Around this time every election year, the integrity of Belize’s voting process comes under intense scrutiny. Leading the accusations this March are claims that voters can be traced back to ballot papers by political operatives working inside polling and counting stations on election day. To combat the rumour mill, today the Elections and Boundaries Department […]
The official coroner’s inquest into the February 2005 death of twenty-one year old Leslie Rogers Junior began today at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. A panel of seven jurors: two women and five men have been selected to “seek, clarify, and certify the cause of the person’s death.” Rogers was shot once in the head […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has left a resident of Esperanza Village fighting for her life. Police reports are that around six-thirty on Tuesday, thirty-two year old Ann Marie Thompson was knocked down by a Land Rover, driven at the time by sixty-eight year old Henry Lisbey. Thompson was rushed to the nearest […]
Belmopan police are looking for three suspects who held up a video store at knife point. According to employees of Celia’s Video Rental and Gift Store, just after two on Wednesday afternoon three young, unmasked men with knives entered the establishment and held up the sales clerk. Once inside, the thieves locked the door, blindfolded […]
A young man is in police custody tonight after the woman he tried to rob made sure he got exactly what he deserved … a good beating. According to thirty-one year old Rebecca Emmanuel, she had just turned the corner at Dolphin Street and Cemetery Road when a young man on a bicycle grabbed her […]
An American man trying to cheat the system is tonight lamenting his empty pockets after he was conned out of more than a thousand dollars by a local “whappist”. According to forty-seven year old Ray Michael Wheeler, in September he met a woman who claimed to be a government employee. The woman convinced Wheeler she […]
Officials of the Belize Defence Force and the U.S. Embassy met at Price Barracks in Ladyville this morning for brief handing over ceremonies of surplus supplies to our boys in green. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods explains. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thanks to a close working relationship between the United States Government and the Government of Belize, […]
It’s called Operation Positive Reinforcement … the latest attempt to curb violence and risky sexual behaviour in Belize City’s youth. Command central is the Youth for the Future office near the Bel-China Bridge. Today Y.F.F. officially opened the doors to its drop-in centre for teens. The idea is to encourage youths already attending personal development […]
Earlier this month Belizean musicians travelled to San Jose, Costa Rica, where they joined artists from throughout Central America for the first ever Papaya Music Festival. Team Belize was represented by Punta rocker Mohobub Flores who opened the four-day event with his turtle shells, and poet Leroy “Grandmaster” Young who stole the show with his […]
Every March, sports fans turn their attention to the water … some to the Baron Bliss Harbour Regatta, but most to the La Ruta Maya River Challenge. Tonight we take a look at the race that will break backs in the name of bragging rights. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the past seven years, everyone from […]
