While Belize is certainly no stranger to violent crime, the grisly murder discovered yesterday in Gales Point was unusual, both in its location and nationality of its victim: a frequent visitor from the United States. Today, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited the gruesome scene in search of answers. Elaine Perez, Friend “Suppose it was somebody […]
A day after one of the most violent bank robberies in the nation’s history, police seem no closer to catching any of the five remaining criminals believed to be involved…but Commissioner Carmen Zetina did speak to the press this morning to offer details of what went down in the town of Orange Walk. Jose Carmen […]
And in police news of a happier nature, P.C. Kevin Jacobs has returned to Belize after receiving treatment in Merida for wounds suffered at the hands of gunmen in Cayo. Jacobs, who left the country on February sixteenth, arrived back on Monday. According to police, he remains in serious but stable condition at Belmopan hospital.
Depending on your political source the numbers will differ sharply, but the civilian consensus is that this morning, somewhere between three hundred and five hundred Belizeans took to the streets of Belize City and picketed the Prime Minister’s office to protest recent actions by government. Organised by the Opposition United Democratic Party, the demonstrators first […]
And in what must have been a very busy day for U.D.P. leader Dean Barrow–this time in his role as attorney–he today informed News 5 that the Supreme Court has ruled in favour of his client, Caribsports Book and Casino Ltd., and ordered three banks to unfreeze almost five million U.S. dollars that they had […]
In related news, a U.D.P. press release again lambasted the government for excessive secrecy in its dealings with the sale of B.T.L. This time the opposition went beyond its previous charges to accuse G.O.B. of “facilitating talks” between Innovative Telecommunication Company and INTELCO with an eye to having I.C.C. purchase INTELCO after it buys B.T.L. […]
It was promised two election campaigns ago, and today it became official: the teaching of African and Mayan history is now part of the Social Studies curriculum. The programme was launched during ceremonies this afternoon at St. Mary’s Anglican School in Belize City, one of the institutions that took part in the pilot project last […]
Meanwhile, the man who supported the concept of African and Mayan studies from the beginning, Prime Minister Said Musa, says for too long people in Belize have been subjected to only one side of history. He urged students and teachers to embrace the programme in order to move decisively to correct an imbalance, which results […]
