The last three months have been tumultuous for the members of the D.F.C. commission of inquiry, but as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from the resumed public hearings, this morning Merlene Bailey Martinez and Herbert Lord reaffirmed their commitment to the task at hand. Today the Commission of Inquiry investigating the financial affairs of the […]
There has been no reaction from the Belize City Council to government’s offer to divert one U.S. dollar of the seven dollar head tax on cruise passengers to that municipal body. The reason, according to United Democratic Party Leader Dean Barrow, is that two days after the Cabinet made the decision, it has still not […]
A Dangriga man has been arrested and charged following an armed robbery in the Stann Creek Valley. He is twenty-two year old Albert Palacio of Dangriga’s Lakeland neighbourhood. Around nine Wednesday night a lone intruder with a handgun entered the Quality Poultry compound at mile one and a half on the Valley Road and held […]
Another theft, this time in Belize City, has not been followed by an arrest … but as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, all is not lost at Salvation Army School. Kendra Griffith, Reporting It was through this newly repaired window that school officials believe a thief, after cutting the bars and bending the louvers, entered […]
Two U.S. tourists, caught hiding cocaine in hard to find places, today pled guilty to drug trafficking. Brothers Andrew and Joshua Shumate, age twenty-three and twenty-six respectively, appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser this morning with lawyer Lionel Welch. Welch pointed out that the young men had no prior police record and asked the magistrate to […]
It is no secret that the Belize Defence Force and the United States army have a strong working relationship. Only last week, the New Horizons programme was launched and next week U.S. soldiers will be in Toledo conducting a Medical Readiness and Training Exercise. Later this year the B.D.F., along with the United States Southern […]
It’s hard to think of anything good coming from the death of a woman just entering the prime of her life, but if the tragedy manages to stir us to take action to prevent others from suffering a similar fate, then at least she would not have died in vain. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting On Sunday, […]
