There is a major anti-drug operation underway in the Orange Walk district, but disturbing reports from Belizeans stopped at a checkpoint on the Northern Highway indicate that it is being operated and directed by agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Two separate accounts to News Five by extremely reliable witnesses say that at a […]
And while the operation of the Carmelita checkpoint may be of dubious legality, its presence has resulted in several arrests. In one case police arrested two men in a pickup truck carrying a sawed-off sixteen gauge shotgun with a single cartridge. David Middleton of Carmelita and Abel Camara of Guinea Grass were charged with keeping […]
Details are in short supply, but news outlets in the United States are reporting that a Belizean teenager has been kidnapped in California. According to television stations in Los Angeles, thirteen year old Kalan Dapson was abducted from his home in Inglewood on Tuesday night around nine. According to police, the boy was with his […]
A soldier of the Belize Defence Force remains unconscious tonight following a traffic incident on Tuesday in the Cayo District. According to a B.D.F. spokesman, around eight-twenty that morning Corporal Justo Cho was among a group of soldiers who were being transported by truck from Camp Belizario to go on patrol. Reports are that as […]
The Belize Court of Appeal began its first quarterly sitting for 2006 on Tuesday with a slate of fourteen criminal cases. Of note is that four of those appeals are for crimes committed by law enforcement officers. Former superintendent of police Ewart Itza is back in court, this time appealing a Supreme Court decision. According […]
A Ladyville man has been sentenced to twenty-five years for a string of break-ins. Today Emeterio Reyes appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord where he pleaded guilty to five separate counts of burglary. As a result, he was given five individual five year sentences, but because they are to run concurrently, Reyes will only be […]
Government’s budget will be presented on March seventeenth. That’s the word from Cabinet, which spent Tuesday reviewing the numbers. According to an official release, there will be no new tax measures other than the already passed ten percent G.S.T., which replaces the nine percent sales tax and enters into law on July first. The budget […]
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize has filled two vacancies on its executive. At its annual convention held on Saturday, the union umbrella organisation elected Ray Davis as president and Dylan Reneau as General Secretary. They replace Horris Patten who resigned as president in December 2005 and George Frazer, who, according to a release, […]
Ten years ago, St. Mary’s Primary School initiated a feeding programme for its students. Today a total of two hundred and fifty children during the school week receive a daily balanced meal that many would not be able to afford. While the programme is a success, the achievement largely depends on donations received by the […]
It’s the middle of their week and today News Five’s Jacqueline Woods joined women from all over the country at the Radisson for what was billed as a summit. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Since the first International Women?s Day was observed in Belize in the late 70?s, various organisations have worked hard to promote women?s rights […]
