In late breaking news, rumours were rife this afternoon that a dead body discovered today near the village of Maskall was that of Kirk “Psycho” Thompson. News 5’s Ann-Marie is in Maskall and while she is still not in clear cell-phone range, she has confirmed that police in Maskall have concluded that a body found […]
It has all the earmarks of reinventing the wheel, but Cabinet this week finally decided that fighting crime is so important that the Prime Minister will personally spearhead a set of initiatives to fight it. P.M. Said Musa will chair a ministerial committee consisting of Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Dickie Bradley, Mark Espat and Maxwell Samuels. […]
Yesterday she turned herself in and today she has been charged with a number of crimes. Doris “Munchie” Martinez, the Belize City woman who threw acid into a crowd of domino players was today hit with four counts of common assault and one each of maim, harm, grievous harm, wounding and damage to property. Along […]
In justice that was much longer in coming, P.C. Jacinto Roaches has been charged with manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct–for a traffic mishap that occurred over two years ago. Roaches was driving Supreme Court Justice John Rivero from Belize City to Belmopan on the evening of August twenty-third, 1999, when he […]
In other crime news, police have arrested two Belize City men suspected of breaking into Delta Store on Albert Street. Twenty-one year old Edward Neal of Mohammed Ali Street and twenty-three year old Brent Gonzalez, a resident of Berkley Street, have been charged with the burglary of the store, which occurred in the wee hours […]
With thousands of Belizeans awaiting their December telephone bills with a mixture of defiance and trepidation, rumours swirled today that B.T.L. was having second thoughts about the implementation of their new rate structure, which was supposed to come into effect December first. Numerous calls to the company’s P.R. Department were met with the reply that […]
Motorists travelling on Central American Boulevard are asked to approach with caution when driving from Racoon Street to Neal Penn Road. The east side of that section of the Boulevard has been closed and the west side has been divided into two lanes. The closure is the result of drainage works currently being carried out […]
In the last several years new school buildings have been sprouting like weeds at the start of rainy season. Today, the earth was turned once more, this time in Belize City. Ann-Marie reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting It was a small, but impressive ceremony this morning as students of Wesley Lower School on Albert Street in […]
In other education news, UNICEF has responded quickly to help rebuild schools in the south destroyed by Hurricane Iris. Twenty temporary classroom structures have been constructed in nine hard hit communities and additional funds have been earmarked for textbooks and educational supplies. Primary donor to the UNICEF assistance has been the Government of Italy. On […]
The problem of child abuse in Belize is no longer swept under the rug, as in years past, but despite the efforts of NGOs like NOPCA and increased sensitisation of the Human Services Department, police and judiciary, Belizean children still resemble an endangered species. This morning a major three-day conference opened in Belize City that […]
