Last week we ran a story following up on a murder investigation in which a Belize City family complained that overzealous police ransacked their home in search of a weapon that wasn’t there. This morning police returned to the house on Arlington Drive … with a different result. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Belize City police are […]
The crime occurred over a year ago, but justice was finally administered today for Wilfred Lemoth. Lemoth, initially charged with Attempted Murder and Maim following a macheting incident in Belize City on April nineteenth, 2006, this morning pleaded guilty to Dangerous Harm. Justice Troadio Gonzalez sentenced him to five years in prison, effective from today’s […]
Four days after fifty-three year old Leonides Puc was knocked down near mile eighty-five on the Northern Highway, this morning the San Narciso resident succumbed to his injuries at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Following the accident, eighteen year old Kairo Romero of Santa Rita Layout in Corozal Town was arrested and charged. Investigations revealed […]
Twenty-eight year old Mark Cho, a resident of Red Bank in the Stann Creek district, is lucky to be alive. In February, the young father of two children, was riding his bike home from work around seven at night when he was knocked down by a pickup a half mile down the road to the […]
It’s been an issue on the backburner of the B.T.L. stove, but this morning attorneys representing Michael Ashcroft and Jeffrey Prosser were back in court, with both men laying claim to the chairmanship of the telecommunications company’s board. The private session was held in the chambers of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh but we can tell […]
Today a small contingent of Mayan community leaders gathered in the courtroom of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh to witness the first official proceeding related to their legal claim for demarcation of village lands. Residents of Conejo and Santa Cruz filed suit in the Supreme Court earlier this month, asserting that the Government of Belize has […]
Viewers of this newscast will notice that the age of violent criminals appears to be reaching ever lower. And while not all perpetrators are convicted, when a minor is found guilty of murder the mandatory sentence is a minimum of life imprisonment. For a teenager that’s a long time behind bars. Too long, according to […]
Belize’s most popular single financial institution, the Holy Redeemer Credit Union, held its sixty-third annual general meeting last night and as has become commonplace, reported strong financial results. As of March thirty-first of this year, assets totalled over two hundred and sixty-three million dollars, an increase of nine point one percent. Investments reached almost sixty […]
School burglaries have become an all too familiar facet of Belize City life. But beyond the press coverage and indignant words from students and staff, life goes on and those affected are forced to deal with the loss. Today I visited one educational institution that is working hard to regain its balance. Natalie Lino, Principal, […]
And while the Living Hope School in Belize City raises funds to get back on its feet, a family in Belmopan is rebounding with help from that city’s council. On the night of April sixteenth the home of the Chun family in the Las Flores neighbourhood burned to the ground, leaving them virtually destitute. Today […]
This weekend thousands of Belizeans will flock to Belmopan for the annual National Agriculture and Trade Show. And if anyone can vouch for whether farming conforms to this year’s theme of making you healthy, wealthy, and wise, it would be the Farmers of the Year. The 2007 awardees hail from the Belize, Corozal, and Stann […]
