A ship full of men arrived in Belize City last night but before anyone gets excited, this one was not like the last… It uses sails instead of an engine. Six days after it pulled up anchor in San Andres, Colombia, that country’s classic sailing vessel, the “A.R.C Gloria” arrived in Belize late Tuesday night. […]
It was a particularly brutal killing in a part of the country where brutal deaths are not all that uncommon. But tonight police have in custody two men whom they say are responsible for the murder of Indian businessman Bherumal Punjabi. Punjabi’s body was found last Wednesday night in a canefield off the San Roman […]
In a follow up to a story we ran yesterday, twenty one year old Deon Smith is tonight on his way to Clinica Carranza in Chetumal for further treatment. Smith, who was shot in the face by a policeman playing Russian Roulette early Saturday morning, was to have been flown out on a Wings of […]
The proliferation of broadcasting licenses over the last decade has meant a corresponding increase in the number of tall metal towers that now dot the skyline of Belize City and nearly every district town. But what goes up can also come down… as residents of Partridge Street almost learned the hard way. Earlier today, if […]
It may have been sunny and bright today but that didn’t stop people from hauling out their flannels. Northers are not common this time of year but what made this norther special was that it was blowing from the southwest. Patrick Jones explains. If the answers to life’s questions were, quote-unquote, blowing in the wind […]
The environmental organization Greenpeace reports that the British flagged freighter “Pacific Swan” has entered the Caribbean Sea with a controversial cargo of nuclear waste. It is scheduled to transit the Panama Canal on February sixth, on its way from France to Japan. CARICOM and several Latin American nations have protested the shipment and Greenpeace has […]
On Monday evening officials gathered at Hattieville Prison to formally dedicate the latest addition to the chronically overcrowded facility. News Five’s Patrick Jones discovered that it wasn’t only the prisoners who are short of space. While Prison authorities have been working steadily to improve living conditions for close to nine hundred inmates at Hattieville, today […]
It was one of the most tragic stories this station has ever reported: an innocent little girl, playing in her yard, suddenly struck down by a gunshot. Over the last several days, however, the story has become a happy one. As I discovered this morning, the victim is making a remarkable recovery. Looking at eleven […]
Russian roulette, for those who are not aware, is a deadly game that dates back to the invention of the handgun known as a revolver. A bullet is placed in only one of the barrel’s six chambers and one by one each participant in turn points the loaded gun at his temple and pulls the […]
A fourteen month old baby is dead, the result of what appears to be an accidental drowning. Police report that on Saturday evening they were called to Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they were told by Alfonso Catch, a thirty four year old watchman of mile twelve on the Western Highway, that he found the […]
News has been received of the death of Rewachand Budhrani. Better known as Raul, Budhrani was the owner of Starlight store and president of the Indian Community of Belize. He settled here in the early 1970’s and was instrumental in founding the country’s first Hindu temple, on Albert Street. He died in his sleep of […]
Another man who can trace his ancestry to India is in the news tonight. He is well known Belizean jurist George Singh, and in a ceremony this morning in Belmopan he was sworn in as the nation’s Chief Justice. Singh, who replaces the retired Sir George Brown, attended the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica […]
The Old Testament tells us that the ancient city of Sodom was reduced to rubble when the lord could no longer tolerate the licentiously wicked ways of its sexually uninhibited inhabitants. Twenty four hours after the visit of some nine hundred so called sodomites, Belize City is still standing. The M.S. Leeward dropped its anchor […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and welcome to this first serving of Sports Monday. The two top professional football clubs of the Jewel clashed for the lead in the standings of the BJL playoffs yesterday at the MCC Grounds and was it a monster. Yes it was defending champion Juventus of Orange Walk facing undefeated […]
