The third suspect in the double murder of Philip and Kevin Brannon has turned himself in to police. At around ten-thirty this morning twenty-three year old Taedron Bennett, accompanied by attorney Simeon Sampson, appeared at the C.I.B. office on Queen Street where Bennett was taken into custody. He will spend tonight in police lockup before […]
Police have yet to detain any suspects in connection with the shooting of thirty-six year old Martin Santos. According to police reports, around nine on Wednesday night, two masked men entered Santos’s home on Matron Roberts Street in Belize City, where Santos, along with his girlfriend and two other friends, were watching television. When one […]
The next bit of crime news did not involve a gun … or even a knife. But the injuries suffered by the victim were nearly fatal. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports from San Ignacio on the hideous assault of a senior citizen by a well known young criminal who remains on the run. Anna Chan, […]
He was elected to the House of Representatives from the Stann Creek constituency in 1957 and went on to serve as a loyal member of George Price’s Cabinet from self government in 1964, until his retirement in 1989. I’m talking about David McKoy, the veteran labour leader turned politician. McKoy died today in Dangriga at […]
After a string of violent attacks against visitors to the Chiquibul and Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserves, members of the tourism industry are taking a stand. Today the Belize Tourism Industry Association, the Belize Hotel Association, the Belize National Tour Operators Association and the Belize National Tour Guides Association issued a joint press release asking […]
It’s the one institution in Belize that never seems to be short of cash. But that doesn’t mean the Social Security Board and its employees don’t engage in some extracurricular fundraising for a worthy cause. Janelle Chanona, Reporting After five and a half hours on the road, around eleven thirty this morning some thirty six […]
In related news the Social Security Board has announced that it is expanding its scholarship programme to include bachelor degrees at the University of Belize. The six, two year scholarships, valued at twenty thousand dollars each, are open to sixth form graduates with a minimum three point zero grade point average and have received a […]
In its efforts to update the National Poverty Elimination Strategy and Action Plan, today the Ministry of National Development held consultations in the Belize District. The idea behind today’s session at Bird’s Isle was to define poverty, specify how poverty affects everyone in the community and recommend ways to reduce its prevalence. Latest statistics, which […]
And speaking of poverty, the Belize National Basketball Team continued to fare poorly in its match up with Mexico. Having dropped two games at home, the Belizeans headed to Mexico Monday night for games in Playa del Carmen and Chetumal. The results were no more encouraging as we went down on consecutive nights, one hundred […]
It may just be coincidence but in the last six months it seems that things have grown pretty chummy between the U.S. Military and Belize. They give us fast boats to fight illegal drugs, our sailors serve on their Coast Guard cutters, we host the general in charge of their Southern Command … and they […]
