In terms of financial muscle, the Holy Redeemer Credit Union has long been playing in the big leagues side by side with Belize’s major banks. But with access to only a limited range of services, many H.R.C.U. members still had to rely on the commercial banks to handle their financial needs. But times are changing, […]
While the recent changes in Cabinet may have the appearance of a game of musical chairs, for Prime Minister Said Musa, they are the logical product of a desire to improve his government’s performance. This afternoon the P.M. explained to me just what was behind his decision. Prime Minister Said Musa “I saw the need, […]
It was Shakespeare who said that hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned. Where he received the inspiration for that line is unclear, but a visit to the Family Court this week conclusively proves that the playwright knew what he was talking about. Jacqueline Woods reports on how a glitch in the […]
Six days after twenty-six year old Gilbert Williams Miller was stabbed to death, this morning police arrested three young men they believe are responsible for the gruesome crime. Twenty-year-old Keon Villanueva, twenty-one year old Jervis Valencia, and eighteen year old Dario Cruickshank have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Miller was killed […]
It was a Christmas Day battle royal in Orange Walk, and when it was over a police officer had lost two fingers to a sharp machete and a father and son tag team of assailants were lying with gunshot wounds to their legs. While the son, nineteen-year-old Julio Alvarado, had been previously charged with a […]
When the Public Utilities Commission last month unveiled its “initial decision” in the Full Tariff Review Proceeding requested by Belize Water Services Limited, the general consensus was that consumers, particularly large ones, would be jumping at the chance to lodge a formal objection to the average fifteen percent rate hikes. Instead, according to a release […]
When on our newscast of January second we ran a story on the first baby of 2004 delivered at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, we never dreamed that less than a week later we would be reporting the child’s death. But while infant mortality is no stranger to Belize, there is evidence that this incident […]
Most of us who tune into U.S. television news are familiar with the introduction of Mad Cow Disease into the United States and the subsequent ban on that country’s beef by most countries of the world. But Belize also has a story about beef and, unlike that up north, the news is good. Stewart Krohn […]
Rumours of a Cabinet reshuffle have been making the rounds for weeks, but when the realignment of portfolios was announced today, it bore little resemblance to the various versions leaked by the players themselves. Ten out of the thirteen ministers were affected by today’s moves, with only Johnny Briceño, Ralph Fonseca, and Servulo Baeza untouched […]
The murder spree that began in the wee hours of New Year’s morning has yet to abate as the nation recorded 2004’s third homicide over the weekend in Belize City. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spoke to the victim’s family about the circumstances of his death. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Not until the police finish their investigation […]
While police try to bring closure to the killing of Michael Skeet, they have also been working through the backlog of cases that has built up since News Year’s, including two particularly grisly stabbings last week in Belize City. This is the car police believe was used to kidnap twenty-six year old Gilbert Williams Miller. […]
A nervous watchman who fired his shotgun at a noise in the dark has been charged with murder. Fifty-eight year old Domingo Chun killed forty-year-old Guatemalan Joaquin Ax Coc around midnight on New Year’s Eve after the watchman allegedly received no response to his calls for the unseen intruder to identify himself. The incident occurred […]
The complaints of disgruntled citizens are a staple of any local newscast, but tonight’s request for official action is noteworthy in that the problem received attention even before the story was aired. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting After months of wading through mud and water to get to their homes, residents of Freedom Street […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into your first taste of Sports Monday for the year 2004. Week five of the B.P.F.L.’s B League brought the Corozal Southwest Strikers to the Sandhill Field where they were hosted by the Belize Rural All Stars. In the opening minutes Zair Witz gets a look at […]
The year may have ended optimistically with only two murders being recorded in the entire month of December…but 2004 is proving to be something else. Before its first dawn there were already two bodies in the K.H.M.H. morgue, both the victims of stab wounds. This morning I tried to piece together the tragic details. Jacqueline […]
Authorities have not been so fortunate in the city’s other New Year’s homicide. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Family and friends call Gilbert Williams Miller, the quiet one. So when the twenty-six year old’s mutilated body was found early New Year’s Day, on the side of this stretch of Sunray Avenue in Coral Grove, at first it […]
It occurred in the closing minutes of 2003, and while the year’s final killing may not result in a charge of murder, the victim is no less dead. He is forty-year-old Joaquin Ax Coc, a Guatemalan resident of the Stann Creek District. Ax was killed by a nervous watchman, fifty-eight year old Domingo Chun, who […]
Not all the violence inflicted this weekend was done by civilians, as three people were wounded by police gunfire. In Cayo, two men were shot by cops following a drug bust on the Western Highway. Police on Wednesday intercepted a car between miles seventy-one and seventy-two in which they found three sacks chock full of […]
She has been acting in the post for the last year, but effective January first, Dr. Corinth Morter-Lewis has been formally appointed as president of the University of Belize. She replaces Dr. Angel Cal who had previously taken an academic sabbatical to head the University’s African and Mayan History project. Cal, although permanently removed from […]
He weighed in at a healthy six pounds fourteen ounces. And just as Antoine Anthony Miles was taking his first breath his name was being inscribed in the record books as 2004’s first baby born at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. When Antoine’s mother, twenty-nine year old Marcia Usher of King’s Park, received the news […]
There are no hills to punish the athletes’ muscles and the route through cane fields and coastal plains lacks the forested splendour of the view from the Western Highway… but the new year’s cycling race from Corozal to Belize City, sponsored by KREM Radio, makes up for the lack of scenery with an abundance of […]
