Following the highly embarrassing arrest of its security chief, the Kolbe Foundation has moved quickly to exercise some damage control. On Thursday, it announced that disgraced employee Oscar Puga had been fired and procedural measures at Hattieville Prison had been tightened. And as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, come Monday morning, a familiar face will […]
For months now, oil has been a hot topic around local discussion tables. How much is really down there? How much revenue will the industry pay out to Government? And more importantly, how will the ordinary Belizean benefit from the discovery? In an attempt to answer those burning questions and put a couple conspiracy theories […]
Many Belizeans are breathing a little easier tonight as November thirtieth officially marks the close of hurricane season 2007. While this year wasn’t as active as originally predicted, the rare event of two category five storms developing in the Western Caribbean significantly impacted Belize. On August twenty-first, Hurricane Dean barrelled into northern Belize packing winds […]
A head on collision on the Northern Highway has cost a Corozal teenager his life. According to police reports, shortly before ten on Thursday night, an Isuzu Trooper and a Dodge Dakota collided on the curve between miles eighty-two and eighty-three. As a result, eighteen year old Elber Guerra, his cousin, twenty-two year old Elgir […]
In Belize City, investigators are tonight looking for two men who held up a delivery truck driver in the middle of the afternoon. According to Western Diaries employee Clarence Young, he and his two side men were in front of the Ah Wing Restaurant on Mahogany Street around three on Wednesday afternoon when two men […]
In court news, the prosecution has closed its case against accused murderer Louis “Louie Ganzie” Gentle. As part of her submissions, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl Lynn Branker-Tait called seven witnesses including the victim’s grandmother, Gilda Johnson. Johnson testified that around four a.m. on January third, she heard her granddaughter Takeisha Sutherland cry out […]
Meanwhile, it appears an accused drug dealer escaped going to jail because of his weight. This morning when police raided the Castle Street home of twenty-nine year old Llewellyn “Bigga” Meighan, they found three grams of crack cocaine and two bags of weed. Because of the find, police slapped Meighan with a drug trafficking charge […]
If you are looking for an easy way to earn some cash and do some good at the same time, we’ve got just the thing. In anticipation of International Children’s Day of Broadcasting on December ninth, the National Committee for Families and Children is sponsoring an art competition entitled, “The World as We See It.” […]
With the Christmas season upon us, parents are already on the prowl for presents. One toy on the market this year is an old school truck. According to creator Joel “Dara” Robinson, his all terrain vehicle comes complete with a custom paint job, power steering, and natural air conditioning. Robinson says he decided to use […]
As part of our continuing coverage of the activities leading up to World AIDS Day on December first, today our crews travelled across the city to highlight the various events. We’ll begin at the Belize City Council where this morning, elected officials held the public signing of a document that HIV experts feel is an […]
