The court martial of three British soldiers implicated in the May 2001 death of fourteen-year-old David Zabaneh opened today in the United Kingdom. The three Gurkhas, riflemen Durgahang Limbu, twenty-seven; Yograj Rai, twenty-three; and twenty-four year old Ramesh Rai were originally charged with murder, but today pled not guilty to reduced charges of violent disorder. […]
If crime takes a nosedive this week it may be due to the presence of the region’s top police brass. The two-day tour by the Central American Commission of Chiefs of Police is the first leg of a junket that includes Panama, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica. The focus of the trip […]
A police officer is accused of pulling a costly whap on a Belize City woman. Forty-one year old Brenda Maheia told cops that last Thursday she negotiated with Police Constable Marvin Locke to purchase a boat from him for a price of two thousand, eight hundred dollars. Maheia alleges that she gave Locke fourteen hundred […]
It has been fourteen years since Belize last served on a major United Nations body, but today the country was elected to sit on ECOSOC, the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council. Belize earned one hundred and eighty of the one hundred and eighty-five votes to fill one of three open positions reserved for Latin America […]
We can’t give the name of the lucky winner, but tonight we’re a little closer to solving the mystery of Saturday’s fifty-two thousand, five hundred dollar Lotto jackpot. We have been informed by Tropical Gaming Company that the winning ticket holder has indeed come forward and will appear tomorrow to claim his or her cheque. […]
It’s birth and rise to prominence in the world of Belizean NGOs coincided in the early 1990’s with the rapid growth of the nation’s privately owned media. With its articulate spokeswoman and righteous cause, the organisation now known as NOPCAN, the National Organisation for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, quickly gained a high […]
With a new state of the art performing arts centre due to open early in the new year, there were concerns that Belize might not be able to generate enough entertainment for the high quality venue. Not to worry; as News 5’s Patrick Jones discovered, reports of the death of theatre in Belize have been […]
