Crocodiles are not the only dangerous animals in Belize and Jamaal Swift was not the weekend’s only victim of an attack. On Friday in the Toledo District a farmer died as the result of a snakebite. Police reports indicate that fifty-year old Monico Sho of Mafredi Village was walking to his farm when he was […]
A Belize City man is dead after he was knocked off his bicycle by a truck. Forty-seven year old Harold Meggs of Belama Phase III was riding his bike against traffic on the Northern Highway near the Coral Grove Gas Station Saturday afternoon when he was hit by a Crystal Water truck. According to the […]
A man from Patchakan Village is dead and police say it’s murder. On Sunday night, the body of forty-one year old Geraldo Can was found lying on the road with a large cut wound to the neck. Can was pronounced dead on arrival at the Corozal Hospital. Police have detained one man in connection with […]
The Belize Tourism Industry Association held its sixteenth annual general meeting in Dangriga on Saturday. In his keynote address, Budget Planning Minister Ralph Fonseca told B.T.I.A. members that his government is fulfilling a promise to make tourism a national priority–and the proof is in the numbers. Ralph Fonseca, Min. of Budget Planning “We are sure […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we certainly thank you for joining us for this latest version of Sports Monday. Semi-pro basketball reached playoff fever Friday night at the City Centre when San Cas U.B. and Data Pro Raiders clashed in the semi-final round. It’s Eric Maye and Kenroy Smith at the tip off for […]
The killing of a Guatemalan civilian by the B.D.F. near the border in June of 1999 was a controversial case from the start, but things got stickier for the Amandala when the newspaper’s account of the incident landed it in court for libel. Today Supreme Court Justice Samuel Awich ruled that the story, which identified […]
Another controversial event will soon be the subject of a commission of inquiry. It was announced today that the commission appointed to look into the events of July thirtieth at Tower Hill Bridge will begin hearings at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August twenty-second. Those hearing will run through Friday at the La Immaculada Credit Union Conference […]
If you need any proof that the devil is alive and well in Belize, you need not look any further than the latest building site of Habitat for Humanity. We reported on Wednesday that dozens of Belizeans were providing volunteer labour to construct the house of Elsa Augustine on Police Street. This morning workers arrived […]
On, July twenty-eighth the National Junior Basketball Team arrived in the Bahamas to compete in the CARICOM basketball tournament. But just a couple of hours before the team was scheduled to play against Barbados, they received the disturbing news that while the team could play it would not be allowed into the medal round. Why? […]
With the long anticipated National Health Insurance pilot project now underway, it remains to be seen whether the N.H.I. concept will prove workable in the Belizean context. This morning News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams made her rounds. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Today we visited the four southside clinics to see how registration and health care services are […]
It seems like we’ve been waiting for years, but after numerous delays and a lot of spirited debate, the first phase of the controversial National Health Insurance scheme finally got off the ground today. Ann-Marie reports from the Matron Roberts Health Centre. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The long awaited N.H.I. pilot project has been officially launched […]
In crime news, an employee at the Novelo’s Bus Terminal in Benque Viejo has been arrested in connection with the eighty-nine thousand dollars discovered missing from the B.E.L. collection agency on Monday. Eighteen year old Elon Gongora has been charged with the crimes of theft and false accounting. Fifty-eight thousand dollars in cash and another […]
Inmates at Hattieville Prison, like many of their counterparts outside the walls, are turning toward aquaculture as a way to improve their economic status. Today a new programme was launched in which the prisoners will engage in fish farming as part of their rehabilitation. Eleven hundred baby bay-snook were released in a fresh water pond […]
While most of Belize’s international family and economic ties tend to gravitate toward the United States, many enterprising Belizeans are looking to Europe for new marketing opportunities. The music industry is no exception, and today one group of musicians boarded a plane to the old world in search of those two time-honoured commodities: fame and […]
It’s Belize’s best-known venture into the world of international entertainment. Having begun life as San Pedro’s Sea and Air Festival and quickly rechristened with the name Costa Maya, the annual bash on the beach is set to kick off on August sixteenth. Jacqueline Woods has a preview. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The festivities have been trimmed […]
For residents of the south side of the Belize District it’s been a long wait…and with only one more day to go until the National Health Insurance pilot project officially gets underway, a major health care facility has declared that it’s ready to go. Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Belize Medical […]
While Prime Minister Said Musa was on hand to lend his support to the N.H.I. Project, we also took the opportunity to solicit his views on last week’s turmoil in Orange Walk. Jacqueline Woods “What do you believe could have been done to avert the violence there?” Prime Minister Said Musa “Well whatever I say […]
In crime news, police this morning were called to a farm two miles north of Santa Martha Village on the old Northern Highway, where they saw the lifeless body of a man. The corpse, suffering from chop wounds to the head, was later identified as Jose Patt, of San Jose Village. Police are looking for […]
Last week we reported on a road mishap in which a pickup truck packed with fifteen passengers went out of control near Bermudian Landing. Today we regret to inform viewers that two of those passengers have died of their injuries. They are twenty-eight year old Lizalou Dominguez and thirty-six year old Raymond Myvett. A third […]
There was no rest for the Prime Minister today as he met with Japan’s Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Taimei Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi, on a one-day visit to Belize, discussed with P.M. Musa ways of strengthening the friendly relations between Belize and Japan. Prime Minister Said Musa “We now have a group of Japanese volunteers working […]
In news from Cabinet, that body has approved a project to put unemployed young people to work. As many as three hundred youths, not enrolled in any school or vocational programme, will be able to take advantage of a six month paid apprenticeship with various business houses or tradesmen. Government will provide the apprentices with […]
The first ever Belize City Games opens on Friday night and in an effort to get the public energised, a motorcade took to the principal streets of the city earlier this evening. The Games’ co-ordinator, Councillor Austin Waight, told News 5 that various disciplines are represented in the motorcade. Austin Waight, Co-ordinator, Belize City Games […]
When Elsa Augustine moves into her new home at 6618 Police Street, she will have no shortage of stories to tell her friends and neighbours. After all, how many Belizeans can boast of living in a house built by the likes of Said Musa, Johnny Briceno and a dozen other diplomats and community leaders. It’s […]
Virtually all of the news coming out of the tourism sector in the last couple of years has been good: what with “Temptation Island”, “After the Storm” and Marion Jones filling the world’s TV screens with pictures of suddenly fashionable Belize, it was no wonder that each month witnessed a seemingly meteoric rise in tourist […]
A fifteen-year-old girl is dead and the circumstances surrounding her death are a matter of some uncertainty. Police say Tanisha Trapp boarded a Novelo’s bus around 12:30 Monday afternoon from Belmopan to go home to Camalote Village. The police report goes on to say that she was on an express bus, which does not make […]
