The Court of Appeal has denied the application by the Government of Belize for a stay of execution of the Supreme Court ruling that restores Jeffrey Prosser’s position on the board of Belize Telecommunications Limited. The ruling was presented this afternoon by Justice Manuel Sosa after fellow Justice Boyd Carey had stated that there was […]
The questioning has become increasingly sharp at the public hearings on the Development Finance Corporation as a picture emerges of an institution filled with pliant managers guided by an unseen but powerful hand. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. The D.F.C. commission of inquiry continued today at the Belize Institute of Management with additional testimony from […]
A Corozal man has been arrested for firing on a police officer during a drug raid last week. Forty-six year old Arnaldo Solana has been charged with Attempted Murder for allegedly firing a shotgun at Constable Joseph Gilharry. The incident took place early Friday morning as police sought to secure a marijuana plantation off the […]
Police would not say why one of their mobile units decided to stop a black pickup truck as the vehicle travelled in the vicinity of the roundabout by Pallotti High school around five on Wednesday evening, but when cops tried to intercept it, the vehicle sped off. The police then reportedly fired a warning shot […]
It was promised several years ago in conjunction with a visit by the president of Taiwan … but like many capital projects in these days of reduced financial expectations, the new indoor arena has yet to rise from the wide open spaces of the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. Today, however, the ten million dollar project […]
In the news media we’re always hearing rumours of child prostitution in Belize, but today a new study claims that sexual exploitation of children is not a myth. Dianne Haylock, Project Coordinator ?Children and adolescents under the age of eighteen from seventeen downwards are being paid to have sexual relations with adults. The majority, the […]
What do a dreaded disease and the post office have in common? Normally, not very much, but today the two ran into each other at the Belize City House of Culture. The result, reports News Five’s Kendra Griffith, could be far reaching. Kendra Griffith, Reporting For the over one million women worldwide who were diagnosed […]
As a distinct culture, that belonging to the Garifuna has been both studied and cherished perhaps more than any other in Belize. But all that attention does not guarantee its prosperity or even survival. This weekend a set of pageants countrywide will try to preserve and enhance what geography and assimilation is working to dilute. […]
