Two former employees of Barrow and Williams Law Firm were arrested and charged today after over fifty thousand dollars was found missing. France Moguel and Dorla Pickwood were jointly charged with embezzling over nine thousand dollars while Pickwood alone faced the charges for over forty thousand dollars. According to Head of C.I.B. Simeon Alvarez, the […]
Income Tax Department employee twenty-six year old Richard Staine was today charged with theft after allegedly embezzling almost three thousand dollars. According to police, last week Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax Eric Eusey, became suspicious of a voucher made for an employee of Central Bank. When the department staff checked, Central Bank told them he […]
In other crime news, the former principal of the School for the Deaf Calbert Linares was arrested and charged today with indecent assault. A couple of months ago allegations surfaced that several past students had reported he sexually molested them ten years ago. No charges were filed, but according to A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez, they have […]
Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord apparently felt enough was enough today when he denied bail to two men who are accused of committing an armed robbery while on bail for another incident. Ronald Cox and Jeffrey Flowers were handcuffed and escorted over to Magistrate’s Court, and charged with the theft of over two thousand dollars worth […]
An accident yesterday on Douglas Jones Street left area residents without power until noon today. Telephones were also out. B.E.L. told News Five today that the original problem caused by the downed power lines was corrected at 11:30 last night, but another malfunction occurred this morning in the same area and repairs continued until noon. […]
San Pedro residents also continue to be without power for large portions of time due to repairs to their system. While the blackouts are inconvenient, C.E.O. of Belize Electricity Limited, Lynn Young tells News Five the outages are necessary so that the line insulators can be changed. He says that while there have been some […]
Graduation season kicks off this year with the University College of Belize’s twelfth commencement exercise, and although the future of that institution is not certain as yet, the graduation committee chairperson Jean Perriott says that this year’s ceremony will be the biggest and the best. Jean Perriott, Chairperson, Graduation Committee “This is the first time […]
If you want to go somewhere for the long weekend and you are not sure what to do, well we just may have the event that your entire family can attend. The twenty eighth annual Agriculture and Trade Show officially gets underway on Saturday. This year there are a number of new items that have […]
Tonight G. Michael Reid recommends that Belize City residents once again evacuate the city. Why? Because… well, let’s let him give you the reasons. “Well Belize, it’s another long weekend and much as we complain about having too many holidays, few among us do not welcome these breaks from the drudgery of five day work […]
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