There was a late evening shooting today. Just before six o’clock this evening, the security guard at the law offices of Courtenay Coye was shot and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Early reports are that two men drove up in a car before opening fire at security guard Lazarus Jeffords, who was hit […]
The People’s United Party will not have to deal with Attorney Arthur Saldivar anytime soon and that’s because the second lawsuit he filed against the party was thrown out in its entirety this afternoon. After a four-hour hearing session, Supreme Court Justice Courtenay Abel dismissed Saldivar’s application for an emergency injunction, he was seeking, to […]
The Belmopan convention proceeds this Sunday as planned with Weizman Patt, Michelle Rodriguez and Oscar Mira. So is this the end of the Arthur Saldivar/P.U.P. saga? There is a default judgment pending with respect to his first claim in which Saldivar sued the party for two hundred and ninety thousand dollars in special damages. In […]
There was a robbery today in Caye Caulker, but quick police action helped to capture the two thieves and recover the stolen items shortly after the incident. It happened around two-thirty this afternoon at the Caye Caulker Gas Station that is located on Back Bridge Marina on the island. Fifty-year-old pump attendant Luis Choc was […]
Siblings Anthony and Jamie Archer perished on impact during a deadly road traffic accident along the San Antonio Road in the Toledo District on the evening of July twenty-fourth. The brothers were along with two other young men inside a Toyota Corolla when the driver of the vehicle lost control and overturned multiple times before […]
The top brass of the Belize Coast Guard headed today to Bacalar Chico, a national park. The occasion was the groundbreaking ceremony for a forwarding operating base at the strategic site, which is the nearest point between Belize and Mexico near the bay of Chetumal. The area has mushroomed into a hotspot for drug trafficking […]
It is the furthest island point east of mainland Belize and the country’s oldest protected wildlife site that is famous for diving and birding. Half Moon Caye Natural Monument of Lighthouse Reef Atoll is located fifty-five miles east of Belize City and is known as the home of the boobies. It attracts thousands of tourists […]
Local bus companies running excursions to Chetumal, Cancun and other destinations within the state of Quintana Roo are required to purchase vehicle insurance in order for them to traverse carriageways in neighboring Mexico. The new condition came into effect earlier this month after a yearlong delay by Mexican authorities. While the municipal government of Chetumal […]
According to Castro, if Belizean auto dealers are required to purchase insurance when traversing from Texas to Mexico, then it is only fair that bus owners and drivers purchase insurance to move around in Chetumal. On the Phone: Edmond ‘Clear the Land’ Castro, Minister of Transport “We must respect the law of the land […]
On Saturday night at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize City, eleven delegates will vie for the title of Miss Universe Belize in hopes to represent the Jewel at the Miss Universe Pageant later this year in Thailand. The pageant will air live on this station starting at six-thirty p.m. Dangriga’s Rebecca Rath last represented the […]
There is an increased police presence in the Port Loyola neighborhood tonight. Shortly after six o’clock this evening, police were summoned to an area on Trinity Street following reports of gunfire. Fortunately, there were no injuries. Moments later, gunfire once again erupted, this time in the vicinity of Jane Usher Boulevard. Again, there are no […]
Port Loyola area representative Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez gave a fiery response to the media when he was pressed about the third piece of missing equipment which belongs to the City Council. Earlier in the month, an audit of the Works Department at the council revealed that three heavy duty equipment, a Caterpillar Bulldozer, an eighteen-foot […]
The media also asked Minister Martinez about Dean Samuels, the former Belize City Councilor, who is contesting the U.D.P. Convention in the Port Loyola Constituency. Samuels publicly announced his candidacy after Martinez got on national television to publicly endorsed Michael Peyrefitte. Samuels told the media then that his was and will always be Martinez’s first […]
The Solid Waste Management Two Project, valued at ten point two million dollars funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, is being rolled out across the country since 2016. The project will see the closure of six dumpsites and the construction of six transfer stations. A component of the project, however, focuses on citizenry involvement for […]
The results for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate, better known as CXC, have not been officially released to the media and the public as yet. But some schools in southern Belize and elsewhere have received their grades in the exams taken earlier this year. So how did Belize fair off in the exams, given a […]
At a meeting of the national executive of the People’s United Party on Wednesday, Rene Skeen, a well-known resident of Ladyville, was also rejected from running in Belize Rural Central. According to Skeen, former P.U.P. area rep, Dolores Balderamos-Garcia will be endorsed as standard bearer for that division. He says that he has been on […]
Belize Telemedia launched a campaign to reinvent itself under one brand which is designed to attract and appeal to new customers. The services and products offered by the telecom will be bundled under the ‘Digi’ brand. The roll out of the rebranded services starts on Monday with the renaming of the B.T.L. Park to the […]
With the upgrade of its infrastructure and network, B.T.L. is also looking at becoming a cable service provider. Cable Television is a system that will allow for television programmes to be transmitted to the sets of subscribers by cable rather than by a broadcast signal. That industry is not available in Belize; but the company […]
