Politics, corruption and missing money may be foremost on the nation’s consciousness these last few weeks, but if the epidemic of senseless homicides now gripping the nation is allowed to continue, there may one day be nobody left to care about those weighty matters of state. News Five’s Marion Ali reports that the latest murder […]
Punta Gorda police have arrested and charged a teacher for engaging in sex with a student. A thirteen year old girl from Dolores village has accused twenty-two year old Marcos Chub of taking her into a classroom and sexually assaulting her. As a result of their investigation, on Saturday police charged Chub with one count […]
One rapist who cannot even pretend to be innocent was today sentenced for his crime. Mark Cardinez, convicted two weeks ago of rape in the Supreme Court, will spend the next eighteen years behind bars. This morning Justice Michelle Arana heard mitigation pleas from Cardinez’ wife, a friend, and his lawyer, Ernest Staine. She also […]
A ten thousand dollar reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest of Gregory Casildo. Casildo is wanted for the February fourteenth murder of Shannon “Shaggy” Henderson and is also a suspect in last Friday’s killing of restaurant owner Samuel Ortiz. Both homicides occurred in Placencia Village. Casildo is thirty years old, five […]
When we last visited the case of the missing money there was a standoff between the governor of the Central Bank—who told the Belize Bank, under threat of criminal sanctions, to hand over the Venezuelan U.S. ten million—and the Belize Bank, which said the Central Bank’s directive was unlawful and void. For the last two […]
And speaking of political effect, you’d think the Peoples’ United Party would be happy that Mark Espat dropped out of the race for leader, setting the stage for the happy convention of Francis Fonseca on March thirtieth. And while there may be some smiles on North Front Street and Meighan Avenue, it did not stop […]
Crooked Tree, a village best known for its cashew and increasingly for its fishing, is this Easter weekend staging the second of its kind Tilapia Festival. Village Chairman George Guest says the Saturday and Sunday event promises to be grander than the first fest in 2006. George Guest, Chairman, Crooked Tree Village “We’re having the […]
As part of its sixtieth anniversary celebration, the University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies, in conjunction with the Hugh Shearer Institute, this morning held a lecture in honour of women in the Caribbean Trade Union movement. Entitled “Forever Indebted to Women: In Spite of the Difference”, the lecture series was presented by […]
Belizeans now have greater access to tertiary level education without leaving home … thanks to a virtual campus established by the University of the West Indies. This fourth campus joins Mona in Jamaica, Cave Hill in Barbados and St. Augustine in Trinidad in providing a series of degree programmes along with technical and professional certification […]
It was a hit last week at the Bliss and tonight courtesy of the National Institute of Culture and History, we’ll let viewer savour what parents and family friends got to enjoy at the Pre-school Festival of Arts. [Clips pre-school performances] Again, thanks to NICH for sharing that footage.
