As the 2006 municipal campaign enters its last lap, both political parties appear poised to go for the jugular. Whether the most blood spilled will be red or blue is still anybody’s guess … but nowhere are the knives as sharp as in the race for the Belize City Council Zenaida Moya, U.D.P. Mayoral Candidate […]
A young mother from the Stann Creek Valley has been found dead and her common-law husband remains the prime suspect in what appears to be a murder. The body of twenty-six year old Lydia Smith, a resident of the Pomona New Site, was found around seven this morning lying face down on her bed. Authorities […]
Three young Belize City men remain hospitalized after they were wounded in a shooting near Magazine Road. Police say twenty year old Nikki Pickard, thirty-two year old Sherwin Nunez, and thirty-four year old Carlos Abraham were hanging out in an alley off Banak Street this morning around eight when a white van pulled up. One […]
On August thirty-first of last year eighteen year old Lisa Lauriano was charged with attempted murder, grievous harm, and deadly means of harm following a report that the young woman had stabbed her boyfriend’s daughter in the eye during a misunderstanding. Lauriano was offered bail in the amount of three thousand dollars plus a surety […]
Two Belize City men were arraigned on charges of robbery in Magistrate’s Court on Monday for stealing the grand total of one dollar and fifty cents from a neighbour. According to Charles Pratt, around five on Friday evening he was near his home on Faber’s Road when twenty-nine year old David Burgos and forty-one year […]
Meanwhile, a man accused of breaking into his sister’s house and stealing electronic equipment has been sentenced to five years behind bars. On February seventeenth Rhonda Robateau reported to police that when she went into her home on Tanoomah Street she found her DVD player, stereo, tape recorder, and other personal items missing. Investigating officers […]
The Ministry of Health is gearing up for large scale renovations to its facilities around the country. The seven million dollar upgrade, to be implemented under the Health Sector Reform Project will include the supply of new ambulances as well as renovations to the Northern Regional Hospital in Orange Walk, Western Regional in Belmopan and […]
During ceremonies held last night by the Scout Association of Belize, the inaugural Leopold Balderamos Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Julian Castillo. Castillo joined the Scouts in 1960 and since that time has served the association in various roles, including as a member of the executive committee, Chief Scout, and is currently the Chairman […]
The embassy may have moved to Belmopan, but life at the Mexican Cultural Centre in Belize City remains busy. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports on the facility’s first show of the year. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This year the Mexican Embassy plans to hold seven exhibitions at venues throughout the country. The first show opens tonight […]
