Good evening I’m James Adderly and welcome to this post Easter portion of Sports Monday. The brilliance of the Belizean sunrise coupled with the wide array of colours worn by the athletes brought a magical picture to start the 72nd Annual Cross Country Cycle Classic staged on Saturday. About a 130 riders including cyclists from […]
The news media is only too willing to speed out to Hattieville…so long as the story involves a prison riot, an escape or a whipping. But good news does occasionally sprout up through the dusty soil of the Department of Corrections…and News Five was on hand to help it grow. Stewart Krohn, Reporting When former […]
Two knives and a shotgun were the weapons of choice in a pair of unrelated robberies which occurred in Belize City on Wednesday. Shortly after noon, a man described only as being of Creole descent walked into R & J’s Fashion Store on Cemetery Road. He pulled a knife on the female clerk and proceeded […]
They say it’s all about the Benjamins…but the U.S. banknotes with Benjamin Franklin’s likeness found by police on Wednesday did not do the man justice. The bills turned out to be bogus and the three men who had them, who were stopped on a Belize City bus, are now in Custody. Salvadorans Oscar Castillo, Genaro […]
It must be something about the holiday weekend that has workers on edge. Having seen calls for industrial action at WASA and Venus Bus Lines earlier in the week, this morning the truckers who haul the nation’s fuel aired their complaints to the media. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Operations at the Esso Terminal shut down for […]
This Easter weekend the highways will be extremely busy as Belizeans travel to their vacation spots for the four-day holiday. It is also a busy time for the National Drug Abuse Control Council, Transport Department and the Police. These agencies are working together to make our roadways a safer place to travel. One way the […]
This afternoon the public got a chance to see some of the athletes who will be competing in the 72nd Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic. The occasion was the annual cycling parade. It started behind the Supreme Court and took riders through the principal streets of Belize City. The race is 144 miles long […]
It started in 1980 with Dogs of War, revved into high gear with Mosquito Coast in 1985, coasted through Caribe in ’86 and continued through Heart of Darkness in 1993. Although its been seven years since a feature film director called “action” on these shores, another movie is today being successfully put together in Belize. […]
It’s that time of Holy week when people’s minds are already on holiday even though their bodies may not leave town until Thursday afternoon. But for a growing number of employees and employers–particularly in the burgeoning tourist sector–the long Easter weekend requires the mind of an Einstein just to figure out the proper paycheck. This […]
Three weeks ago 90% of the employees at Venus Bus Company became members of the Christian Workers Union. The workers joined the union because they say they are being mistreated by the company’s management. The employees are demanding higher wages and for the company to make sure the buses are properly equipped. However talks between […]
An 18-month old baby has become the nation’s latest traffic victim. On Tuesday evening Marnilla Garcia, a 24-year-old mother of five was walking down the main road in Cayo’s Valley of Peace. Her children walked at her side on the right side of the road. From the opposite direction a red pickup drove towards them […]
Last week in Havana he lambasted the trend towards globalisation as a racket perpetuated by the rich nations against the poor. This week, faced with the reality of a country which must work hard for its daily bread, Prime Minister Said Musa helped officially launch a new body which will prepare our exports for the […]
In other news from Belmopan the weekly release from Cabinet indicates that a number of decisions have been made on the national and international fronts. Among them are the approval of two protocols enlarging Belize’s participation in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, as well the establishment of an inter-ministerial committee to properly implement the […]
Earlier in this newscast we heard about the rates of pay the law specifies for work performed over the long Easter weekend. This afternoon I spoke to the workers themselves to see how they felt about being on duty while everyone else is on holiday. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting As the holiday weekend fast approaches, Belizeans […]
With less than three days to go before the 72nd running of the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Race, a last minute controversy has arisen over the entry of foreign riders, who are alleged to be “ringers”: top class professionals disguised as lesser riders. After exercising his due diligence, however, Cycling Association President Gerald Garbutt […]
It’s a government operated service that may be next on the privatization list. Today the Water and Sewage Authority is under some union heat for trying to trim its staff. On Friday, 16 employees received letters informing them that their services are no longer required. The employees, who come from Benque Viejo, Orange Walk, Punta […]
Police have made an arrest in the case of a Belize City woman who was raped in the early hours of Sunday morning. 26 year old Kenrick Gilbert Nunez, an ice vendor of Louise Bevans Street, will be formally arraigned in Magistrate’s Court tomorrow for the crimes of rape, wounding, and aggravated assault. It is […]
It was a crime report that seemed so fishy we never bothered to report it. Today the alleged victim who made the report now finds himself charged for a crime. On Friday afternoon nineteen year old Jose Herrera, a teacher of Black Orchid Street in Belize City, told police that while walking on East Canal […]
He was a man who left a lasting impact on his community, his union and his nation. It is with regret that we report the death of Pablo Lambey. Lambey died in Los Angeles where he had been undergoing treatment for kidney failure since January. He was for many years a leading labour leader, heading […]
Residents of Copper Bank and Progresso Villages will now have it a whole lot easier when it comes to driving to their district capital of Corozal. That’s thanks to a recently inaugurated ferry service across the New River, which will reduce the trip from 48 miles to a mere 9. The ferry, converted from a […]
Also on Saturday but at the opposite end of the country, members of the Belize Hemophilia Society met for their annual general meeting. The gathering in Forest Home Village in Toledo featured an address by Dr. Victor Rosado, who explained the society’s goal of making safe treatment accessible and affordable to hemophilia patients countrywide. People […]
It’s a working farm on the edge of the Mountain Pine Ridge that runs a unique program for vocational education and environmental consciousness. Today over a hundred scouts from all over the country got the chance to visit the Janus Foundation’s project site and get a hands on feel for what it’s all about. Gabrielle […]
For many Belizeans books are something you turn to when the cable company cuts you off for non-payment. That’s a pity because Belizean writers and publishers, particularly Benque Viejo’s Cubola Productions, have been turning out high quality literature for several decades. The latest, entitled “If Di Pin Neva Ben: Folktales and Legends of Belize” was […]
It’s a story that’s short on details but what we do know is that an Orange Walk man is dead. The body of Adrian Moralez was discovered by startled residents of the Trial Farm area around 6:00 on Sunday morning. He was badly mutilated by what appeared to be multiple machete wounds to the left […]
In other news from the North, Orange Walk East Representative, Dave Burgos is recovering today from injuries suffered in a traffic accident on Saturday night. At around 8:15 he was driving south on the Northern Highway between Corozal and Orange Walk when around mile 58 he lost control of his government vehicle. He suffered a […]
