In more news from the campaign trail, the National Alliance for Belizean Rights has released its slate of candidates for next month’s elections. Most prominent on the list is Gilda Lewis in the Albert division. Lewis will attempt to follow in the footsteps of the party’s founder and leader Philip Goldson, who is retiring from […]
Two weeks after the assault on cameraman Emil Rodriguez, at the hands of Inesita Fernandez, daughter of U.D.P. candidate Salvador Fernandez, another Cayo resident has formally lodged a complaint against a relative of a U.D.P candidate. Michael Juan, the nephew of Eduardo ‘Dito’ Juan, U.D.P Standard Bearer for Cayo Central, was questioned by San Ignacio […]
With over four thousand, four hundred voters it’s the largest constituency in Belize City. It’s two major candidates, both first timers, have been working the division for several years. Tonight as part of our continuing series on “Elections ’98” News Five’s Patrick Jones takes a look at the political progress in Port Loyola. Dolores Balderamos […]
During the last several months many Belizeans have wrestled with the question of whether they should register to vote. Others, who have registered, are still trying to decide whether or not to actually cast a ballot. On his trip to Corozal on Monday, Patrick Jones ran into a man on a mission to get every […]
In Belize we are all too familiar with illness, and the ability or inability our medical system to restore and maintain our health. But as anyone who has ever endured a lengthy illness can attest, the process of recovery is an intensely personal experience. So it has been with Orlando Chavarria. His name was once […]
If you’ve been following the news lately you’ve noticed that, through crimes, accidents, natural causes and even a few unsolved mysteries, there has been no shortage of dead bodies in Belize. Those sheer numbers and a less than efficient system of dealing with them, have led to some problems… as I found out the hard […]
In a decision that may have far reaching effects on the relationship between government and its employees, the Supreme Court has ordered authorities to reinstate a fired public officer and pay him over three years of back salary. In 1994 Jason Guerrero was terminated from his job as music coordinator with the Belize Arts Council, […]
For several months he was one of Belize’s most wanted fugitives but unlike his more famous colleague, Wensworth Mangar, who died in a hail of police bullets, Douglas Williams was quietly apprehended on June third. This morning, shortly past midnight, Williams was found dead in his maximum-security cell at Hattieville Prison. According to a police […]
Another visitor to Belize has died, although in this case no foul play is suspected. Fifty-six year old Irene Bein, a tourist from New York, was snorkeling at Hol Chan Marine Reserve, along with her twenty two year old son, when she began experiencing breathing problems and passed out. She was taken ashore, where CPR […]
Police in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, believe they’ve finally caught up with a robber who has held up at least two of the island’s drinking establishments during the past couple of weeks. Lius Lima Carrera, a twenty-one year old Guatemalan resident of San Pedro, has been charged with two counts of robbery and aggravated assault. […]
The four Corozal representatives in the House, all members of the People’s United Party, today invited the press to hear their take on the upcoming elections. Patrick Jones was on hand to get the P.U.P. version of life in the north. The joint press conference hosted by the incumbent P.U.P. representatives in Corozal was to […]
One candidate is the Prime Minister, the other is mayor of the nation’s largest municipality. The P.M.’s margin of victory the last time around was only forty votes and the challenger has been working hard ever since. Tonight in our continuing coverage of “Elections ’98” we look at the showdown in Caribbean Shores. Manuel Esquivel, […]
In a piece of late breaking news the government’s Belize Information Service has just issued a press release on the Commission of Inquiry called to look into allegations of wrong doing in connection with the Economic Citizenship Programme conducted from 1989 to 1993. To absolutely nobody’s surprise, the two commissioners have concluded, with exquisite timing, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and yes this is yet another serving of Sports Monday. The final push for Belize’s participation in the eighteenth Central American and Caribbean Games is currently underway and so we decided to check in yesterday at the City Centre where the national male basketball team of Belize was working up […]
It was not the grand televised affair envisioned by SPEAR and the Chamber of Commerce but the ninety-minute prime ministerial debate broadcast last night on Love FM was not too bad a substitute. Party leaders Manuel Esquivel and Said Musa took turns throwing punches and how many actually landed, is of course, a matter of […]
Just when we thought the election campaign couldn’t get any more interesting, we were proven wrong. Like a crab after a rainstorm, a new party has emerged from the political muck and declared “count me in”. The Belize National Party, formed just this past Sunday, is headed by Leonard Brackett. While the B.N.P. will not […]
And speaking of big announcements, the one just reaching this desk is right up there with the biggest. The official release will be published on Monday but we are reliably informed that another veteran political activist has decided to jump head first into the deep end of the electoral pool. Nicholas Pollard Senior, former labor […]
While there is no major crime news to report tonight a postmortem has confirmed that a death in Belize City early Wednesday morning, was not the result of a criminal act, just a tragic one. Dr. Mario Estradabran has concluded that fisherman David Mejia, whose body was found outside a Pickstock Street rum depot, died […]
Word has been received from California that a Belizean has been killed in a helicopter crash. Thirty year old Jose Castillo of Corozal had been working for the last five years as a power and airframe mechanic for Heavy Lift Helicopters of Apple Valley, California. Late last month he was among a number of Heavy […]
It’s a constituency that is probably the most affluent in the nation, as it includes the tourism havens of San Pedro and Caye Caulker. It is being contested by a man and a woman, who, although well known in their community, are nonetheless newcomers to the national political scene. Earlier this week the P.U.P.’s Patty […]
Most of the weird events we’ve been experiencing over the last few months have been related to the ongoing political campaign… but this afternoon we were called to look at an occurrence that seems to have come right out of — not the voter registration files — but the X Files. Patrick Jones investigated. Residents […]
The next two big events on many people’s calendars are the general elections on August twenty seventh and the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye exactly two weeks later. In tonight’s commentary, News Five’s G. Michael Reid manages to look at both. “Politics, as it has for the past half century […]
Four and a half weeks before Belizeans go to the polls, in the midst of what has become an even more vicious than usual election campaign, many voters are still not acquainted with the candidates and issues. With the political climate in the country as electrically charged as the Mollejon Hydro plant in a flood, […]
A new name and location has been added to the nation’s impressive collection of protected areas. On Saturday ceremonies were held for the official declaration of the Caye Caulker Marine Reserve. The property in question, although comprising only a hundred acres, includes the forested area of the island’s northern tip, a portion of sea grass […]
We usually only think of them to lick and stick on letters but from the twenty-fourth of July to the thirteenth of August, Belizean and Mexican stamps will adorn the walls of the Belize-Mexico Institute of Culture and Cooperation on the Newtown Barracks. The exhibition, which is open to the public, includes stamps drawn from […]
