Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is another version of Sports Monday. For the first time ever a full-length marathon of 26 miles was staged in a package yesterday presented by NTV of Japan as they launched their search for a Belizean talent to take to the Sydney Olympics 2000. Now folks this is […]
There is disturbing news tonight that a killer is on the loose. And while the body of only one young victim has been discovered, there is mounting evidence that a number of missing children may have come into contact with the murderer and face a similar fate. What we know for sure is that thirteen […]
Suicide or murder? That’s the question police are trying to figure out as they investigate the shooting death of a Belize City man Thursday night. Twenty-three year old Peter Valerio was pronounced dead on arrival at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital shortly after nine o’clock after being shot in the head. According to officer in […]
The release of an autopsy conducted on the body of an infant found at the city dump earlier this week has provided police with a clearer picture of how the child died. But it has also raised new questions about the gruesome discovery. According to Dr. Mario Estradabran’s findings, the baby girl was the victim […]
In other police news the department today announced the conducting of an operation to combat the rising number of bicycle thefts in Belize City. Targeted in the sweep were a number of bike repair shops. As a result four people were arrested, while fifteen bikes, seventy-eight frames and assorted parts were confiscated. The public is […]
The Broadcasting Corporation of Belize, which is scheduled to cease all operations by month’s end, today ran its last newscast. The sixty-one year old government owned station, which for more than a half century was the only game in town, was less noted for the depth and quality of its news content, than for its […]
On last week’s newscast we ran the sad story of a school feeding program almost destroyed by the acts of thieves… and then followed with the heartening news of a thousand-dollar donation by a Belize City businessman. Today the cash actually changed hands as News Five’s Jacqueline Woods, who reported the original story, made the […]
Belizean athletes who have always dreamed of one day representing their country in the Olympics will come one step closer to achieving that goal this weekend. On Sunday, the National Sports Council in collaboration with the Belize Defence Force and N.T.V. of Japan will present the first ever Henry Usher Marathon. It is the first […]
His commentary several weeks ago on the B.C.B. firmly established G. Michael Reid as the journalistic patron saint of lost causes. Tonight he turns his thoughts to a subject that, although once believed to fall in that category, is now viewed in a different light. “According to Greek mythology, the first woman on earth was […]
Twenty-four hours after the gruesome discovery of the body of a dead baby at the City’s garbage dump, police are still trying to piece together the who, what, why and when. A postmortem examination was conducted on the body today by Pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran, but up to news time, he had not made the […]
In other crime news law enforcement authorities continue to disrupt the marijuana trade just as the prime harvesting season approaches. On Wednesday morning police and B.D.F. personnel operating in the Orange Walk District discovered no less than three weed plantations in the area known as Vaqueros Camp. According to an official release the farms contained […]
It is fitting that in the midst of a day of sometime torrential rain, a group of Belize’s top professionals met to discuss the subject of… water. Patrick Jones reports from the Radisson. The two-day meeting brings together over twenty representatives of organizations that depend heavily on the country’s water resources. Acting Chief Meteorologist Justin […]
The Ministry of Tourism and Broadcasting has announced the names of members of the Belize Broadcasting Authority. The list is led by Chairman Philip Zuniga and includes Silvana Woods, Jimmy Johnson, Frank Arzu, Pauline Rodriguez Romero and Father Noel Leslie along with ex-officio members Clifford Slusher and Marian McNab. The B.B.A. is the body which […]
While on the subject of broadcasting, media houses nationwide have received requests from Atlantic Industries Limited, the Malaysian company engaged in controversial logging activities in Toledo, to come visit their southern operations and report on what they find. In the past the Malaysians have refused to speak to the Belizean press but have apparently had […]
Less than two months ago the then opposition People’s United Party campaigned hard on the promise that, if elected, they would get Belize’s economic train on the move once again. Now that the P.U.P. owns the railroad, everyone from the unemployed Belizean on the street to the millionaire potential investor wants to know when the […]
It’s a story that we are used to seeing in the U.S. news media: a newborn baby, unwanted by its teenaged mother, is abandoned and left for dead. Tonight that story — or perhaps some as yet unknown variation of it — tops the news right here in Belize. This morning we were called to […]
In other crime news three men from the Corozal District have been arrested for a robbery which occurred last week in Santa Clara Village. On October ninth, twenty-two year old housewife Marcela Gomez reported that three men came to her house, hit her and robbed her at knifepoint of jewelry worth over thirteen hundred dollars. […]
In a follow up to a story we reported in yesterday’s newscast, police have identified the cyclist who was injured in an accident on the Bel-China Bridge as Roberto Orellano. Information is still sketchy, but it appears that the thirty-four year old Belize City resident was run over by the rear wheel of a mini-bus […]
Government continues to work toward the implementation of its campaign promises and today announced a number of decisions taken at Tuesday’s session of Cabinet. In a move designed to increase the accountability of ministers, Cabinet approved amendments to the standing orders of the House to grant increased powers to legislative standing committees to oversee activities […]
A release from the Professional Secretaries Association of Belize says that they have undergone a name change. Henceforth the organization will be known as the Association of Administrative Professionals of Belize. The new name conforms to a similar makeover mandated by the international association at its annual convention in August. Despite all the semantic secretarial […]
The organization known as “Friends of Pediatrics” today donated to Minister of Health Servulo Baeza over three thousand dollars worth of items for the children’s ward at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Among the gifts were a twenty five-inch television, VCR, tapes, books and games. In an unusual request the group is appealing to the person […]
The last time a cruise ship appeared in the news it was because of the sexual orientation of its passengers. Tonight’s report, though less sensational, may be more welcome by tour operators in Belize City. On Thursday the Sea Breeze, carrying a maximum of eight hundred and fifty passengers, will make the first of what […]
The Broadcasting Corporation of Belize has gone through a number of name changes in its more than half century of existence, but by the end of this month, it will be called anything except alive. News Five’s Patrick Jones, himself a former B.C.B. employee, looks at how the winding down process is going. After eight […]
It was a particularly brutal crime, the kind that’s not supposed to happen in a small country where everybody is said to know everybody else. Today police arrested and charged three men whom they claim committed the atrocity… and called in the press to talk. A little over two months after a Coca Cola truck […]
While planning seems to have been the M.O. in the holdup of the Coca-Cola delivery truck, in Belmopan a month long series of burglaries appears to have been the result of similar intentions. Officer in Charge of the Belmopan police station, Gerald Bernard, says that no less than thirty-three burglaries were reported between September third […]
