Good evening, I’m James Adderley so pull up for another dishing of Sports Monday. Camalote Durley’s Crystal, after a perfect 10 and 0 regular season in the Cayo Softball competition, went into the Roaring Creek Stadium yesterday with a 1-2 up lead in the 3 game championship series against host team Roaring Creek, who made […]
It was the kind of crime that, although no longer surprising, is no less disturbing. More details of Thursday’s cold blooded murder and robbery on the Old Northern Highway are slowly emerging from police, the surviving victim and officials of the company the two delivery men were working for. Today in the aftermath of the […]
There’s good news and then there’s not so good news to report tonight from the southern coastal town of Punta Gorda. The good news is that the quick actions of the police resulted in the speedy apprehension of an accused forgery artist, John Gabriel, after the check he issued to a local shop, turned out […]
Still in Toledo, no foul play is suspected in the death of a U.S. national in the village of Hopeville. Forty nine-year old John Richard Marik’s lifeless body was discovered on a sofa in his living room early this morning by his wife. According to Mrs. Marik, her husband had earlier been complaining of chest […]
In other crime news, Belize City police have arrested and charged one of their own in connection with a shooting incident late Thursday night at a popular night-club on the Western Highway. P.C. Eddison Castillo is charged with the crimes of wounding and the use of deadly means of harm. The charges result from a […]
And in news just in, we have received reports of a traffic accident in Camalote Village in the Cayo District. A vehicle travelling on the Western Highway apparently ran into two teenagers walking along the road. The girl has died and the boy was injured and is now at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.
It has been trumpeted from the U.D.P. rostrum for several weeks now, but today a B.I.S. press release officially announced government’s new policy for assisting needy primary school students with textbooks. The program, which is being made possible by the United Kingdom’s initiative to cancel the debt repayments owed by Commonwealth nations and use the […]
Both major candidates are former ministers of past P.U.P. governments. Luis Sylvestre’s career spanned the transition from colony to independence and after a brief political retirement he re-emerged last year as a standard bearer for the U.D.P. Ralph Fonseca, a former senator, was first elected to the House from the newly created constituency in 1993 […]
The National Male Basketball Team may have left for the Central American and Caribbean Games, but the championship fever has not died. The Belize Youth Development Department has been seeking out some future stars by holding a series of midnight marathons. From July twenty-ninth to the thirty-first, six teams made up of sixteen to nineteen […]
The weekly commentaries of G. Michael Reid have usually combined an artist’s touch for language with a streetwise philosopher’s understanding of the human condition. Tonight he turns those abilities in a more personal direction, toward a subject that has obviously been on his mind for quite some time. “I did my first Last Word almost […]
This evening the mood at the Coca Cola Factory in Ladyville was somber, as one of the company’s longtime drivers was killed and a co-worker wounded during a holdup on the Old Northern Highway. While reports are sketchy at this time, it is reported that driver Anthony Felix and his sideman, twenty-two year old Allan […]
In other crime news police have arrested a suspect in the chopping death of an Orange Walk man on Saturday night. Thirty-two year old Guatemalan Rene Trochez has been charged for the crimes of murder and conspiracy to murder. Two other suspects are still being sought by police although reports into News Five late this […]
In other news from the north, the pool of detainees continues to increase as Corozal police have detained seven more people for questioning in connection with Friday’s hold-up of a travel agency. According to police, three people stole a car from the farm of Jesus Sosa on the Consejo Road, and used the vehicle to […]
He fought as vigorously as he could, taking his case as far as the Court of Appeals but in the end U.S. citizen Tommy Edward Crutchfield lost the battle and today found himself winging his way back to Miami. According to a release from the Solicitor General’s Office, Crutchfield was deported from Belize this afternoon […]
Things got a little bit out of hand on Wednesday evening in the often volatile world of politics. I had just finished presenting the evening newscast when I discovered that my day was not quite over. Things were quiet today on Central American Boulevard after Wednesday evening’s near riot between party supporters of Faith Babb […]
While the minor excitement in Collet left the participants unharmed, the political pressures being exerted at the government’s radio station have claimed their first casualty of the electoral season. Reliable sources have informed News Five that B.C.B. deputy chairman Cynthia Henry has been asked by the Minister of Broadcasting to resign her post. The flashpoint […]
In other political news the group of N.G.O.s known as the Civil Society Steering Committee has declined a challenge issued by the People’s United Party to investigate allegations of fraud in the naturalization and voter registration of immigrants by the ruling U.D.P. While a similar investigation was carried out by an N.G.O. consortium prior to […]
In tonight’s edition of our continuing series on “Elections ’98,” News Five’s Patrick Jones spoke with the candidates from the Orange Walk East constituency: veteran politician Elodio Aragon and his young challenger, Dave Burgos. Dave Burgos, P.U.P., Orange Walk East “We have three issues mainly that we are campaigning on in our division. One of […]
It’s the travel show’s third birthday and while this year’s edition is not as large as 1997, Arreini Palacio reports that BETEX ’98 is no less lovely than its predecessors. Eye catching… isn’t it? And organizers of BETEX ’98 hope that this eco-cultural beauty will not only sparkle in the eyes of local beholders but […]
The conventional wisdom about this year’s election campaign is that it’s the nastiest in history, totally devoted to character assassination and devoid of any content even remotely dealing with how we should be governed. That may be the general attitude of the public, but today, with the unveiling of its five year manifesto, the People’s […]
Tonight’s segment of “Elections ’98” takes a look at a constituency that more often than not features a hard fought battle for the hearts and minds of the voters: Dangriga. Russell Garcia, U.D.P., Dangriga “I have said all the while, the central issue is unemployment and we, the United Democratic Party and myself are about […]
And in a follow-up to our story yesterday on the electoral challenges in the Fort George division, we are able to announce that U.D.P. candidate Derek Aikman has finally succeeded in his efforts to remove some voters from the Fort George list. We are reliably informed that out of one hundred and five original objections […]
Last year I paid a visit to an idyllic village in the Belize district to view the start of a unique conservation project. This morning I returned to find that life on the river is getting better. Located just three miles in from Hattieville Village on the Western Highway, the small village of Freetown Sibun […]
The courtroom of Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord was the venue this afternoon for some high drama that bore amazing resemblance to a scene played out in 1984. The principal actor was the same, as U.D.P. standard bearer for the Fort George division Derek Aikman tried to get one hundred and five names removed from the […]
With all the political commotion in the Chief Magistrate’s courtroom we almost missed a ruling that would otherwise be front-page news. We have not seen the official report but it appears that the high profile case against a number of Taiwanese defendants accused of forging immigration documents has been dismissed. The reason appears to be […]
