The society for the promotion of Education and Research has released the findings of its latest public opinion poll … and, just like the results of the March municipal elections, those numbers are not going to make the ruling party happy. Based on a sampling of four hundred telephone interviews, the SPEAR poll indicates a […]
Police have made an identification and arrest in the weekend murder in Ladyville. According to police press officer, G. Michael Reid, this morning friends of the deceased identified the corpse as thirty-seven year old Alberto Jaime Serrano, a resident of Ladyville. The cops have since charged forty-five year old Julio Che, also of Ladyville, with […]
Belize City police still do not know who stole over sixty-four thousand dollars from the Belize Seventh day Adventist Mission’s office on A Street in Kings Park. Sometime between one on Friday afternoon and eight on Sunday night a thief or thieves removed louvers from one of the windows to gain access to the two […]
Tonight many children will don their Halloween costumes for trick or treat … but early Monday morning three robbers put a real scare into a Belize City watchman. Police say they still have no suspects, who are described only as young men wearing Halloween masks and armed with a sawed off shotgun. Around three a.m., […]
The victims in two separate cases of rape in the Supreme Court have requested no further action against their accused assailants. The first case involves thirty-four year old Aris Cacho. It is alleged by a sixteen year old girl that on October twenty-seventh, 2005, she was at the same premises as Cacho, when he held […]
Things were relatively quiet at today’s public hearings as members of the Commission of Inquiry sought to find out exactly what the D.F.C.’s outside auditors knew about the inner workings of the corporation. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today?s public hearing of the Development Finance Corporation took an administrative turn with the […]
For the first time in eight years Belizeans will not be following the N.B.A. career of Milt Palacio. The journeyman point guard, who has played seven seasons with six different teams, was waived last week by the Seattle Supersonics. He had joined the Sonics on October second as a free agent. Palacio played in four […]
As we near the end of a hurricane season that will hopefully be recorded as one of the quietest in memory, it behoves us to recall a time when we were not so lucky. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting On this day forty-five years ago hurricane Hattie with winds in excess of two hundred miles per hour […]
