A school warden and her husband protested in downtown Belize City today. It was over her firing, which she claims was political. Her husband, Charlie Good, has a reputation as a no-nonsense former military head and a CIA operative who has been around the block more than once. Good and his wife, who was fired […]
You may not have noticed unless you asked, but the price of fuel quietly changed at the pumps on Monday. And the bad news is that it went up and significantly. Regular gas stood at seven dollars and ninety-eight cents per gallon but it has now gone up by a whopping seventy-eight cents to eight […]
Two men were taken to court this morning for the homicide of Alberto Braddick Allen. The City’s latest murder victim was stabbed multiple times and had a gunshot to the back when he was found at mile three and a half on the Western Highway around midday on Tuesday. The two men charged actually led […]
We reported on Tuesday about a second phantom Medical school that claimed to be operating in the country. The first fictional operation was the University of Central America School of Medicine and its website was run by Dr. Niazi Baker of Brownsville Texas. That operation disappeared as soon as our story aired. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
The House of Representatives will convene next week. The upcoming sitting departs from the usual practice of Friday sessions and will sit on Monday, August twenty-fourth. There are three bills expected to be tabled for a first reading. First on the House agenda is a Returnable Containers Bill, which will provide for the control of […]
On Tuesday, News Five aired a story about a hostile incident between two bus drivers; one from Skai’s Bus Company and the other from Flores Bus company – both who operate in the Ladyville/Lord’s Bank area. In the story, Ladyville Police Officer Commanding, Inspector Calbert Flowers, told us that both drivers had drawn machetes at […]
And in court news, he was stabbed thirteen times to the body and lived to tell the tale, but twenty-eight year old Erlin Neal, a driver and resident of Magazine Road, does not want to relive his near death ordeal. Neal has given police a statement indicating he did not wish to proceed in court […]
The Crime statistics for the period January to August fifteenth have been released. While the records show that major crimes decreased compared to the same period in 2008, the numbers are startling and they put Belize on the international charts. The police account is that crime decreased by nine percent. At August fifteenth, murders stood […]
From a total of three hundred and seventy applications, fourteen deserving students from across the country were awarded scholarships to the high schools of their choice. It’s the eighteenth year of the Telemedia Scholarship program and the 2009 recipients and their parents gathered at the Radisson this afternoon to be recognized for their hard work […]
Having a child usually brings changes to a person’s life. This is true for twenty-one year old Tifarah Castillo, and the changes she is experiencing are taking a serious toll on her health. After giving birth to her second child, Castillo’s two kidneys stopped functioning and she was diagnosed with Chronic Renal Failure. What this […]
There is another allegation that a baby is dead as a result of negligence at one of Belize’s hospital. This time, the mother, Salome Busano is accusing the attending doctor at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital of negligence for discharging her newborn baby with jaundice. The mother of two other boys has said that she […]
September is only a couple weeks away and that signals the beginning of a festive month of celebrations. In case you haven’t marked your calendar, listen up because the September Celebrations Committee has officially released the schedule of events for this year and there are changes from the established venues for the events. The activities […]
