It would have taken a miracle to find that police constable Morris Martinez, missing since December twenty-second, was alive…but miracles are in short supply in Belize these days. Today the heavily decomposed body of Martinez was discovered by police off a cane feeder road between Corozal Town and Consejo. Investigators believe that Martinez, last seen […]
Today the public got to put a human face on a crime that has outraged the nation. Accused child rapist Rayford Sanchez was brought to Magistrate’s Court this afternoon where he was charged with committing an unnatural crime, carnal knowledge and indecent assault. The twenty-eight year old was denied bail and remanded to Hattieville prison […]
Rayford Sanchez is not the only Belizean accused of sexually abusing a minor. Today police have arrested twenty-six year old Sheldon Baptist of Burrel Boom following an incident on Tuesday night in which a fifteen-year-old female from the village claims she was forcibly raped. The young woman told police that she was home alone and […]
Getting a handle on the subject of sexual abuse in Belize is not easy, as it is only in the last decade or so that it has become the focus of public debate. One survey, however, conducted in 1997 by a group of students and their teacher from the University College of Belize, sheds some […]
Several weeks ago we ran a story on the Corozal Free Zone which explained that, due to a number of factors, business was significantly down. This week the Ministry of Investment has announced the appointment of a special task force to find ways to reverse that decline. The six members: Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries […]
The Belize Tourism Industry Association today convened a meeting of a group called Friends of Coastal Zone to discuss a concept paper for the management of the Belize Barrier Reef. It’s a two-fold proposal that would see the financially strapped Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute get full oversight responsibility along with much needed financial […]
It has taken a while for the magnitude of the disaster to sink in but Belizeans, no strangers to the wrath of nature, are beginning to respond to the tragedy in Asia. News 5’s Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting Three of the local organizations that are organizing aid assistance for tsunami victims in […]
His fame as an amateur photographer has recently been eclipsed by his winning of the Lotto, but Noel Escalante hasn’t let those new found riches change his habits. And so he’s back with his annual exhibition, this time at the Belize City House of Culture. Patrick Jones, ably assisted by our two interns from Gwen […]
