Archive for February 7th, 2012
Police operation in Esperanza nabs suspected drug traffickers
Four persons from Esperanza village in the Cayo district have been arrested and charged for the crime of drug trafficking. They are, twenty seven year old Melanie Mathe; nineteen year old Ismael Trap Junior; eighteen year old Gilbert Thompson and forty year old Ismael Thompson. According to police reports, authorities conducted a search at Thompson’s [...]
Home invasion in Libertad village
An elderly citizen in Libertad Village, Corozal was viciously attacked and robbed at her home. [VO starts here]. But what’s worse is that her attackers set her house on fire before leaving. Sixty-four year old Petrona Leal was choked and assaulted when three Hispanic men invaded the woman’s home over the course of Monday night [...]
SATIIM concerned about US Energy’s dealings in Conejo village
The Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management is taking issue with US Capital Energy and what it says is the company’s attempt to force villagers of Conejo to sign away their rights. According to a release from SATIIM, US Capital Energy fired a group of men from the village last Thursday, after the village leadership [...]
PUP distances itself from distasteful advertisement
The People’s United Party has strongly condemned the airing of a paid political advertisement on Television last night. The caricature purports to depict the Prime Minister engaged in a scene that is distasteful. Attorney at law Lisa Shoman who is the communications director for the People’s United Party this afternoon told Love News that even [...]
Results of Eco Audit released in Belize City
The results of an Eco Audit of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef were released this morning. The audit was carried out by Healthy Reefs Initiative in collaboration with the World Resources Institute and about forty local and government agencies and companies. Director of Healthy Reefs for Healthy People, Melanie McField, explained that seventy percent of the [...]
Dangriga woman is first Fantacy Five jackpot winner
Two months after it was launched, Fantasy Five has recorded its first winner. Irene Lopez of Dangriga travelled to Belize City today to collect her prize of a hundred and seventy thousand dollars after thirty thousand was deducted for taxes. Lopez told reporters that she discovered she had won after attending a church wedding. Lopez [...]
Fire on the outskierts of Punta Gorda town
A business place on the outskirts of Punta Gorda was totally destroyed by fire this morning. Correspondent Paul Mahung reports.
Man dies after being hit by passenger bus
A Corozal man is dead following a hit and run accident on Sunday night. Reports are that shortly after 8 o ‘clock on Sunday night, twenty five year old Isaias Castillo, a resident of Concepcion Village was knocked down from behind as he rode his bicycle in the village. Residents say Castillo was riding north [...]
Armed hold up in Santa Elena town
Police in San Ignacio are investigating the armed hold up of a business establishment in Santa Elena town. According to police reports, around nine o’clock on Sunday night, proprietor Norma Rodriguez was inside her establishment namely Grace Mini Shop in the Hillview area of Santa Elena town when three neighborhood youths entered. Rodriguez says the [...]
Governor General writes Oceana-Belize
The OCEANA-Belize referendum bid today took another hit when the Governor General turned down a request from the group. In a letter to the OCEANA-Belize vice president Audrey Matura Shepherd, Sir Colville said that he has carefully looked into the referendum Act and nowhere in the law does it give him the power to order [...]
Another independent candidate in Toledo
It must be the year of the independent candidates because two more no affiliated persons have joined the electoral field. Correspondent Paul Mahung reports.
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