Could six of the city’s top employees come together and submit a joint letter of resignation … without the mayor having a clue that anything was wrong? That’s the question tonight as Mayor Zenaida Moya tries to deal with the biggest challenge of her sometimes controversial term of office. She spoke late this evening to […]
Yesterday it was free fill in Port Loyola; today’s pre-election bonus is a big break on your mortgage. According to a release from Cabinet, that body has decided to subsidise all those people paying D.F.C. housing loans of less than thirty-five thousand dollars. That subsidy will be one hundred dollars per month. According to the […]
Another tourist has drowned while enjoying the waters of Belize. Police report that around two-thirty this afternoon the body of twenty-seven year old Canadian Steve Bourgeois was found floating near Tobacco Caye in the Stann Creek District. Bourgeois was a guest at Tobacco Caye Lodge and had apparently gone for a swim on his own. […]
A shooting incident last night has left a Belize City man hospitalised. Twenty-four year old Emilio Rivera told police he was about to enter his home on Queen Charlotte Street in Port Loyola around ten p.m. when a man, who was apparently waiting for him, approached firing several shots. Rivera was hit in the face […]
The Dangriga woman accused of stabbing her common-law husband has been charged. Twenty-seven year old Lydia Guzman of Supa G Martinez Street has been charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, and Use of Deadly Means of Harm. It is alleged that around three Monday morning Guzman was arguing with forty year old Honduran Emilio Castillo […]
In many parts of the world you join the army because you can’t find a job anywhere else. In Belize, however, the B.D.F. is rapidly becoming the employer of choice for those seeking a first class education. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports from Price Barracks. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the next three weeks, twenty officer […]
Prison is not a nice place … but it’s a whole lot nicer than it used to be. Today I visited the facility at Hattieville and found that in addition to improving rehabilitation efforts behind the walls, officials are looking at life on the outside. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The Kolbe Foundation estimates that of the […]
Reforming prisoners is one thing, but preventing young people from becoming criminals in the first place is a whole lot more effective. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports on one initiative by the Police Department that seems to be paying dividends. Kendra Griffith, Reporting “Do the Right Thing”: it’s what the Police Department has been telling […]
