Relations between The National Trade Union Congress of Belize and the government had gone sour in the past months. But it now appears that government has sweetened the pot for the union umbrella organization and things are on the mend. The N.T.U.C.B. has won major concessions from the government on five critical issues that the […]
While the postponement qualifies as a victory, the N.T.U.C.B. is keeping its fingers crossed and still hoping for a place on the Venezuelan Grant and Housing oversight Committee. Minister of Housing Michael Finnegan, said on July twenty-seventh that the ship has passed and the train had moved on and the N.T.U.C.B. would have to catch […]
Turning to the courts, he was on the run for two years after his daring escape from the cops. Thirty-four year old Dennis Quilter became a fugitive on April sixteenth 2007 and was living it up in the United States. But over two years later Quilter’s new life came crashing down around him when he […]
While Quilter was on the run for over two years, the six men accused of plotting to murder the Shoman family have been in and out of court for the past eight months trying to get bail. Today their attorneys, Dickie Bradley and Arthur Saldivar, were successful in convincing Magistrate Edd Usher to grant bail […]
The saga of the Goods started on August third when Hirian Good lost her job as a school warden because she voted blue in the last general election. Hirian and her husband Charles, a retired B.D.F. captain who, in his day, went on jungle missions with MI-six and the C.I.A., staged a personal protest at […]
Darrel Francis’ life ended with one shot. A post mortem examination conducted on the body of the twenty-one year old certifies that the cause of death was asphyxiation due to Bronchial Aspiration head injury, a consequence of the gun shot wound to the head. On Friday August twenty-eighth, Francis was standing in front of a […]
Last week Monday Western Union relocated to its new location in Belize City. And within days a heist at the new office at the Thurton Building on Coney Drive had all the appearances of a well planned burglary. The success and the tale of the burglars continued today as the police recovered the metal safe […]
Belize Water Services’ logo and personnel signatures were plastered on fraudulent cheques that were cashed in different parts of the country. Whoever the con artist was did a pretty good job because the fake cheques looked uncannily genuine. So far eight of them have been retrieved, totaling over four thousand dollars and all made out […]
A twenty-six year old mother of two claimed she was victim of police brutality but soon the tables turned on her and she was charged with Assaulting a Policeman whilst in his Uniform. Victoria Wade, a domestic of Sand Hill Village, alleges that she was beaten up by a police officer of the Sand Hill […]
An investigation is underway to determine whether malpractice or negligence was the cause of another baby’s death which occurred on Friday at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The child was born on Sunday, August twenty third at the K.H.M.H. and was discharged the following day. His parents took him home to San Ignacio that Monday […]
The September celebrations kicked off this afternoon with an opening ceremony held at the earliest capital of Belize, Saint George’s Caye where the battle took place in 1798. And today it declared a national site by the National Institute of Culture and History. News Five’s Duane Moody witnessed the event. Duane Moody, Reporting The opening […]
Also at St. George’s Caye, the September celebrations logo and theme were unveiled. But oops! If you couldn’t read it was because it was upside down. Nonetheless, the winning theme: “Diverse Origins, Common Aspirations…Together We Celebrate as Belizeans” was chosen from seventy-five entries. And the lucky winner was Zelda Wade Hill of Belmopan who received […]
