While we’re on the subject of early elections, the Office of the Prime Minister has reacted to yesterday’s news story on the suspicious timing of next week’s budget speech. In a press release today, sent with the stated intention of assisting the media with their research, we are given the dates of the last fourteen […]
Over the last several newscasts we’ve heard from numerous politicians on the subject of an early election. Both parties say they are ready, and not surprisingly, each is certain of victory. But what do the voters think of going to the polls in February or March instead of August? Today News 5’s Marion Ali hit […]
A woman involved in a traffic accident on New Year’s Day has succumbed to her injuries. Fifty-six year old Ging Mei Lin Chan died of severe head injuries at Universal Health Services on Wednesday. Police reports are that Chan was a passenger in a Toyota Hilux pick-up heading towards Belize City when a head-on collision […]
Meanwhile, another collision, this time between a tractor and a Nissan pick-up has left the driver of the pick-up hospitalised at Belize Medical Associates in Belize City. Forty-two year old Carlos Reyes was reportedly driving towards home in Corozal Town around seven-thirty on Wednesday night when the incident occurred between miles sixty-four and sixty-five on […]
Belize City police are looking for one suspect whom they believe will lead them to four others following a robbery early Wednesday morning. Rachel Hawar of 7486 Faber’s Road told police she woke up when she heard a noise in her house around three o’clock on Wednesday morning. Hawar said when she went to the […]
You haven’t seen him on Channel 5 for almost a year…but tonight Minister of Housing and veteran talkshow host, Dickie Bradley, makes his return to the screen. This time the show is called “Dickie Live” and its producer is the People’s United Party. While the hour long programme will have its share of partisan chitchat, […]
It is the focal point of the most formidable marketing machine in Belize–not to mention dozens of other countries around the world. Every year Courts, the nation’s leading furniture and electronics retailer, runs a promotion that climaxes with one of its customers taking home a prize with a value on par with a medium size […]
In yesterday’s newscast we examined the pros and cons of government calling an early election. Today, an announcement from Cabinet offered a strong indication that the Prime Minister has made his decision…and it looks like that the vote will come soon, perhaps as early as February. The seemingly innocuous announcement from the Prime Minister’s Office […]
This afternoon I had the opportunity to speak to one man who deals with the art and science of electoral politics twenty-four seven. Francis Fonseca, Secretary Gen., PUP “We’re working, we’re working, that’s the big difference between us and the UDP. We work, and we work hard everyday.” Enter Francis Fonseca, P.U.P. candidate for Freetown…PUP […]
The demand for education in Belize appears to be insatiable, and today ground was broken at one proud Belize City institution that, after a three decade hiatus, finally found its sixth form mojo. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting These students found the midday sun a worthwhile sacrifice as they witnessed the groundbreaking […]
The sun was also beating down on students who lined up to register in U.B.’s Business Administration programme at the West Landivar campus. The scholars, some of whom had been waiting since seven a.m. to secure a favourable spot, had to wait a little longer this semester because of an added feature. Enid Oshon, Registrar, […]
The long line at U.B. this morning was just one of several gripes expressed by students. But in the eyes of Minister of Education Cordel Hyde, they are the not unexpected problems of a young institution. Hyde is confident that the university will work out such glitches as it matures. Cordel Hyde, Minister of Education […]
Tonight the prime suspect in a string of home burglaries in the Cayo District is behind bars. According to San Ignacio police, thirty-eight year old Rodman Herbert has been terrorizing residents on the Western Highway between Floral Park and Esperanza Village. On News Year’s eve, according to authorities, Herbert was a particularly busy man…breaking into […]
Attention butcher shops everywhere…there’s a herd of cattle missing from the Cayo District, and some of it may very well turn up at your door. According to police, between January first and seventh, approximately seventy-seven head of cattle disappeared from the Negroman Farm, located off the Western Highway between San Ignacio and Benque Viejo. With […]
With demand for electricity up, Mexican power supplies tight, and the dry season just around the corner, Belize Electricity Limited is taking no chances. Today it announced that it will rent six diesel generators capable of producing an additional ten megawatts of power over the next five months. B.E.L.’s Derek Davis explains that the extra […]
Dealing with the AIDS crisis takes place on many levels. While major efforts focus on education for prevention, steps are also being taken to improve the effectiveness of treatment. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods sat in on one session this morning that trained lab technicians on a new device that will prolong Belizean lives. Jacqueline Woods, […]
She may not be up to blowing out a hundred candles…but hey, how many of us are? And while we missed the big party in the holiday rush, today Jacqueline Woods joined a proud family to wish one of the nation’s oldest citizens a very happy belated birthday. Mirian Austin, Daughter “She believes in God […]
Depending on which side of the political fence you’re on, the last four years and four months have either flown by or moved painfully slowly. And while according to law, the next general election is not absolutely due until around the end of November–approximately five years and three months from the last election–word on the […]
We’ll never know if the seriously ill patient brought to the emergency room at the K.H.M.H. early Sunday morning would have survived if his reception had been different. But whatever the answer, no one could say that he didn’t deserve the chance. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on the latest disturbing controversy at the nation’s […]
Illegal fishing is back in the news tonight as police on Monday evening intercepted a twenty-five foot skiff with four Mexicans aboard who are suspected of illegally catching conch in Belizean waters. The boat was intercepted near Bacalar Chico at the northern end of Ambergris Caye and contained ten sacks of cleaned conch weighing around […]
A team of medical experts will be arriving this weekend to perform reconstructive surgery on those Belizean children who are in need of such treatment. The ten member group, working through Belize’s Friends of Paediatrics, Ministry of Health and the International Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Virginia, will be working all next week at the Southern […]
Visitors to Belize, whether they arrive by plane, car, bus or cruise ship, number in the hundreds of thousands each year. While most leave with pleasant memories, very few have the talent to record those memories with the tools of an artist. Today I was given a glimpse of some very precious snapshots made with […]
Belize is not an unusual stop for members of that growing fraternity of people bent on circling the globe–whether by car, plane, boat, bike or foot. But every one of these individually driven travellers has a different story to tell…and today News 5’s Marion Ali sat down to hear one more. Marion Ali, Reporting For […]
Traditional political wisdom in Belize holds that the chances of success for any third party or independent candidate are somewhere between slim and none…and slim just left town. But despite the hard lessons of history, there has never been a shortage of brave men and women ready to beat the odds. Today I sat down […]
Five men are behind bars tonight after they were charged in connection with an attempted robbery that occurred last Thursday. Calbert Carcamo and Vitalino Galiano, both age twenty, were formally charged with the attempt, along with thirty-two year old Carl Westby and forty-four year old Liborio Tun after they allegedly tried to rob thirty-five year […]
