They say that alls well that ends well and by that standard an early morning kidnapping and shooting has ended very well indeed. But for a while things were touch and go as some determined and well armed bad guys tried very hard to settle what appeared to be an old score. Percival Flowers, Kidnap […]
In another crime that was quickly solved, reports from the Cayo District indicate that public-spirited citizens chased after a pair of robbers and managed to send one to jail. According to police, around eleven this morning two men jumped a truck driver for Quality Poultry who had just made a delivery at a shop along […]
Yesterday they were being sought for questioning; today two men have been detained by police pending charges of murder. The pair is alleged to have shot to death Dean Belisle on Monday afternoon at his Lavender Street home. As is the usual practice, the names of the detained suspects have been withheld by police until […]
A coordinated effort by police, prison officers and B.D.F. soldiers, has turned up an ingenious assortment of jailhouse weapons. The raid on Hattieville prison at five this morning came as a surprise to inmates, who looked on as each cell was searched from top to bottom. The action comes in the wake of an increased […]
And in news from the judicial side of law enforcement, a Toledo man has been convicted for the crime of carnal knowledge of a child. Valentin Bolon of San Antonio Village was on Monday found guilty in the Supreme Court sitting in Dangriga and sentenced by Justice Troadio Gonzales to fifteen years in prison. His […]
Every year the United Nations Development Programme issues its Human Development Report, an attempt to quantify the development of the world’s nations by measuring life expectancy, education, and standard of living. Belize has traditionally ranked near the top of a middle range of countries and this year is no exception. Out of one hundred and […]
B.T.L., our sole functioning phone company, is no stranger to the news…usually due to controversy over rates and issues of competitive regulation. But today it was the corporate giant’s turn to display the silver lining of monopoly capitalism. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from the Placencia Peninsula. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It may have taken almost […]
