He’s awaiting trial along with his brother Hadrian for a May 2001 drug bust that netted over a ton and a quarter of cocaine. But tonight Robert Hertular has another fight on his hands: extradition to the United States. Robert, he’s the one wearing a grey shirt in this 2001 file shot, was picked up […]
They were accused in the jacking of a pair of Dutch tourists near the Maya site of Xunantunich. But while on their way from Hattieville prison to court this morning in Benque Viejo, what had been a textbook example of good police work turned into a scene from The Keystone Cops. The three Guatemalan suspects: […]
It is a problem that has been with us for many years, but despite a number of sincere and practical efforts to find proper shelter for Belize City’s homeless citizens, a hard core insist on living outdoors. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on the Mayor’s latest effort to solve the problem. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting We […]
Belize has long been self sufficient in poultry, but health and agricultural officials are taking no chances. With Avian Influenza threatening Asia, all poultry imports from that part of the world have been banned. The ban not only includes the nonexistent commercial trade, but also covers individuals from the Far East entering by land, sea, […]
The process known as education is never a static one. Even before a new Minister of Education was appointed earlier this month, a large-scale review of the nation’s education system was already underway. That stocktaking will come in the form of a special Education Summit later this year. Minister of Education Francis Fonseca says it […]
It is getting to be a popular practice in the United States for professional associations to combine business and pleasure. Today that combination resulted in a group of U.S. nurses dropping in on the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Eighty-four year old Norman Simpliss quit smoking almost two decades, […]
