All motorists in Belize are feeling the weight of exorbitant fuel rates due to the high percentage of tax being paid into the government’s coffers every time they fill their tanks. But now Belize City taxi drivers report they are facing yet another tax, this time on the use of city streets. News Five spoke […]
Although they were informed in March that the Court of Appeal was dismissing their appeal, it was not until today that the notorious duo, Leslie Pipersburg and Patrick Robateau were told why. The majority decision of Justices Elliott Motley and Boyd Carey read “We are satisfied that despite the duration of the trial and its […]
A woman who thought her trouble with the law was over, will have to return to court for a new trial. Delita Chavez, who was charged along with her mother for her role in the 2004 chopping of Kimberley Myers, had her abetment to dangerous harm charge dismissed earlier this year by Justice Adolph Lucas. […]
The Police Department has destroyed over one thousand exhibits from concluded cases. The exhibits, which date back over five years, include sacks full of marijuana, several bags of cocaine, over one hundred crack pipes, and parcels of white marl disguised as cocaine. All were burned in a furnace in the Cayo District this morning. Witnessing […]
Twelve years after the second largest national park in the country was established, a plan to better manage the forty-two thousand acre tract of land has been signed. The agreement is between the Sarstoon Temash National Park and the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management in the Toledo District. It is intended to enhance the […]
It’s a story that made international headlines: an apparently respectable New York City businesswoman accused of smuggling thousands of Chinese immigrants into the United States, holding them hostage, and laundering the ransom money. Even worse, Cheng Chui Ping was accused of participating in the 1993 ill-fated Golden Venture that left ten Chinese nationals dead in […]
Today Ladyville police released Jesus Aguirre, the farm worker from a cattle ranch where four-year-old Rudy Misael Lopez disappeared five days ago. Aguirre had reported receiving a phone call sometime on Monday night from a man who claimed to be holding the child and saying the boy was still alive. This information led police to […]
As an event, it’s a new kid on the cultural block, but Poets R Us at the Belize City House of Culture has breathed new life in an old art form: poetry. On Thursday night, a compilation of poetry written by Belizean high school students, in both book and recorded CD, was officially introduced to […]
