After months of stagnation, a thirty-five million dollar loan has been approved by the Social Security Board for the purchase of majority shares in Belize Water Services Limited by its management and staff. On Tuesday, after months of negotiation, the S.S.B. investment committee finalised an agreement with executives of the Belize Water Services Workers Union […]
Tonight three young children are motherless after an apparent crime of passion in the Pomona Valley. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has the disturbing details. Coreth Bowden, Cousin of the Deceased ?I think he should mi think about the pickney them weh left behind if he really do that. Cause he use to tell her that […]
A police officer has been convicted of the rape of a twelve year old girl. At three this afternoon a jury of his peers declared by unanimous verdict that forty-nine year old Evan Reynolds is guilty of two counts of rape. Following the foreman’s announcement, Justice Adolph Lucas told Reynolds, “The jury as a body […]
A shopkeeper has been arraigned in Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a charge of indecent assault. According to police reports, forty-five year old Mario Ayuso was arrested after an eleven year old student reported to police that he fondled her buttocks and called her “sweetheart.” The girl says she had gone into the Ayuso’s shop […]
Police have arrested and charged three men in connection with the robbery of thousands of dollars from the Princess Hotel and Casino. This afternoon former Princess employee twenty-two year Alfred Conorquie, along with twenty-one year old Leon Rodriguez and twenty-four year old Callum Sutherland, was escorted to Magistrate’s Court and arraigned for robbery and conspiracy […]
Following allegations of physical abuse at the hands of prison officials on Tuesday’s newscast, today Chief Executive Officer Marlon Skeen has denied the report. According to Skeen, the Kolbe Foundation does not use any kind of electrical device to reprimand prisoners. Skeen went on to contend that the marks on former inmate Lisa Lauriano’s body […]
Tourism: it’s been growing by leaps and bounds, with massive yearly increases in cruise passengers and record annual arrivals in overnight visitors. But all that progress has brought problems of sustainability and resource management. However, as government officials and industry partners met this morning for an annual presentation on the state of tourism in Belize, […]
In news from the oil front, today the Government of Belize has announced the appointment of a petroleum advisory board. Members are: Ismael Fabro, Dr. Carla Barnett, Hugh O’Brien, Cresencio Sosa, Andre Cho, Andrew Marshalleck, George Sosa, Eamon Courtenay, Lennox Neal and international oil expert Dr. Ram Ramanathan. According to a government release, the first […]
And while tourism officials met at the Princess, producers and processors gathered across town to discuss the country’s favourite bird: the chicken. News Five’s Karla Vernon has more. Karla Vernon, Reporting Whether they came from Spanish Lookout, Shipyard, or Little Belize these poultry producers want the same things: to process more chicken and turkey products, […]
