With the scandal in City Hall dominating the past week’s headlines, the work of Belize’s criminals has gone relatively unnoticed … that is until last night. Once more armed thugs invaded a Chinese owned grocery … and once more, a businessman lay dead. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from Corozal. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Ji Chen […]
This morning in a pre-dawn raid, Belize City police acting on a tip, visited a residence on George Street. A search was conducted and on the house’s rooftop authorities discovered several high powered assault weapons and a quantity of ammunition. Police say they strongly suspect the guns were recently used and are investigating to see […]
A Belize City man has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting that occurred last month. This afternoon twenty-one year old Lionel Neal was arraigned for the attempted murder, attempted robbery and dangerous harm of Kareem Wright on February eighteenth. As the offences are indictable, bail was denied and Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord […]
A Sandhill resident has been sentenced to seven years in jail. This morning twenty-year old Tyrone Davis pled guilty to aggravated burglary in the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. Upon hearing that the maximum sentence for the charge is twenty years, Davis’s older brother begged the judge to go easy him. Taking the plea […]
There are new developments in the parental kidnapping of a Belize City boy. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today the boys and girls at Sister Clara Muhammed School continued with their daily activities … all hoping that eleven year old Lexy Dickson, Jr. will soon return to class. The boy?s mother […]
In a preview to Friday’s budget presentation the National Economic Council yesterday heard from the Financial Secretary and Governor of the Central Bank. According to a release from the Government Press Office, Governor Sydney Campbell reported that real G.D.P. growth for 2005 will come in at around three point one percent. Unemployment stood at eleven […]
There are few things that focus the mind like the discipline of military marching. And today a large number of young minds–not to mention young feet–were on the move at the foot of the Bel-China Bridge. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The Youth Cadet Corps Marching Band was only formed two weeks […]
They are still on something of a honeymoon following the March first election, but this week the reality of handling their duties was brought home to Belize’s new municipal leaders at a seminar in the nation’s capital. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the last two days mayors, deputy mayors, city administrators and other officials participated in […]
And while the misdeeds of the outgoing Belize City mayor may not have been a specific item on the seminar’s agenda, the city’s past and present chief administrator admitted that financial oversight is an issue that must be addressed. Janelle Chanona ?But Ms. Moya has shown us stuff, documents for salary advances … That?s what […]
On last night’s newscast viewers heard former city councillor Eloisa Trujeque express her support for ex-Mayor David Fonseca, the man who claims to have spent around four hundred thousand dollars of city funds on donations to the poor–but can’t account for a single penny. Today, thanks to the cooperation of the People’s United Party, we […]
