Of course it’s only a coincidence, but in the month following the highly publicised sixteen days of action against domestic violence, there have been no less than three murders of women by enraged husbands or boyfriends. The latest–and perhaps most brutal–occurred this morning in Belize City. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Twenty-eight year old Keisha Sutherland and […]
While brothers Gerald and Troy Tillett are still recovering at the K.H.M.H. after being shot in a drive-by last week in Belize City, today police have charged one man in connection with the attack. Twenty-two year old Errol Haynes has been charged with Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Dangerous Harm. Those […]
A man and his girlfriend are in legal trouble tonight, the former charged with robbery and the latter for threatening the victim if she testified. Twenty-five year old Nicaraguan Luis Gomez is charged with robbing his ex-girlfriend, Elita Moody, in June of last year on Albert Street. He allegedly cornered her with the help of […]
Tonight police and the family of a missing Belize City woman are seeking the public’s assistance. According to relatives of fifty-six year old Janet Rivers Myvette, she left her home on Berry Street on December third and has not been seen or heard from since. About a week before her departure, Myvette’s family says she […]
It is a common practice for vessels that engage in illegal fishing to be punished by the nation whose flag they happen to fly. But last week, instead of a rogue fisherman being sanctioned it was a ship suspected of engaging in radical environmental action that lost its papers. According to a release from IMMARBE, […]
When it comes to changing a society’s behaviour there are few forces more powerful than it’s teachers. Today that professional body in Belize took a major step toward joining in the nation’s efforts to deal with the AIDS crisis. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Anthony Fuentes, National President, B.N.T.U.
