With its fund at over three hundred and fifteen million dollars and counting, the Belize Social Security Board stands as the undisputed financial goliath of the nation’s economy. Today that jolly green giant, whose recent history has been mired in controversy, paused to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. News Five’s Stewart Krohn reports. Stewart Krohn, Reporting […]
Police in Benque Viejo and Melchor de Mencos have launched a joint investigation into the discovery of a badly decomposed body near the border on Tuesday. The corpse has been identified as thirty-one year old Guatemalan Marco Antonio Morales, a resident of Melchor. Morales was reported missing by his wife on February eleventh, and even […]
Two gunshots rang out last night on the south side of Belize City, and when the commotion cleared, a familiar figure lay wounded. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods caught up with him today at the K.H.M.H. Herman ?Yagga? Morris, Shooting Victim ?I done get inna my yard?I mi deh inna my hard already and I gone […]
A traffic officer has been arrested and charged for the seldom prosecuted offence of attempting an unnatural crime. Because the charge is an indictable offence to be tried in the Supreme Court, no plea was taken from thirty-two year old Albert Hendy when he appeared today before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. The Hattieville resident was then […]
Murder charges have been dropped against four men accused in the killing of Celestino Zetina. Steven Zelaya, Daniel Anderson, Andrew Williams and Austin Rowland walked out of court today free men after police prosecutor Edwin Barallos presented a letter to Magistrate Dorothy McKenzie, signed by the D.P.P., withdrawing the charges. Apparently, the D.P.P.’s office was […]
A Belize City journalist has been arraigned in Magistrate’s Court for traffic offences and–you won’t believe this one–cussing out a Supreme Court judge. Godwin Haylock, a reporter for the Guardian newspaper, appeared before Magistrate Harry Hulett this afternoon where he was charged with driving without due care and attention, failure to conform to a traffic […]
For every life lost there are dozens of survivors left behind to mourn. And when death comes suddenly, by violence or accident, the magnitude of the pain is that much greater. In the following report Jacqueline Woods looks at one group that gathered today in Belize City to find strength in numbers. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
