Santiago Castillo goes into real estate with Christie’s auction house
Saturday, August 22, 2015. BMG: Santiago Castillo Group of Companies is best known as merchants of imported, usually high-end goods. But they are now partnering with the Christie’s art auction house to...
View ArticleAccused in bank robbery released on bail
Saturday, August 22, 2015. BMG: Four men accused of robbing First Caribbean Bank in Belize City in July and a fifth man charged with conspiracy to commit robbery along with the others were each...
View ArticlePM Barrow and Minister Santiago Castillo signed $60 million loan for security...
Saturday, August 22, 2015. BMG: Prime Minister Dean Barrow and his Minister of State Santiago Castillo Jr have signed for a US$30 million loan with Armando Blanco, the Legal Representative of CABEI,...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Fire reported in Independence may be arson
Saturday, August 22nd, 2015. BMG: Belize Media Group has received reports of a house fire in Mango Creek that reportedly damaged a teacher’s home. Further reports suggest that the incident is a case of...
View ArticleTeen killed during robbery
Saturday, August 22nd, 2015. Aaron Humes Reporting: Dangriga Police are investigating an apparent robbery at Polanco’s Farm at Mile 26, Hummingbird Highway, during which a 15 year old identified as...
View ArticleDanny churns toward Leewards, losing strength
Saturday, August 22nd, 2015. Aaron Humes Reporting: As of noon today, Hurricane Danny was centered near 15.5 degrees North latitude, 52.4 degrees West longitude or about 635 miles East of the Leeward...
View ArticleOil prices below US$40; will they stay there?
Sunday, August 23, 2015. BMG: USA Today reported on Friday that for the first time in six and a half years, prices for oil dipped – however briefly – below the psychologically important threshold of...
View ArticleSunny skies in Belize as T.S. Danny closes in on islands
Sunday, August 23, 2015. BMG: The National Meteorological Service of Belize is predicting mostly sunny skies and warm weather is expected today and partly cloudy skies tonight with little to no...
View ArticleFoul play not suspected in death of Cayo teacher
Sunday, August 23, 2015. BMG: On Friday, we broke the news on the female body discovered in San Ignacio Town. Today, an official police report from the San Ignacio Police formation has been issued...
View ArticleDrugs found in church yard
Sunday, August 23, 2015. BMG: Base on information received, San Ignacio police conducted a searched on Friday August 21st, inside the compound of Nazarene Church on Burns Avenue in that municipality...
View ArticleMotorcycle thief sought by Cayo police
Sunday, August 23, 2015. BMG: The San Ignacio Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in locating Cesar Romero, who stole a Meilun motorcycle valued at $3,000 that belonged to police...
View ArticleCayo police looking for Rayford Staine in drugs case
Sunday, August 23, 2015. BMG: While conducting foot patrol in San Ignacio Town around 10:00 a.m on Friday morning, August 21st, police officers saw man known to them as Rayford Staine, throw some...
View ArticleTen illegal Immigrants detained in Orange Walk
Monday, August 24, 2015. Orange Walk Bureau Reporting: Authorities in Orange Walk Town have detained ten illegal immigrants over the weekend and today, the men, women, and children remain under lock...
View ArticleCaye Caulker police seizes weed from water taxi
Monday, August 24, 2015. BMG: More than 1,000 grams of cannabis were discovered and labeled as “Found Property” in Caye Caulker on Saturday, August 22nd. Police discovered two parcels wrapped in...
View ArticleMinister Castillo plans to continue his career in politics as ‘adviser’
Monday, August 24, 2015. BMG: He stepped aside for Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley as Caribbean Shores standard bearer in April, but Minister of State Santiago Castillo Jr has told reporters he is...
View ArticlePrimer on Guatemalan claim
Monday, August 24, 2015. BMG: The Belize Guatemala territorial dispute has remained unresolved since the 19th century, about a hundred and fifty years, and counting. It is, arguably, more in the...
View Article2015 -2016 school year commences September 1st, 2015
Monday, August 24, 2015. BMG: There will be 182 days of school for Government-run and grant-aided pre and primary schools for the 2015-2016 school year, which commences on Tuesday, September 1 and ends...
View ArticleGuatemala’s President Otto Perez Molina: “I will not resign”
Monday, August 24, 2015. BMG: Speaking to his nation on television, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina insists he had no link to a customs bribery scandal, had not received money from same and thus...
View ArticleJudge a man by his results
Monday, August 24, 2015. By Charlie Leslie Jr. Look at a man like Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the greatest president of the United States. He had little formal education and grew up in a harsh frontier...
View ArticleScotia Bank Orange Walk branch gives back
Monday, August 24, 2015. Orange Walk Bureau Reporting: 12 primary school students from San Felipe and Progresso villages were awarded with scholarships thanks to the Scotia Bank Education Fund. A small...
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