Missing persons are reported to the police and media every day. Most are teenage runaways who soon return home or people with mental problems who are eventually reunited with loved ones. But tonight at a ranch north of Ladyville, the family of a missing four-year-old boy is running out of hope. It has been over […]
Two men have been arrested in the killing of taxi driver Rodrick Todd. Twenty-three year old Roland Small of Pelican Street and twenty-one year old Michael Young of a West Canal address were today taken to Magistrate’s Court where they were charged with the crime of murder. Todd’s body, suffering from gunshot wounds, was found […]
Charges against a police officer accused of killing a suspect in San Pedro have been upgraded from manslaughter to murder. Constable Burton Caliz appeared today before Justice Michelle Arana to offer a plea to the original manslaughter charge arising from the death of Leroy Pilgrim, but was informed by the prosecution that the charge had […]
While one police officer will be heading to jail, five other defendants charged with murder are about to be set free. Today prosecutor Marjorie Moyston dropped a bombshell on the court of Justice Adolph Lucas when she revealed that the D.P.P.’s office has requested that murder charges be dropped against five people accused in the […]
A traffic accident that took three lives on the third of June has now claimed a fourth victim. He is Belize Defence Force private Eduardo Cus. Cus, who was a passenger in a B.D.F. truck that collided with a motorcycle on the Western Highway, was flown to Mexico City for treatment on June seventh. According […]
The consultant hired to review the Public Utilities Commission’s initial decision on electricity rates has submitted his report… and it looks like consumers will be feeling the pinch. Dennis Colenutt, having considered submissions by the P.U.C. and Belize Electricity Limited, has recommended a mean electricity rate of thirty-nine point three cents per kilowatt-hour. This figure […]
Higher education: it’s a goal to which more Belizeans than ever before are aspiring. But will our institutions of advanced learning be ready? One school is outlining some bold plans for the future. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This month Saint John?s College officially released its plans to dramatically expand the educational institution?s main campus. The new […]
The kids are nearly out of school, the weather is hot, and the rivers are beginning to rise. It’s a combination that in the news business means a summer of stories on tragic drownings. But, as I learned this afternoon, it’s a forecast that does not have to come true. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the […]
The tiny village on the Old Northern Highway hit the headlines last week when media reports highlighted the death of a child due to malnutrition. This week News Five’s Jacqueline Woods took a trip up the road to Santa Martha to see the situation for herself… and what she found is a type of poverty […]
