Another Belize City robbery, this time on Neal Pen Road, has netted a robber four hundred dollars. Around 10:30 Wednesday night twenty-six year old Xu Zhao Hua was closing his shop when he heard a knock on the window. When he opened it, he found himself staring into the business end of a sawed off […]
He was shot in a bicycle drive-by a week ago…and last night he lost the battle for his life. Nineteen-year-old Eurdene Sterling was one of two young men targeted while standing on Sarstoon Street in Belize City on the afternoon of March fourteenth. Police are still looking for the gunmen, one of whom is believed […]
We have a correction to a story we ran last night on what was described to us as an unsuccessful bank robbery. In fact, the thief who entered the Bank of Nova Scotia in Corozal Wednesday morning, was not as hapless as we made him out to be. The real story is that after handing […]
AIDS: it’s a story that’s been with us since 1986 and shows no signs of moving off the front page. Today, those leading the charge against the deadly disease took their campaign to the city. Jacqueline Woods was there. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Last April the National AIDS Commission embarked on a nationwide consultation to establish […]
In a country of many cultures, you’d think that our children would just automatically get to know how Belizeans from different ethnic groups live their lives. Maybe, but one Belize City pre-school is not taking any chances. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The one hundred and seven children of Lloyd Coffin Pre-school in the Lake Independence area […]
Crime and criminals come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from gunmen in sagging shorts to con men in suits and ties. But while we have become accustomed to stolen cash, stolen jewelry, and even stolen cars, there are thieves in Belize’s rural areas who have set their sights much higher… specialising in the crime […]
For a country supposedly in the grip of a major crime wave, things have been unusually quiet for the last week or so. Typical of the downturn in criminal fortunes was an attempt this morning to rob the Corozal branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia. According to police reports, around 9:45 this morning a […]
The promise of an educational infrastructure for the digital age came one step closer to reality today. And although my notebook was an old-fashioned pad of paper, the story still managed to get covered. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon Gwen Lizarraga High School in Belize City became the first secondary institution in the country to […]
Despite a mass public protest staged by the business community and the increased presence of security forces on the streets, it is clear that solving the problem of crime will take a long-term commitment. With this in mind, the Belize Council of Churches has organised a two-day event to highlight the need for replacing poverty […]
In a time when ethnic lines around the world are becoming increasingly blurred, the University of Belize has found it timely to discuss identity in the context of Belize’s multi-cultural society. “Black and So What: the Relevance of Racial and Cultural Identity” is the focus of a public forum on Thursday evening at the Holy […]
There’s more to university life than academics…and if you don’t believe me, you can ask the six young ladies vying for the title of Miss U.B. Ann-Marie has a preview. Contestant #1 “Hi, my name is Shakira Bennett and I’m Miss Perseverance.” Contestant #2 “Hi, my name is Karen Requena and I am Miss Unique.” […]
Week five of Karaoke Television played out last night before a standing room only crowd at Club Calypso. In the end the three judges were in agreement with the sentiment of the crowd. William Neal, Host, KTV “The winner for tonight all the way from the Sugar City…is Dale Turner.” (Dale sings “Say You, Say […]
Most of our coverage of the Belize Zoo over the last few years has revolved around its political activities, namely criticism of a proposed sanitary landfill and opposition to the Chalillo Dam. But for today, at least, the zoo got back to basics: its annual science fair. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The students did not have […]
Not surprisingly, we open tonight’s newscast with a story on crime. But the crime we are reporting did not occur last night or this morning. It happened in March of 1999, one of five murders of young Belize City girls, all believed to have been committed by the same person or persons. At the time, […]
Whether the cause is famine, hurricane, earthquake, economics, or just plain “head tek”, people are on the move as never before…and Belize is no exception. How those moving masses are dealt with was the subject of a seminar today at the Radisson. Ann-Marie reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting With the 2000 population census reporting thirty-two thousand […]
The event has become something of a tradition and each year the music seems to get better and better. Jacqueline Woods walked up Regent Street to House of Culture and discovered the sound of jazz floating across the Foreshore. Jason Guerrero, Musical Director, House of Culture “These students are fed from various programmes within the […]
They produce an important stream of data that, combined with satellite imagery and ground based radar, can pinpoint the location of a hurricane, and help provide a better forecast of where it will go. Today, I got the opportunity to meet the plane and crew who instead of fleeing from hurricanes…fly into them. Janelle Chanona, […]
It was your average weekend on the Belizean crime beat: armed robberies at a Belize City gas station and Chinese grocery, a shooting in Crooked Tree, weed bust in Cayo, and fatal hit and run in Orange Walk…all capped by a bank robbery this morning in Belmopan. But we’ll lead tonight’s news, not with our […]
In crime news, a Belize City man was wounded Friday night after he was shot by an angry landlord. Forty-year-old Thomas Bowman accompanied his daughter to recover a rent deposit from her former landlord, Manuel Pacheco. An argument ensued during which Pacheco shot Bowman with a thirty-eight pistol. Pacheco has been arrested and charged with […]
Another Chinese owned shop has been robbed, despite the presence of a security guard. According to police reports, two Hispanic men entered the establishment of forty-six year old Yun Lan Tang on Vasquez Avenue on Saturday night. One of the men pulled out a knife and somehow managed to relieve the guard of his pump […]
A daring break-in at a Belmopan bank early this morning has netted one thief only chump change. According to police, at approximately 4:00 a.m. a man threw something against one of the windows of the Belize Bank branch, breaking the glass. The man entered the building and walked right into the eye of the bank’s […]
A man from Willows Bank has been arrested in connection with a hit and run fatality on the Northern Highway. On Friday night police discovered the severely injured body of thirty-five year old Thomas Rhaburn off the side of the road near mile fifty, along with his crashed motorcycle. About a mile and a half […]
The Commission of Inquiry charged to investigate the shooting deaths of three Guatemalans took a break this afternoon, but not before a key witness gave testimony that directly contradicted a statement made by another witness last week. The lone police officer who made up the nine-member patrol listened carefully as Commission Chairman Herbert Lord read […]
Doctors agree that when it comes to our health, prevention is the best medicine. That’s one reason why students at a city high school are trying to stop drug abuse before it takes hold of their lives. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This morning, the students of Excelsior High School took to the streets, eagerly celebrating the […]
It was a murder suicide that shattered a peaceful village and shocked a nation. But the damage which remains in the wake of last week’s bloodbath on the Western Highway, goes beyond a family’s grief. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today, fourteen-year-old Daisy Figueroa is recuperating at Belize Medical Associates in Belize […]
