Harold Crooks, the man who wrote the famous Crooks Report for the Belize Police Department, is still in hiding. On Tuesday, we reported that Crooks was wanted by law enforcement in Jamaica for sex related offences and today it is now known that Crooks has absconded from the island. Today’s issue of the Jamaica Observer […]
The Prime Minister introduced the Sixth Amendment Bill to the constitution on April twenty-fifth of 2008. In that bill fundamental rights and freedoms that are shared by Belizeans would have been altered. The bill in its original form would have also characterized serious crimes as terrorism and additionally would have seriously eroded the rights of […]
Shoman also spoke about the property rights issue. It was an issue that was challenged in court by a group of landowners, an effort heralded by Sir Barry Bowen, who recently passed away. On the twenty-eighth of July 2009, the Supreme Court ruled that there should have been a referendum, but according to Shoman, a […]
The Barrow bond and budget debate gets underway in the House of Representatives this Thursday morning. Sparks flew between the current and former prime ministers during the presentation a week ago when Prime Minister Dean Barrow bestowed on former PM, Said Musa, the “J” word taken from Khaled Hosseni’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. While the […]
On Tuesday we posed the question: Do you agree with Minister Heredia that Creoles should be profiled before visiting San Pedro? An overwhelming number of persons who answered generally thought that they could not support that stance. One response by IMS said that the Minister needs to apologize and others opined that he should tender […]
His name was at the center of controversy when a questionable incident occurred while he was with the Police Department. In fact, Aldo Ayuso stood trial and was later cleared of a Manslaughter charge following the shooting death in February of 2005 of twenty-one year old Leslie Rogers Jr. He never denied shooting Rogers, but […]
But while Ayuso has won this round, it is not the end of his problems. As he told us outside the courtroom, he still wants to return to work as a police officer, but knows that is a far way ahead. Aldo Ayuso, wins decision against Police Department “In all honesty I wanted reinstatement, not […]
Parents Lovina and Mario Canto and their twenty-six year old son Jason walked out of Magistrate Edd Usher’s courtroom today free of criminal charges. A search conducted at their Warrie Street address in Belize City on April 1st last year led to the discovery of a point thirty-eight pistol, a nine millimeter pistol, a twelve […]
Billie Miller, she is a power house among women in the Caribbean and she is here in Belize in connection with an initiative by the National Women’s Commission, called Women in Politics. Miller is among a small group of women that have made it to the upper layer in public service having served as Deputy […]
They excelled in a range of subject areas from language to math and for that they got recognition. The award program is the second for this year for students at the Anglican Cathedral College and already it is showing that recognition leads to motivation. News Five’s Delahnie Bain attended the award ceremony. Delahnie Bain, Reporting […]
Eye care patients crowded the conference room of the City Center, luggage in hand and ready to board a flight to Venezuela for treatment. They are the first set of beneficiaries of Operacion Milagros or Mission Miracle, which offers them the opportunity to have corrective surgeries done free of cost. Screening was done on February […]
We also spoke to a few excited patients who are grateful for the opportunity and have high anticipations for the gift of good sight. Niurka Nunez, Mission Miracle Patient “I have a condition in my eyes named pterygium and it’s a growing that is caused mainly because of the sun and it grows to your […]
Early this morning hundreds of kids and supporters of the Special Olympics took part in their annual sporting event that concluded at the Stella Maris School compound on Princess Margaret Drive. They were joined this morning by the organization known as One World Running, which donated tennis shoes to the kids. Open Your Eyes broadcast […]
You have heard of Landings One, Two, three …all the way to nine, and now there is Landings Ten. The project Zero, at its completion, brought together the international artists that had participated in the exhibitions for the Landings project. Landings Ten is really a graphic text, the final work in the series of the […]
