Tonight lawyers for the Belize Telecommunications Limited are still at the Supreme Court fighting for the suspension of a government imposed stop order. Late this afternoon, attorney for B.T.L., Lois Young Barrow filed an application before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh asking that the stop order, slated to take effect tomorrow, be deferred until a later […]
A daring daylight robbery has left Placencia police scouring the peninsula for three bank robbers. Reports are that around 1:30 this afternoon three masked men armed with shotguns walked into the Atlantic Bank branch and demanded money. After receiving an undisclosed amount of cash, the men got away by stealing a bank vehicle from the […]
Tonight, yet another senseless murder has been added to the list of Belize City crimes. Men have died for dogs, been murdered for mangoes, and iced over an ideal. On Thursday, a storage worker was butchered for his bike. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Russell Smith, a storage worker in his late forties, met […]
Tonight the police need your help in identifying a female body found this morning at a dumpsite off the Western Highway. Around 11:00 a.m., Hattieville police, acting on a tip, went to the Boom/ Hattieville dumpsite, where they found a woman’s body. Police say there was blood coming from her nose and marks on her […]
It seems logical enough…don’t pay me, I won’t work. Well that’s just what employees of the Belize Water Services Limited did this morning, after they didn’t get paid on Thursday. B.W.S.L. field crews congested the parking lot of the corporate headquarters with their vehicles as part of a go-slow designed to send a message to […]
After two weeks of training, nearly twenty Belizeans are now certified arson investigators. The eighteen fire-fighters of the National Fire Service, who participated in intensive sessions conducted by international instructors, were all successful and in a graduation ceremony earlier today awarded their certificates. The men and women from fire stations countrywide, studied the dynamics of […]
If you’re the parent of a school aged child, then like many others, you probably hold your breathe at the start of every year hoping he or she gets a “good teacher”. This has prompted one diocese to turn their teachers into students. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Standard five and six students of […]
A bunch of lawyers in a room might make most people nervous, but we are assured this time that’s not the case. Earlier today, the Council for Legal Education, which provides professional training for people wishing to qualify as lawyers throughout the region, held it’s executive meeting at the Radisson. Dennis Morrison who has served […]
Every year too many Belizeans die in totally unnecessary traffic accidents. Whether it’s our refusal to adhere to the laws or a lack of enforcement, with the public’s safety in mind the Belize City Council has resurrected a law that might just save a few lives. Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting In a matter […]
