custody so there are many questions to answer. A team of police investigators from San Pedro are on their way to Caye Caulker to investigate the incident. […]
A student from the Bernice Yorke Institute of Learning has topped the 2015 Primary School Examinations. Back in 2013, the institution yielded the top performer and in 2014, the second highest grade and now in 2015, Bernice Yorke did it again. Gabriel Hope, a thirteen year old student from Belize City topped this year with […]
There is a lot of political news tonight and we can confirm that a bye election will take place in July for the Dangriga Constituency following the resignation of area representative Ivan Ramos. We are coming to all that but we start with a story about the Petrocaribe funds; an issue that has been in […]
A late evening press release from the government has confirmed that a bi-election for the Dangriga Constituency will be held exactly one month from today, on Wednesday, July eighth. So how could this happen…two People’s United Party candidates resigning from the House…two bi-elections in just a few months? The stepping down of Dangriga Area Representative […]
In mid-May the P.U.P. announced via conference that Ivan Ramos would not be running again, and would make way for Anthony Sabal. At that conference Ramos seemed openly bitter, suggesting that his leaving was other than voluntary. So did he decide to leave or was he pushed out of the P.U.P.? According to P.U.P. Leader, […]
While Ivan Ramos was making his announcement in Dangriga, Prime Minister Dean Barrow was making it on the podium at Darrell Bradley’s endorsement convention in Belize City. That fact hasn’t escaped the PUP’s attention, and has helped to fuel their conviction that Ramos was bribed to step down. Ramos’ financial woes made centre stage when […]
Ivan Ramos didn’t have much favors with the party after he accepted the controversial Petrocaribe Father’s Day Cheer from G.O.B. Deputy Party Leader Julius Espat went on record to condemn the acceptance of monies because the party is suing the government on the grounds that the use of the monies is illegal since it did […]
In the aftermath of the resignation, Ivan ‘Macca’ Ramos has no kind words for the P.U.P.; after all he says that the P.U.P. had no kind words for him. According to Ramos, it may very well be that he was set up to step down. He says he has no regrets with his decision, but […]
The body of a veteran fireman was found burnt inside his vehicle in Dangriga. But who would want him dead and why? Well, it seems that the price on his head was high because his killers didn’t only fire a barrage of bullets on his vehicle, but they also set him on fire inside his […]
Belize City police are tonight looking for well known street figure, thirty-year-old Maurice Felix, who was released on bail last Friday after being charged with the attempted murder of two men. He is now wanted for murder two weeks after the shooting. On Monday, May twenty-fifth, Mark Gentle and Calvin Cumberbatch were both seated in […]
A chopping incident over the weekend left a man hospitalized. Twenty seven year old Rodolfo Perez was chopped multiple times in the Long Bank Road a few miles outside of Dangriga. Officer in Charge in Dangriga told us more. Supt. Roy Joseph, O.C., Dangriga “On Sunday, the seventh of June 2015, at approximately two-ten […]
An official investigation into the cause of an airplane crash near Lighthouse Reef last Tuesday, involving a Tropic Air flight destined for Roatan, Honduras remains ongoing. The inquiry is being undertaken by the Department of Civil Aviation which has teamed up with the Department of Environment to safely remove the submerged aircraft from its aquatic […]
Rogiers’ version of the subsequent rescue contrasts starkly with that of the coast guard. They reported that not only was the operation successful but that their response time was well under a half hour, having deployed assets from Calabash Caye. According to Rogiers, that account is not entirely accurate. Isani Cayetano “I was made […]
Sixty-one year old Lester Yorke’s badly decomposing body was found in a vat in February 2014 at his family’s premises on Guerrero Street in Belize City. This morning, his brother, forty-two year old Michael Anthony Rowland, was arraigned for manslaughter before the Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. This afternoon, Rowland sought and was granted bail […]
On Sunday, Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley was officially endorsed as U.D.P. Standard Bearer. As far as conventions go, it was a low-key political event since Petrocaribe made its entry into politics. There were about three hundred and fifty persons there and only a few political shirts…but there were heavy hitters present to herald Bradley’s […]
And one more piece of political news…This isn’t exactly a great time in the P.U.P.’s long history, or even a particularly good time. So of course, the PM couldn’t resist poking some not-so-good natured fun at Francis Fonseca who he says is breaking up the P.U.P. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Francis deh bout […]
Internal and criminal investigations are currently ongoing at the Police Department in Belize City after a city resident was shot by an on-duty police officer. Thirty-year old Kareem Betancourt is tonight in stable condition and under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the right arm by a police […]
There were two fatal accidents over the weekend…one in Sand Hill, Belize District and the other in Hicatee Village, Toledo. On Saturday afternoon, fifty-seven year old Oscar Chacon of Burrell Boom village was knocked down and killed as he crossed the Phillip Goldson Highway near its junction with the Maskall Road. Orange Walk resident, thirty […]
The second fatality took the life of seventy-three year old Isidoro Galvez of Hicatee Village in Toledo District. Around midnight on Saturday, police came across an extensively damaged Mazda pickup near mile twenty on the Southern Highway. Inside the vehicle was forty-six year old Magarita Cal, the common-law wife of Galvez. They were both travelling […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Friday night saw the opening game in the semi-pro basketball championship which saw the defending champions, San Pedro Tiger Sharks grab game I of the 3 game series in a 77 – 64 final score over Cayo Western Ballaz. Darwin Leslie did most of […]
