Fifty-four murders have been committed since the first of the year and while police have chalked up some success in solving many of the killings, the perpetrators in two of 2007’s most high profile homicides remain undiscovered and unpunished. We asked Eastern Division Deputy Commander Chester Williams for an update on the deaths of businessman […]
The corporal punishment of children is always a controversial issue with traditional disciplinarians lined up against a supposedly more enlightened generation of parents. This week the debate has moved from the theoretical to the practical as the case of Clifford White, principal and schoolteacher at Belize Christian Efforts Foster Home, is being heard in Magistrates’ […]
Seven hundred dollars for a stick of weed seems like a pretty drastic penalty but that’s what thirty year old Albert Chaparro, a painter of Neal Penn Road, must pay between now and September fourteenth or he will spend seven months behind bars. That court ruling followed Chaparro’s guilty plea this morning before Magistrate Aretha […]
Over the last two decades the nature of politics and the media has changed to the point where Belize appears to be in a state of permanent electioneering. Yet even though it’s sometimes difficult to figure out where one campaign ends and the next begins, viewers will have noticed that recently the intensity of the […]
It is nothing more than a coincidence but today was a day of donations in Belize, with money, vehicles, furniture and scholarships changing hands like fried chicken at Li Chee. The biggest handover took place in Belmopan when Taiwanese ambassador Joseph Shih presented Prime Minister Said Musa with a cheque for seven hundred and fifty […]
Meanwhile, at the Belmopan Showgrounds, the Minisitry of Agriculture was handing over the keys to some new Toyota pickups. What makes the presentation unusual is that instead of some foreign government doling out the goodies to an impoverished but grateful government, it was the government making its own counterpart contribution to an ongoing assistance project. […]
Next on the receiving end of some wheels was the Police Department. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The donation may be just one motorcycle but it will greatly improve the efficiency of the police prosecution branch in delivering summons to witnesses in a timely fashion. Police Constable Glen Arzu is one of the three process servers attached […]
One month after five families were left homeless by the Prince Street fire, the Belize City Council continues to extend a helping hand to the victims. Today, in a short ceremony, a three piece sofa set, donated by Adventura Furniture of Corozal, was given to one of the families. To decide which family would receive […]
Deputy Mayor Michael also took the opportunity to weigh in on a story we ran on Monday night’s newscast. He says preliminary investigations have revealed that alcohol was not a factor in the accident that caused one of their traffic officers, Mark Banner, to crash into a light pole near the Bridge Foot over the […]
And finally on this day of donations came some help from one of the country’s most successful corporations. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. These twenty-one students hailing from all over the country earned scholarships to the institution of their choice through B.T.L.’s high school scholarship programme. It’s an opportunity that twelve year-old Toledo […]
The photo exhibition is a collection of pictures taken by well known media personality Ann Marie Williams on her recent trip to Nairobi, Kenya, where she was a delegate to the World Council of the Young Women’s Christian Association. The display is dedicated to the Y.W.C.A. of Belize. Ann Marie Williams, Journalist “if anything these […]
