Law enforcement may have suffered a setback on Wednesday when four guns were stolen from the offices of Anchor Security Company in Belize City. But today police more than made up for it when an early morning raid near Roaring Creek turned up the four filched firearms plus a bonus in the form of a […]
Roaring Creek was not the only hot spot for police as on Thursday they hit double paydirt during a search of a house in Belize City. Forty-four year old Brassel Cattouse Senior and his twenty-five year old son, Brassel Cattouse Junior of Pike’s Crescent, have been charged with drug trafficking and keeping an unlicensed firearm […]
It was splashed across the front page of this week’s Reporter newspaper: predictions of big trouble at the Chalillo dam resulting from a shortage of accessible aggregate and a minor earthquake at the site that the newspaper claims caused cracks to open in the earth. But the owners of the dam, Belize Electricity Limited, this […]
And concerning a less controversial warning of disaster, the Agriculture Department is asking farmers and residents of the lower Sibun and Belize River Valleys to be on the lookout tonight for flash floods. Extremely heavy rains have been reported in areas upstream which could cause one or both rivers to overflow the banks over the […]
Educational development is usually looked at as a government activity…and when private advice is sought, that help usually comes from abroad. But as the nation matures in resources and sophistication, an increasing quantity of expertise is becoming available locally. Today teachers were invited to sample some of that home grown knowledge. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The […]
With the tempo of preparations for next week’s Garifuna Settlement Day rapidly increasing, a group of Belize City students today had the opportunity to join in the fun…and feel the beat of the nation’s most vibrant culture. Patrick Jones, Reporting The banner strung across the Belize City Centre this afternoon said it all. It was […]
Today is being observed around the globe as World Diabetes Day…and with such a large part of our population at risk for this dangerous condition, the experts were out in force trying to spread the word about the need for Belizeans to adopt healthier lifestyles. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is estimated that twenty percent of […]
On Saturday afternoon the public is invited to the official reopening of a building that, from its stately perch on the Belize City foreshore, has witnessed many of the major events in Belize’s colourful history. News 5’s Patrick Jones managed to beat the crowd with an advanced tour. Patrick Jones, Reporting Walking through Government House […]
