In one bit of regional news word has been received from Maracaibo that the Belize national basketball team has failed in its bid to salvage a bronze medal in the Central American and Caribbean Games. The score was 72-71 in a heartbreaking loss to host Venezuela.
The scent of politics is so strong in Belize that if it storms this weekend the raindrops just might be colored red or blue. But if skies are clear News Five commentator G. Michael Reid suggests that there are plenty of diversions to keep your mind off of elections. “Football has it’s World Cup and […]
Another high profile police prosecution has ended with the case being dropped for lack of evidence. Brothers Salvador and David Lazaro were charged with the hit and run murder of police constable Levi Spain as he rode his bicycle down East Collet Canal in the wee hours of December fourteenth. Although police claimed that forensic […]
He was flown in from Honduras in handcuffs on Tuesday and today he was formally arraigned in Magistrate’s Court. Norman “Butch” Martin was charged with murder, theft and nine counts of robbery in connection with the killing of tourist Raymond Kirk at Singing Sands Resort on July fifth. He will reappear for the preliminary inquiry […]
A Belizean tour guide and farmer are dead after a car and a horse driven cart collided in the Corozal District. The accident happened on a dirt road, a half-mile off the Northern Highway in Santa Clara Village. While reports at this time are still sketchy, police say sometime between five thirty and six thirty […]
Three days after the gruesome discovery of the body of Isias Franco, a farm hand at Polak’s Farm at mile fifty on the Hummingbird Highway, Belmopan police are still trying to find out who chopped the man to death. According to reports, about eighty thirty Monday morning, sixty five year old Elisandro Guzman, the farm’s […]
Belize City police are on the look out for two men whom they believe will be able to assist them in solving a case of forgery that took place between the first and eighteenth of August. According to C.I.B. officials, sometime during that time, one Max Tillett and Ervin Reneau walked into the Scotia Bank, […]
The ongoing saga of Vernon Harrison Courtenay versus the Social Security Board has hit another bump in its long and winding road. On Wednesday, an application by the Courtenay defense team to stay the execution of the judgement handed down on July thirty first was denied by resident Appeals Court judge Horace Young. Young said […]
No new accusations are coming from Attorney General Dean Barrow today with regard to his attempts to implicate P.U.P. representative Ralph Fonseca in illegal activities in Panama. A number of local news organizations attempted to get confirmation from Panamanian authorities concerning Barrow’s charges that Fonseca’s name had surfaced in connection with an investigation of money […]
If you’ve been to bank lately in search of U.S. dollars, British pounds or any other foreign exchange chances are you’ve been told to come back later. Word on the street is also saying that hard currency is even harder to find. We checked with Central Bank governor Keith Arnold and he confirmed that the […]
It was a tragic story when it first aired last week and while tonight’s follow up offers some hope, the news is still touch and go. One week after five year old Danya Chavarria was severely burned at a Sunday barbecue outing on August ninth, the young girl is fighting for her life at the […]
Until a few months ago the race in Queen’s Square was considered a walkover, with perennial incumbent Dean Barrow having a lifetime lease on the solidly U.D.P. seat. But when lawyer and well known talk show host Dickie Bradley declared for the P.U.P. in the division, suddenly what was considered a non-event began to attract […]
Politics usually produces more heat than light, but once in a while the last minute activities of candidates and their supporters actually benefit the people they seek to represent. Arreini Palacio discovered one such positive development on southside Belize City. There are many smiles, and it is not because school re-opens in a couple weeks. […]
Earlier in the day Arreini dropped in on a short ceremony marking the donation of funds for another youthful project, this one set to debut in a few weeks. Swing your engine, torro-torro, lift your leg and wine. Carnival time is right around the corner and although the election frenzy may be at a fever […]
There’s a play in the sport of American football known as the Hail Mary. Made famous by the University of Notre Dame, it is called by the quarterback when, trailing late in the game and trapped deep in his own territory, his only chance to win lies in flinging the ball deep into his opponent’s […]
For his part, Ralph Fonseca wasted no time in responding to Barrow’s charges, which were carried live on the B.C.B. In fact he made a dramatic entrance while the press conference was still in session and after a brief verbal tussle with the A.G., waited until Barrow was finished before holding an impromptu press conference […]
While the assault on Ralph Fonseca was Dean Barrow’s number one task at this morning’s press conference, his other bit of news was of far greater importance. On the eve of elections it seems that Belize will be getting a new Chief Justice. Patrick Jones reports on the elevation of Manuel Sosa and other moves. […]
In crime news, a dispute between two co-workers has left one in the hospital and another behind bars. According to a police press release, at about four o’clock Monday morning, twenty-three year old Carmela Flores threw boiling water on the back of twenty-two year old Hazel Arana while they were both working at Dario’s Meat […]
A twenty year old Roaring Creek man has been arrested and charged with rape. A twenty-two year old domestic reported to police that while she was asleep at her home in Roaring Creek Village early Monday morning, she was awakened by a masked intruder. The assailant placed a gun to her head and a knife […]
The Belize National Teachers’ Union has sent off a stern letter to Elodio Aragon, Minister of Education, and Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel, stating their concern with regard to a number of issues the union says are being acted upon without any kind of consultation with the B.N.T.U. The first has to do with a draft […]
Tonight’s news is not solely about turmoil, as this morning News Five’s Arreini Palacio met a mother who, having experienced the acute pain of caring for a sick child, has emerged with some new hope. It took two major operations before four year old Jermail Elijio could walk as a normal child. According to his […]
He has been one of the most outspoken and controversial ministers in the last two U.D.P. governments. But Hubert Elrington, also known as the “unguided missile,” does not seem to mind the nickname and in fact takes pride in his maverick reputation. His young opponent, Cordel Hyde, while cultivating an image of quiet commitment and […]
The opposition has been accusing him of passing out land papers by the ream in a last minute effort to buy votes and raise campaign funds. But whatever the truth of those allegations, Minister of Natural Resources Eduardo Juan has also been busy creating protected areas. This week he signed a statutory instrument declaring all […]
In regional news — and we deliberately saved it for last — the dream finally ended for the Belize men’s basketball team in Venezuela. This evening they lost to Panama by a score of 98 to 76. They’ll still have a chance for bronze medal, however, as they play their final game tomorrow night against […]
There is major progress to report tonight on the solving of one of the nation’s most important murder cases… but that story will have to wait on a piece of news that can only fit in the journalistic category reserved for miracles. From Maracaibo, Venezuela comes news that in the first match-up of the final […]
