Over the last few years we have dutifully reported as members of the Belize Police Force increasingly engage in acts of criminal behaviour including homicide, rape, theft, extortion, smuggling and assorted brutalities far too numerous to mention. But on Wednesday when four police officers swore under oath that they could not identify Ben Bou-Nahra, the […]
Cops are not the only uniformed personnel under pressure tonight. A release from the U.S. Embassy reports that a B.D.F. soldier has been busted for running a visa scam. The man, identified only as Corporal Paul Adolphus, fraudulently helped eighteen Belizeans obtain U.S. visas by falsely affirming that they were members of the B.D.F. going […]
Yesterday we showed you a section of Tribuce Street that had been neglected for months and how it literally turned into a pond. As we reported, the Belize City Council, headed by its Works Councilor Anthony Michael, carried out immediate road and drainage repairs after we jumped on the story. The councilor promised that by […]
In 1990, Belize signed on to the United Nations Convention for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. Executive Director of Belize’s Women’s Issues Network, Carolyn Reynolds, says based on the little that has been done, we have not lived up to our commitments. Today WIN-Belize came together with its fifteen member organisations, government representatives, and […]
The Belize Medical and Dental Association is holding its twenty-fifth congress at the Radisson. This year, along with the usual seminars and pitches by pharmaceutical companies, the doctors are looking at some controversial issues. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting It may have been in the works for five years but finally medical doctors practicing in Belize will […]
They call themselves “Palha de Milho”—corn straw in English—and they hail from Brazil. The quartet, here for two concerts, play that country’s varied music, creating sounds that Belizeans should find new and exciting. Fernando Bittencourt, Band member, Palha de Milho “We have been playing together for more or less fifteen years this kind of regional […]
The organisers of virtually every pageant held in Belize insist that theirs is not a “beauty” contest, but instead involves some other special quality like talent, brains or personality. While we can’t speak to those claims, one thing we can say is that the annual Miss Garifuna pageant is different. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. […]
