Another day, more bloodshed…as on Saturday night, several Belize City residents would find themselves trapped in the middle of a shootout. According to police, around nine p.m. two young men, each armed with a sawed off shotgun met up with one of their enemies. A hail of gunfire ensued and when it was over, three […]
Another Belize City man is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds, this time to his backside. According to police, Kevin Young and another man were standing on East Canal when an armed man approached them and started shooting. Young was hit twice and has been admitted to the K.H.M.H. in a stable condition. Police retrieved eight […]
A businessman attacked during an armed robbery last week has succumbed to his injuries. According to police, Presentacion Chavez, the owner of a bar in the village of Spanish Lookout, was shot in the stomach by four armed and masked men on Thursday night. Chavez was admitted to ward at the Loma Luz hospital with […]
A traffic accident in the Corozal District has claimed the life of a security guard. According to police, just after midnight on Sunday, Julio Catch was riding his bicycle through Xaibe Village when he was knocked down from behind. Motorists travelling on the highway transported Catch to the K.H.M.H. where he later died. Another driver […]
Everyday in Belize City, the echo of gunshots rings through the air; sometimes the bullets miss their targets, but most times they don’t. It is a situation we have been forced to accept as reality because the simple fact is that there are too many guns on our streets. Cognisant of the alarming situation, the […]
While the police are charged with the duty of bringing criminals to justice, it is also clear that the rest of us need to provide the Belizean children with alternatives to violence and crime. One of those initiatives is called “Youth for the Future”. Over the weekend, co-ordinator of the project, Nuri Muhammad was the […]
The report card on the National Health Insurance scheme is out and apparently, the plan has passed with flying colours. The results are part of independent surveys conducted by SPEAR and the University of Belize at various stages of the pilot project. The performance of the scheme was judged in five main areas: equity and […]
James Adderley Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome aboard this ride on Sports Monday. The long awaited and much anticipated Capital Life basketball playoffs got underway Friday night at the City Centre, as the number one seed, San Cas U.B., played host to the number four seed, Kaus of Corozal. There’s a lot riding […]
It’s the place where the business of Belize’s lawmaking gets done and our duly elected representatives can shift from statesmanship to gutter politics quicker than you can say “Madam Speaker”. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports from Independence Hill on today’s spirited session of the House of Representatives. Janelle Chanona, Reporting During this morning’s sitting of […]
It is not a new story–in fact the subject is all too common–but that doesn’t make incidents of police brutality any less disturbing. Jacqueline Woods reports on allegations of one Belize City family. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-two year old Philip Castillo, a mason with the Belize City Council, is at home recovering from injuries the […]
The Shell One Stop Gas Station at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard has once again been robbed. On Thursday morning around 11:00, two men approached a pump attendant, and asked him to change a twenty. When the attendant pulled out the cash one man grabbed all his money, amounting to a […]
The victim of a shooting in the Cayo District was not so fortunate. Presentacion Chavez, proprietor of a bar in Duck Run Village near Spanish Lookout, was shot in the stomach during the course of a robbery committed by four men on Thursday night. The robbers stole an undetermined amount of money from the bar […]
In Belize and most any part of the developing world there is no shortage of academically trained consultants, all too ready to advise budding entrepreneurs on how to spend their hard-earned money. But it’s a rare day when one of those consultants puts his own cash on the line and joins the rest of the […]
The public’s desire to see a murderer swing from the gallows received a boost yesterday when Opposition Leader Dean Barrow publicly challenged the Prime Minister to abolish the criminal jurisdiction of the Privy Council. This would take the form of a constitutional amendment to make the Belize Court of Appeal the court of last resort […]
While the Prime Minister could be credited with taking a principled stand on the issue of the constitution and capital punishment, he will find it more difficult to deal with charges levelled today by Mr. Barrow’s newspaper, “The Guardian”. Claiming to have irrefutable evidence of scandal in the Immigration Department, the newspaper laid out a […]
Yet another Belize City security guard has had his gun stolen while on the job. According to police, Jeffrey Olivera, a K.B.H. security guard, was working at the B.E.L. compound on the Northern Highway. Olivera says he was patrolling the yard just before 5:00 on Wednesday morning when two men walked unto the property armed […]
On Friday evening, this year’s BelPro ConEx gets underway inside the King’s Room at the Princess Hotel. The three-day event is held to promote products made in Belize, and the 2002 version promises to be bigger, better and full of good deals for the public. According to organiser Lourdes Smith, President of the Belize Business […]
He’s not the first musician to turn from the secular to the saintly, but few have made the transition as sweetly as the singer who arrived in Belize this afternoon. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting In 1997, he was voted the number one performer at Jamaica’s Reggae Sunfest. Today, Cleve “Stitchie” Laing still sings Reggae, but the […]
Since school closed a few weeks ago, we’ve looked at a wide variety of summer camps for children. Today we visited a group of young men whose camp lasted a lot longer than the summer. Ann-Marie reports. Cordel Hyde, Min. of Education “Making the right choices also involves taking responsibility for your actions. We can’t […]
The drama of semi-pro basketball’s regular season concluded last night with a team from Corozal clawing its way into the finals. News 5’s Janelle Chanona combined business with pleasure to file this report from courtside. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Despite being a Wednesday night game, the City Centre was packed as basketball fans came out in […]
Another Belize City security guard has been murdered, and while the latest killing appears to have a different motive than most, it does little to change the reality of what has become the nation’s most dangerous line of work. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-year-old security officer Emilio Miller had just reported to duty […]
A company in the Corozal Free Zone is in big trouble tonight, accused of trying to smuggle a container of duty free goods out of the zone and into the rest of Belize where customs duties are a fact of life. According to a release from the Customs Department, Ejosmirga Limited, and a company truck […]
Members of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry were briefed last night on the current state of the facilitation process to settle the Guatemalan claim to Belize. Although Foreign Minister Assad Shoman was a no-show due to an urgent meeting in Mexico, negotiating team members Eamon Courtenay and Fred Martinez handled matters in his […]
Opposition Leader Dean Barrow has come out strongly for a return to capital punishment and has suggested a constitutional amendment to grease the wheels of justice. In a public letter to Prime Minister Said Musa, Barrow asked the government to prepare a constitutional amendment that would eliminate the Privy Council as the court of last […]
Proceedings in the case of BACONGO versus the Government of Belize and BECOL continued in the Supreme Court today. This afternoon, Lois Young Barrow, one of the plaintiff’s attorneys, presented her summation before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. Young-Barrow argued that breeches, both factual and procedural, concerning the environmental impact assessment done on the Chalillo Hydro […]
