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Police seek 3 men for questioning about teacher’s murder

Police seek 3 men for questioning about teacher’s murder

A trio of men is tonight being sought for questioning in connection with the brutal slaying of forty-five year old Marco Thompson, a second form teacher of Sacred Heart College in San Ignacio Town.  On Sunday afternoon...

No arrests yet for Gravel Lane murder

No arrests yet for Gravel Lane murder

As for the murder of twenty-two year old Luis Cardenas, who was killed in Orange Walk on Sunday morning, police have yet to levy any charges. Several persons of interests have been questioned in connection with the...

Reducing taxpayer burden; do you support GOB and Ashcroft mending fences?

Reducing taxpayer burden; do you support GOB and Ashcroft mending fences?

Tonight’s question is: Do you support that the mending of fences between the government and Lord Michael Ashcroft will in the least reduce the financial burden on taxpayers from litigation? Send your comments and responses using your...

Penner Petition takes another turn in Court

Penner Petition takes another turn in Court

In Monday’s newscast we reported on an election petition by Orlando Habet against returning Cayo North area representative Elvin Penner on the refusal of a recount of ballots. The case took another turn today when lawyers from...

Judgment reserved until May 24th for Penner Petition

Judgment reserved until May 24th for Penner Petition

But Sylvestre maintains that due process has been followed and that with respect to the Representation of People’s Act they have complied with the law in respect of election petition rules.   Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney for Orlando...

McAfee says GSU acting like “Business Suppression Unit”

McAfee says GSU acting like “Business Suppression Unit”

Three persons have been charged for attempting to corrupt police officers in connection with a raid that was carried out at the estate of John McAfee on April thirtieth. Matilda Garnett, a second class clerk of Orange...

Minor charged for killing one of 3 shooting victims

Minor charged for killing one of 3 shooting victims

A minor has been charged for the May tenth murder of Leo Palacio Junior, who was fatally shot on Central American Boulevard. Two other persons were injured in the shooting; cyclist Byron Pope and a seventeen year...

Secret relations with minor, but not guilty of rape

Secret relations with minor, but not guilty of rape

A thirty-five year old man anxiously waited to receive the verdict of whether he would be found guilty or not guilty of raping a seventeen-year-old minor. The incident in question allegedly occurred on February nineteenth, 2011.  The...

A salute to Public Service Week

A salute to Public Service Week

Public Service week will be observed in June, with several activities to mark the occasion. But before that, government departments today hosted students and the general public at the Charles Bartlet Hyde Building on Mahogany Street for...

25 years of Belize Bank Services, possibly going regional

25 years of Belize Bank Services, possibly going regional

On Friday night, the Prime Minister extended the olive branch to the Michael Ashcroft group of companies at a huge social event to mark the silver anniversary of the Belize Bank. That public announcement may have eclipsed...

Record P.S.E. takers, but not all seats occupied in high school

Record P.S.E. takers, but not all seats occupied in high school

Seven thousand one hundred and seventy-six students sat the 2012 Primary School Examination. The record number of students calls into question whether or not classroom spaces would be adequate in high schools. By 2015, fulfillment of the...

Artists want to get paid; copyright on the way

Artists want to get paid; copyright on the way

Under copyright laws, Belizean and international artists stand to collect royalties for songs aired in Belize.  At a press conference his morning, BSCAP; the Belizean Society of Composers Authors Publisher says it is advancing the protection of...

Update on Catarina Ishim, girl with face tumor

Update on Catarina Ishim, girl with face tumor

By now you know that twelve year old Catarina Ishim, the little girl from San Pablo, Toledo underwent over twenty hours of surgery in mid April to remove a massive tumor from her face. Since then, she...