The infamous bodega in Jalacte in southern Belize has finally been removed. It took two months, but tonight the illegal bodega is no more: that’s the word coming from the Ministry of National Security. According to a press release issued this afternoon, a joint military operation was carried out under the watchful eye of the […]
When last we checked about the official audit of the Belize City Council’s books by the Ministry of Local Government, we were told it was still not ready. And while the wheels of bureaucracy appear to be churning slow to deliver on the audit called for by one of the councilors, Mark King, last year […]
We have reported that businessman Archie Lee has been spending plenty time before the courts with more than fifty charges laid against him for licenses for his businesses. And now, as a result, Lee is thinking of closing down his restaurant and convenience store and going into retirement. This is if his latest appeal to […]
The issue of communal land rights for the Mayas is back on the radar. The Toledo Cacao Growers Association yesterday sent a stinging press release, distancing itself from the Mayan Leaders Alliance and the Toledo Alcades Association. Today they followed up with two releases signed by heads of households on behalf of over four hundred […]
Dangriga police are investigating what appears to be the murder of a woman. Acting on a tip, on Tuesday cops visited the Barrier Reef, thirteen miles east of Glovers Reef where they discovered the body of a woman of Hispanic descent. The unidentified corpse was in a state of advanced decomposition and could not be […]
And we turn to the courts, last Thursday a jury found twenty-year old Robert Gillett not guilty of Manslaughter, but convicted him of a Burglary charge… and today Gillett received a sentence of eight years for that offence. Before Justice Adolph Lucas handed down the ruling, he heard mitigation pleas from Gillett’s attorney, Anthony Sylvestre, […]
And yet another person has been fined ten thousand dollars for Drug Trafficking. The latest culprit is twenty-four year old Steve Arnold, a resident of Ladyville, who was today found guilty of the crime. Arnold’s charge arose from an incident on August twenty-third 2008. Police report that they were on mobile patrol on Main Street […]
St. Martin de Porres is one of the neediest schools in the City that for years has not been able to participate in the primary school competitions due to lack of proper sporting equipment. But their luck turned today when they received some well-needed equipment donated by the National Sports Council through its assistance programme. […]
And in other donations, Wesley Lower School on Albert Street in Belize City, which has an enrollment of five hundred and fifty students, also got lucky today when P.U.P. Albert Area representative Mark Espat and his Albert Action Committee made a donation to the institution. Espat, accompanied by P.U.P. Albert City Council candidate Jacqueline Welch, […]
And while some schools are benefiting from assistance, students from across the Belize District were testing their math skills in the secondary level Belize Math Olympiad. The competition started in Orange Walk and is a test to the math curriculum in high schools. And in the Belize round today at the City Centre, thirteen high […]
A new exhibit called “Tierra Anegada” has been installed at the Institute of Mexico. It highlights twenty-six works of the deceased Jesus Urbieta, a native of Oaxaca, Mexico. Urbieta won several international awards including the Grand Golden Palette Award at the twenty-sixth International Painting Festival of the Grimaldi Museum in Cagnes, France. News Five’s Jose […]
