In the latest hiccup in the B.T.L. legal battle, the Chief Justice postponed his expected judgment until Wednesday morning at nine-thirty. While that decision will be with regard to the composition of the legally beleaguered company’s board of directors, other developments today concerned the Belizean entity Sunrise and its bid to take over B.T.L. In […]
She was accused of forging official documents and giving false evidence under oath in connection with the 2002 immigration scandal. And today, after three weeks of testimonies, justice was meted out to forty-six year old store clerk Therese Cabral. After being convicted of eleven counts of forgery on Monday in the courtroom of Justice Adolph […]
With the dry weather on us, there is a lot of smoke in the air from brush fires. But this afternoon it was a house fire at mile two and a half on the Western Highway that caused a commotion. By the time fire fighters arrived on the scene, however, there was no way to […]
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services today announced that is has lowered Belize’s long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating to “CCC” from a “B-“. While the sovereign ratings on the short-term foreign and local currency remained at “C”, S&P also downgraded the country’s long-term local rating to “CCC+”, a drop from “B”. And according to a […]
A twenty-nine year old taxi driver from Succotz Village has been arrested after police caught him with a thirteen-year-old minor. Authorities say police patrol discovered Hipolito Itza and the young girl on the banks of the Mopan River around two on Monday morning. The girl claimed he had forced her to have intercourse against her […]
Tonight there is another report of rape, this time involving a member of the Belize Police Department. According to the authorities, forty-nine year old P.C. Evan Reynolds, attached to the Benque Viejo station was arrested and charged on Monday with two counts of rape. The alleged victim, a fourteen-year-old girl, told police that Reynolds raped […]
Residents of the Cayo District are still in shock following a disturbing report made to police regarding a local doctor. According to San Ignacio police, fifty-eight year old physician Dr. Jorge Garcia has been arrested and charged with indecent assault as a result of allegations made by a female patient. News Five understands that the […]
Belmopan police have charged Josephat Choc with murder in connection with the death of her common-law husband twenty-six year old police constable Benedicto Salam. Authorities say the couple were involved in a domestic dispute on Sunday at their home in Las Flores, which ended with Choc shooting Salam with his own service revolver. Salam, a […]
It is probably one of the biggest reunions ever planned–all past students of the former Belize Technical College. They will converge in Belize, beginning May eighteenth for a week of activities. Members of the planning committee, Darlene Gentle and Josephine Flowers, urge all alumni who have not yet signed up for the reunion to do […]
As Belize’s most essential publication, the B.T.L. directory, tends to start the year off in sterling condition then end up dog-eared, written in, and even ripped up–but that’s okay, the folks at B.T.L. are ready once more to give you a new one. News Five spoke with Public Relations Officer Linette Canto about the latest […]
