The account comes from the lawyer for Jeffrey Prosser but until the Belize Government puts its own spin on today?s events we?ll report based on the information in hand. According to attorney Lanny Davis, reached by phone in Miami, the Government of Belize has been declared in contempt of court. He claims that U.S. district […]
They received nine years in jail for crimes committed in Orange Walk and today Robert Hill and Mark Massam received more bad news. Pleading guilty to charges arising out of three robberies in Corozal on March twentieth, twenty-second and twenty-fifth, Hill received a total of twenty-seven additional consecutive years in prison while Massam was given […]
It was a neatly done piece of engineering by the Ministry of Works but today the new Beaver Dam Bridge is suffering at the hands of a careless truck driver. At around eight last night a lowboy carrying a tall and awkwardly arranged excavator snapped a power line across the Western Highway and continued on […]
Details are in short supply tonight but News 5 has confirmed that late this evening a policeman was the victim of a shooting incident in Belize City. According to sources in the police department, Constable Edgar Pech, attached to the Crimes Investigations Branch was at home around five this evening, cleaning his service revolver when […]
Coincidence? Or competition? Whatever the case, Belize Telecommunications Limited, today announced new telephone rates for their DigiCell customers. No, you won’t have to pay more. In fact, Senior Marketing Representative Lisa Stanford says that beginning on Friday, thousands of B.T.L.’s DigiCell customers will be able to talk more and without feeling any bad rhythms in […]
Out with the old, in with the new. That’s how Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh described it as he formally introduced new rules that will govern how cases are handled in the Supreme Court. The new rules come into effect on Monday, and will replace the seventy-nine year old British procedures which were adapted for local […]
We see them every day and continually ask why something cannot be done to improve the lives of Belize’s street people. Today one group of people came forward to say they will try. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting The problem of homelessness has been with us for a long time. But compounding the situation […]
She visited the site over three years ago, and while the magnificent waterfall in the Stann Creek District lived up to its advanced billing, getting there was another matter altogether. But you can’t stop progress–and while reaching Davis Falls is still not exactly easy, it is at least within the reach of many more Belizeans…as […]
