A third person has been detained in the whopping weekend bank heist in San Ignacio. Sources in the Police Department declined to identify the trio brought in for questioning, except to say that they are not employees of the bank. Observers have speculated that the team of crooks who bored into the vault from a […]
The Ministry of National Security has released the latest crime statistics and according to their figures, major offences in February have dropped over seven percent from a year earlier. The decrease was not across the board, however, for while the number of rapes dropped from thirteen to seven, murders from three to one and thefts […]
It was not a rape, murder, robbery, burglary or theft, but that did not make a crime committed on Friday night any less vicious. A security guard at the Eden nightclub was stabbed when he tried to prevent a man from entering the nightspot. Harrison Walker, thirty-nine, received several knife wounds to the stomach when […]
While on the subject of official statistics, Belize Electricity Limited issued a few of its own today, and while their headline was more hopeful than accurate, the company did make a valid point: that reliance on petroleum for electricity is an invitation to disaster. Quoting a recent survey carried out by CARILEC, the regional association […]
The Belize Defence Force is constructing a new officer’s quarters for “H” Company. Funds for the fifty thousand dollar building located at Eyles Camp in Orange Walk Town are being provided by the Ministry of National Security. Brigadier General Cedric Borland says that the facility will greatly improve the living conditions of the soldiers. Brigadier […]
We’ve recently seen heroes like Marion Jones and Milton Palacio in Belize… and today another sports great visited the jewel… but we’re not sure if his is a household name. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Cricket is a sport that thrives throughout the English speaking Caribbean, but the sharp crack of bat and ball […]
While Belize struggles to improve the level of health care, the one eventuality that the system finds difficult to deal with is that of a catastrophic accident. Fortunately when all hope seems lost, there are some good folks and organisations ready to step forward. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting It is every child’s dream to go to […]
The conventional wisdom is that there could never be a major bank robbery in Belize because the robbers wouldn’t have anywhere to unobtrusively spend such a large amount of Belize dollars. Well, times have changed and as I speak a small group of clever crooks is now trying to figure our just how to dispose […]
The verdict is in on the Meerabux case and the Governor General has been given the green light to carry out his responsibilities under the constitution. Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh rejected the arguments of lawyers for Judge George Meerabux, who claimed that the actions of the Governor General in considering complaints of misbehaviour against Meerabux, […]
It was one of the most anticipated and bitterly contested conventions of the current political season. News 5’s Jose Sanchez sought out the winners and losers on the morning after. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The results are official and Remijio Montejo will once again bear the PUP standard in Collet. But the race was not without […]
He was a permanent fixture at the soft drink giant for over thirty years, but a tragic automobile accident has cut short the life of Rene Lui, an employee of Bowen and Bowen. On Saturday morning the sixty-year old Lui, on an outing with five Cuban doctors, had just entered the property of the Gallon […]
He didn’t rob a bank, but one Belize City man made off with fifty-five thousand dollars…. and the score was one hundred percent legal. The winner of the March seventh Lotto Draw, Winston Denton had no idea that the quick pick ticket he bought at Peoples Drug Store on New Road would contain the winning […]
While scientists search for a cure or an effective vaccine, experts continue to stress that the best weapon in the war against AIDS is education. Ann-Marie Williams reports from the front lines. Ann-Marie Williams “The first in a series of billboard campaigns which reminds us of our collective responsibility in fighting the deadly disease AIDS […]
When we left La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge on Thursday, seventy canoes had blasted off from Cayo’s Hawkesworth Bridge heading east. When they finished around midday on Sunday, there were only sixty boats remaining, but the pace was a torrid one. The winning team, sponsored by Koop Sheet Metal of Spanish Lookout, crossed under […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 19th Belmopan Cycle Classic attracted riders from North America, Mexico and Guatemala, as some eighty riders made a bid. We take you to the early morning sights and sounds at the start of the in front of Santos Diaz on Central American Boulevard, and […]
The Ministry of Health along with the Women’s Department has compiled information on domestic violence through reports it receives from the Police’s Family Violence Unit. The Domestic Violence Surveillance Data reveals what most people already suspect: men are usually the aggressors in the home. Dr. Jorge Polanco, Deputy Director, Health Services “There’s a module to […]
It may be Women’s Week, but in Belize these are not good times to be a little girl. Police today released details of a case in which an eleven year old was abducted and raped a number of times over a three day period. The girl’s mother reports that her daughter left the family’s home […]
In crime news, Minister of National Security Jorge Espat has told News 5 that investigations into the theft of high powered weapons from the BDF and police are close to completion and the case files have been delivered to the Director for Public Prosecutions. On January twenty-ninth, a pair of tech nine machine pistols, four […]
Six schools spread across the country have acquired computers as the result of a promotion by Courts. Customers who spent two hundred dollars at the store received a raffle ticket to win a computer, not for themselves, but for a school of their choice. The package, worth three thousand five hundred dollars, includes a monitor, […]
The Belize Red Cross Society in conjunction with the National Emergency Management Organisation, has organized a Damage Assessment and Needs workshop in order to better coordinate relief work after a disaster. According to Audrey Courtenay, Chairperson, of the Disaster Management Committee, the week long programme is geared to make people understand the urgency required to […]
If you’re planning to spend the holiday weekend in Belize City, then maybe the best way to start is at the Penta Kite Fest. The annual event originated in 1975 as a promotion for 7-Up, and encouraged children to make their own kites. On March ninth, the competition will once again soar high above the […]
These are good times for printers as it seems that not a week goes by without the launching of a new book. While today’s ceremony was not dedicated to poetry, art or fiction, it did highlight an important development in Belizean society. Ann-Marie Williams Belize can now add the first of its kind comprehensive women’s […]
You can measure the ordeal using a number of different yardsticks: time spent on the water, distance travelled, or the number of strokes of the paddle… But however you chose to quantify it, just completing La Ruta Maya is a feat of which even the last place finisher can be proud. Stewart Krohn, Reporting Sometimes […]
A dead body found yesterday off the Western Highway has been identified as a murder victim, but not much else has become known about the crime. What police have figured out is that thirty-two year old taxi driver Hugo Garcia, a Salvadoran living in Belize City, failed to return home on Saturday night. His fire-ravaged […]
An American resident of San Ignacio has been convicted of possession of ancient Mayan artifacts. Thirty-nine year old Eugene Patterson pleaded guilty to violating the antiquities law and was fined two hundred and fifty dollars in San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court. Police searched Patterson’s home and found three polychrome bowls along with parts of a human […]
