At a press conference called yesterday by the United Democratic Party, Opposition Leader Dean Barrow painted a grim picture of government’s financial position, going as far as to suggest that a selective default on certain foreign debts might be in the offing. Tonight, Minister Jose Coye, G.O.B.’s point man on financial matters since the isolation […]
Benque police are once again joining forces with Guatemalan law enforcement … this time to investigate a murder. Around seven o’clock this morning, Belize police were contacted by Guatemalan authorities who informed them that the body of a young woman, believed to be a Belizean, was discovered in Melchor de Mencos. The corpse displayed two […]
San Ignacio police are looking for two men they believe are responsible for shooting a seventeen year old Belize City resident. According to a police press release, sometime around eight last night Zuahn Stewart was walking along Coconut Street in Santa Elena Town when he was approached by two men on bicycles, one of whom […]
Following a drive-by shooting over the weekend, police have arrested and charged a Belize City resident of the crime. This morning twenty-two year old Robert Jones appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb were he was arraigned on the charges of Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, and Use of Deadly Means of Harm against Leon Garcia. According to […]
A case of carnal knowledge has ended in the Belize City Supreme Court with a hung jury. Around eleven-thirty this morning a jury of five women and four men began their deliberation in the case of thirty-five year old Michael Woods. But when they returned from the jury room some three hours later, it was […]
We’re not sure if it’s because of a commonly perceived “man shortage” or a result of more equality between the sexes … but it seems that we are seeing an increase in woman on woman violence. The latest case involves an incident that occurred shortly after midnight on July twenty-first. According to court reports, Woman […]
It’s an intersection that’s seen more crushed metal than an eighties rock band, and today the crossroads of St. Thomas Street and Princess Margaret Drive saw yet another mishap. According to Emir Perez, driver of the black Isuzu Rodeo, he was heading down Princess Margaret Drive toward the Barracks when a Chevy S10, coming from […]
Earlier this month, Alberto Vellos, the regional representative of the Commonwealth Youth Programme, was looking for a few good men and women willing to give of their time for its summer volunteering programme, entitled Volunteers ‘R Us. And from the looks of things, it seems that he’s found them. Kendra Vernon, Volunteer, Volunteers R? Us […]
Over the last fifty years the worldwide sport of tennis has undergone a radical transformation from being a pastime for the elite to a passion for people of all classes. And while that egalitarian shift has not been fully felt in Belize, tennis here has come a long way from the days when the Pickwick […]
When you think about those institutions in society that are leading the fight against HIV and AIDS, the church is not likely to be the first one to come to mind. But things are not always what they seem, as News Five’s Kendra Griffith discovered this morning. Canon Leroy Flowers, Pres., Belize Council of Churches […]
