With some nine hundred qualified applicants patiently waiting for their citizenship papers and hundreds, perhaps thousands more holding dearly and fearfully to their illegally purchased passports, Belize’s immigration situation stands at something of a crossroads. Today, government tried to signal that the road it would be taking in the future is the high one. “I […]
And in an unfortunate footnote to that story, young Jason Hsu’s first day as a Belizean didn’t seem to be a lucky one. Hsu and his family, heading back to their home in Orange Walk town, collided with this fruit truck between miles thirty-two and thirty-three on the Western Highway. Hsu says slick road conditions […]
Police investigations have led them to conclude that the death of a Placencia man on Wednesday night was in fact the result of a hit and run…and they think they can identify the car, if not the driver. Sixty-eight year old Richard Gilbert Leslie, better known as Shakey, died just before midnight about an hour […]
Last week it was mosquitoes; this week it’s an insect much less annoying, but far more costly to the economy: that’s right, our old friend the medfly is back. According to a release from the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, the Mediterranean Fruit Fly has been detected in the Toledo District as well as South Stann […]
It has all the elements of a drama you see played out on American TV cop shows. Except that the plot in this story unfolds at number forty Faber’s Road in Belize City in the early hours of Friday morning. Police went to the home of twenty-four year old Jason Crawford to search for a […]
The annual B.D.F. volunteer training exercise is underway in the Mountain Pine Ridge. Today, Minister of Defence Sylvia Flores toured the facilities, where around three hundred soldiers, men and women, are learning a variety of military and survival skills. It was the first time the newly appointed Flores has witnessed the volunteer training. She was […]
Today at the Radisson, representatives from various youth organizations met with officials from the Youth for the Future initiative. Their aim: to come up with solutions to the issues affecting Belize’s young people. According to Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, Francis Fonseca, if we are looking for answers, we must start with […]
If the privately operated Kolbe Foundation is going to succeed in its goal of operating a secure, humane and rehabilitating prison, it will do so on the strength of its personnel. Today forty-one prison officers graduated from five weeks of instruction at the Police Training Academy in Belmopan. Inspecting the Guard of Honour at this […]
And in an update to a story we covered last month, we are relieved to report that Frank Aviella, an employee of the Belize Ports Authority who was fired from his job because he refused to cut his dreadlocks, has been reinstated. According to today’s Amandala, Aviella, who had threatened legal action, received a letter […]
Belizean boxing’s last great moment occurred when Fitzroy Guiseppi knocked out Luis “Lagunita” Rodriguez for the Caribbean and Central American title. That, unfortunately, was in 1979. A quarter century later News 5’s Patrick Jones is wondering when and if that feat can be repeated. Patrick Jones, Reporting They may not bear more than a superficial […]
