There’s one activity that will not be postponed due to the heavy rains. That’s the annual Crimestoppers yard sale at Old Belize. When we headed to the venue today, we found a number of items ready for the big sale. News Five’s Delahnie Bain got an early look at what’s in store for Saturday. Delahnie […]
Youths from all over Belize will converge at the Stella Maris School from July twelfth to the twenty-four for a two week summer camp that is unique. It’s the fourteenth annual camp being held by the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired for kids with eye conditions and their parents. The camp is the highlight […]
Summer camps are expected to continue next week despite the change in weather. According to the founder of one camp, one thousand two hundred kids have been a part of the program since it started seven years ago. Peter Lacey says this year, his educational program will be more interactive and it will be held […]
Single mothers in Belize City are being invited to attend a series of training workshops to develop and strengthen personal and professional skills that are necessary for the workforce. The project, known as Supporting Single Mothers in Belize, is the initiative of the Women’s Department and going into its third year coordinators are seeking to […]
The September celebrations are two months away, but the search for the best carnival songs is already underway. Submissions are now being accepted for the 2010 Carnival and Patriotic song competitions. This year the competition is being coordinated by the National Celebrations Committee, the Institute of Creative Arts and Atlantic International Bank. There are generous […]
For some time there appears to be fundamental differences between the Executive and the Judiciary. It became even more glaring in the last few days when the Bar Association took a position on the timing of the retirement of Chief Justice, Abdulai Conteh. The CJ was not granted an extension past September to conclude cases […]
The Belize Grass Roots Youth Empowerment Association has been in the media spotlight on several occasions lately. The group organized a protest in Belmopan after the death of a teacher and basketball player Aubrey Lopez. The Belmopan residents also conducted symposiums in the capital and in Belize City about finding solutions to crime. BGYEA’s current […]
On Wednesday night we reported that a woman had been found dead at her house. The autopsy conducted on the body of sixty-eight year old Marie Dawson suggests that she died of natural causes. The post mortem could not determine any signs of foul play. Her body was discovered on her bed at her home […]
There have been more heinous crimes in the past days and women are now targeted in the crime wave spilling across the country. Last week two nineteen year olds were murdered: Joyce Mitchell and Neisa Pipersburgh. On Tuesday we asked the question: Do think the penalty for murder should be death by hanging? Our e-poll […]
Summer is here, and one of the telltale signs is not only the heat wave, but the fact that schools are closed. That coincides with the opening of summer camps which are being organized for just about every age group and type of activity. One group which takes an environmental approach to learning and to […]
The vivacious Neisa Pipersburgh met a horrific death. Neisa was murdered within days after she had graduated from Pallotti High School. Her murder has stunned the entire community because it now seems that crime has gone far beyond the level of the usual violence among gangs. Many citizens think that the system is too soft […]
She has been in office for almost two years as Acting Director of Public Prosecutions but with the state of the judiciary under the microscope in respect of appointments and retirements, there is word that Government will be moving to confirm the appointment of the DPP. Already at odds with the Bar Association over the […]
Moses Michael Leviy, the rapper better known as Shyne, is working on his first album since his release after nine years of incarceration in a U.S. Federal Prison. The rapper, who was once attached to the BadBoy Label, has signed a multimillion dollar deal with L.A. Reid of Def Jam Records. Shyne is working on […]
The Belize International Film Festival is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year and the calendar of events is filling up. In fact the festival is being extended beyond Belize City and will now include screenings in San Pedro and San Ignacio as well as workshops and seminars countrywide. As for the submissions, final selections have […]
A string of fires broke early Sunday morning in Placencia. It started at a well known restaurant, but by the time that fire was contained two more establishments had been set ablaze. Villagers and tourists joined the firemen to put out the blaze at the thatch roofed buildings that were dangerously close to other businesses. […]
Twenty year old Stacey Kerr, a resident of Burrell Boom Village who was paralyzed after falling off the railing of a verandah at her house a few weeks ago, succumbed to her injury over the weekend. On the night of June fifth following a party held at the couple’s home in the village, Stacey and […]
While Neisa Pipersburgh had an unfortunate end to her life, two other missing females have been located. Twenty-one year old Melanie Conorquie and thirteen year old Rosie Munoz surfaced over the weekend. Conorquie, who suffers from memory lapses, had gone missing on June fourth after dropping off her niece at the Saint Martin De Porres […]
On Thursday we reported on Neisa Pipersburgh, a nineteen year old who disappeared from her home. Her mother, Alice Williams, came to our studios to ask the public for any information that may indicate that her daughter is safe. She has still not been located. On Thursday, Williams indicated that a bag with her daughter’s […]
The death of sixty-five year old Edmund Spain a few weeks ago, after being badly bitten by two pit bulls in the Tropical Park of Hattieville, has raised concerns from the public about the raring of these vicious dogs. While that incident flew under the radar because of a slipup within the police department, residents […]
Yesterday we reported that following a meeting with Prime Minister Dean Barrow on June seventh, 2010, Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh urgently convened back-to-back meetings with his judges and then with members of the Bar Executive. The CJ informed the Bar Executive that he would be leaving office in September, would not be hearing any new […]
The savage attack of an elderly resident of Tropical Park a few weeks ago, but only reported this week, has stirred controversy between dog owners and advocates who insist on the passage of legislation to ban ownership of Pit Bull terriers. In the wake of the pit bull attack on May thirty-first which later claimed […]
The prevalence of crime in the country, particularly in Belize City has caused many to panic whenever a booming sound is heard in neighborhoods. But it is not the noise, but the lack of sound in her home that made Alice Williams panic. Williams has a daughter that just graduated from Pallotti High School on […]
We do not normally hear from the Bar Association, but the retirement of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh pulled the attorneys out of their lull. The Bar on Tuesday night, passed a rare resolution chiding the government for the way it has treated the Chief Justice and by this afternoon, the government responded in kind. But […]
As we told you earlier, late this afternoon, the government responded to the Bar resolution. According to G.O.B. “it utterly rejects the assertion that the tenure of the Chief Justice has been treated in an ‘unseemly manner’ by the Government of Belize.” Government says there is no constitutional impasse since the constitutional provisions are being […]
There is an alarming number of criminal cases that fall when they get to court for varied reasons. In instances, witnesses are fearful and do not want to testify, other times there is a lack of evidence and still yet sometimes the case files are not ready. The low rate of conviction coupled with the […]
