Word from Miami tonight is that the long running legal nightmare called I.C.C. versus Government of Belize is about to end. Both sides in the battle for ownership of B.T.L. summed up their cases before Federal Judge Ursula Ungaro-Benages today and this evening Belize’s Attorney in Miami, Barry Davidson, told us that Judge Ungaro has […]
If you follow news from the United States of America you know that the big story of the week was the miraculous rescue of eleven year old Brennan Hawkins, found by searchers in a Utah forest some four days after he wandered away from Boy Scout Camp. While that against-the-odds outcome should bring some measure […]
It’s not often that we find newsworthy material on the pages of the Belize Times, but a story in today’s edition could not be ignored. Entitled ?Eureka!? the five-paragraph report breathlessly describes how on Tuesday the company drilling for petroleum at Spanish Lookout had finally struck oil. It depicted a ?gusher,? from which ?huge quantities […]
A man originally accused of murder, but convicted only of manslaughter, had his conviction completely overturned yesterday by the Court of Appeal. Benjamin Chulin of Orange Walk was cleared, his nine-year prison sentence wiped out, and he cannot be retried for the death of Reynaldo Roberts in 2003. His attorney, Hubert Elrington, successfully argued that […]
Two cases involving adult men having sex with children fell apart today in the Supreme Court when the teens failed to appear to testify. Defendant Mark Tucker, a police officer of West Street in Belize City, appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas, but the Crown declined to prosecute due to the disappearance of their main witness, […]
The fourth annual compilation of Belize’s environmental statistics was officially launched this morning…and major findings are signalling a dramatic increase in the amount of pollutants contaminating the country’s land, sea, and air. According to the experts: In 1980, there were just twenty-seven thousand households in Belize…in the year 2000, that figure had risen to approximately […]
Experts have long contended that many of the country’s social problems, especially the rise in violent crime, are the direct result of the breakdown of the traditional family. With that in mind, since Monday of this week, twenty social workers, recommended through the Human Services Department, have been participating in courses stressing the importance of […]
In Belize there is no law against corporal punishment for children under the age of sixteen including those in the primary education system. In fact, Section thirty-one of the Criminal Code allows force or harm if it is used to correct a child for misconduct. Section thirty-nine allows other force not exceeding a wound or […]
They say you should save the best for last and so tonight we bring you the best of the bunch… at least, according to their scores on the Primary School Examination, P.S.E., given to all standard six students countrywide. And while Hummingbird Elementary School had the highest overall class score, weighing in at an average […]
