The murder is nowhere near being solved, but tonight police at least have a body and identity. Jacqueline Godwin Today the family of fifty-six year old Janet Rivers Myvette visited the Orange Walk police station where they positively identified the jewellery found near the remains of a woman as the property of their mother who […]
A second suspect has been arrested and charged with murder four days after the shooting death of a Belize City man. According to police, twenty-two year old Lincoln Sabido was an accomplice in the killing of Sherwin Locke. Sabido appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare this morning and was formally charged with the crime and has […]
Having failed to pressure Belize Telecommunications Limited to rehire four dismissed employees using traditional methods of marches, strike threats and go slows, union leaders are now proposing to boycott the businesses operated by B.T.L.’s majority owner, Michael Ashcroft. The call came in the form of a press release from the National Trade Union Congress of […]
In related news from the labour front, the tribunal appointed to investigate the firing of three employees in the stores section of Belize Telecommunications Limited did not begin on Monday morning as the panel is incomplete. According to General Secretary of the Belize Communication Workers Union, Christine Perriott, both B.T.L. and the union have named […]
His flat out denial under oath that neither he nor his law firm benefited from the thirty million dollar Novelo’s loan came as a refreshingly straightforward answer amidst a sea of “I don’t remembers” and “I can’t recalls.” The only problem is that Glenn Godfrey’s testimony wasn’t true. Subsequent statements to News Five by attorneys […]
An early morning traffic accident in Orange Walk Town has left one woman critically injured. Thirty-seven year old Maria Santana and twenty-four year old Xandu Copo were both standing by a fence along the main road in the town when a vehicle suddenly rammed into the women. According to police, around seven forty-five this morning, […]
They fixed the teeth of hundreds of school children and they’ll soon complete construction of new classrooms. But in between those good deeds will come the more traditional functions of a modern army. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting We have heard a lot lately about the U.S. military’s humanitarian projects in Belize. But what armies are all […]
The problem of disaffected youth is not unique to any generation, but what makes today’s young people in Belize a bit different from their predecessors is that the dangers they face are a whole lot more lethal. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Most of Belize’s crimes are committed by young people, and it is a growing problem […]
Tomorrow night Belizean author Zee Edgell will officially launch her fourth novel, Time and the River. Set in 1798, the book chronicles the life of Leah Lawson, a slave living in Roaring Creek. This afternoon Edgell stopped by our studios to explain that while writing about slavery was painful, it was also liberating. Zee Edgell, […]
Afri-Kola. The name alone is intriguing enough to be displayed in a museum, but what sounds like a soft drink consumed in Nairobi or Johannesburg was actually a vital means of transport for the colony of British Honduras. Janelle Chanona has the story. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning, the Museum of Belize proudly unveiled the […]
