Hit and run: the name of the crime says it all. Tonight a child lies in intensive care at the K.H.M.H. while the coward who knocked her to the pavement is a free man or woman… who may even be watching this newscast. Today I visited the hospital and discovered a family focussed on one […]
They were introduced in 2002 as a way to regularize the free wheeling market in foreign exchange and put pressure on the banks, which previously held a monopoly on legal currency transactions. But most mainstream economists never did like the casas de cambio and saw them merely as legal fig leaf to permit the big […]
It was the only real piece of new news to emerge from the visit of Mexican President Vicente Fox; that is the announcement that neighbouring oil giant PEMEX would be opening a gas station in Belize. The move was hailed by the Prime Minister as an important breakthrough, and he held out the prospect that […]
Police in San Ignacio have arrested a suspect in a fatal bar stabbing. Twenty-year-old Guatemalan Yanira Escobar, a resident of San Ignacio, has been charged with murder in the killing of twenty-three year old Jessica Saldero. Saldero was stabbed to death at a San Ignacio club on Sunday night. The women were allegedly involved in […]
Tonight two people are in police custody for questioning following an armed robbery in Belize City that has left one man suffering from gunshot wounds to the head. According to police, around one this afternoon, sixty-two year old Jose Martinez, a delivery truck driver for Running W Meats, was making a stop at Ying Ying […]
An accused rapist on trial in the Supreme Court this afternoon walked out a free man. According to court reports, twenty-two year old Kareem Witty was arrested and charged with the crime following a report to the police by his ex-girlfriend that on the night of October tenth 2003 he had taken her out dancing […]
It’s one of a homeowner’s lingering fears: to be robbed by an employee you trust enough to let into your house. That’s the scenario experienced by one Belize City family as a woman hired as a domestic worker systemically stole several pieces of jewellery valued at over five thousand dollars. According to the victims, Barbara […]
Saint John’s College Junior College and Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking for the internet, have established a working partnership that has led to the launch of a local Cisco Networking Academy. The programme prepares students for networking and I.T. related careers, as well as for higher education in engineering, computer science, and related […]
He is one of the most active musicians on the Belizean scene, both in terms of the product he creates and his advocacy for local artists. And this week Ras Indio is out pushing his latest release. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has a preview. Ras Indio, Musician ?Right now, the ?Push Up The Fire Vibes? […]
