We have reported enough police stories over the last twelve years for viewers to know that when searching for guns or drugs, the cops pretty much do as they please. But can law enforcement authorities go too far? After last night’s harrowing account of a police raid on the premises of Douglas Gill, News 5’s […]
A sixteen-year-old boy from the Trial Farm area of Orange Walk Town clings to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight while police try to piece together the sequence of events that has left him in a coma. Francisco Cawich was hit in the head by a piece of concrete survey marker that was […]
He disappeared from the scene of an accident that left two children injured, but today that driver, twenty-nine year old Freddy Grant Junior, has been arrested and charged. A total of six charges have been brought against Grant, including driving without due care and attention, failure to report an accident, failure to confirm to a […]
He is charged for the crime of theft, but if police have their way, a twenty-two year old businessman will have a lot more questions to answer. Brian Humes, manager of Mike’s Spare Parts in Dangriga for the last year and a half, was arrested and charged on Monday after an audit of the accounts […]
Prime Minister Said Musa and his diplomatic entourage are on their way to Guatemala tonight, having participated in the Special Summit of the Americas in Monterrey, Mexico. Musa chaired today’s meetings on Economic Growth with Equity, recommending measures to prevent poverty and ensure equal distribution of wealth. According to a government issued release, the Prime […]
The Organisation of American States has approved funding for four projects in Belize. The Ministry of Education will coordinate a three-year programme to use satellite television and internet to educate rural teachers. First year O.A.S. funding is one hundred and fifty-four thousand U.S. dollars. The Belize Business Bureau is the executing agency for a forty-nine […]
We hear a lot these days about encouraging the entrepreneurial spirit in Belizean young people and several programmes have been established to provide loans for enterprising youths. But between receiving their investment funds and retiring as millionaires lies an invariably difficult journey. Today I joined a group of budding business people as they received training […]
