Over the last several years virtually all of the news coming out of the Immigration Department has been bad: everything from the illegal bucket sale of passports to their outright theft from the office. Today, however, twenty-four hours after the announcement of the director’s dismissal, the tide finally turned. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from […]
Prime Minister Said Musa has made a public statement following the six day retreat at Caye Chapel attended by Cabinet and invited guests. According to Musa, the ministers frankly confronted their differences, both real and perceived, and … Said Musa, Prime Minister ?The ministers achieved consensus that the principle of Cabinet responsibility was the mechanism […]
Today the Belize Defence Force expanded its search for Sergeant Ramon Aguilar who remains missing somewhere in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. According to B.D.F. Chief of Staff, Lt. Colonel Reuel Black, they have now been joined by a specialised rescue team based at Caves Branch which is using dogs to track down the missing soldier. […]
Another man convicted of sexual assault has been freed by the Court of Appeal. Kevin Cadle, convicted of Carnal Knowledge and sentenced to six years in prison, was released from custody after the court cited numerous errors on the part of the trial judge, Justice Troadio Gonzales. These involve openly disparaging the defendant’s case, including […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported on the wounding of an innocent bystander as gunmen in a fleeing vehicle shot at a police patrol. Today I stopped in at the home of that shooting victim to see how she’s doing. Melody Williams, Daughter ?Well I would want her to go back in the hospital to take […]
The last hearing took place on August twenty-fourth, but after two months of hiatus due to September celebrations and the illness of Chairman David Price, the Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation is back in business. A press release today indicates that public hearings will return on Tuesday, October twenty-fourth and continue on […]
The legal wrangling in the ongoing battle for control of Belize Telecommunications Limited continued today in the Belize Court of Appeal. This morning, attorney Elson Kaseke, representing Solicitor General Edwin Flowers, appeared before Justices Mottley, Dennison and Sosa asking for a stay of the Chief Justice’s order to reinstate American investor Jeffrey Prosser to the […]
It’s a familiar scene on newscasts in the big cities of North America: that is a troubled individual stands atop a tall building and threatens to end his life by jumping. Well, today that drama was duplicated on the grounds of Hattieville Prison, where a desperate inmate climbed the facility’s water tower. News Five’s Kendra […]
If there is a good side to the many trials and tribulations that citizens often face, it is that despite our problems, the Belizean public has been unfailingly generous when misfortune strikes. Today I got a chance to report on one happy result of that generosity. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting After undergoing a kidney transplant almost […]
