Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re riding aboard this latest flight of Sports Monday. Two teams streaking in opposite directions met yesterday to kick off the second round of the Regent’s Cup Tournament at the M.C.C. Grounds. In the role of host, undefeated and league leading Kulture Yabra took the field against Lazio F.C. […]
Newly appointed Senator Assad Shoman was this morning sworn in by the Governor General as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The appointment, announced several months ago, had to await the recent passage of a constitutional amendment expanding the size of the Senate. Shoman takes over the portfolio from Prime Minister Said Musa, who will retain the […]
The Belize City man who allegedly chanced a police constable on New Year’s eve has been apprehended. Nineteen-year-old Kareem Barona of Dunn Street was arrested and charged on Thursday with the crime of robbery. P.C. Ronald Vernon claims that while off duty on Hyde’s Lane in the wee hours of January first, Barona became abusive, […]
The technological revolution which allows well financed international pirates to bootleg CDs, video games and high priced computer software also has a more positive side, in that consumer versions of the same technology have allowed an increasing number of people to create and promote their own art. Today, a pair of aspiring Belizean musicians visited […]
One of two teenaged girls seriously injured in a bus mishap on Wednesday morning, Nicole Vacarro of Ladyville is only now able to speak coherently about her ordeal. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited Nicole and families of both young women to see what the future holds. Nicole Vacarro, Accident Victim “Well I am not feeling […]
It was hailed and lampooned, lionised and criticised. It seemed that everybody had a strong opinion on N.H.I. …at least until the pilot health care project was finally inaugurated in August. Since then, it’s almost as if those three weighty letters have been purged from the alphabet…at least until today, when News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams […]
In September, a young man from Crooked Tree Village, Frederick Reynolds, was shot by a policeman while detained in the back of a pickup truck. Yesterday, the body of a fellow detainee who witnessed that shooting was fished out of Crooked Tree Lagoon. Were the two deaths related? News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams travelled north and […]
In Belize City crime news, two men have been detained for a heist, which occurred over the weekend at a popular business establishment. Sometime between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, thieves lifted an iron safe and cash register from Dave’s Furniture World on Basra Street. The undisclosed amount of money they found inside must have […]
Fifteen year old Shamira McKoy and fourteen year old Nicole Vacarro, the two cousins who were crushed by a bus on Wednesday morning, have undergone surgery at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. McKoy, who broke her pelvis and Vacarro, who suffered multiple fractures to the same bone, both remain in stable condition. Shortly after nine […]
Prime Minister Said Musa today visited the Toledo Village of San Vicente, site of recent controversy over the shooting deaths of three Guatemalans by Belizean security forces. Musa, accompanied by Chief of Staff Francis Fonseca and C.E.O. in the Ministry of Rural Development Roy Cayetano, met with villagers who have expressed concerns about their close […]
The Committee for Action on Public Utilities, CAPU, is advising B.T.L. customers to hold onto their December bills and not pay them until the last day in January. Their reasoning is that the controversy over B.T.L.’s new rate structure imposed on December first will supposedly be resolved by that time. This is in view of […]
We’re barely recovering from the Christmas and New Year holidays, but we thought that it’s never too early to look at the holiday schedule for the next twelve months. There are no days off until the long Baron Bliss weekend of March eleventh, which is quickly followed by Holy Week, beginning on Friday the twenty-ninth. […]
With the new year upon us, the Belize City Council is wasting no time in getting the old capital into shape. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting We’ve all heard the slogan, “Keep Belize Clean and Beautiful” but, a drive through many of our city neighbourhoods reveal we still have a long way to go. […]
The plague of injuries and death involving public buses that afflicted the nation’s highways over the last year has not abated in 2002. Tonight two students from Ladyville are lucky to be alive after they were trapped between a moving bus and the metal pedestrian railing at Belize City’s Western Highway roundabout. News 5’s Jacqueline […]
Belize’s New Year’s celebrations managed to conclude without any loss of life, but the revelry was not without a few close calls. In Orange Walk Town, an all night drinking session at a local hotel ended New Year’s morning with a fight between two bar patrons. Twenty-eight year old Rene Juarez of Chan Pine Ridge […]
It may have lacked the tension of a bar fight or the drama of a street brawl, but the crime committed against the staff and students of a Belize City pre-school over the holiday may be more demoralising. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It’s not the first time that The Catholic Diocesan Child Development Centre has been […]
Most experienced mothers will tell you that undergoing the final stages of pregnancy during the Christmas holidays is no easy task. About the only possible advantage, they say, is the notoriety of giving birth to the first Belizean of the New Year. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams caught up with the latest winners at K.H.M.H. Ann-Marie […]
In New Year’s sporting news, Barney Brown made a big sprint from the top of the Belcan Bridge to take home first place in the annual Krem/B.E.L. Cycling Classic. Following Brown across the finish line were Hugo Monterosa, Mateo Cruz, Andrew Smiling and Ariel Rosado. Top honours in the women’s division went to Anamarie Bennett, […]
They said that the new year was going to be a big one for cruise tourism…and today Belize City felt the first reality of that prediction as two ships simultaneously disgorged their passengers onto the docks of the Tourism Village. Ann-Marie took the opportunity to take a closer look at the ins and out of […]
