After three weeks of north winds and hard rains, perfect weather has finally returned to Belize…and while last week’s U.S. Thanksgiving holiday is the traditional start of Belize’s tourist season, the warm sunshine and streets crowded with visitors made today feel like the real beginning of big business. But as News Five’s Janelle Chanona discovered, […]
The embarrassing arrest of a senior prison official over the weekend has cost him his job. According to Chairman of the Kolbe Foundation John Woods, on Wednesday morning thirty-two year old Oscar Puga showed up at Hattieville Prison where he was paid off and terminated as the facility’s Deputy Chief of Security. Over the weekend, […]
News from Geneva is that Ambassador and former Foreign Minister Eamon Courtenay has been elected to a high post in the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement. In elections held today Courtenay was one of five delegates selected for the organisation’s Standing Commission. The others represent the United States, Mali, Italy and Jordan. Courtenay has been […]
Separate cases of theft this week have been keeping investigators busy. In the first incident, joy riders appear to be the culprits behind the disappearance of a Nissan Pathfinder on Wednesday night. According to owner Melissa Gonzalez, between six and six-thirty she parked her SUV at the corner of Queen Street and New Road. But […]
Tonight two accused rapists are out on bail while a third has yet to be detained. Reports out of Magistrates’ Court are that this morning twenty-year old Roman Petzold and twenty-six year old Francis Lopez were formally charged with rape in connection to an incident on April thirteenth 2005. It was on that day the […]
There’s no doubt that the Belize Carnival Association runs a great series of events each September…but today the Association was in the news, not because they are jumping up, but because they are making a donation. That gift took the form of a 150 cc motorcycle for the police Prosecution Branch. It was presented to […]
Williams also reported that efforts are already underway to beef up the department’s anti-crime activities during the Christmas season. Sr. Supt. Chester Williams, Deputy O.C., Eastern Division “We will be intensifying our police presence within the commercial areas and without losing focus in the other areas where we know the other types of crimes have […]
Tonight we regret to bring news of the death of Elvira “Bea” Searle. Mrs. Searle, co-founder of Belize Global Travel Services and the wife of well known businessman Johnny Searle, succumbed to a long bout with cancer this morning in Brownsville, Texas. Details of funeral arrangements have yet to be announced.
The period between Garifuna Settlement Day and Christmas is a hectic one in Belize as our thoughts turn to celebration, gift giving, and, not insignificantly, finding the funds to pay for all that fun. But increasingly the days of late November and early December are being devoted to a pair of issues that represent a […]
