As scandals go, the magnitude of the money involved does not begin to approach the level of previous debacles involving passports, telecommunications, BELIPO, or the D.F.C. … but the discovery that former Belize City Mayor David Fonseca helped himself to a quarter of a million dollars of city funds may be the clearest evidence yet […]
Yesterday it was a father accused of raping his son; today police have detained a fifteen year old boy for having sexual relations with his ten year old sister. The initial report was made by the children’s mother, a resident of the Stann Creek District, who noticed a vamp on the ten year old’s neck. […]
Police have arrested a Punta Gorda man in connection with a weekend shooting in that southern town. Twenty-two year old Eric Foster of Punta Gorda’s Water Supply Area has been charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm, and aggravated assault. It is alleged that on Friday night Foster entered the […]
In the Orange Walk District, a seventeen year old has been arrested after chopping off a man’s thumb and index finger in a fight. According to police reports, early Sunday morning in Trinidad Village seventeen year old Ventura Garcia became involved in an altercation with forty-seven year old Belemo Cowo. Cowo wielded a machete and […]
It may not be a new story, but we still can’t seem to tell it often enough: turn off the TV, kill the computer, ground the Gameboy, and get into a good book. That’s the message of the National Library Service and a well read group of international experts. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has more. […]
Spare the rod and spoil the child. The debate over corporal punishment has been with us for decades if not centuries … and most of us who grew up in Belize have our favourite stories of student lashings. Tonight News Five’s Jacqueline Woods rekindles the controversy with a report from Biscayne Village that, from all […]
