Five people are dead and two have been seriously injured in a traffic accident on the Western Highway. According to witnesses, around nine this morning an Isuzu pick-up travelling at high speed went out of control and skidded into a group of passengers, who had gathered on the side of the road after their bus […]
First they hit American Airlines, then Bottom Dollar and now Brodies. And while all these robberies are not necessarily related, they do have one striking similarity: impeccable timing. Around ten o’clock this morning, Brodies’ messenger Alfred Clarke, was crossing from the main downtown store to the company’s headquarters on Regent Street to make a deposit […]
A suspect has been arrested in the harrowing abduction of a Belmopan woman. Thirty-seven year old Roy Neal was positively identified by his victim as one of the men who at gunpoint forced her and her two children into her car and after driving to a rural area raped her twice, took her money and […]
A prison officer might be spending a lot more time at his workplace after he was busted for drugs. According to court reports, on Monday thirty-six year old Rene Young was detained by his co-workers at the Hattieville Prison after they discovered what looked like marijuana in his knapsack. The police were called in and […]
The long awaited public hearings by the Commission of Inquiry, appointed to look into the actions of the Development Finance Corporation from 1999 through 2004, got underway today. And if anyone thought that the three person panel would have trouble finding its investigative footing, they better think again. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from the […]
Arguments concluded today in the court of Justice Samuel Awich on the matter of recent elections to the board of the Corozal Free Zone. The question of whether to allow an application for judicial review was presented by Fred Lumor, attorney for plaintiffs Winston Smiling and Gulab Sharma. Lumor argued that the question at hand […]
Human trafficking: it’s an interesting story to cover because it’s really two stories. The first is the phenomenon of trafficking itself and how serious a problem it is or isn’t. The second involves the Belize government’s fawningly desperate response to Uncle Sam’s admonitions to do better at curbing it. Today’s training session at the U.W.I. […]
