Hassan El-Sayed. He is a man with many questions to answer, first as one of those on trial in connection with the forgery of illegally sold passports, and more recently as the money broker who was given one-point-four million dollars of B.T.L. funds to change into U.S. and has yet to produce the cash. El-Sayed […]
The victim of Tuesday evening’s fatal shooting of an alleged burglar by a police officer has been identified. And as News Five’s Jacqueline Woods discovered, the deceased appeared to be on a collision course with trouble. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-nine year old Egbert Gordon Junior is a graduate of Gwen Lizarraga High School and the […]
Police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying both the victim and the driver responsible for a hit and run on Wednesday night. Police say a man was knocked down by a white pickup truck around nine p.m., while walking between miles three and four on the Northern Highway. He was transported in an […]
Police had better luck in solving another hit and run that occurred on Tuesday evening. On our newscast that night we reported the incident in which a young girl was knocked down on Mahogany Street by the driver of a white Mercedes who left the scene without stopping. That driver, thirty-eight year old Ravel Cowo […]
Trouble on the road this week was not confined to pedestrians. On Wednesday morning it was anything but a routine commute as a busload of passengers heading towards Ladyville watched horrified as a passenger was stabbed. Reports are that around eight that morning twenty-one year old Earl Archer and nineteen year old Justo Augustine were […]
While there are still way too many guns in this town, at least one high powered firearm has been taken off the streets. Police report that officers on patrol Wednesday night on Caesar Ridge Road attempted to question two men who appeared to be acting suspiciously, but the duo fled with one of the men […]
The Supreme Court session that begins on Monday will be its busiest in memory. So far the court has already listed sixty criminal matters for trial in the October sitting and is still accepting cases. Among the numerous murders, armed robberies, sexual assaults and other crimes, two stand out. One is the trial of Jermaine […]
Prime Minister Said Musa is no stranger to book launchings and art openings at the Image Factory–hey, his son owns the joint–but today the P.M. was the guest of honour as Belize’s latest published author. Janelle Chanona, Reporting The book, “Belize: A Caribbean Nation in Central America; Selected Speeches of Said Musa” was officially launched […]
The theme of this year’s Senior Citizen’s Week is “Ageing with Dignity.” And if there was ever a man who fit that description, it is the subject of our next story. When veteran educator and prison chaplain Michael Nembhard agreed to appear on camera in 1994, he was one hundred and three years old. We […]
