While its practical effect on the growing epidemic may be debated, there is no mistaking the fact that Cabinet’s decision to criminalise the deliberate or reckless transmission of the deadly AIDS virus marks a major turning point in government policy toward dealing with the disease. The announcement, contained in the weekly Cabinet briefing, indicates that […]
It may have taken a while, but government has finally realised that its five percent “plastic tax” was not fair or viable and has replaced it with a one percent across the board levy on imports. Proceeds from the new environmental tax will go into a special fund that will be used to implement a […]
And in other news from what seems to be the busiest Cabinet session this year, that body has decided to grant its open vote workers the same pension benefits as permanent staff. There are currently over two thousand open vote workers, four hundred and ten of whom have ten or more years of service. Government […]
Checkpoints on major highways have resulted in two major busts by security forces. In Corozal over a pound of heroin was discovered in the vehicle of a South African resident of Belize. Thirty year old Michael Chalwe of Baymen Avenue in Belize City has been charged with drug trafficking after police found the drugs sealed […]
A major break in the case of counterfeit currency may have been made on Tuesday as a joint police, customs and immigration roadblock stopped a vehicle full of funny money. The checkpoint established between mile sixty-eight and sixty-nine on the Western Highway resulted in the discovery of twenty phoney bluenotes, all with familiar serial numbers, […]
The Cayo Chinese restaurant owner caught with a skinned pussy cat in his kitchen is tonight a free man. Reports from Cayo indicate that Li Chun Hua, proprietor of Lee’s Restaurant in San Ignacio, had no case to answer as it could not be established that the cat in question was in his possession. The […]
If you’re a B.E.L. customer contemplating the theft of that company’s power, you are advised that the illegal act can put you in jail. According to customer services manager Eugene Cleland, seventy-two cases of meter rigging have been reported and B.E.L. is taking action to stop the costly practice. Eugene Cleland, Customer Sales Manager, B.E.L. […]
Thousands of Belize’s Christian young people representing a wide cross-section of denominations are expected to converge on the Belize City Centre for a “Life Changing Revival.” The event, which opens on Monday night, is being held under the auspices of the Assemblies of God Church. Today News 5 spoke with two of the organisers of […]
In the wake of Tuesday morning’s shooting of two armed robbers by a sharp-shooting merchant, the near unanimous applauding of the act of a community fed up with violent crime was not surprising. But while the two seriously wounded gunmen may have received exactly what they deserve, a look into the family background of the […]
