Cases of Domestic Violence often go unreported and in instances when they are, they are often withdrawn. But there are statistics available on the number that actually made it to the police for the first half of the year. According to the Ministry of Health, between the months of January and June, a total of […]
The saga of Charles and Hirian Good remains in the news. Former school warden, Hirian, was terminated from her job on August fourth by Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, due to her political convictions for the P.U.P. And after weeks of protest at the Supreme Court, Prime Minister Barrow and the Minister of Housing, Michael […]
Hold on to your seats because this year’s National Military Tattoo promises to knock your socks off. The annual event takes its rightful place each year on the September calendar of events and features the skills of the Military, Police and Fire Services of Belize. According to Training Officer with the National Fire Service Kenneth […]
Preparations for this year’s Carnival Parade are well underway and junior and senior bands throughout the city are energized for the road march set for September nineteenth. Pre-judging for the competition started on Wednesday night for junior bands with the annual mas camp. In this preliminary stage of the judging, each band must have thirty-five […]
Health experts say that the majority of babies are born with jaundice. But did you know that newborns with this health condition are at their most critical period in the days following birth? This week’s edition of Healthy Living focuses on jaundice. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting It is reported that sixty percent of babies are born […]
Who’s telling the truth? That’s what we tried to find out today. The National Trade Union Congress of Belize on Tuesday issued a five point release indicating that it worked out several issues with Prime Minister Dean Barrow at a meeting on August thirty-first. But the PM indicated today that the author of the release […]
But what was the spin that the PM had contention with? Well for one, he said that though he agreed to postpone the reading of the bill, he is not backing down on limiting employee strike action that would disrupt essential services. The PM said that he welcomed the union’s input regarding how the bill […]
Another N.T.U.C.B. spin, according to the PM, also dealt with the Merlene Bailey Martinez D.F.C. Commission Report, which contained details of an investigation into the financial affairs of the D.F.C. That 2007 report was not made public when the court granted an injunction to prevent its release. The N.T.U.C.B. stated in its release that the […]
In other news, Hua Fa He, the proprietor of Fakee Game Room on Douglas Jones Street in Belize City, is dead tonight following a traffic accident just before midnight. Thirty-five year old Hua succumbed to injuries a few hours later. According to police, Hua was traveling in his black Isuzu Trooper with three passengers towards […]
A security guard was shot during an attempted intrusion early this morning at a business establishment in the old capital. The incident happened at Tomza Gas Limited at mile four and a half on the Northern Highway. And while the two armed thieves got away with nothing more than the gun and crowbar they went […]
Thieves were also busy on the other side of town as they used guns again to get their way at one of the city’s gas stations. The incident occurred late Tuesday night and the robbers got away with a little over five hundred dollars from Shell One Stop at the corner Cemetery Road and Central […]
An interesting ruling was handed down this morning in a case involving a Church and one of its former pastors who is now in government employ at the Foreign Ministry. The dispute between former Baptist Pastor, Percy Lewis, and the Baptist Association of Belize, was over a piece of property and the church building on […]
Also in court, four men have been charged with Handling Stolen Goods after police recovered what was left of a stolen Mitsubishi L-200 pickup. The vehicle, which belonged to the owner of GS COM George Sosa, was stolen from the King’s Park area on July twenty-sixth of this year. And over the weekend the pan […]
And a woman finds herself in all kinds of trouble with the law after her best friend reported to police that she had robbed her of cash over a period of time. Loretta Gillett alleges that twenty-two year old Levaun Morgan of Antelope Street Extension stole almost eighteen hundred dollars. Gillett alleges that the crime […]
But a Belize City father is not happy with the police department tonight because he wants justice for his ten year old son who was badly injured in a traffic mishap. Terrence Moya says he sent his son, Tyrece, to the store last Monday and the child barely made it out the gate when he […]
Charles and Hirian Good resumed their protest today against political victimization. The Goods were offered jobs, through the Ministry of Housing, but they declined the offers when they did not get an apology from the Minister of Education, Patrick Faber who ordered Hirian’s dismissal as a school warden. News Five asked the Prime Minister today […]
It’s time for the annual Queen of the Bay. The pageant takes place this Saturday night at the Belize City Centre. Ten delegates will compete in poise, eloquence and elegance to be crowned the sixty-fourth Queen of the Bay. The contestants hoping to take home the traditional crown and scepter represent various districts and the […]
There’s an exhibition that opened today that focuses on cartoons as a means of communication. The best works of Charles Chavannes and those of Ras Head are on display. And while some were done about two decades ago, they still have an eerie relevance to the present. Jose Sanchez has a report. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
Relations between The National Trade Union Congress of Belize and the government had gone sour in the past months. But it now appears that government has sweetened the pot for the union umbrella organization and things are on the mend. The N.T.U.C.B. has won major concessions from the government on five critical issues that the […]
While the postponement qualifies as a victory, the N.T.U.C.B. is keeping its fingers crossed and still hoping for a place on the Venezuelan Grant and Housing oversight Committee. Minister of Housing Michael Finnegan, said on July twenty-seventh that the ship has passed and the train had moved on and the N.T.U.C.B. would have to catch […]
Turning to the courts, he was on the run for two years after his daring escape from the cops. Thirty-four year old Dennis Quilter became a fugitive on April sixteenth 2007 and was living it up in the United States. But over two years later Quilter’s new life came crashing down around him when he […]
While Quilter was on the run for over two years, the six men accused of plotting to murder the Shoman family have been in and out of court for the past eight months trying to get bail. Today their attorneys, Dickie Bradley and Arthur Saldivar, were successful in convincing Magistrate Edd Usher to grant bail […]
The saga of the Goods started on August third when Hirian Good lost her job as a school warden because she voted blue in the last general election. Hirian and her husband Charles, a retired B.D.F. captain who, in his day, went on jungle missions with MI-six and the C.I.A., staged a personal protest at […]
Darrel Francis’ life ended with one shot. A post mortem examination conducted on the body of the twenty-one year old certifies that the cause of death was asphyxiation due to Bronchial Aspiration head injury, a consequence of the gun shot wound to the head. On Friday August twenty-eighth, Francis was standing in front of a […]
Last week Monday Western Union relocated to its new location in Belize City. And within days a heist at the new office at the Thurton Building on Coney Drive had all the appearances of a well planned burglary. The success and the tale of the burglars continued today as the police recovered the metal safe […]
