Virtually every week we hear reports of smugglers being caught with goods they are trying to cross into Belize. But what we seldom hear about are the high volume of importers who manage to bypass the systems set in place to collect the proper duties and ensure there is a level playing field for all […]
As the new school year begins, some young Belizeans are heading abroad to continue their education. Among them will be a group which has received scholarships to study in Taiwan. Seven Belizeans will be pursuing master’s degrees in a wide range of fields at several different universities. They are: Aisha Andrewin, Frieda Palma, Dalwin Lewis, […]
The International Monetary Fund is recommending a stronger adjustment policy for Belize. News Five has obtained a leaked draft of what appears to be an authentic copy of an I.M.F. Staff Report for the Article IV Consultation. That document, being circulated to Executive Directors this week, says that while the Belizean economy grew at a […]
Sometime after one this afternoon the Caceres family of Belize City was heading to Altun Ha, but as their vehicle passed between miles eighteen and nineteen on the Northern Highway it made contact with a tanker that was travelling in the opposite direction. The crash caused the family’s van to run off the road, while […]
A fourteen year old successfully fought off two men who were trying to steal his bicycle on Tuesday. Michael Heredia told police he was near the Lopez Mateo Park in King’s Park when two males came up to him and grabbed onto his bicycle. When Heredia refused to let go, one of the men hit […]
A youth from Sandhill has been charged following an attack on a Belize City teen that might have been fatal if not for sheer luck. Eighteen year old Edward King of Electric Avenue told police that on Monday night he was in his yard when four men he knew rode up to him on bikes. […]
In Magistrate’s Court today, the lack of public bathroom facilities caused a mix-up so severe that a man accused of molesting an eight-year-old girl did not stand trial. The accused, Steven Jorgenson, was released with charges dismissed after the child failed to take the witness stand although a court officer called her name six times. […]
Last week he shot two robbers who tried to hold him up at his shrimp farm, but this week two men he shot last year for trespassing on his property, failed to appear in court. As a result, Charles McIntosh of Marage Road, Ladyville, had the case against him dismissed. McIntosh had been charged with […]
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It was only today that the newly constituted Sadie Vernon Technical High School was inaugurated, but already a total of two hundred and forty students are waiting for classes to start. The increase in number is due to the placement of third and fourth form students who were enrolled in Excelsior High […]
