Belize Electricity Limited today received the bad news that Mexico will not be able to supply prime time electricity until April 4th. The disabled 484 megawatt Merida Three plant was supposed to be up and running by Friday, and the delay will mean that Belize’s energy situation will be touch and go for the next […]
The made in Belize movie ‘After the Storm’ made its TV premier on Tuesday night on the USA Network and was shown on Channel 5 on Wednesday. Most viewers agree that the film, based on a short story by Ernest Hemmingway, was a good cure for insomnia. But while the script may have been a […]
As recently as Friday, when reporting on the loss of his job as the UDP’s mouthpiece, we described Delroy Cuthkelvin as a man unable to find his niche. Today Cuthkelvin reinvented himself and the UDP pulled a political shocker by announcing that not only is the propagandist supporting the party, but he will seek its […]
The days are slowly disappearing when you would call the police in an emergency and hear, “We have to wait for a vehicle.” This is because the department has added eight spanking new Chevy S-10 supercab pickups to its fleet. National Security Minister, Jorge Espat handed over the trucks during a ceremony at the Queen […]
Twenty-nine year old Andrew Hernandez of Boots Crescent was this morning arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on four counts of keeping a prohibited firearm and unlicensed ammunition. Police say while they were on routine patrol Tuesday afternoon on Peter Seco Street, they saw Hernandez suspiciously run away from their vehicle. They then chased him and saw […]
On a normal day our highways and the careless drivers who use them manage to combine for a fair share of traffic mishaps. Throw in an unforeseen obstruction and the situation is an invitation to disaster. Ann-Marie Williams reports on an incident this morning in which a man directing traffic around an overturned container truck […]
Most of the city’s worst fires have occurred on the south side of the Haulover Creek, but the old capital’s single fire station is located on the north side. That situation is being corrected as today the ground floor was poured as part of a ceremony marking the construction of a new substation on Dolphin […]
We are now halfway through the first round of Karaoke Television and last night’s competition was once again a challenge to the judges. In case you missed it, here is the moment of truth. William Neal, Host, Karaoke TV “The winner for tonight is Tremmett Perriott.” (Tremett sings “Lady” by Kenny Rogers) Tremett Perriott is […]
The lush resort and its nearby caves is among the closest natural attractions to Belize City. As a result, Jaguar Paw is a popular destination for tourists and locals alike. That popularity proved its undoing, however, as conflict over rights of access has resulted in a closing of the caves. Jose Sanchez “Along the foothills […]
On last night’s newscast she was described by her own relatives as nothing less than a liar, schemer and perhaps even a killer. But today, Cherrymae Howard, the woman whose court testimony sent her cousin to jail for twenty years and allegedly arranged to have another cousin killed after he beat her, told Channel 5 […]
One death has resulted from the traffic accident that occurred on Sunday in which a white Toyota pickup flipped over with its sixteen occupants. Francisca Chacon fought for her life for two days in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital but today she succumbed to her head injuries. While her widowed husband Umberto has been released […]
In the wake of the overloaded pickup tragedy News 5 sought to find out exactly what the law is regarding the carrying of passengers in the back of a truck. As often happens when dealing with officialdom we got something of a runaround. No one in either the police or traffic department would comment on […]
A resident of San Joaquin in the Corozal district was shot at his home on Sunday night. Around eight-thirty Manolo Magana went downstairs of the house to tie the family dog when he was shot twice by assailants and at least one of the bullets caught him in the stomach. Magana, a biology teacher at […]
Teachers and students of Central Christian Primary School on Freetown Road are today better able to access information with the click of a mouse. The school received a fully-loaded computer and printer this afternoon from Pickstock PUP chairman and political aspirant Bobby Usher. He made the presentation to Vice Principal Thomas Zetina who said the […]
The donation of a computer in the Pickstock division should come as no surprise during this season of heightened political activity. Bobby Usher is locked in a tense battle with Attorney General Godfrey Smith over who will be the PUP candidate to contest the 2003 general elections in Pickstock. Coming on its heels of accusations […]
The government today released more information on its project to bring Belize into the computer age and at the same time kick our favourite telecom monopoly where it hurts. A government press bulletin says that the Ministry of Education has launched its effort to train teachers to use the five thousand computers that it is […]
It is the latest in a not too long line of screen epics filmed on location in Belize. “After the Strom” was shot in Placencia, San Pedro and Belize City last year and makes its television debut tonight on the USA cable network. Last year around this time News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited the set […]
It could be used as a case study in the culture of violence, a way of life that is as familiar to some Belizeans as it is totally alien to others. But however commonplace tragedy has become in some parts of Belize, death is invariably greeted by grief. Ann-Marie Williams reports on how things got […]
A Belize City man stabbed on Sunday night is now recovering at the K.H.M.H. Albert Crawford, a twenty-six year old security guard for Northern Fishermen Co-operative, was at a bar on Newtown Barracks when he claims he was assaulted by a group of men. In the middle of the struggle he was stabbed several times […]
The big crime news over the weekend in the States was the acquittal of Sean “Puffy” Combs on weapons and bribery charges arising from a ruction last year at a Manhattan night club. Further down in some of the stories they may or may not have mentioned that Puff Daddy’s companion that night, Belizean Rapper […]
A traffic accident that occurred on Sunday has landed at least fourteen people in the hospital. Pedro Cal and fifteen family members of Salvapan were returning from an outing near the Sibun River, when around mile thirty-three on the Western Highway, his white Toyota pick-up overturned after a blowout. Inside the cab were Cal, his […]
It looks like things will be touch and go for B.E.L., at least until the end of the week. That’s when Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission says its big plant in Merida will be back in operation and able to sell Belize much needed energy. B.E.L. has been forced to rely on the Mollejon hydro plant […]
Long anticipated elections were today held in Guyana and while the polls have closed, counting is expected to go on well into the night. Representing Belize on the CARICOM observer mission is Chief Elections Officer Myrtle Palacio. The team monitored the preparation for the polling, the voting itself and will also assess the outcome and […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this fresh dish of Sports Monday. It might not be semi-pro basketball, but it’s certainly the only game in town, which has forced everybody back into the amateur ranks. That may a good thing for now, and we join President Bernard Wagner of the Belize District […]
Officials of Belize Electricity Limited are hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst, as a generating plant failure in Mexico continues to deprive Belize of badly needed power. Since Tuesday the nation has been forced to rely on the Mollejon hydro plant in Cayo and eight diesel units spread around the country to […]
