Anthropologist in social violence, Dr. Herbert Gayle, revealed a summary of his research on Male Social Participation and Violence in Urban Belize this past Monday. The findings are not entirely new, but still alarming. His research reveals among other issues that the education system, inherited from the colonial days, is placing Belize far behind standards […]
At the end of this week, the Supreme Court begins its summer recess. As it heads into its six week break, uncertainty and instability are hanging over the Justice sector. The PM and the Bar Association are still publicly at odds over the process of appointing the next Chief Justice. Last week, the government advertised […]
Dr. Herbert Gayle, the social anthropologist finds that the police are at war with the youths and sixty percent of young people have witnessed police brutality. This was disclosed on Monday by the Gayle research team. Well tonight, a twenty year old resident of Cayo is tonight hospitalized at the Belmopan Regional Hospital. His ordeal […]
Herbert Gayle’s Research also discussed the implications of the rift between the judiciary and the police department. While both are in disagreement, Gayle pointed out that there needs to be more training for members of the police department. But while the issues with the judiciary can be described as a philosophical difference, the issues that […]
Gayle did not stop with the police, the judiciary, or even the education system. He also knocked the government, which over decades had allowed people to squat, to expand in areas that have no infrastructure. The government essentially needs proper leadership. Dr. Herbert Gayle “What is the problem with the political and administrative power and […]
A substantial number of inmates at the Belize Central Prison have come down with what appears to be symptoms of dengue fever. Newly appointed CEO Earl Jones today confirmed that one hundred and fourteen prisoners at the facility are being monitored closely for the virus. Of the number currently under observation two have been confirmed […]
Nineteen year old Glenford Diego, who has been on remand for attempted murder since November of 2007, is tonight facing a maximum of eighteen years to life in prison when he was found guilty of trying to kill a taxi driver of Belize City. Today Diego appeared in Supreme Court before Justice Adolph Lucas where […]
A team of young basketball players are representing Belize in Guatemala at the Junior COCABA Under-15 games. So far the team has won a game against Mexico, but it is by default and they played Costa Rica this afternoon. But the young players and their coach are unsatisfied with the accommodation arrangements and the playing […]
The Belize City Council announced plans for a new cemetery near mile thirteen on the Western Highway about a week ago and it is already facing opposition from Hattieville residents. The Lord Ridge Cemetery is quickly running out of space and the twenty point seven acres at the new burial site is expected to offer […]
But Deputy Mayor, Philip Willoughby says that the council and ministries collaborating on the project did their homework before deciding on the site. Willoughby also feels there is no need for conflict over the issue and they are willing to discuss the concerns of the village council. Philip Willoughby, Deputy Mayor, Belize City “I don’t […]
Under the cover of darkness, a minor was fatally shot and his brother injured at Cinderella Plaza. It happened after four in the morning when the usually busy plaza was scanty. Alexander Murray was in a car along with his brother, Alton, and two friends when they were sandwiched by two vehicles at the stoplight. […]
Alarming details were revealed today from a survey on Male Social Participation in Violence in Urban Belize. The research discloses that mothers have replaced fathers as heads of households, that the education system is lacking and that the conviction rate in Belize is lower than most countries. Dr. Herbert Gayle, a well known anthropologist in […]
The old capital this morning looked like it had been hit by a hurricane. The heavy downpour caused streets to flood quickly and a few stores downtown closed business as water seeped into the buildings. Some vehicles stalled on the streets due to engine failures brought on by the deluge. The heavy rains also affected […]
While the cane farmers were agitated in the north, in the South the annual general meeting of the Citrus Growers Association was subdued over the past weekend. The meeting started in the morning and went well into the afternoon; it was held with relative quiet compared to previous contentious meetings. The growers looked at the […]
In the north temperatures were running high as the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association ran into plenty trouble with its membership. Over a week ago, a number of its vehicles were crow footed by marshals of the court when the Association failed to make good on payments for fertilizers. The debt is being paid off, […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you about disquieting research on male participation in violence, but not all that came out was negative. Doctor Gayle, who is the only anthropologist of social violence, not only spent time at schools and the police department, he also visited the Central Prison at Hattieville. There has been plenty […]
There are two versions to an accident that occurred in Belize City on Saturday night at eight p.m. near Everyday Restaurant. Eyewitnesses say that the victim may have been the cause of the accident but the family of Harry Zelaya disagrees. Zelaya who was on a bicycle was knocked down and remains hospitalized tonight. Zelaya’s […]
On Friday, thirty two year old Silverio Hernandez, a supervisor of Brodies Agrochemical was inside his office when a man, alleged to be Edward Usher, entered the office and ordered the employees to remain still. Another person, a seventeen year old minor followed Usher into the building holding the two security guards at gunpoint. The […]
Two weeks ago, Jason Ryan Wade was shot to chest and left shoulder. Tonight police say they have the shooter; twenty-seven year-old Anthony Sabido was escorted to court and charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Wade was on Lawrence Avenue in the Lake Independence area of Belize City […]
Marcel Cardona, the area representative from Orange Walk East took on the U.D.P. strongman and Deputy Prime Minister, Gaspar Vega, last week. Cardona mounted a protest to say he was being deprived of the education subsidy for his constituents and that instead, Vega’s constituents were benefiting. We caught up with Cardona over the weekend. Marcel […]
Last Friday we reported on the case of Elizabeth Purcell, the British Crown Counsel who departed Belize hastily just after she had signed on as prosecutor for the police department and was to move on to the fast track court that is being established by the Attorney General’s Ministry. Purcell has been in touch with […]
For the past two weeks ninety-eight kids have been gathering at the M.C.C. Grounds for a football summer camp. It’s the second annual Smart Four Stars Football Camp and it gives the young aficionados a chance to improve their skills. The participants include boys and girls that are divided into three age groups for more […]
Good Evening I’m James Adderley this is Sports Monday. The Belize Bank Super League kicked off the 2010 playoffs with two massive match-ups over the weekend. We take you out to the M.C.C Grounds, where yesterday a surging City Boys United jumped off against a Hattieville F.C. Team that has become a serious contender for […]
There was another murder today; it’s the third for this week and it happened in the west of the country. The homicide happened at Legends Bar on Bullet Tree Road in San Ignacio and as News Five’s Marion Ali discovered, it is believed the slaying of the thirty-nine year old man was motivated by jealousy. […]
Late this afternoon, robbers jacked the Brodies Agrochemical division on the Northern Highway which is located near the first roundabout. Details are still unraveling but at least three men pulled into the compound in a car that has been described from gold to beige in color. The men, who did not wear any masks, but […]
