Late this evening Narda Garcia, the former chief of the Social Security Board, scored victory in the Supreme Court in a long drawn out case that began in 2006 when she was dismissed as General Manager of Social Security on recommendations of the Senate Select Committee. Attorney Elson Kaseke, representing Garcia, filed a motion in […]
On Tuesday night residents in southern Belize prepared for a tropical wave which was expected to cause a rise in the already flooded rivers in the south. But tonight word from the Met Office is that the wave was not as bad as anticipated. Ramon Frutos, Acting Chief Meteorologist “The rainfall has been decreasing during […]
For the second year in a row, a Belizean has won a Commonwealth Scholarship. This year’s recipient is Percival Cho. Twenty-eight year old Cho is currently a Forest Officer at the Forestry Department, and will leave that post to pursue a graduate degree in Tropical Forestry at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. The studies […]
Cases of incest do not appear often on the newscast, but tonight there is an appalling allegation coming out of the Stann Creek District. A fifteen year old girl, accompanied by her Guatemalan mother, reported to Dangriga police that her father had sex with her in early March and in June fondled her. The young […]
A Belize City woman got more than just a hairstyle when she was robbed at gunpoint at a beauty salon. The incident occurred around ten-twenty on Tuesday morning in front of Abraham’s Hair Moda on Blue Marlin Drive. The victim, Eugenie Aguilar, told police that when she returned to her parked Land Cruiser, a gunman […]
Incest and robberies are crimes that have long plagued the Belizean community and no one is immune but new police statistics show that it will take more than just the work of the force to take a huge bite out of crime. Gerald Westby, Police Commissioner “We have compared the period from January to June […]
The Institute of Archaeology has as its motto, “Preserving the Past for the Future” and to make good on that intention, today it opened its sixth Belize Archaeology Symposium. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from the Bliss. Dr. Jaime Awe, Dir., Institute of Archaeology “The Mayas of Belize and Guatemala and Mexico really have the […]
