The growing dispute between labour and management over the firing of four B.T.L. employees is heading for a showdown. “Our demands were not met,” says a release from the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, which has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday to announce their next course of action. Those demands, issued Friday to […]
A Placencia girl is lucky to be alive after a shocking attack on the peninsula last night. According to police, around nine on Monday night sixteen year old Haidy Nunez was home alone when an unknown assailant or assailants attacked her with a knife. The teenager was struck three times in her throat and left […]
It seems like not a week goes by that a gunshot victim doesn’t tell police that he doesn’t know why someone would shoot him. For one Belize City family, that feeling is multiplied by three. Dora Doniz, Aunt of shooting victim “It is not only for one person, I’m talking for the whole city that […]
One of two men who robbed a King’s Park shop has been arrested leaving the scene of the crime. Twenty-two year old Jion Bernard, a resident of Lovely Lane, has been charged with robbery after police chased him down following a report of a hold-up at Tang’s Store on Vasquez Avenue. Proprietor Zan Chee Chen […]
Two men attending a wake in Belize City on Sunday night were wounded when a lone gunman used the event to retaliate against his enemies. Sources indicate to News Five that around eleven on Sunday night, family and friends had gathered at a home on Castle Street to mourn the passing of Michael “Papa’ Gladden […]
A suspect accused of stealing a taxi man’s possessions in Ladyville has been arrested and charged. According to the victim, David McKenzie, when he pulled up to his Dawn Road home around three-thirty on Sunday morning he was surprised to see a young man in his yard carrying a V.C.R. and other household goods. Realising […]
On Saturday, twenty-nine Nigerian professionals were hosted at the Princess Hotel for an orientation session prior to taking up positions in Belize’s healthcare system and the Ministry of Natural Resources. The volunteers form part of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps Scheme that the African country and Belize signed back in 1991. On Saturday, that bilateral […]
I don’t know where the time has gone, but when the starting gun goes off Friday morning in San Ignacio, it will mark the tenth anniversary of La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge. The one hundred and seventy-five mile long event spread over four days will feature nearly a hundred teams participating in categories ranging […]
Sometimes in life, it’s the little things that count. For Belize City’s cruise tourism industry one of those little things today got a whole lot better. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Where vendors once had to dodge stinking drain water, tomorrow a new sidewalk will welcome cruise visitors to North Front Street. The twenty-five thousand dollar project […]
Throughout much of his more than five hours of testimony yesterday, Troy Gabb, former Chief Executive Officer of the Development Finance Corporation, failed to recollect the information asked of him by the Commission of Inquiry investigating the corporation. According to Gabb, when he left the institution in June 2004, it was “financially viable” and boasting […]
