Eighteen year old Dalton Reneau was sent to prison for theft today after he was apprehended by a Justice of the Peace. On Monday evening J.P. Thomas Greenwood was in the Yarborough area when he saw a little boy weeping. He asked the boy what was wrong and he told him he had been riding […]
In other police news, yesterday afternoon around two-thirty an argument erupted with two men at the corner of Dean and George Streets allegedly over money. As a result Duran Requeña was shot in his upper left arm. Requeña was treated and released from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Police say they are now looking for […]
Three days after the discovery that a large amount of money had been stolen from B.T.L.’s office on Church Street, police say they are close to making an arrest. Authorities tell News Five since there are no signs of a break-in they believe the theft of over fifty-seven thousand dollars in cash and checks and […]
The Ministry of National Security and Immigration will be cracking down on employers who assist illegal immigrants. Yesterday Cabinet endorsed an amendment to the Immigration Act penalizing those who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. The ministry says taxpayers are burdened with the cost of detaining, feeding and deporting these people. Among the other decisions made at […]
The widow of Mayan leader Julian Cho says she expects to receive a copy of the police pathologist’s autopsy report on her husband’s death. Maggie Cho issued a statement today saying the Minister of National Security Jorge Espat has directed the police to provide her with the copy which she will forward to an independent […]
The Political Reform Committee met for the first time this afternoon. The Commission, which was appointed in December by Prime Minister Said Musa, will review Belize’s system of governance and make recommendations for its improvement. The Prime Minister, who addressed the members this afternoon at the WASA conference room, told the committee they have a […]
Chairman of the Political Reform Committee Dylan Vernon says although this is the committee’s first working meeting and they have yet to identify areas of priority, he believes there are several issues which will definitely be addressed. Dylan Vernon, Chairman, Political Reform Committee “We have a broad mandate: to look at the entire system. But […]
Her name briefly surfaced during last year’s general election campaign in Belize and now a similar controversy is dogging Jennifer Laszlo across the Caribbean. Laszlo, a U.S. based political consultant with close ties to President Bill Clinton, caused a stir last year when it was discovered that she was negotiating with the United Democratic Party […]
Today sports fans saw the retirement of superstar Michael Jordan, but don’t despair, Belizean basketball fans can watch the rise of another star, our own Milton Palacio who is making waves in U.S. College basketball. And you don’t have to go to Colorado in the U.S. to watch his game this week — you can […]
