“Mike” April 26th, 2000 “They beat me. They had sex with me, They rape me.” Viewers may recall a story we ran last week in which an unnamed security guard told a hair raising tale of being kidnapped from his job and repeatedly raped and tortured by his abductors over a 24-hour period. Needless to […]
In other crime news of a less frivolous nature Morris Fuller, the man accused of fatally stabbing Troy Gill on the morning of May first, has been charged with murder. Fuller himself was seriously injured in that same incident which involved a fight with a number of young men whom Fuller claims had attempted to […]
A Belize City man remains at the KHMH in critical condition tonight after he was shot twice on Thursday night. Police say 18-year-old George Matthews was at Libby’s Restaurant on Gibnut Street around 8 o’clock Thursday night when he got into a fight with another man. It is alleged the man pulled out a gun […]
Public Transport is a subject that has caused revolutions elsewhere in the region but in Belize we usually prefer less violent forms of protest. Today a group of frustrated commuters in Belmopan contacted the media to tell their tale of woe. It seems that there is a growing number of people who live in the […]
Some Belize City secondary schools today beefed up their technological capabilities courtesy of the Janus Foundation. The international charitable organization, based in Germany and Switzerland, donated twenty computers and printers to the government which in turn allocated them to St. Catherine’s, St. John’s, Palloti, Wesley, Gwen Liz, E.P. Yorke, Excelsior, A.C.C. and C.E.T. The donation […]
While in his speech of acceptance Prime Minister Said Musa expressed his great appreciation to Janus, he fired some uncharacteristically harsh words at the company which mans the toll booths on Belize’s information superhighway. For BTL, said the P.M., it’s time to get on with the program. Prime Minister Said Musa “Well I think the […]
Everyone has something to say about it…but nothing seems to ever get done. The “it” is the way Belize’s civil service is run and today government is taking its latest shot at fundamental change. This morning the Public Sector Reform Council presented its report to the Prime Minister. The 29-page booklet outlines a number of […]
Caribbean leaders will have the opportunity to meet with their former colonial masters next week as part of the second UK/Caribbean Forum. The meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair and 14 CARICOM nations, 5 British overseas Caribbean Territories and Bermuda plus Haiti will take place in London on May 11th and 12th. Representing Belize at […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported the tragic death of 2-year old Jonathon Lara. The young San Pedrano died after being run over by a van, which had stopped to pick up his sister for school. While the accident was one which could have occurred anywhere, it nonetheless focused attention on a growing problem affecting Belize’s […]
