Everyone agrees on the nature of the problem: disaffected youths with too few marketable skills and too much temptation. A sure-fire recipe for a fatal subculture of crime, drugs and poverty. The hard part is finding the elusive answers. This afternoon government launched a new effort to provide some. And although the project started with […]
In recent days security guards have become a preferred target of thieves looking to rob them of their firearms. Last night another guard was attacked…and is now in the hospital with a gunshot wound. Peter Scott, a thirty-six year old Jamaican employed as security for Bowen and Bowen on King Street, told police that around […]
Burglars were also out in force this week, striking in four far-flung parts of the country. A marina in Sittee River was broken into and goods valued at over thirteen thousand dollars were taken. One suspect has been detained and another is being pursued. In Orange Walk, police are still investigating the theft of five […]
This morning the trial of accused drug traffickers Jorge Moreno, Oscar Aguirre, Victor Carrasco and Zulema Molina got off to a late start and adjourned early. That left only an hour or so of court time, not enough for prosecution witness ASP David Henderson to be cross-examined. Henderson’s testimony revolved around the identification of the […]
It doesn’t support the traffic of O’Hare in Chicago, J.F.K. in New York or London’s fabled Heathrow. In fact, the total number of passengers landing at Belmopan’s Hector Silva airstrip in a year would be hard pressed to fill a single 747. But numbers are always relative and in an emergency the lone runway in […]
Today they are pushing sixty and considering retirement from distinguished careers in business, the professions or government service. But back in 1952 they were scared kids about to take their first tentative steps into the world of secondary education. This morning News 5’s Janelle Chanona listened attentively as a special group of old friends got […]
It requires months of work by students, teachers and organisers…and in the end it all boils down to the spelling of one obscure word. Jacqueline Woods reports from the City Centre. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting In the well organised eight years that the Coca-Cola Spelling Bee has been held, the event has become immensely popular. Today, […]
Tonight’s newscast has focussed on Belize’s young people…and we’ll finish it on the same theme, with a review of last night’s performances in the Belize District Children’s Festival of Arts. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting One of the eleven silver performances of the night was done by Biscayne Government School, a familiar folk song. (Biscayne choir sings […]
There will be no newscast on Monday May 27th, 2002 due to the observance of Commonwealth Day. The next newscast will be on Tuesday, May 28th, 2002.
