These are not good times for Said Musa and his People’s United Party government. Out of money and out of credit, facing major lawsuits at home and abroad, under political assault not only from the Opposition, but from two exceptionally irate back benchers… the last thing the party needed was a knife in the back. […]
Police are looking for the owners of a red van bearing taxi plates following a report by a Belize City youth that he was sodomized by the driver. The fifteen-year-old boy, accompanied by his father, told police he and a friend were walking on Partridge Street around three on Wednesday afternoon when a van stopped […]
Thousands of dollars in merchandise was reported stolen from a store in San Pedro on Tuesday. Lizando Gonzalez was inside his business, Three Brothers Boutique on Pelican Street, around four-thirty p.m. when he says a man came in and put a knife to his throat. A second man then showed up and the two tied […]
A career criminal with more than forty convictions to his discredit, tried to get his latest prison sentence reduced, but finds himself facing life behind bars. Kenrick Domingo, otherwise known as Buck Dougal, was sentenced to ten years for the rape of a woman near M.J.’s Night Club on West Canal in September of 2003. […]
He visited Belize as a tourist–in fact, our camera once caught him by accident as he walked through the airport incognito–but now it seems that the next time Hollywood heartthrob Leo DiCaprio comes to Belize it will be as the owner of his own island. International press reports indicate that the thirty year old star […]
While the attention was focused this week on the visit of Mexican President Vicente Fox and talk of a possible PEMEX gas station in Belize, the Minister Responsible for Energy, Vildo Marin, was in Venezuela attending a petroleum summit convened by President Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan President, President of Cuba Fidel Castro, and delegations from […]
For the past two weeks, more than twenty tax officials representing governments from the Caribbean have gathered in Belize City to participate in an annual workshop concentrating on financial auditing and fraud awareness. According to the coordinator, St. Lucia’s Averil James, the event is facilitated by the Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (CAROSAI) and […]
It’s that time of the year when many parents are wondering what they can do to keep their children focussed and out of trouble over the long summer holiday. That’s why summer camps are growing in popularity. The outings are a lot of fun especially when the young participants are encouraged to explore their creative […]
He may have criticised waste and high overheads in the Youth Department, but that did not dampen the enthusiasm and pride of over two dozen families who this morning attended the latest graduation ceremonies of the Youth Cadet Corps. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Ten months ago these young men […]
A large crowd gathered at the Queen Street police station this morning, but they weren’t there to wait for loved ones picked up in a base round-up. They came to get a good deal on goods confiscated during criminal investigations, but were never claimed. While most of it ran like a standard auction, there were […]
