The Emmy Award is held annually and on January 30th, the winners were announced for the Midsouth Awards.  Among the recipients was 25 yr old Belizean video producer Joel Evans.  Evans received the award under the entertainment category for editing of...

Today was the first day of the Social Security Math Olympiad for 2010. The first session was held in Dangriga where last year’s first and second place winners retained their places this year. It was a tight competition, but Ecumenical High School was the first place winner in the end with 1,550 points...

UB is hosting the European Commission and representatives of 15 Erasmus Mundus member Universities from the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries.  The 3 day visit opened this morning with a press conference mostly to update...

Every project supported by BRDP is driven by the local beneficiaries who decide and propose the project. They decide what BRDP will invest in, and how their contribution will be made. The beneficiaries implement the project with the ...

A ministry of works workman who was conducting road works, grading the Young gal Road in Tea Kettle Village was held up at gun point and robbed of his heaviest and most costly piece of equipment, the government grader which is worth over 300 thousand dollars...

With crime and violence on the rise, a number of partners are coming together to put off a youth forum this Saturday at the GPC in Belmopan. Immediately following the forum, at about 3:30 pm, the artist is the Honorable George “Rithm” Martinez from the United States...

Today the cause of death was released and according to Dr. Mario Estradabran, Lorenzo Ho died of acute lungs failure due to internal bleeding and swelling of the brain due to head trauma.  After hearing what Ho died from, we contacted Belmopan police, who told us that...

Sacred Heart College in San Ignacio Town was the proud recipient of a set of brass musical instruments. This occurred on Monday February 1st at a special assembly where His Excellency, The Governor General of Belize, Sir Colville presented the instruments to compliment the school's music program...

Busses are now free to cross the borders of Mexico not only during the week, but also on the Weekends. Since the implementation of “Gamma Ray Screening”, a new security process, this is compared to an X-Ray for busses to detect contraband and illegal immigrants.  The rules are not prejudice, as it applies even to...

Police have arrested 2 Roaring creek men for the Friday night murder of 29 yr old Keith Sambula. Phillip Reyes and Jack Noel Escarpeta were jointly charged for Sambula’s brutal chopping. A post mortem examination says that Sambula died as a result of...

Today, 34 yr old Andrea O’Conner, her sister, 32 yr old Kimberly Haulze and their friend, 36-year-old Kerion Daley, were arraigned in Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a string of charges.  The trio were jointly charged for causing unlawful harm upon a student of St. Martin’s de Pores School...

The Belize Sovereignty March was held on Saturday.  Some two hundred or more people gathered  at the constitution park, in Belize where they proceeded to march through the city streets. COLA’s President, Moses Sulph, tells us that ... Senator Hulse who was also a guest speaker touched...
Bring it on! Those were the words of Yolanda Schakron to the police department...

This afternoon a small ceremony was held at the Corozal Police Conference Room for the Officer of the Month for January, 2010.  He is detective constable Ricky Valencia, who since his 8 years with the force has been performing his duty in an outstanding and exemplary manner...

What was supposed to be a regional youth summit in Paramaribo Suriname last week; didn’t exactly turn out that way; due to a poor turnout of leaders.  Only 3 leaders attended the conference. The entire Corps of Regional youth ambassadors present at the summit didn’t take the leaders, “no show”, too lightly and staged a...

The union is calling on GOB to address the issue of the collective bargaining agreement, and if not met, Panti says, drastic measures will be taken by the union.  He would not specify what those actions would be.  In terms of crime and violence Jaime Panty says that there must be short, medium and long term goals and that there needs to be a synchronizing of integrated approaches across the different ministries...

Around 10:45 on Friday night, police say that they were called out to the river bank in the Hattie Ville area of Roaring Creek Village where they saw the body of 29 yr old Keith Sambula, clad in a blue ¾ jeans pants and a blue shirt.  The body was lying face down with a large chop from the right side of his cheek to the lower back of his neck...