For a while it seemed like Police Commissioner Ornel Brooks was more like Larry King Live, ready to call in the cameras at a moment’s notice to announce even the smallest victory in the nation’s war on crime. But in recent weeks a good number of the accused criminals have been wearing the uniform of […]
In news of another shooting by police, this one a week earlier in Ladyville, wounded security guard Deon Smith is reportedly improving following surgery in Chetumal. Doctors there have treated swelling in Smith’s brain but have not removed the bullet still lodged in his skull. Smith is conscious and has been talking to family members. […]
In other police news authorities report that a fisherman of Seine Bight appeared to have drowned on Monday. Witnesses say that around 10:30 am 19 year old Clifford Arzu was fishing from his dory about a hundred yards offshore when it started to take in water. Arzu then jumped out, went under and was not […]
A new president of the Belize Court of Appeal has been appointed. Kenneth Montague George replaces Professor Telford Georges who retired at the end of last year. Justice George was sworn in Monday by the Governor General. A native of Guyana, who was that country’s Chief Justice from 1981 to 1988 and President of its […]
In economic news the Citrus Growers Association and Belize Food Products limited have signed a six year agreement on fruit prices. The pact, which takes effect immediately, is based on a price formula similar to that used in the sugar industry. That is the price will vary depending on the revenues received from citrus concentrate […]
While Belizean citrus growers have finally agreed on a price formula, growers of sugar cane in Barbados are still wrestling with problems in that island’s centuries old industry. The C.B.C.’s Tracy Knight reports. Hands that have toiled for over forty years, helping to build this country’s sugar industry. He’s one of a dying group of […]
And in Guyana a severe drought continues to threaten that nation’s agricultural sector, particularly the growing of rice. The C.B.U.’s Barry Collymore has more. Rice farmers in Guyana could lose as much as twelve million United States dollars if the current dry spell affecting the country continues for much longer. This assessment was given today […]
Over the last several months News Five’s Patrick Jones has become something of an expert on secondary school sports…but on Friday he covered an event, the likes of which Belize has seldom witnessed. They may be more at ease on a basketball court, or a softball diamond, but these days high school boys and girls […]
