It seems like for every step forward made by the Police Department, at least two are taken in the opposite direction. The latest blow to the image of law enforcement came this weekend in the form of an accusation of attempted rape–allegedly perpetrated by an officer who used his official position to gain his victim’s […]
While the alleged victim of the attempted rape was able to escape unharmed, such was not the case for a pair of tourists who were assaulted near the ancient Maya site of Xunantunich on Sunday morning. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods caught up with the pair this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Jacqueline Woods, […]
Belize city police are still trying to identify the robber who held up two employees of the Novelos Bus Line as they were stuck in a traffic jam sometime after ten this morning. Reports are that the company’s senior cashier, thirty-one year old Lewis Robinson and an office assistant, were on their way to the […]
In other crime news, quick police action led to the arrest of a suspected chain snatcher in Belize City this morning, while two men have been detained in separate armed robberies on Friday. Police are still investigating a hold-up that occurred on Friday afternoon at the offices of U.S. COM on Baymen Avenue. The lone […]
There is nothing that can put a smile on a person’s face like money, and lots of it in the days just before Christmas. But that’s just the kind of good fortune that struck Geraldine Conorquie, who travelled from Georgeville village today to collect her eighty seven thousand, five hundred dollar lotto jackpot. Conorquie says […]
The competition to come up with a new name for the radically rebuilt Bliss Institute is over… and one lucky Belizean is five hundred dollars richer for entering. Today, Director of the Institute of Creative Arts, Andy Palacio unveiled the successful entry and called the winner, Lois Locke, all the way in Brooklyn to relay […]
It’s as common a Christmas staple as ham and turkey…but while holiday drinking is here to stay, drunk driving need not be tolerated. Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting Starting on Tuesday morning, personnel from the National Drug Abuse Control Council will hit the streets in Belize City with a special holiday message for […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. With the Regent Insurance Cup Tournament concluded, we’ve turned our attention to the B.P.F.L.’s B-League currently into its third week of regular season play. So welcome to Sandhill where they pitch today displays the obvious signs of damage from the recent weather, but the show […]
