When we last tuned into the long running soap opera entitled “the selling out of Belize”, we left one Justice of the Peace beating a hasty retreat and another pleading confusion as an excuse for violating his oath of office. Today in our continuing investigation into the illegal sale of passports, News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams […]
It may not rank with the dispute between Israel and Palestine or the controversy over the status of Northern Ireland… but by Belizean standards the battle between the Government and Opposition over the land at the foot of the Bel-China Bridge is just as intractable. Or rather was…because today, in one of those exceedingly rare […]
The land at Bel-China was not the only point of compromise reached this week. Responding to an Opposition initiative, Cabinet on Tuesday agreed to draft a constitutional amendment that would place restrictions on the jurisdiction of the Privy Council as the court of last resort in certain criminal matters. The intent is to restore the […]
One week after she was reported missing, the nude body of twenty-five year old Genovea Campos was found in some bushes in the vicinity of here home. According to police, Campos, who suffered from mental illness, resided with her father nine miles north of San Pedro on the island of Ambergris Caye. On July fifteenth, […]
A Belize City man has been handed a sixteen year prison sentence for the rape of a thirty-two year old woman. A jury of six women and three men found Stanley Lewis guilty after several hours of deliberations, which ran until 8 o’clock last night. Lewis, who only gave a dock statement on the advice […]
In recent weeks we’ve departed from our traditional format of saving sports news for Monday, as crucial semi-pro basketball games rated expanded mid-week coverage. Tonight we do the same, this time for major news from the world of football. James Adderley reports. James Adderley, Reporting Some three months after an altercation at the MCC Grounds, […]
Summer is the time when Belizeans at home and abroad like to travel. But unfortunately, the rigors of numerous delays, jam packed planes and cut rate service often make that trip a monumental hassle. So imagine how News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reacted when she met a frequent flyer who is old enough to remember the […]
