A Corozal businessman is in the hospital tonight after he was shot during a robbery attempt over the weekend. According to police reports, forty-two year old Kim Longsworth of Belmont Butane Gas in Santa Rita, Corozal was at the company compound on Sunday around 10:00 a.m. when a minivan carrying three men arrived at the […]
A Belize City businessman was also robbed over the weekend. According to police reports, Wei Chen of Vernon Street was going into his house just before 2:00 a.m. on Saturday morning when four masked men approached him. One of the men, armed with a sawed off shotgun stole his keys and forced Chen into the […]
There has been a lot of controversy lately over the Corozal Free Zone and the role it plays in siphoning off Belize’s hard currency. But a police report today indicates that currency violations are not the only illegal activity taking place in the zone. Based on complaints from the Microsoft Corporation, police on Friday arrested […]
Nearly six months after the Tower Hill riot, an official report has yet to be presented to the public. Shortly after the incident a commission of inquiry was established with Justice Christopher Blackman appointed as chairman. Today Blackman announced that before completing the commission’s report, three more witnesses will be called to give evidence. News […]
Most schools are out for the holidays, but a few teachers are still in the classroom. This morning, teachers from all over the country met in Belize City to discuss a problem facing many of their students…dyslexia. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting School may be closed for the Christmas holiday but some teachers have […]
They promise no rent-a-crowd and more importantly, no political band standing. The Committee for Action on Public Utilities, organisers of a second protest against the Belize Telecommunications Limited, say they intend to come out in numbers and march in the streets until the rates come down. Magaret Ventura, President, P.S.U. “Those who did not come […]
With seven more shopping days left before Christmas, you can bet every lunch hour and after work time will be spent scouring stores for that perfect present for your loved one. Ann-Marie Williams is still playing Santa’s elf and here’s her latest recommendation. Michael Gordon, Artist “I have humans, yard, house, bridge; I like to […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcomed to Sports Monday. In a tale of teams streaking in opposite directions, week eight of the Regent’s Cup Tournament found Jacintoville of Toledo at the M.C.C. Grounds looking for its second season win against no less than the defending champion Kulture Yabra. The visitors attack Willie Bo Bernard […]
There’s never a good time for a fire, but the week before Christmas is about as bad as they come. The latest blaze began just as this newscast was getting underway Thursday night. Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It did not take the National Fire Service long to bring the blaze under […]
Last month as he addressed a group of freshly minted police officers, newly appointed Minister of Home Affairs Maxwell Samuels departed from his script to level a blast at what he called the unjustified rate hikes imposed by B.T.L. Last night on One on One with Dickie Bradley, he was at it again and the […]
In violent crime news, a Chinese restaurant in Belize City was jacked on Thursday night. Chen Jian Hong, owner of Hong Mei Restaurant on Church Street, reported that after being served their food, three men pushed him down, tied him and his wife up and proceeded to help themselves to whatever they could find. They […]
While the three Church Street jackers are still at large, one man who’s not so lucky is twenty-eight year old Sebastian “Sabe” Nunez. Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord has sentenced Nunez to a relatively light two years behind bars for the theft of fifteen thousand dollars. It can be recalled that Nunez snatched a bag from […]
During Christmas, the drug of choice for most Belizeans is alcohol, but for the rest of the year the abuse of and trade in other narcotics remains one of the nation’s major social problems. Today the organisation spearheading anti-drug education in Belize finished a week of activities targeting students. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Three years ago, […]
It’s one of those holiday foods that when done poorly becomes the butt of endless jokes, but when a Christmas fruitcake is baked to perfection, it’s a treat that’s hard to beat. Tonight Ann-Marie thinks she found a cake that will stand the test of time. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting What started out as merely a […]
Belmopan was the venue this morning for activities marking the end of traffic safety week. Primary School students marched around the Ring Road, accompanied by officials of the Transport Department, all urging drivers to cool it over the Christmas holidays. Bumper stickers were also distributed, some of which carried the week’s theme: “Drive with care, […]
This week may be devoted to traffic safety, but you’d never know it by watching drivers in Belize City. In the old capital, where bad driving has been elevated to fine art, it was strictly business as usual. Stewart Krohn, Reporting It’s a busy intersection where every driver knows that left turns up the bridge […]
Missing money at the Belize City Council has resulted in the City Manager being suspended. The official account from the City Council is that Marcia Mahler, the city manager for the past two and a half years, was suspended on the fourth of December and is now on leave until the fourteenth of January. According […]
Three weeks after the Police Department confiscated a fleet of late model vehicles from a farm in south Stann Creek, customs officials have yet to file any charges. Law enforcement sources tell News 5 that the investigation files on the ten trucks will be passed on to the department’s legal advisor, Gian Ghandi, who will […]
Prime Minister Said Musa and a high level delegation have attended a summit of the Association of Caribbean States held in Venezuela. The two-day meeting, which ended on Wednesday, was held on Margarita Island and hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Among the accomplishments of the gathering was the adoption of a convention declaring the […]
Statistics for the last three months show that despite the negative effects of the September eleventh bombings and Hurricane Iris, the Belizean tourism industry has held its own and should continue to grow during 2002. Numbers released by the Belize Tourism Board show that while September arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport dropped by […]
Just saying the word conjures up visions of a warm alcohol induced buzz and toe-tapping musical camaraderie. And although a public library is the last place you’d expect to find a Christmas bram, today the one on North Front Street was jumping. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The exhibition made you feel like a real part of […]
As we’ve seen on this newscast over the last few weeks, the people making local products for Christmas range from expatriate housewives to hardened prison inmates. Today, we discovered how the work of some young people not usually associated with handicrafts just may keep them out of Hattieville. Helen Rosalez, Supervisor, Youth Hostel “Society might […]
It’s one of the nation’s most important buildings…but because the years have not been kind to St. John’s Cathedral, its congregants have had to fight a constant battle to keep the landmark in shape. This weekend they’ll celebrate the latest small victory over the elements. Ann-Marie reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting “The restoration of the cathedral […]
Forensic examinations on the bodies of two men found near the Guatemalan border in the Chiquibul National Park have determined the men were shot to death. Belizean pathologists conducted autopsies on the bodies on Tuesday and have concluded that firearm wounds, believed to be from shotguns, are the cause of death in both cases. The […]
A Toledo toddler is dead tonight as the result of a tragic accident. One and a half year old Larissa Mishler was crushed to death Tuesday morning near Blue Creek Village when a pickup truck backed over her. The vehicle, driven by a twenty-one year old U.S. National Laban Butikoffer, had been parked at the […]
