At the opening of yesterday’s newscast we spotlighted that most basic of political exercises: angry citizens descending on their elected representative to get themselves a bigger slice of government’s pie. Tonight we look at a process that is not all that dissimilar. The only difference is that the pie is much bigger and those at […]
Police still have yet to make any arrests in the kidnapping and murder of Therese Blake Ayuso. Ayuso had just returned home from picking up her four year old daughter from school when the mother and child were abducted by two men who were apparently waiting for her by her garage. Reports are that Ayuso […]
Meanwhile, police strongly suspect that a body found on October sixth near San Pedro, may be that of American Buddy Smith. Smith was one of five crew members who went missing at sea after the catamaran they were traveling in got caught in Hurricane Keith and overturned. Because of the advanced state of decomposition, however, […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported that even though the state of emergency had been lifted by NEMO, the communities of San Pedro and Caye Caulker wanted to retain their nighttime curfew. Today we find it’s not quite that easy. Cabinet Secretary Robert Leslie told News Five that a curfew is only constitutional when imposed under […]
Frustrated motorists have found that things are looking a little better this evening on the Northern Highway. A Ministry of Works spokesman told News Five that two eighteen inch culverts have been laid between miles three and four and this has eased the water pressure and raised the road enough to allow small vehicles to […]
On July twenty-eighth we ran an interview with Hattieville inmate Randolph Miller. Miller had just been taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was allegedly beaten by Carl Davis, an officer at the Department of Corrections in the presence of other officers. Miller, who had escaped from the Hattieville prison, had been recaptured […]
Caye Caulker is an island known for its self-reliance, and that quality has been severely tested in the aftermath of Hurricane Keith. But sometime even the strongest communities need a helping hand, and as Jose Sanchez discovered this morning, those hands–as well as the arms, legs and hearts–are working overtime. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The Belize […]
