It’s never been a real hotspot for media coverage, but today all eyes were on Belize City Hall, as for the first time in sixteen years the building was under the control of the United Democratic Party. Stewart Krohn reports. Stewart Krohn, Reporting The mayor and ten city councillors were sworn in today in a […]
Three men accused of having a shootout with a prominent businessman have been granted bail. This morning Kenrick Reneau, Giovanni Lauriano, and Egbert Vernon appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser where they met bail of five thousand dollars each and were ordered to reappear in court on April eleventh. The men are charged jointly for attempted […]
Police have arrested a second suspect in connection with the killing of a Guatemalan resident of the Orange Walk district. Twenty-three year old Ostillio Garcia was yesterday charged with murder for the death of Jose Armando Perez. Perez’s body was found on January eighteenth in a shallow grave near the boundary of the Belize and […]
A Faber’s Road man has been remanded to jail for the sexual abuse of a minor. Fifty-three year old Hilton Guy was today formally arraigned for aggravated assault before Magistrate Harry Hulett. This is the second complaint filed against Guy by the same teenaged girl. In the first instance, the fourteen year old victim reported […]
Orange Walk police are giving credit to fingerprinting technology for securing a burglary conviction. Sometime between December thirtieth and January first, someone broke into the Trial Farm home of Manuel Polanco and stole almost three thousand dollars worth of jewellery. During their investigation into the incident, the recently revamped Scenes of Crime Unit lifted a […]
A Belizean teenager abducted in California has been found unharmed. Thirteen year old Kalan Dapson was picked up Wednesday at the Greyhound bus station in Los Angeles following a tip phoned in to the Inglewood Police Department. Dapson had been dragged away from his uncle’s car by two armed assailants Tuesday night as he was […]
There is good news to report from Belize’s citrus belt, as prices on the world market continue to climb and forecasts indicate they should remain strong for at least the next couple of years. The price of grapefruit, which reached an all-time high last season at around nine dollars and eighty-two cents per box, is […]
We often pass them as we make our way by Battlefield Park in Belize City, but just how many of us have stopped to give a helping hand to those who–for whatever reason–have no place to call home. The men and women often beg for meals or go hungry, but today members from the Belize […]
Since Youth For the Future was established four years ago, the organisation claims to have worked with six hundred at risk youths countrywide. Today the spotlight was turned on young people from the Cayo and Stann Creek districts who received the tools that will hopefully provide them with sustainable employment. Douglas Hyde, Coordinator, Youth For […]
Belizean archaeologist Dr. Jaime Awe has done it again. Just months after releasing his book 101 Questions and Answers about the Ancient Maya, he is back promoting another publication. Maya Cities and Sacred Caves: A Guide to the Maya Sites of Belize includes maps, photographs, descriptions, and historical information on ten ancient cities and three […]
It may be one of the activities in connection with Women’s Week, but the issue of violence in our society is not confined to one gender. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The presentation by the Police Drama Club may have brought smiles and laughter to many of these students faces, but the […]
It’s flourishing in our schools, on the stage, and in the streets. Poetry is making a comeback in Belize and no people are more pleased than those who met this morning at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting There were far more people seated at the head table than in the […]
