In September, a young man from Crooked Tree Village, Frederick Reynolds, was shot by a policeman while detained in the back of a pickup truck. Yesterday, the body of a fellow detainee who witnessed that shooting was fished out of Crooked Tree Lagoon. Were the two deaths related? News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams travelled north and […]
In Belize City crime news, two men have been detained for a heist, which occurred over the weekend at a popular business establishment. Sometime between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, thieves lifted an iron safe and cash register from Dave’s Furniture World on Basra Street. The undisclosed amount of money they found inside must have […]
Fifteen year old Shamira McKoy and fourteen year old Nicole Vacarro, the two cousins who were crushed by a bus on Wednesday morning, have undergone surgery at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. McKoy, who broke her pelvis and Vacarro, who suffered multiple fractures to the same bone, both remain in stable condition. Shortly after nine […]
Prime Minister Said Musa today visited the Toledo Village of San Vicente, site of recent controversy over the shooting deaths of three Guatemalans by Belizean security forces. Musa, accompanied by Chief of Staff Francis Fonseca and C.E.O. in the Ministry of Rural Development Roy Cayetano, met with villagers who have expressed concerns about their close […]
The Committee for Action on Public Utilities, CAPU, is advising B.T.L. customers to hold onto their December bills and not pay them until the last day in January. Their reasoning is that the controversy over B.T.L.’s new rate structure imposed on December first will supposedly be resolved by that time. This is in view of […]
We’re barely recovering from the Christmas and New Year holidays, but we thought that it’s never too early to look at the holiday schedule for the next twelve months. There are no days off until the long Baron Bliss weekend of March eleventh, which is quickly followed by Holy Week, beginning on Friday the twenty-ninth. […]
With the new year upon us, the Belize City Council is wasting no time in getting the old capital into shape. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting We’ve all heard the slogan, “Keep Belize Clean and Beautiful” but, a drive through many of our city neighbourhoods reveal we still have a long way to go. […]
