Relations between the Police Department and residents of some of Belize City’s most heavily patrolled neighbourhoods continue to deteriorate as officers have once again been accused of reckless and indiscriminate shooting in pursuit of a criminal suspect. The latest incident occurred Monday night sometime after nine…and this morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was out looking […]
“There is no need for the public to be afraid of the police.” That was the response made by Senior Superintendent of Police Crispin Jeffries when asked by News Five about recent accusations of the use of unnecessary force. Jeffries says the incidents in which the police have used their weapons are being thoroughly investigated […]
While police have not been able to make an arrest in the Friday the thirteenth jacking on Coney Drive, they have recovered the car used in the robbery. The blue Mitsubishi Galant was found abandoned on Dickenson Street in the Yarborough area of Belize City. Police continue to search for the two robbers who wrestled […]
A traffic accident on Friday night has claimed the life of twenty-three year old Francisco Aldana, a labourer of Calcutta Village, Corozal District. Police say eighteen year old Ivan Castillo, son of Minister of Labour, Local Government and Sugar Industries, Valdemar Castillo, reported that around 9:30 he was on his way to Corozal town in […]
Last weekend Belize’s Jehovah Witnesses held the first of two conventions on the grounds of their Ladyville Assembly Hall. Over fourteen hundred people turned out for a series of symposiums, lectures, baptisms and religious ceremonies. This coming weekend the scene will be repeated, only this time for Spanish speakers. World-wide, Jehovah’s Witnesses number over six […]
The United Nations Development Programme has release its annual “Human Development Report.” That study, presented yesterday to the Prime Minister, ranks 162 countries according to a set of criteria, which includes standard of living, life expectancy and education. Belize, ranked at number 54, is slowly moving up in the world as last year we came […]
The project has been talked about for years, but it has taken a five medal Olympic performance by a daughter of the soil to send it toward the finish line. That project is the installation of a world class synthetic track at the newly named Marion Jones Sporting Complex and the vehicle by which the […]
