The case appears to have been placed in the slow lane ever since fourteen-year-old David Zabaneh was killed by a gang of Ghurkhas in May of 2001. Today, Britain’s Daily Mirror tells us that after nearly two years of supposedly intense investigation the six soldiers accused of murder will be set free for lack of […]
The first reports raised fears that it was a tragedy on the magnitude of January’s fatal crash on the Western Highway. But fortunately, while the sight of the overturned bus looked bad, in the end even the worst injuries were relatively minor. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Novelos bus was carrying twenty-nine passengers […]
Two separate Belize City shootings late this morning have left two men hospitalised at the K.H.M.H. The first incident occurred just after 10:00. According to police, one Eldon Roland was involved in a misunderstanding with two unidentified men when one of them pulled out a gun and shot Roland in his groin. So far police […]
Lady luck smiled on another fortunate Belizean this week as Saturday’s Lotto draw has produced one more big winner. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand for the handing over. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-seven year old Elena Gongora is not certain if her political party will win tomorrow’s election, but today she is definitely feeling […]
On Wednesday, in addition to going to the polls, many Belizeans will be going to church to mark Ash Wednesday, the official start of the Lenten season. Even though politics has dominated the media for the past month, religious leaders insist the event will not been overshadowed. This morning we spoke to Anglican Bishop Sylvester […]
Belize’s youngest children were at it again today as the preschool unit competes with the political process for the nation’s attention. Today the focus was on those preschool age children who are on the outside looking in. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting None of the two hundred children gathered here attend preschool. And […]
There’s an old adage popular in the legal profession, which says that anyone who chooses to defend himself instead of hiring a lawyer has a fool for a client. Independent Albert candidate Sydney Fuller may be feeling a bit foolish tonight as one day after he filed his own constitutional motion to have Marilyn Williams […]
In a season of very busy people she has been among the busiest. Today, on election eve, Chief Elections Officer Myrtle Palacio took time out for a few last words to the nation’s voters. Myrtle Palacio, Chief Elections Officer “The voter is the most important person in our democracy. In our culture in Belize, we […]
There are few more important obligations of citizenship than voting on election day. It’s difficult to generalize about voter turnout in Belize because the voting lists are not regularly purged of those voters who have died or moved out of the country. Probably the most indicative numbers are those from the 1998 election, which was […]
And in a story that we were hoping we didn’t have to report, it appears that one candidate in Belize City just couldn’t resist playing the race card, even if he did wait until the last day of the campaign to do it. The billboards, entitled “The national pie: how it is divided up” purport […]
Over the weekend the campaigns of both the People’s United Party and United Democratic Party peaked as each held televised rallies in Belize City. The last two days before the elections are almost anticlimactic as the rival political organisations seek to fine tune the election day machinery that will ultimately decide the outcome of Wednesday’s […]
For the U.D.P.’s Dean Barrow, Said Musa and his colleagues do not deserve a second chance. Dean Barrow, Party Leader, U.D.P. “Given all that has happened over the last four and a half years, there really is a need for a change and that the United Democratic Party does possess the determination and the ability […]
The P.U.P. said it wasn’t going to bother and the U.D.P. dared them to try. Well today both parties could only watch as independent Albert Division candidate Sydney Fuller quietly filed a motion in the Supreme Court to have his U.D.P. opponent, Marilyn Williams be declared ineligible to run for a seat in the House […]
Police are tonight asking the public to help solve a mystery. That is the identity of a corpse found on Sunday night near mile thirty-eight on the Northern Highway. The badly decomposed body is that of a man approximately five foot, three inches tall with medium build and wearing black pants and a black shirt. […]
Tonight, a twelve-year-old primary school student lies unconscious in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after she was knocked off her bicycle on Saturday afternoon. According to police, around noon that day Melanie Conorquie was riding her bike along the Western Highway near Lord Ridge Cemetery when she was hit by a truck. Authorities say driver […]
In 2002, four hundred and thirty-one people living in Belize tested positive for HIV, but authorities suspect there could be thousands more, totally unaware of their status. To encourage Belizeans to get tested, this morning the Ministry of Health officially opened the first voluntary counselling and testing centre located on the Cleopatra White compound on […]
To those who can remember when the law enforcement vehicle of choice was a bicycle, the purchase of one hundred new cars and trucks for the Police Department is something out of science fiction. But seeing is believing and today the cops took the opportunity to show off their new transport. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This […]
For many Belizeans, it is their first contact with formal education. All the more reason then that preschool education needs to get off on the right foot. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods took to the streets this morning where Belize City’s pre-schoolers were on the move. Dativa Martinez, Coordinator, Preschool Parade “It seem to me that […]
When we last visited Hunting Caye in October of last year we noticed that while this queen of Sapodilla range was still a radiant beauty, her crown had grown a bit tarnished. Over the weekend steps were taken to restore the shine as one hundred and fifty coconut trees were planted to replace those that […]
When you add up all the candidates for Wednesday’s general and municipal elections, the total numbers over two hundred aspirants for public office. But while most of those politicians may have spent the weekend campaigning, as far as we know, there was only one man really running. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On Sunday […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we’re glad you could join us for this fresh package of Sports Monday. Sagitun of Independence has claimed the semi-pro football title, so we now turn out attention to the Harrison Parks Cricket Competition, which has been heating up inside the Belize Rural. We’re four weeks into the season […]
