Nomination Day: It’s a straightforward legal process that in recent years has been incorporated into the partisan hoopla that now surrounds even the smallest electoral contests. Today the P.U.P., U.D.P., a pair of third parties, and six independent candidates signed up for the March first municipal elections in the nation’s seven towns and two cities. […]
To avoid political confrontation the Elections and Boundaries Department set up a nomination day system in which the P.U.P. candidates appeared in the morning, the U.D.P. in the afternoon, and any independents or third party aspirants used the lunch hour. And that’s just when News Five’s Karla Vernon showed up in Belmopan. Karla Vernon, Reporting […]
No one was hurt, but the jacking last March of Brad’s store on Vernon Street was very much a heavyweight crime. This morning, however, the nine defendants accused of robbing the popular business establishment were cleared of all charges by Magistrate Margaret McKenzie when the prosecution announced it was not prepared to proceed. Sherwin Locke, […]
Freedom may have been short-lived for the young men accused of jacking Brad’s but in the Supreme Court today another defendant walked unencumbered down the steps, just as if he had used a get out of jail free card.” This morning Javier Saragoza appeared before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh for what should have been the […]
A Honduran man was not so lucky in his appearance today at Magistrate’s Court. Twenty year old Kevin Alberto Sargento of North Creek Road in Belize City stood before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie where he was charged with carnal knowledge. Prosecutor Sergeant Damien Lino requested that bail be denied based on the fact that Sargento is […]
One hundred and twenty-nine: that’s the number of children in need of foster care and the number of families the Department of Human Services hopes to reach this year through its annual Give Your Heart to a Child campaign. Jolleen Arnold is the acting supervisor for Child Placement and Specialized Services. Jacqueline Woods ?Jolleen since […]
Fishing is hard work, made even more challenging by spiralling fuel costs and declining catches of lobster, conch, snapper, and grouper. But Belizean fishermen have traditionally used only the shallow waters between the reef and mainland, along with the three atolls. Today, they received encouragement to look deeper to maintain their livelihoods. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
