These are not good times for Said Musa and his People’s United Party government. Out of money and out of credit, facing major lawsuits at home and abroad, under political assault not only from the Opposition, but from two exceptionally irate back benchers… the last thing the party needed was a knife in the back. […]
Police are looking for the owners of a red van bearing taxi plates following a report by a Belize City youth that he was sodomized by the driver. The fifteen-year-old boy, accompanied by his father, told police he and a friend were walking on Partridge Street around three on Wednesday afternoon when a van stopped […]
Thousands of dollars in merchandise was reported stolen from a store in San Pedro on Tuesday. Lizando Gonzalez was inside his business, Three Brothers Boutique on Pelican Street, around four-thirty p.m. when he says a man came in and put a knife to his throat. A second man then showed up and the two tied […]
A career criminal with more than forty convictions to his discredit, tried to get his latest prison sentence reduced, but finds himself facing life behind bars. Kenrick Domingo, otherwise known as Buck Dougal, was sentenced to ten years for the rape of a woman near M.J.’s Night Club on West Canal in September of 2003. […]
He visited Belize as a tourist–in fact, our camera once caught him by accident as he walked through the airport incognito–but now it seems that the next time Hollywood heartthrob Leo DiCaprio comes to Belize it will be as the owner of his own island. International press reports indicate that the thirty year old star […]
While the attention was focused this week on the visit of Mexican President Vicente Fox and talk of a possible PEMEX gas station in Belize, the Minister Responsible for Energy, Vildo Marin, was in Venezuela attending a petroleum summit convened by President Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan President, President of Cuba Fidel Castro, and delegations from […]
For the past two weeks, more than twenty tax officials representing governments from the Caribbean have gathered in Belize City to participate in an annual workshop concentrating on financial auditing and fraud awareness. According to the coordinator, St. Lucia’s Averil James, the event is facilitated by the Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (CAROSAI) and […]
It’s that time of the year when many parents are wondering what they can do to keep their children focussed and out of trouble over the long summer holiday. That’s why summer camps are growing in popularity. The outings are a lot of fun especially when the young participants are encouraged to explore their creative […]
He may have criticised waste and high overheads in the Youth Department, but that did not dampen the enthusiasm and pride of over two dozen families who this morning attended the latest graduation ceremonies of the Youth Cadet Corps. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Ten months ago these young men […]
A large crowd gathered at the Queen Street police station this morning, but they weren’t there to wait for loved ones picked up in a base round-up. They came to get a good deal on goods confiscated during criminal investigations, but were never claimed. While most of it ran like a standard auction, there were […]
The Special Senate Select Committee investigating the Social Security Board’s investments held its fifth public hearing today, and if there was a catch phrase for the session, it was “to the best of my knowledge”. With no less than six high profile witnesses called to testify, today’s proceedings were fraught with finger pointing, as each […]
Second to appear before the Senate panel was Financial Secretary Dr. Carla Barnett. Barnett informed the committee that the Government of Belize continues to make payments to the International Bank of Miami for telecommunication services by the defunct Intelco and payments for the Glenn Godfrey related loans guaranteed by the Social Security Board, including what […]
Next to testify was Roberto Bautista, an employee of the D.F.C. for more than twenty-five years, having served as a director, the chief operations officer, and as the secretary of the Belize Mortgage Company, the Cayman Islands entity created as the “special vehicle” to allow for the North American securitisation programme. In his testimony, Bautista […]
Before breaking for lunch, the Senators would also hear statements from the Governor of the Central Bank, Sydney Campbell. Campbell’s contribution focused mainly on the bank’s technical role in crediting the millions of dollars sent to the S.S.B.’s account at the Central Bank for the St. James mortgage flows, via the Hibernia National Bank in […]
Last to face the music this afternoon was General Manager of the Belize Social Security Board, Narda Garcia. In what was also her second appearance before the committee, Garcia told the panel that when she listened on her car radio to Glenn Godfrey’s June ninth testimony she “ran off the road.” Narda Garcia, General Manager, […]
When we last left Mexican President Vicente Fox, he was winging his way east from the new capital to the old. Following a series of meetings and a brief rest he managed to rally for a state dinner in his honour at the Belize City House of Culture. On that occasion he became the sixth […]
Vicente Fox was not the only leader bringing home gold last night as Prime Minister Said Musa was on the receiving end of Mexico’s Order of the Eagle. After what we hope was a good night’s sleep, the two leaders boarded a Mexican Air Force helicopter for the short hop to the Philip Goldson International […]
A Belize City resident who police believe is the man who beat and robbed a woman on Monday has been arrested and charged. Twenty-year-old Leon Walford of Amara Avenue has been charged with the crimes of robbery and harm in connection with the incident, which occurred on Basra Street. Lucelia Marin told police that she […]
Another policeman has been sent to prison, this time on remand in connection with charges involving sex with a minor. Twenty-five year old Gilroy Ramirez, formerly posted at the Caye Caulker station, was arraigned yesterday in Magistrate’s Court on two counts of carnal knowledge. A thirteen-year-old girl of that village alleges that on two occasions–in […]
Another man, accused of committing incest with his two daughters, age twelve and thirteen, has been granted bail but ordered by the court to immediately vacate the family residence. The thirty-six year old Belize City resident, whose name we will for the present withhold, was remanded to prison on the incest charge on June sixth. […]
How many times have you heard on this newscast that criminals have been sentenced to five, ten, or twenty years in prison and wondered whether they actually serve their full time behind bars? It’s a good question…and if you had a sneaking suspicion that most convicted felons seemed to be prematurely walking the streets… you’d […]
Domestic violence: while it’s no longer a dirty little secret, the mere fact that the topic is openly discussed has not necessarily made it any less a problem. Authorities are still looking at ways to reduce the abuse and better deal with its consequences. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-four year old […]
It may have been just a coincidence, but at the same time domestic violence was being discussed at the Radisson, a training session at the same hotel was dealing with how to better respond to a wide variety of tragedies. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The work that these men and women do is not easy. They […]
It was a day when the nation of Belize took a brief rest from the daily media drumbeat of politics, crime and scandal… to unite in the welcome of a visiting head of state. But Mexican President Vicente Fox is no ordinary visitor. As the leader of a neighbouring nation of a hundred and six […]
But dignitaries were not the only ones waiting in the nation’s capital. On hand to welcome President Vicente Fox to Belmopan were hundreds of schoolchildren–some from as far away as the Corozal District. Among the President’s first official acts on Belizean soil was the inspection of the Belize Defence Force Guard of Honour.
