In 1994, the Society for the Promotion of Education and Research, SPEAR, launch a project on political reform by holding a series of public consultations. These meetings resulted in the publication of the document Ten Proposals for Political Reform in March of 1996. Almost three years later, the topic was still a popular subject. In […]
A minor is today in police custody after a robbery early Tuesday morning. The victim, Chinese businessman Lee Quan of Gibnut Street was robbed of two hundred Belize dollars at gunpoint. According to a police press release, they received a call about seven o’clock that morning, informing them that a robbery was taking place in […]
Almost one week after a police corporal knocked down a twelve-year old boy in Belmopan, police have finally issued a report surrounding the incident. According to the press release, on August seventeenth, the officer, whose name has not been released because he has not been formally charged, was driving the department’s green Ford Explorer on […]
It’s almost September, and the Celebrations Committee is promising a wide variety of activities on their program that will appeal to everyone wanting to experience culture in the festivities. There are forty-eight events on the programme organized by the private sector and the September Celebrations Committee. This year the activities will be more culturally relevant […]
In news from the government, Prime Minister Said Musa leaves the country on Thursday for a one-day meeting in Guatemala. The session entitled “The Fourth Meeting of Heads of State of Countries and Participants of the Mechanisms of Dialogue and Consultations of Tuxtla” will be held in Guatemala City and will include Central American countries […]
Six years ago the Cash for Guns Programme brought in close to three hundred weapons. Since then crime has not gone down, but has escalated. Today a similar exercise will soon be launched to try and rid the streets of guns and eliminate crime. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Get guns off the street and out of […]
News Five was invited to Dangriga to witness a programme that the indigenous women of the town have been involved with to bring some much needed income into the homes of many unemployed women. The programme, which is the product of the Belize Indigenous Institute, BITI, has been greatly welcomed by the residents of Dangriga […]
