In Succotz this morning, heated protestors set fire to used rubber tires along the George Price Highway. The blockade was the result of residents demanding justice in the case of Yolanda Valencia who perished in a traffic accident which left twenty-eight-year-old Yanie Cu clinging to life at the KHMH. The tragedy involved an intoxicated Deputy […]
Hopkins Village in southern Belize is a peaceful, picturesque seafront community, a thriving but laidback tourism destination. But the community has been devastated by a seemingly senseless and brutal home invasion on Monday evening, just before dark. Dangriga teacher Josephine Augustine and her husband, retired teacher Dudley Augustine, were at home when they were attacked. […]
The private prosecution of Elvin Penner, brought by COLA representatives Geovannie Brackett and Nedal McLaren, was thrown out at the Magistrate’s Court level on July twenty-fourth. Penner walked out of court a free man, but the party bringing the claim against him had twenty-one days to appeal. It went somewhat under the radar, but that […]
The best case scenario for the claimants would result in the summoning of Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie, along with his file containing all evidence gathered from the alleged investigation of Elvin Penner. The evidence would include all statements from witnesses, as well as files from the Immigration and Nationality sections. And if the claimants […]
Well-known attorney and political aspirant Arthur Saldivar appears to be a magnet for publicity, all of it negative, lately. Tonight, he is in trouble with the law in Placencia, and News Five has been able to confirm the Police are contemplating his arrest on a charge of assault. Reliable sources tell us that the alleged […]
It never gets any easier to report on stories involving sexual assault, and it is particularly disturbing when minors are involved. Tonight there are two such incidents, both in the Corozal District. A ten-year-old student from Copper Bank, accompanied by her guardian, visited the Corozal Police Station to report that on Friday, she was assaulted […]
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Camp Belizario, for the past two weeks, has been the site of a training facility for at risk youths. A total of thirty teenagers are presently enrolled at the camp where interventions are ongoing. But the news tonight is that the initiative got off to a rocky start with an all-out brawl involving rival groups […]
For two fiscal years, from 1995 to 1997, increments for all public service workers were frozen. As compensation, the unions were given four hundred and eighty thousand shares in B.T.L. by the government of Belize. The dividends from these shares were to be placed in a trust and the proceeds from the trust available to […]
Clearly stated in the agreement between both the unions and the government is that the monies be used to fund projects. But Castillo and National President of the Belize National Teachers’ Union, Luke Palacio, say that they were seriously disturbed by the release issued by the government because public officers are of the opinion that […]
Castillo and Palacio have been doing media rounds this week to sensitize public officers as well as the various unions and the general public about the types of projects that would satisfy the criteria for monies being disbursed. According to them, there must be in place a sustainable mechanism that will allow them to provide […]
Have you seen Denvo Banner Duhaney? The twenty-seven-year-old resident of Lemonal village in the Belize District has been missing for approximately ten days and his family fears the worst. “String”, as he is affectionately known by family and peers, was last seen socializing in the village at a victory party and since then, no one […]
It’s Tuesday and that means another round of competition in Channel Five’s latest entertainment show, If You Can Sing It Bring It. After some eight weeks of competition, it is now down to the final three vocalists that will take the stage tonight. This week, they will be performing their original tracks that will display […]
