Early this afternoon the combination of a roving child, smooth highway and fast moving taxi sent a little girl from Hattieville to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with injuries that threaten to claim her life. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods arrived at the scene to find that it was a case of history repeating itself. Jacqueline […]
There is good news to report tonight in the case of the burglary of the Port Loyola preschool. Principal of the school, Gwendolyn Jones, stopped by our studios this afternoon to report that after the story aired on last night’s newscast, she received a telephone call from a friend informing her that a man was […]
While the preschool theft has apparently been solved, police are tonight hot on the trail of the thieves who broke into the Gill Street home of Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber. Around eleven o’clock this morning, Faber was alerted that his house was being burglarised, but by the time he arrived the burglars had already […]
After three weeks of operation, officials of the Cash for Information programme have reported solid success. Twenty-two guns have been seized as a result of phone tips and nineteen persons arrested. Over two thousand, six hundred dollars has been paid to informants who called the 922 hotline. According to C.E.O. in the Ministry of Home […]
Orange Walk police are no closer to solving the weekend murder of eighteen-year-old Russel Tillett. An autopsy performed on Thursday has yielded little in the way of help for investigators. According to Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, the bullet retrieved from Tillett’s body was fragmented beyond recognition. Reid says the police will now turn […]
In an update to another recent murder, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, through its anti-crime fund, is offering a two thousand dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man or men who killed Inez Leal. Leal was shot on Tuesday morning in the course of a hold-up at […]
It’s a housing programme that works: not only in Belize, but all over the world. I’m talking about Habitat for Humanity…and while the Habitat habit has yet to catch fire here, it remains one of the best avenues to home ownership for many low income Belizeans. This weekend, one more house will become a home. […]
When the meeting opened it was not known that before the day was out a taxi driver would knock down a little girl in Hattieville. But the tragedy on the Boom Road only served to emphasise the importance of what was taking place at the Belize Institute of Management. In that meeting, what was being […]
It’s a global organization but its decisions have direct impact on even the smallest communities in the most remote corners of the world. But the average citizen–and this includes most Belizeans–doesn’t give much thought to the movements of the World Trade Organization. But we should. At the last W.T.O. ministerial meeting in Cancun earlier this […]
