The neighbourhood became well-known to Belizeans in December when Lisa Garoy, her baby, and a neighbour were wounded by a spray of bullets that left the young mother paralysed. Today that same area, not far from downtown Belize City, is once again back in the news…for the same reason. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-three year old […]
Sixty year old Irma Cocom of Jane Usher Boulevard said she had just told her son goodbye when twenty minutes later she received the news that he had been shot. Twenty-five year old Bruce Cocom lay dead on Central American Boulevard by a shop where he had stopped to buy a drink. According to Belize […]
Police held a press conference today to report on the conclusions of forensic experts in three high profile cases. The evidence, all involving firearms, was sent to the crime lab in Chetumal and this afternoon Mexican officials formally handed over the files. The results, as explained by Belize’s chief forensic analyst, Genoveva Marin, indicated that […]
Hardly a week goes by that we don’t report on criminal charges being filed as the result of a traffic fatality. Rarely, however, do we hear that prosecutions are successful. But today, a young woman was convicted in a case over three years old. Twenty-two year old Fabiola Mendez was fined three thousand dollars, or […]
A Belize City man has been sentenced to six years in jail after the long arm of the law plucked him from beneath his victim’s bed. Kent Myvette of Faber’s Road appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers this afternoon where he pled guilty to burglary. The charge arose out of an incident on Sunday in which […]
Despite the fact that municipal elections are only a month and a half away, there has been little political friction thus far in the campaign. This morning, however, the partisan heat was turned up a notch in what is normally one of Belize’s least confrontational communities: Belmopan. Protester ?Your actions are being irresponsible.? Anthony Chanona […]
When we last checked in with Belize’s petroleum industry, a third well was being drilled at Spanish Lookout, not far from the first two successful strikes. Today the Geology and Petroleum Department has confirmed that this well, named Michael Usher Number Three, has also tapped into the same oil bearing formation, at a slightly deeper […]
The annual parading of those forming part of our nation’s legal system prompts reactions ranging from awe to disgust, depending in large part on your opinion of lawyers. But like it or not, despite its imperfections, we all depend on the rule of law. News Five’s Janelle Chanona took in the spectacle this morning. Due […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we certainly want to welcome you aboard for this ride that we call Sports Monday. The two finalists to the 2006 RFG Cup Tournament emerged over the weekend as both teams going into game two with a W were able to prevail on goal aggregate. So after a season […]
