An accusation of rape, which by definition involves the emotional issues of sex and violence, is always a difficult matter to deal with publicly. But a rape case coming to light this week has two additional complicated strikes against it, in that the alleged perpetrator is a police officer and so is his alleged victim. […]
A Toledo woman tonight lies in Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim of multiple stab wounds. According to police reports, two masked men entered the home of forty-eight year old Maria Gomez in Jacintoville village Thursday afternoon in an attempt to rob her. When she resisted they stabbed her in the chest, shoulder, face and […]
A Corozal money changer and his family have been robbed of over eight thousand dollars in cash and jewelry. Thirty-one year old Raul Magaña told police that around seven thirty Thursday morning he was accosted as he was leaving his home in Louisville village by a masked man with a pump action shotgun. Magaña was […]
The results of a postmortem examination on the body of a woman who died several days after she was found in a swamp on the Northern Highway have been released. But instead of providing the conclusive answers the police were hoping for, it has raised even more questions. According to pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran, the […]
We felt their pain last month when we saw pictures of their two storey house which was reduced to a “bruk up” bungalow. Today one southside family is feeling a bit more optimistic. Patrick Jones reports. For over three weeks now, Maureen Smith and her son have been living in hope of one day lifting […]
We may not realize it but much of our time is spent in negotiation: not just formal business dealings across a conference table, but at home with our family, buying something at a store, or arranging anything from the chopping of a yard to the building of a house. Today I found out that the […]
They are just back from a U.S. tour and their latest CD has recently gone on sale. Things are looking up for the band known as “D-Revelation” and Patrick Jones found out why. The fourteen songs on the compact disc, all originals, continue in the well-known D-Revelation tradition. Public relations officer for the band, Paul […]
Most of them have already returned to the mean but prosperous streets of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, but News Five commentator G. Michael Reid says the Belize Americans are a valuable asset who should not be forgotten. “In recent years, the number of people returning to Belize for the September Celebrations had been […]
