Around nine thirty this morning, two young men walked down Iguana Street and approached the New Faw Chinese shop at seventeen Iguana Street. Shortly after, neighbors say shots rang out but by the time everyone reached the store, the men were gone and they saw shopkeeper, twenty year old Cao Sai lying on the ground […]
An accident on the Western Highway this afternoon has claimed the life of a Novelo’s Bus Company employee and involved two of the company’s buses. Reports are that shortly after one p.m. a Novelo’s bus was traveling west but stopped between miles 7 and 8 so that ticket collector Samuel Hennis could get off and […]
The Ministry of National Security has announced some changes to the police high command today. After serving for five years as Assistant Commissioner, Hughington Williams has been promoted to Acting Deputy Commissioner. He has been a member of the department since 1967 and was most recently the commander of Eastern Division. Senior Superintendent Raymond Thimbrel […]
While the Ministry of National Security looks at the overall policing of the country and the composition of the high command, police in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye are giving new meaning to the words “community policing”. Today local police and the community came together to work out the details of a program everyone hopes will […]
The police have released their primary suspect in the investigation of the theft of over sixty-two thousand dollars in cash, checks and tele-cards from B.T.L.’s Church Street office over the weekend. C.I.B. tells News Five they had to let the cashier they had detained go since the time had exceeded seventy-two hours, but that they […]
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States Dr. Cesar Gavaria arrived this morning for a two day visit. Gavaria, who is the former president of Colombia, paid courtesy calls on Prime Minister Said Musa and the Governor General Sir Colville Young. Included in his schedule is a meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister […]
The Prime Minister Said Musa was in Dangriga today for a meeting with the executive of the National Garifuna Council. Representatives from each of the district branches presented the Prime Minister with the Garifuna Agenda which focuses on land issues, language teaching and development in Dangriga. The meeting was held at the Pablo Lambey Garifuna […]
Yesterday, the staff and students of Edward P. Yorke High School on Princess Margaret Drive celebrated the school’s thirtieth anniversary. According to principal Allan Genitty they decided to celebrate the day by having students remain in the classroom working hard at their studies, after all it was through a lot of hard work and dedication […]
