Traffic came to a standstill on Orange Street and Water Lane in Belize City at eleven-thirty this afternoon and it wasn’t because of the works being done on nearby Albert Street. Thick smoke in the air signaled a fire which sent fire engines as well as children and adults clamoring the scene on George Street. […]
In another fire, this time in the Cayo District, villagers of Armenia witnessed a Ford Air Bus Mobile Home belonging to Harvey Lee Wood go up in flames. Not only was the mobile home destroyed, but fifty-eight thousand U.S. dollars in cash and all its contents went up in flames. Wood who is a retiree […]
If you listen to the local airwaves, there is growing opposition to the compromis signed in Washington D.C. on Monday which sets out the parameters that could take the Guatemalan claim to Belize to the Hague. But before this happens, there has to be a public education campaign and a referendum. News Five’s William Neal […]
It is the Christmas season and there’s reason to be cautious because the number of robberies are on the increase. And two residents of the city became the recent victims of burglary and up to news time no arrests have been made. The first incident occurred yesterday at around five in the evening when forty-nine […]
In another case, a Haitian national at home sleeping was awakened under the cover of dark and badly beaten. The motive: robbery. The incident happened at his home on Antelope Street Extension that is occupied by other tenants. Forty-nine year old Café Suprelus told police that shortly after twelve Tuesday morning, he woke up when […]
And in other news, a man has been arrested for having sex with his thirteen year old step-daughter and getting her pregnant. The man, whose name has not been revealed, was charged with Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. According to police reports, based on a tip, they visited a primary school in the Stann Creek District and […]
There will be several Bills on the table at Thursday’s sitting of the House of Representatives, which is expected to bring robust debate. Key among them is the Bill to Amend the Income and Business Tax Act to increase taxes by five point five percent on telecommunications and on Public Investment Companies from eight to […]
We asked Espat about his party’s proposals to earn the much-needed revenue. Mark Espat “Unlike the prescription that has always been handed to countries like Belize, that prescription being that in times of economic downturn, you raise interest rates, you let your company fail, you cut back on spending. What we have seen in the […]
The Chairman of Lucky Strike Village has run out of luck when it comes to Minister of State in the Ministry of Works, Edmund Castro. Mike Pollard has been charged with two counts of Aggravated Assault for pulling a shotgun at Castro and his driver. It is reported that Castro went to the community center […]
We reported earlier in this newscast on the Bills to increase business taxes that will be debated at Thursday’s sitting of the House. And there is another Bill before the House which will deal with amendments to the existing Municipal Acts. While the U.D.P controls all municipal bodies, the amendments, according to the P.U.P, seek […]
Today is the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Stakeholders in the industry including human rights lawyers, NGO’s and the Conscious Youth Development Program were present at the all-day conference at the House of Culture celebrating the theme “Dignity and Justice for all of us.” Trustee on the board […]
Pitts said the commission was targeting marginalized youths and she hoped some of them would share their problems with the panel. Some of those same youths that Pitts spoke of were already at the House of Culture with the Conscious Youth Development Program. Minister of National Security Carlos Perdomo was handing out eighty scholarships to […]
In efforts to ascertain that consumers receive quality and fair services, the Belize Bureau of Standards is carrying out countrywide inspections. And with the Christmas season upon us, the B.B.S. is focusing on fuel. The process takes place every three months to ensure that consumers get what they are paying for and that service providers […]
Finding out that you are HIV positive is a traumatic experience for many persons as life as they know it is over… and although medication has made it possible for them to live longer, the prevailing stigma and discrimination does not make that life much easier. Today some of those persons are speaking out in […]
