In only seven years it’s become a March tradition that unites Belizeans from East to West. The eighth edition of La Ruta Maya kicks off early Friday morning and News 5’s Patrick Jones has a preview. Patrick Jones, Reporting Over eighty teams of three paddlers each will suit up this weekend and head out down […]
We went through this a month ago so there?s no need to dwell too long on it again tonight. Effective today increased excise tax on beer, rum, soft drinks and cigarettes will make the cost of these items rise, in some cases substantially. While it appears that manufacturers and retailers used the one-month suspension period […]
The sad saga of BTL continues to unfold as ownership of this once proud company is being contested simultaneously on two continents. When we last heard from lawyers in London, the government of Belize had been restrained from disposing of the majority shares it had repossessed from Jeffrey Prosser when he failed to come up […]
In related news, we feel obligated to report that this television station and one of its reporters has been served with a writ of libel and slander allegedly committed against former Intelco chief Glenn Godfrey. Godfrey, who is seeking an injunction along with monetary damages, claims that he was wronged by a question asked by […]
The men and women who work in Belize’s judicial system today took a brief timeout from their busy schedules to pay tribute to one of their colleagues who died earlier this year. Former president of the Belize Court of Appeal, Telford Georges, who died in January following a brief illness, was remembered for his work […]
His legal career has not yet reached the heights of Telford Georges and his political career just seemed to be hitting stride…but tonight it appears that highly regarded lawyer and political operative Eamon Courtenay will be pursuing neither law nor politics. Instead he has a new job description: that of international banker. A release from […]
And while still in the arena of the legal profession we have a correction to make. In last night’s newscast we reported that a thirteen-year-old defendant could, if convicted, still be sentenced to death by hanging. This is not true. We were referred to section one forty-six of the Indictable Procedures Act which clearly states […]
Thieves in Corozal have swiped equipment from a school in Santa Clara village, leaving the institution short of assets worth twelve thousand dollars. Principal of the Adventist School, Anna Roberts, told police that sometime between one and eight on Saturday morning someone broke into the building and stole two computers and a photocopier. No one […]
Did a police officer misuse his authority to rob a Belize City man? That’s the troubling question police internal affairs officers are trying to answer. According to Darlene Lewis, she sent her son in law, Daniel Zuniga, on an errand to pay her bill at Courts on the Northern Highway, but as he approached the […]
It’s no doubt a great honour to for a country to boast a World Heritage Site…but how do you parlay that recognition into tangible benefits. This week some of Belize’s best and brightest minds are trying to answer that important question. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Since Belize?s Barrier Reef was named a world heritage site in […]
Statistics indicate that virtually every adult Belizean is acquainted with someone who carries H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. What makes it interesting is that you don’t know who they are. The question News 5’s Jacqueline Woods confronted this morning was: should it matter? Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Look at the faces of these men and […]
