Since the middle of 2004 Belizeans have watched a series of events unfold that can only be described as scandalous. They involved financial improprieties associated with publicly owned institutions like the Social Security Board and Development Finance Corporation and stained the reputations of government officials ranging all the way up to then Prime Minister Said […]
The shooting murders of Eugene Flores and Roberto Torres as they rode home with friends on Valentine’s Day made big headlines. Police were quick to arrest four people, including one of their own, Constable Gilbert Hyde, Jr. But today Hyde is a free man as the Director of Public Prosecutions, Lutchman Sooknandan, directed that the […]
Police in the far west have apprehended a suspect wanted in the far north. Twenty-four year old Enrique Gonzalez, wanted for a burglary in Corozal that netted over ten thousand dollars in cash and jewelry, was spotted by cops from Benque Viejo Wednesday afternoon in the vicinity of the Guatemalan border. He was detained and, […]
A man whose sentence was originally life imprisonment will now get a chance to live a normal life, that is after he serves eighteen years behind bars. Thirty-one year old Jesus Olivarez, whose appeal was allowed yesterday, had his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter by the Court of Appeal. The sentence will take effect as […]
Belize is the only place where police shoot criminals caught in the act, right? Wrong, of course, and this week one of Belize’s most well known cops learned that fact first hand. According to reports in the U.S. media, Assistant Commissioner Allen Whylie, in Los Angeles this week attending an international conference on gang violence, […]
In 2001, the government of Belize signed onto a United Nations General Assembly Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. But in 2007, the Alliance Against AIDS wanted to find out what has been accomplished in the six years since the signing, specifically with regard to the sexual and reproductive health rights of young women and girls. […]
Today Belizeans from all sectors of society hit the road during a torch run from mile twenty-one on the Western Highway to Belize City’s Constitution Park. The event was one of several efforts by WIN Belize during Women’s Week. This particular event, however, was meant to raise awareness on H.I.V./AIDS and violence against women, particularly […]
Competitions involving the nation’s primary and secondary schools are nothing new, dating back at least as far as the heyday of Radio Belize and extending through the Coca-Cola spelling bee and Social Security’s Math Olympiad. In recent years another contest has been gaining popularity, with the distinction of having an international component. News Five’s Marion […]
