For the second time in twelve days, the Police Department has removed an American type fragmentation grenade from south side, Belize City. On Saturday, the police were tipped off about the location of the live grenade. Bomb expert and B.D.F. Commander, Brigadier General David Jones was called in to retrieve the grenade from Lake Independence […]
San Pedro is primarily known as a premier destination for tourists from across the world and is visited by hundreds of thousands of visitors annually. But there is a flipside to La Isla Bonita because north of the island is also known for illicit activity. The trafficking of large quantity of drugs, primarily cocaine in […]
A home was completely destroyed by fire before midday today. The persons who lived at the home weren’t there at the time of the fire. While Police and Fire Officials have not classified the cause of the fire – best information to us is that it may have been intentionally set – a report that […]
Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte assumed office on January first, several days after a claim had been filed against businessman Andre Vega and U.D.P. insider Sharon Pitts. Legal action is being taken by the Government of Belize against those individuals in an effort to recover almost one million dollars that was disbursed in two sums of […]
The 2017 opening ceremony of the Supreme Court took place this morning; the proceedings started with a service at the historic Saint John’s Cathedral after which the judiciary and Bar members headed to the other equally historic building, the Supreme Court on Regent Street. After the pageantry of the inspection of the guard of honor, […]
The transition from Speaker of the House of Representatives to Attorney General has been a work in progress for Michael Peyrefitte. He formally took over that government department at the beginning of January, when outgoing Attorney General Vanessa Retreage demitted office. Since taking over that responsibility a number of high profile cases have landed on […]
The Government of Belize has announced through a Communiqué that the meeting of the Senate scheduled for Thursday, January nineteenth, will proceed as scheduled. The commitment for a thirteenth senator was made eight years ago, but newly-elected Senator representing non-governmental organizations, Osmany Salas, will have to wait even longer to sit in the senate. That […]
The House of Representatives began debate on the Referendum Act (Amendment) Bill, on its second reading, shortly after its break to consider the first reading bills. That debate lasted nearly three hours, and passions were brought to the fore on an amendment that, as several debaters said, was intensely personal to all Belizeans. The basic […]
Holders of the Belize 2038 Bonds, also known as the Superbond, are considering Belize’s offer to amend key points in the package, which was made as of Thursday. Interest on the Superbond is offered to be cut from as much as six point seven-six-seven percent starting in August, a step-up from five percent annually, to […]
Forty-one-year-old Geovanni Ayuso, a salesman of San Jose Palmar Village in the Orange Walk District, lost his life earlier today when the motorcycle he was riding collided into pickup truck near August Pine Ridge. The fatal road traffic accident happened sometime around eleven o’clock this morning, when Ayuso slammed into a vehicle driven at the […]
There were two separate shootings in the City over this weekend. We start first with the shooting incident where thirty-five-year-old Deon Bennett of Mayflower Street was shot multiple times. Sometime around seven-thirty on Sunday morning, Bennett was riding his bike on University Drive when a SUV approached him from the opposite direction. Bennett told police […]
A total of sixteen grenades have been discovered and removed from the streets of Southside Belize City. Most have been without incident, but there have been three explosions, two of which produced fatalities. More than eight years after the first instance of violent and criminal use of a grenade on Mayflower Street, Belize City, the […]
Rebecca Rath is among ninety delegates from countries all over competing for the crown of Miss Universe. Only once has Belize been able to make it among the top ten was in 1970’s, Rath hopes to break and improve that record. But the challenges for the girl from Dangriga are immense. Tonight, she is in […]
In other news….five persons were killed and fifteen others wounded after a shooter opened fire at a nightclub in Playa del Carmen resort, Mexico. The coastal resort town, which is a popular location visited by many including Belizeans, was the venue for the annual ten-day Bartenders, Promoters, Musicians (BPM) Festival that sees music lovers and […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Feature on sporting highlights including Belize Jaguars at the Copa Centro Americana Games in Panama…]
