The Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation opened its fifth day of public hearings this morning … and continued to methodically build a case that rests on a foundation of testimony from mid-level employees and will seek answers from top management and ultimately several ministers of finance. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the […]
The event has been pushed off the international headlines by a war in Lebanon and terror plot in Britain. But the problems currently under discussion by over twenty-five thousand participants in Canada this week may in the long run prove more crucial to our survival. The issue is AIDS and News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports […]
An investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office has strongly questioned the credibility of the State Department’s annual human trafficking report. According to the G.A.O., the explanations used in the rankings are “incomplete,” and “not used consistently” and the report as a whole “does not comprehensively describe compliance with the standards.” The report went on […]
A boledo vendor from the Corozal District has been murdered in what appears to have been an attempted robbery. According to police reports, sometime after six Monday evening Silvestre Loza Jr. of San Andres Village was heading home on his bike on the San Roque Road when he was attacked by two men, who chopped […]
Meanwhile police in the west believe revenge is the motive for the shooting death of forty-six year old Igancio Nix Toj of El Naranjo, Guatemala. Police say the murder occurred at a farm in the Water Hole area south of Benque Viejo. Upon arrival at the scene police found the farmer’s body lying on a […]
Maybe it’s just coincidence, maybe its a case of copycat crime or just maybe the same pair of thugs is preying on elderly residents of the Southern Foreshore. Whatever the reason, less than a week after an eighty-two year old woman was robbed on Palm Lane, it happened again. This afternoon, eighty-five year old Robert […]
It’s the time of year when concerned parents are scraping hard to find money for school books, fees, uniforms and all the other seemingly endless expenses of education. But for over a dozen lucky Belizean families, for the next four years school money is not going to be a problem. Forrest Phillips, 2006 B.T.L. Scholarship […]
If your last name is Mangar, Parham, Ramclam, Guy or Supaul, chances are that you were represented at the Belize City House of Culture today taking part in the first annual East Indian Festival. News Five’s Alyssa Noble got in the spirit. Alyssa Noble, Reporting They are often referred to as ?Coolies?, and today, this […]
