Today started out with a seismic event in the banking sector when news broke that the Belize Bank’s ownership group had bought Scotiabank Belize Limited. It had been reported for over a year that Scotiabank Belize was up for sale - since it was well known that the Canadian owned bank was pulling out of the Caribbean. Up to last year, it had announced plans to exit nine countries in the region. And, now Belize. A release from Lord Ashcroft’s Caribbean Investment Holdings Limited says that the dea

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Shots were fired in the Brodies Northside parking lot this afternoon - but it was the cops pulling the trigger, hot on the tail of armed robbers who had just pulled off a heist at the Scotiabank. Initial reports said it was a bank robbery, but it appears now to have been a big depositor who was robbed. 7News was on the scene and got the lowdown from the Commissioner in Belmopan: | 7 News Belize