The work of the Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation will continue without Chairman David Price. That’s the word from commissioners Herbert Lord and Merlene Bailey Martinez, who, with the approval of the Prime Minister, will act as co-chairs. Public hearings, which have been suspended since November first due to the illness of […]
In most countries of the world, political and economic power is cantered in metropolitan areas and Belize is no exception. This is despite that fact that most of our nation’s wealth and a large share of its people reside outside of cities and towns. Over the last several years momentum has been building to redress […]
A traffic accident in the Toledo district has left a man dead and four family members seriously injured. According to Punta Gorda police, around two-thirty Sunday afternoon a Toyota pickup, driven by fifty-two year old Ignacio Avila, went out of control and ran off the road near the Golden Stream Bridge. The truck wound up […]
Belize City Magistrate’s Court was under heavy security this morning following reports of a planned attack against one of today’s defendants. That accused, identified as thirty-two year old Arthur Young, was in court to answer to charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. The prosecution was ready to start trial today but Young’s […]
Meanwhile, today in the Supreme Court another case crumbled for want of prosecution. According to court reports, twenty-one year old Andre Trapp, accused of Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm, Dangerous Harm, and Aggravated Assault, walked down Regent Street a free man after crown counsel Kamar Henry told the court that the prosecution […]
Tonight a fourteen-year-old boy is charged with trying to take the life of another teenager. According to police reports, fourteen year old Diondre McKoy told them that he was playing basketball on the court on Albert Street West around nine on Friday night when two other boys he knew walked up to him. McKoy says […]
And while many young people remain trapped in a deadly cycle of violence, efforts continue to present better alternatives. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports on the opening of Youth Week. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This year, Youth Week is being celebrated under the theme
Two hundred and eighty boys and girls of Red Bank village are studying in sturdier surroundings starting this month, thanks to the completion of a new school building. The structure, built at a cost of more than two hundred thousand dollars, consists of three classrooms, an office, and two bathrooms. The project also includes furniture […]
The battle against the virus that causes AIDS is being fought on many fronts including the development of vaccines, the search for a cure, treatments, campaigns to end stigma and discrimination … and of course efforts to change risky behaviour. Today I observed some new ways to improve the odds in favor of safer sex. […]
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