An argument over liquor is believed to be the cause of a murder today in the Orange Walk District. Initial investigations reveal that around nine forty five a.m. forty-two year old Rosalio Cal went to a shop in the village of Yo Creek when he got into an argument with two men he knew. One […]
Not a week goes by that we don’t receive a report of someone being shot or stabbed, with the victim having “absolutely no idea” who did the deed. Such testimony, of course, is usually a convenient lie to keep the police out of the private conflict. But the bulletin we received today–referring to unknown assailants–actually […]
Stories of sexual assault are hardly unusual on this newscast but the case recounted today by police is one of the most disturbing we have ever seen. Basically it involves a fifteen year old girl in Orange Walk who alleges that she was raped by her father. This was not the first time the charge […]
In another incident of sexual assault–this time in the nation’s capital–one of the two suspects have been detained for the rape of a Belmopan woman. It is alleged that the assailants, armed with a shotgun and machete, accosted the victim as she got out of her vehicle at her home. She, along with her three […]
Earlier this month we ran a story about the growing number of motorists reporting the theft of gasoline from their vehicles. Well tonight we are happy to report that an alleged fuel snatcher has been arrested. Police say that at two Sunday morning a mobile patrol on Mosul Street saw fifty year old Frank Thompson […]
Two years ago, it was a crime that left one Belize District family badly shaken, but today, like in many recent criminal cases, the alleged perpetrators have been set free. On June nineteenth 2003, Sumaiya Morris was at her home in Hattieville village when she was ambushed and held at gunpoint by four men. As […]
Round one of the legal battle between businessman Winston Smiling and the Corozal Free Zone ended earlier today with Smiling smiling. On Thursday, Smiling and another Corozal businessman, Gulab Sharma, asked the Supreme Court for permission to apply for judicial review following the results of the election of private sector representatives to the Zone’s Board […]
Viewers are reminded that tomorrow the Commission of Inquiry into the Development of Finance Corporation begins its public hearings. For the first time Belizeans will be able to watch the hearings, held at the Belize Institute of Management, live on television. They will air every Tuesday and Thursday from nine thirty to noon and one […]
It may not be as glamorous as jungle survival or hand to hand combat but the training currently underway for the B.D.F. may be just as important. For the second consecutive year the Belize Defence Force has teamed up with the United Kingdom’s Joint Task Force for a course in Civilian Military Cooperation or CIMIC […]
Poetry, in case you haven’t noticed, is in style. No longer the last refuge of the lovelorn or armchair patriot, poetry–and poets–come in all shapes, sizes and persuasions. For a second year the Belizean Poets Web Group is holding the Belizean Poets Contest. Writers are being asked to submit two new poems: one pertaining to […]
And with month of September bearing down upon us, committees around the country are shifting into high gear. For her part, Chair of the St. George’s Caye Day Society, Sharon Pitts-Robateau, told News Five that there will be no shortage of activities, starting with the opening ceremonies on September first and leading up to the […]
It didn’t draw a record number of fans, but it sure did set the record as the first Miss Belize pageant to ever yield two winners. At the end of the tightly contested competition, twenty-one year old Felicita Arzu, representing the Orange Walk district, was crowned Miss Belize World 2006-2007 while twenty-four year old Maria […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and you?re locked to this latest instalment of Sports Monday. The Banana Belt Cycle Classic certainly gripped the south yesterday Sunday, July thirtieth. So let?s go to the start of this seventy-one mile elite ride, where thirty-five of Belize?s best are suited up. They?re off in search of fame and […]
