It’s the best news that Belmopan has received in a long time: a clear and decisive ruling by Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh that a temporary injunction issued by a U.S. Federal Court in Miami placing Jeffrey Prosser back in charge of B.T.L. is neither enforceable nor effective in Belize. The Supreme Court ruling gives the […]
It could be described as a “wake up call” to the Prime Minister, Jeffrey Prosser and Michael Ashcroft…except this morning there weren’t any wake up calls–or calls of any type, as one or more B.T.L. employees sabotaged the network of land lines, cellular service and internet for around four hours this morning. The technical action […]
We’ve seen it in the movies and heard accounts from places like Colombia…but the death of a drug mule by the rupturing of plastic bags in his stomach is a new phenomenon for Belize. Tonight we report not one, but two such tragedies. News 5?s Jacqueline Woods has more. Natalie UH, Mother ?He called me […]
He has been missing now for twelve days and tonight the family of twenty-eight-year-old Daniel Tillett is asking for your help in locating him. According to relatives of the Blackman Eddy resident, Daniel, who has a history of mental problems, was last seen on March third in the Belmopan area. His brother, Darrell Tillett, today […]
Police have arrested and charged an eighteen-year-old Belize City man in connection with the armed robbery of a Bowen and Bowen delivery truck over the weekend. According to the driver of the soft drink truck, he was making deliveries in the St. Martin de Porres area on Saturday morning when two men held him up […]
Over the years numerous initiatives have been taken to diagnose the root causes of crime and produce solutions to solve the problem. But tonight, one local author claims that he’s spent the last eight years, not to mention more than a hundred thousand dollars, conducting scientific research on Belize’s youth and, guess what, his study […]
The old capital, a rough and tumble settlement that gradually grew out of the Mangrove Swamp, never has had much in the way of space for parks and recreation. And what open space we do have is hardly anything to boast about. That’s why any effort to improve the situation is a welcome one. News […]
