Maintaining the integrity of our lengthy border with Guatemala is an uphill battle for local NGOs and security forces and an incident late last week has reinforced that point. On August twenty-sixth a multi-agency patrol consisting of ten Belize Defence Force soldiers, four rangers and a guide from the Ya’axche Conservation Trust, embarked on a […]
It is said that progress brings problems and tonight that adage is playing out in southern village of Seine Bight. As part of the project to pave the Placencia Road, plans were made for the Seine Bight community centre to be demolished and a new multi-purpose building erected in its stead … but that new […]
Two police officers attached to the Belize City Traffic Branch are tonight being sought on charges of Extortion. This follows a report made this afternoon by Jovanni Requeña, who said he was stopped during a traffic inspection around midnight on Thursday. Requeña alleges that when Corporal Orvin Tejeda and a Constable Leonardo observed that he […]
A businessman in Spanish lookout was the victim of a scary robbery. Thirty-three year old Dennis Dueck reported to police that around four-thirty on Thursday evening, two men dressed in black entered his store, Diverse Trades Cell Phone Shop. One of the men had a knife, which he placed to Dueck’s throat demanding money, while […]
Authorities are cracking down on the sale of illegal lottery and tonight four more merchants have been charged. Today in Magistrates’ Court, thirty-two year old Cai Hua Tan, twenty-eight year old Guan Ning Wu, twenty-two year old Feng Luo, and thirty-three year old Guoquin Chen, pled not guilty to the charges. The four have business […]
A seventeen year old boy who was charged on Thursday with Attempted Murder was today sentenced to six months in prison. The teen appeared in the Belize Family Court and was found guilty of keeping a nine millimeter pistol with seven rounds of ammunition in its magazine and was given three months for each offence. […]
He was accused of attempting to sodomize a nineteen year old male last year, but tonight Albert Hendy is a free man. Hendy was charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature, Aggravated Burglary, Wounding, and Damage to Property for the incident which occurred on October fourteenth, 2007. But when the thirty-four year old construction […]
She was remanded to Prison on Thursday for Attempted Murder, but tonight Elisa Chan is out on bail. This morning Justice Adolph Lucas, offered the twenty-two year old bail of seven thousand, five hundred dollars after her attorney, Ellis Arnold, made an application to the Supreme Court, submitting that she is the mother of a […]
Last Tuesday the Belize National Teachers Union was seeing red over the transfers of teachers, primarily in the Orange Walk District, and the re-nomination of Government Secondary school boards. Since then, the B.N.T.U. has been meeting with its members and Ministry of Education officials to get the matter cleared up… and today in Belize City […]
It’s not just teachers and school administrators that have been frustrated since the start of the school year … Early this morning News Five’s Marion Ali and cameraman Chris Mangar travelled up the Western Highway to mile thirty-one where they found parents and students up in arms over transportation. Marion Ali, Reporting For most of […]
Technology is a time-saver and it is with that in mind that today the Income Tax Department officially launched its website. By logging on to www dot income tax Belize dot org, residents can access information on the country’s tax laws, refunds and payments, application forms, and links to other sites. According to Assistant Tax […]
Saturday’s carnival road march is not the only event causing excitement this weekend. Luckily, Safiyyah is here to fill us in on what’s happening in Belize over the next couple days. Hey, I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize, September edition. For all the music lovers out there, tonight Sound Fest 2008 will be […]
