As a department it has suffered more black eyes and body blows than a heavy weight boxer but tonight, immigration officials are once again at the centre of a scandal as one hundred passports have disappeared from the confines of a security vault in Belmopan. The passports bearing the serial numbers P0043801 to P0043900 were […]
After three days of silence, the board of Belize Telecommunications Limited has officially responded to accusations that it deliberately ignored a Supreme Court order when it held its annual general meeting on Monday night. According to a press release issued late Thursday evening, the company says: “B.T.L. understands that the injunction heard on twenty-fifth September […]
Dangriga police are tonight asking for the public’s assistance in finding a wanted man accused of attempted murder. According to the authorities, twenty-seven year old Eldon Anthony Leslie, also known as “Major” is one of the two people that burglarized the home of sixty-five year old Windell Nunez on September fourteenth. Nunez reported to police […]
An accused thief is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds after a Belize City man busted him burglarizing a store. According to police reports, just after midnight this morning, thirty year old Dwight Moody was shot in the ankle near Betty Chen’s Store on Mahogany Street. According to Chen’s brother, Bing Quan Chen, shortly before the […]
Cayo police are tonight investigating allegations of kidnapping and armed robbery reported by a boledo vendor. According to sixty-two year old Godfrey Tillett, he was hitchhiking along the Western Highway in Ontario Village around two thirty on Thursday afternoon when a white car pulled up alongside him. But when he opened the back door, Tillett […]
It was a scandal that left a black eye on the police department when back in April, three of its officers were arrested and charged for having sex with a minor. But tonight one of those men is celebrating after the charges against him were dropped. This morning in the courtroom of Magistrate Dorothy Flowers, […]
It’s one of the most dangerous highways in the country and even though the latest traffic accident on the Western Highway did not result in bloodshed, as Jacqueline Godwin reports, big trucks and high speeds do not equal good news. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Tonight authorities are still investigating what caused a Femagra water truck to […]
Tonight one of the country’s two cardiologists is being held in detention by the Belize Defence Force pending charges of desertion. That’s right, according to Dr. George Gough, his brother John was detained on Thursday afternoon by senior members of the B.D.F. on orders from Commander Lloyd Gillett. Today the elder Dr. Gough claims that […]
This weekend, the students and staff of the Anglican Cathedral College are hoping Belizeans will support their efforts to recover monies stolen from the school almost four months ago. A.C.C. has planned a radio telethon at the Battlefield Park and as explained by the school’s public relations officer Michelle Turton, the event is designed to […]
The war against AIDS is being fought on many lines by a wide range of organizations. In Belize, the Peace Corps, thanks to a fifteen thousand U.S. dollar grant, is the latest to join the efforts. The Corps coordinated a training of trainers? workshop on awareness, education, methodology and prevention of HIV/AIDS. News Five’s Kendra […]
Over the weekend, the Belize branch of the Salvation Army will be hosting newly elected Caribbean Territorial Leaders Commissioners Raymond and Judith Houghton. The couple arrived in the country today for a familiarization tour and according to Regional Commander Major Errol Robateau, will fine tune the church’s future plans in Belize. Major Errol Robateau, Regional […]
On Thursday we told you about S.J.C.’s educational collaboration with sister Jesuit institution, Regis University. Tonight, word out of the University of Belize is that they are also trying to developing similar ties with a university from the United Kingdom. According to a press release issued today, a delegation from Anglia Ruskin University is presently […]
In related news, this weekend another university in Belize will celebrate an important milestone. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from the Cayo district. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Tucked away in the rolling hills of the Cayo District, some sixty-two and a half miles from Belize City is Galen University. The tertiary level institution was established three […]
