The National Hurricane Centre reported that Tropical Storm Ernesto has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane. The storm is currently located approximately 175 miles northwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico, after passing over the Virgin Islands on Tuesday. Ernesto is moving northwest at 16 mph
We begin tonight’s newscast with news from Belmopan. Today, almost a month after he was elected in a by-election, Doctor Osmond Martinez was sworn in by the Governor-General at Belize House as a Minister of state in the Briceno administration. Martinez soundly defeated his political
The newly-sworn-in minister was C.E.O. at the Ministry of Economic Development when the government negotiated the grant for the U.B. hospital. The land identified for that facility has become the subject of controversy because the government has announced that the hospital will be built on
The Toledo East constituency remains a P.U.P. stronghold and was presided over by late Area Representative Mike Espat, who was first elected in 1989. Espat served for six parliamentary terms and was the sitting area rep up to the time of his death earlier this
On Sunday, the People’s United Party held a convention to endorse a standard bearer for Queen’s Square. Retired educator, Doctor Lorna McKay was endorsed to do battle for the party in the next general elections. McKay will square off against Godwin Haylock, who defeated Shane
Just over a week ago, Belize City fisherman Mark Francisco became collateral damage in an incident that ended with his murder. Fifty-four-year-old Francisco was shot and killed while preparing for an early morning fishing trip and, according to police, was not the intended target of
Twenty-one-year-old George Gabourel has been arrested and charged for the attempted murder of his foster brother, following a stabbing incident in Belmopan on Sunday night. According to Devon Bevans, he was at home in the Las Flores area around eleven p.m. and was about to
[caption id="attachment_18711" align="alignright" width="300"] Vevaney Nolberto[/caption] Elsewhere in Belmopan on Sunday, thirty-one-year-old Nisani Garcia and nineteen-year-old Vevaney Nolberto were busted at the Belmopan Bus Terminal with an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. The pair was
Meanwhile in Toledo District, twenty-two-year-old Josue Padilla has been charged for the rape of a twenty-eight-year-old woman. The incident reportedly took place on Saturday night when the woman alleged that a male person she knows had sexual intercourse with her against her will. A medical
Tonight, a mother, a father, and a thirteen-day-old are at home together after the parents were spared a prison sentence for illicit drug possession. Twenty-four-year-old Shakeem Francis Ferguson and twenty-year-old Kelly Alexander Sanchez were charged jointly with two counts of possession of a controlled drug
