Assistant Police Commissioner in Charge of Operations, Hugh Cain, has been suspended from his duties amidst allegations that he’s involved in the transhipment of drugs through Belize. Cain told News 5 in an interview today that he was shocked when he was informed on Friday by Commissioner Hughington Williams that he had “bad news” for […]
While the PUP political volcano, which erupted on Friday, has now subsided to a state of occasional hissing and belching, the forces which lie beneath the surface are not expected to cool off any time soon. The resignation of Johnny Briceno from the post of Deputy Prime Minister has been confirmed, although he has agreed […]
While Acting Prime Minister Johnny Briceno was struggling with his political conscience, a gunman was putting a big dent in the family business. Shortly before ten this morning as single armed robber entered the One-Stop gas station at the Boulevard and Cemetery Road and put a pistol to the chest of the female manager. She […]
In the Stann Creek District, a merchant tells police that he was robbed twice in the same night. At around 8:30 Saturday twenty-seven year old Ling Feng Cai was robbed at his shop on the Valley Road by two masked men armed with a nine-millimetre pistol. They made off with an undisclosed amount of cash […]
Four armed Mexicans who landed their plane at an airstrip in the Orange Walk District have been formally arraigned in court. Ricardo Ruiz, Rafael Juarez, Jesus Urino, and Oscar Ramos have all been charged with possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition. They were intercepted by police on the afternoon of October seventeenth at the Blue […]
For those righteous citizens who complain that Chinese shops selling illegal boledo are never busted, there is some good news. On Friday night police arrested two Belize City shopkeepers for that crime. They are Dennis Chow of Freetown Road and Xing Ting Li of Second Street in King’s Park. The numerous sellers of illegal lottery […]
Visually impaired students from primary, secondary and tertiary level institutions in Belize stand to benefit from educational materials being converted into Braille. A five thousand dollar donation courtesy of Shell Belize was this morning handed over to Sister Elsa Oliva, President of the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired, to subsidise the programme. Shell Belize’s […]
The sewerage contaminated water in Port Loyola has receded a bit, but the yards of residents remain flooded. On Friday, we were told that a team from the Ministry of Works would be clearing the sewerage lagoon outflow canal to allow the water to flow to the sea instead of the neighbourhood. While we understand […]
Last week, in the midst of chronicling the wrath of Hurricane Iris, we paused to report on the devastation suffered by a Belize City family when their house burned down. Tonight Jacqueline Woods has a follow up. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On Monday the Mahler family lost their house and household possessions after a fire gutted […]
James Adderley Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. As athletes across this nation prepare to participate in the 2001 Central American Games scheduled to open on November twenty-third at Guatemala, we took our cameras to the friendly match-up between the National Under-21 Football Team, headed for the games and Lazio of […]
