It was a suggestion made over and over at the Children’s Summit and an action already adopted by concerned citizens in Dangriga. Today the Minister of Human Development and Youth signed a statutory instrument instituting a curfew for Belize City and Dangriga. When it takes effect in the next few days children 16 and under […]
Enforcing the new curfew will take more than just police muscle. Success rests on the cooperative shoulders of the adults in the community. News Five got a sampling of public opinion today. Those we spoke to, including a few children, felt the move by government was the right one. Rather than seeing the curfew as […]
Seventeen year old Andres Moreno was today charged with two counts of unlawful carnal knowledge and indecent assault of a twelve year old girl. According to police the minor reported that whilst at her sister’s house on March twenty-third at mile fourteen on the Northern Highway Moreno had sexual intercourse with her against her will. […]
A man is in police custody after he assaulted a young woman yesterday. Police say that twenty-six year old Lyndon Dawson had a misunderstanding with Perline Williams on Faber’s Road. As a result Dawson picked up a piece of board and hit Williams in her head. She was admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital […]
Last year soldiers from all over the Caribbean tested their mettle in Belize’s jungles during Operation Tradewinds. This year, members of the B.D.F. are venturing further afield to Guyana and the Dominican Republic. Eight sailors from the Maritime Wing, including one woman, left this afternoon for the Dominican Republic where they will spend the next […]
It was described by many as a case of “Good Cops Gone Bad”. In June of 1997 police claimed that two police officers posted in Corozal ran a road block in Ladyville and tossed five kilos of cocaine and 34 thousand dollars in U.S. currency out of their pickup truck. The truck was later found […]
The death of a child is never easy to bear, and if that child was plucked from her family in a brutal, inexplicable way, the sorrow is even greater. But the relatives of young Jackie Fern Malic whose story by now is familiar to everyone are not only dealing with her death, but the widespread […]
Tonight G. Michael Reid says patriotism is fine, but it shouldn’t overshadow a sporting event which offers great possibilities for putting Belize on the athletic map. “The 71st annual Cross Country Cycling Classic is history and in many ways, it was historic. This year marked the final running of this classic for these thousand years […]
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