Knocking off a Chinese grocery: it’s a crime as Belizean as rice and beans–or perhaps dala chicken. But just because the modus operandi is a familiar one, it doesn’t make it any less terrifying for the victims. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Three years ago, eighteen-year-old Qian Xian Yang and twenty-four year […]
Police have made one more arrest in the December fifth murder of an Orange Walk businessman in Camalote Village. Thirty-year old Timothy Vanegas was charged on Wednesday with the crimes of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of Jacob Elias. Elias had reportedly travelled to Camalote […]
Union members at B.T.L. and their colleagues nationwide today served notice that they are not at all happy with some changes the company has in store for its labour force. Jacqueline Woods has the story. Paul Perriott, Trustee, B.C.W.U. “Well right now at the time we are faced with a mass lay-off of staff. We […]
The practice of public opinion research–or polling–has never caught on in Belize. And while in many parts of the world politicians live and die by the latest polling numbers, we in Belize have happily been spared the distraction. As the 2000 results in Florida demonstrated, polls can be radically wrong, and in a place as […]
By the standards of the English speaking Caribbean islands, it’s a finely tuned, well equipped military juggernaut; but by Central American measurements, the Belize Defence Force barely qualifies as a standing army, boasting not a single tank, fighter plane or helicopter. How ever you want to judge the B.D.F., it remains our first line of […]
She has been a community activist all her adult life, but somehow managed to avoid the realm of partisan politics… at least until now. As the U.D.P. candidate in Pickstock, with two formidable challengers, Diane Haylock will have her hands more than full between now and the fifth of March. As part of our continuing […]
