It was a close call for a number of parked cars on Eyre Street this afternoon but for one moving vehicle it was the end of the line. Reports are that a brown Ford Ranger pickup belonging to BIMCO and driven at the time by the company’s driver, was traveling at high speed down the […]
We last heard from Deon Smith as the victim of a drunken policeman intent on playing Russian Roulette — with Deon’s life. Although a bullet still lingers inside his head, the twenty one year old security guard is making a slow but miraculous recovery. Patrick Jones visited him this morning. If life was a game […]
Two weeks ago we covered a career day held by a consortium of schools on the south side of Belize City. But Gwen Lizarraga High was not the only educational institution I’ve been visiting. Last Friday I ventured to Central Farm to discover that the future of the nation’s agricultural sector is in pretty good […]
News has been received of the death of thirty nine year old Denroy McCord. McCord, who was the chief engineer for the Water and Sewerage Authority, is reported to have gone snorkeling Sunday morning with a number of friends off southern Long Caye about thirty miles southeast of Belize City. It is reported that McCord, […]
A few hours later the sea claimed another life, this time near Vista del Mar in Ladyville. According to police eighteen year old Ramon Alamilla, of Mitchell Estate, was swimming with two friends between one and two in the afternoon when Alamilla began to struggle in the water. He then went under and was not […]
Police are moving closer to solving the case of last Thursday’s shooting spree in Belize City. Over the weekend they arrested three men believed to have been riding in the black pickup truck which shot up a taxi and also wounded an innocent bystander on Kraal Road. They are 21 year old Alex O’Brien, 24 […]
He hasn’t been arrested, but the price on his head keeps growing. Authorities today announced that not only have they not forgotten about fugitive Winsworth Mangar, but are doubling the reward for his capture, to ten thousand dollars. Mangar, an accused murderer who was mistakenly released from prison in May of last year, has been […]
The alertness of Belize City firemen was put to the test today but their quick response just wasn’t quick enough. A mid-afternoon fire on an unnamed street off Faber’s Road has left two people homeless. Patrick Jones was right behind the fire engines as they raced to the scene. Within a matter of minutes, the […]
It could have caused someone quite a headache but instead the casuarina pine that toppled this weekend in Battlefield Park only tied up traffic. The trunk had apparently rotted and around three Saturday afternoon the aging tree dropped neatly across the street next to Brodie?s. The only damage was to the park’s fence.
Fifty new justices of the peace have been appointed for Belize City. They were sworn in on Sunday at the Supreme Court in a ceremony presided over by Senator Wilfred Elrington, Justice George Meerabux and Solicitor General Gian Ghandi. While we do not have space to name each one of the new J.P.’s we will […]
It’s called the people’s manifesto and it was created by a number of civil society organizations after nationwide consultations. The manifesto consists of eighteen specific commitments spread over the five key areas of political reform, social and economic justice, education, land and youth empowerment. While the recommendations, which focus on greater political participation and increased […]
The eighty bags of medical waste tossed onto a residential lot off Coney Drive have now been properly disposed of… but there are still more questions than answers. Patrick Jones today continued his investigation. Investigations into last week’s frightening discovery of medical waste in Coral Grove have revealed little answers as to how and why […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and welcome to Sports Monday. This year?s annual CONCACAF campaign features Real Verdes and Juventus of Belize in action against the best football clubs of Central America. Yesterday Real Verdes began its tournament at the Norman Broaster Stadium. The Hondurans attached early off with this spot kick that almost gets […]
We are all familiar with the saying, “Haad aze pikni go da maakit two time”. Well it seems that somewhere in Belize City there is a “haad aze” garbage man, as well as a “haad aze” medical clinic. Patrick Jones reports. It’s the part of Belize City that is undergoing rapid development and when one […]
Less than twenty four hours after a hail of bullets terrorized students and residents along Kraal Road in Belize City, police have moved one step closer to solving the case. A black pick-up truck believed to be the one carrying a group of gun-toting men who were shooting at a taxi as it drove down […]
He has not been linked to Thursday’s shooting spree but the discovery of a firearm, ammunition and drugs has put police in pursuit of a nineteen year old Belize City man. Orin Arnold, who also goes by the name Arthur Martin, is being sought in connection with Thursday night’s discovery of a nine millimeter pistol, […]
While police look to the public for assistance in capturing Arnold, quick work by the Intermediate Southern Formation has resulted in the arrest of a Honduran man in connection with the grizzly discovery of a decomposing body last week in Cowpen. Twenty year old Jose Vasquez Cubias has been charged for the crime of Murder. […]
In political news, the case of Marconi Matus and his allegations of bribery by the U.D.P. have receded to the background while the political protagonists on both sides of the aisle have retreated to lick their real or imagined wounds. With Matus’ charges well documented and the flat denials of Manuel Esquivel and Salvador Fernandez […]
Belize has an enviable system of national parks and protected areas, but while these reserves constitute millions of acres, they are often separated by large areas of privately held land. As more of this land becomes cleared for agriculture or housing there is less of a chance for movement of plants and animals around the […]
In other news from the Caribbean attorneys general for the region have moved a big step closer to establishing a Caribbean Supreme Court to replace the Privy Council. Meeting in Jamaica earlier this week, four countries: Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana have targeted July first as the date for establishing the high court. […]
Sports is a subject never far from the mind of News Five commentator G. Michael Reid… and tonight he’s back on familiar territory. For those who like myself didn’t know, but were ashamed to ask, CARICOM is an acronym for Caribbean Community. Interestingly enough and geographically speaking, Belize is not even part of the Caribbean […]
The ghost of gangsters past is today haunting Belize City. Almost three years to the day after an historic truce was supposed to have stopped the violence, gunshots rang out across the southside. But this was no middle of the night disturbance; it took place in broad daylight directly in front of one of the […]
The ghost of gangsters? past is today haunting Belize City. Almost three years to the day after an historic truce was supposed to have stopped the violence, gunshots rang out across the southside. But this was no middle of the night disturbance; it took place in broad daylight directly in front of one of the […]
In other crime news, Belizean authorities have acted quickly to deport a U.S. citizen wantdd on a federal kndictment in Teyas. Robert Aaron Cord, who also#goes under a nuober of other aliases, is wanted in the States for conspiracy to!commit mail and wire fraud, mondy laundering and interstate tralsportation of stolen property. Although it had […]
When you don’t usually win a whole lot of medals it really hurts when you have to give them up. But that’s exactly what may soon happen to some members of Belize’s contingent to last year’s Central American Games. On Tuesday the Olympic Association was informed that two Belizean medalists had tested positive for controlled […]
