Police and prison officials continue to investigate the murder of a locked down inmate at Hattieville prison Tuesday night. Today a postmortem revealed that twenty-five year old convict Osmani Guerra of Orange Walk died as a result of strangulation caused by several stab wounds. Authorities believe that Guerra was killed by his three cellmates: Albert […]
The big news is supposed to come Friday night at the annual banquet marking the end of police week, but today’s Belize Times offered a general preview of what National Security Minister Jorge Espat has in mind for the force’s future. Among the expected announcements is a plan to significantly increase the number of police […]
While matters of internal security weigh heavily these days on the shoulders of Minister Espat, this morning he took time out, along with the Prime Minister, to tour the facilities of our chief ally in the nation’s external security. The headquarters of the British Army Training Support Unit in Belize, BATSUB for short, may only […]
The Belize City infrastructure project may have given a facelift to some parts of the old capital, but the sight of abandoned and decaying buildings, both large and small, continues to blight the urban landscape. How much longer these derelicts will be allowed to stand is a matter now being taken up by authorities. The […]
While this morning the Prime Minister and his Minister of National Security toured the headquarters of the British Army training facility near the airport, the real work of BATSUB takes place far out of sight of most Belizeans. In January of 1995 News Five’s David Reid got a rare peek behind the scenes. David Reid, […]
