A traffic accident on the Northern Highway in Ladyville village last night has claimed the lives of two people. According to police reports, the crash took place shortly after seven o’clock last night. Twenty three year old Adolfo Medina had just made a cement delivery in Belize City and was returning home to Orange Walk […]
The Belize Defence Force Medial Officer, Dr. Peter Craig was injured in a freak accident in Ladyville this morning. According to Colonel Hugh Cain, the B.D.F.’s public relations officer, since Monday of this week, Dr. Craig was on an exercise with the helicopter unit of the British Forces Support Training Unit. The exercise, known as […]
An eighteen year old Belize City man has been detained and police are looking for two other persons in connection with a burglary in Belize City last night. Thirty-four year old food vendor Floyd Young told police that his booth at the corner of Oleander and Mahogany Streets was broken into and that over three […]
An early morning fire on southside Belize City has left several people homeless. News Five’s Patrick Jones reports. According to Fire Chief Henry Baizar, the blaze erupted at the corner of North Creek Road and Curasow Street shortly after midnight. The fire service responded with two trucks. Henry Baizar, Fire Chief “They got there and […]
It may be a couple of years too late for members of the Sound City Band, to reap the harvest of their work on creating “Conch Soup,” the song that was stolen and made it into an international hit by a Honduras group. But serious efforts now being made to protect the region’s music industry […]
After months of hard work and many hours of editing and re-writing, the latest edition of the “Children In Action” newspaper rolled off the printing press this week. According to Editor Herschel Armstrong, the stories in this latest edition of the newspaper were carefully selected to reflect the achievements of Belizean children. Herschel Armstrong, Editor, […]
A traffic accident last night in Santa Elena, Cayo has left one man dead. According to police reports the incident happened shortly after eight o’clock at the junction of the Western Highway and Carillo Puerto Avenue in the town. Thirty-two year old Peter Garcia told police that he was driving his truck towards San Ignacio, […]
A Belize City teenager is hospitalized in serious condition after she was shot in the abdomen. According to police reports sixteen year old Keiva Leslie was shot by another teenager, Kenrick Nuñez. Police say the two had apparently been in a relationship which was going sour. Nuñez it is reported, went to Leslie’s home on […]
Over the next few days the Department of Corrections will be under the close scrutiny of prison authorities from across the region. Belize is host this year for the annual meeting of Superintendents of Prisons of British dependent territories. As News Five’s Patrick Jones reports, although Belize is not a dependent territory, it stands to […]
An eight-week training program in food processing started today in the Orange Walk District. Forty young women from the villages of San Antonio, San Roman and Santa Cruz will spend the next two months learning how to process fruits into jam and vegetable into pickles. According to the implementing agency, the Ministry of Agriculture and […]
When most people celebrate their birthday it is usually done in the company of family and friends at a party or other festivities. But the People’s United Party is not like most people and on its forty-eight birthday, proved once again that it’s an institution that is not afraid of breaking with tradition. Instead of […]
A high ranking member of the Police Force will not stand trial for the alleged raped of a junior officer earlier this year. So says Commissioner of Police Ornel Brooks. The rape accusations were made by a female sergeant against her supervisor, Assistant Inspector of Police Eli Salazar, the officer commanding C.I.B. at Eastern Division. […]
That scandal safely defused, at least for the short run, it was time for the police to get back to the job they are hired to perform: that is fighting crime. And that job will be made a little bit easier thanks to some cash from Uncle Sam. The agreement signed today with the United […]
While the Minister of National Security was talking tough on crime at home, his boss, Prime Minister Said Musa, was doing the same on the international level. In his first speech to the UN General Assembly as Prime Minister, Musa spoke out against drug trafficking and money laundering and pledged his full cooperation with regional […]
While the new government continues to translate its manifesto promises into reality, the Opposition has publicly taken issue with one such intention: that is the dismantling of the Broadcasting Corporation of Belize. In a press release issued today the U.D.P. took the ruling party to task for shutting down the B.C.B., claiming that the manifesto […]
In other news from the world of broadcasting, it was supposed to have been a day of relaxation in Corozal for the staff of Love FM But what started out as a fun trip quickly turned nightmarish as a member of the Love crew fell victim to the waters of the Four Mile Lagoon. Twenty-six […]
A Ladyville resident is appealing to the public for assistance in recovering household items and personal belongings that were stolen from her house this morning. According to Michelle Bowen, her home was burglarized sometime between nine a.m. and midday. Bowen says the thief or thieves broke into the house through a bedroom window and made […]
If you were feeling lucky this weekend then Saturday was your big chance. At least three major raffles were drawn and tonight three fortunate Belizeans are significantly better off. Our first stop at midday, Saturday, took us inside the Belize Bank where the winner in the first prize of the bank’s 1998 Action Plan Loan […]
An exercise in good neighborliness has brought smiles to the victims of a recent fire. The Raymond Arnold family lost almost everything in the Thursday morning blaze which gutted their home in the lower flat of a house situated at the corner of Antelope Street and Central American Boulevard. Elvis Samuels, who lives next door, […]
In another attempt at being good neighbors the St. Vincent de Paul Society has opened a fund raising campaign for Caribbean victims of Hurricane Georges. Contributions can be sent to the Hurricane Georges Relief Fund care of any branch of the Belize Bank.
Saturday marked the beginning of the second annual Deaf Awareness Week and today the Belize School for the Deaf held an open day. The exhibition, the second for the Belize School For the Deaf, highlights the students’ work done during the past year. Anna Sambula, Teacher, Belize School For the Deaf “We are showing what […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re just in time for another deal of Sports Monday. B.F.L. Football continues to reign supreme on Sunday afternoon here in the Jewel people and here in the city, the fans got another look at the undefeated Yabra Sporting Club who played host to Southern United at the M.C.C. […]
An accusation of rape, which by definition involves the emotional issues of sex and violence, is always a difficult matter to deal with publicly. But a rape case coming to light this week has two additional complicated strikes against it, in that the alleged perpetrator is a police officer and so is his alleged victim. […]
A Toledo woman tonight lies in Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim of multiple stab wounds. According to police reports, two masked men entered the home of forty-eight year old Maria Gomez in Jacintoville village Thursday afternoon in an attempt to rob her. When she resisted they stabbed her in the chest, shoulder, face and […]
A Corozal money changer and his family have been robbed of over eight thousand dollars in cash and jewelry. Thirty-one year old Raul Magaña told police that around seven thirty Thursday morning he was accosted as he was leaving his home in Louisville village by a masked man with a pump action shotgun. Magaña was […]
