It’s not on the same scale as the pre-Christmas crime rush, but a trio of gunmen looking for some Easter cash struck last night in downtown Belize City. By the time they were finished, a bystander lay wounded and a suspect was in custody. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Most stores on King Street were still open […]
In addition to engaging in a shootout, law enforcement authorities were also out in force seeking to recover the ill gotten gains of a rogue’s gallery of robbers, burglars and other assorted thieves. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Police seized the assorted items following searches conducted in Belize City on Wednesday night. The computers, stereo equipment, tools […]
Police are investigating the death of a Roaring Creek man. Forty-four year old Charles Peter Gallego was declared dead on arrival at the Western Regional Hospital after his brother discovered him lying motionless in his bed around ten-forty-five Wednesday morning. Richard Gallego told police that he noticed what appeared to be bruises on Charles’s face. […]
She was Queen of the Bay in 1950 and tonight we regret to announce her death. Lita Fuller Lopez passed away suddenly on Tuesday in Miami, Florida. She was the widow of Lloyd Lopez of Dangriga and is survived by daughter Grace and son Dale, also of Miami, sister Doreen Humphreys and brother Alton Fuller. […]
On last night’s newscast we authoritatively reeled off the new lower fuel prices and reported that they would come into effect at midnight. And while the numbers were right, the timing was not. Although the tanker was scheduled to arrive Wednesday afternoon, it was apparently delayed in Honduras and it is not certain exactly when […]
On Wednesday, two Belizeans will join their musical colleagues from all over Central America for the North American debut of La Orquesta de la Papaya. The unique musical group will perform for five days at the prestigious New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Today, News 5’s Stewart Krohn got a preview of what to expect. […]
Belizeans planning to hit the road and the sea will have some extra beer money for the long holiday weekend, thanks to a timely reduction in the worldwide price of petroleum products. That drop, due largely to the winding down of the war in Iraq, has resulted in an across the board decrease in prices […]
The same factors bringing down gasoline prices are also responsible for reductions in the control price of butane. Those new rates per hundred pound cylinder, effective Thursday, are seventy dollars in Belize City, seventy-two in Belmopan, seventy-three in San Ignacio, seventy-four in Benque, sixty-nine in Orange Walk and Corozal, seventy in Dangriga and seventy-one in […]
The dry weather that invariably brings in Holy Week is also a time of increased danger from fire. As if the prospect of natural disaster was not bad enough, some city residents seem bent on giving Mother Nature a helping hand. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting This afternoon firemen were quick to respond to […]
It has disbursed over two million dollars in grants, largely to grass roots environmental groups in communities scattered across the country. Today, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust was at it again with a donation of eight motorcycles to six different recipients. At a luncheon today in Belize City those vehicles were handed over and Minister […]
And while we were talking to the Minister of Environment, we asked him if he had any message for those persons and groups who fought so hard against the Chalillo dam, now that the project is about to commence construction. Johnny Briceño, Min. of Nat. Resources/Environment “First of all, we certainly appreciate that they took […]
News stories on football usually involve controversy between the sport’s governing body and its most important league. But while the big boys have been feuding, the young ladies have been polishing their skills. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Last November women’s soccer made a come back after being dormant for some nine years. […]
Week three of KTV is now history and one more talented contestant will take a place in the semi-finals. Here’s how things went last night at Calypso. Neil Hall, KTV Host “And the winner is…contestant number five, Ms. Villanueva.” (Elizabeth sings “Nobody’s Suppose to be Here” by Deborah Cox) KTV airs live every Tuesday night […]
The combination of young men and tight shorts is just one of the reasons why the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic is the nation’s most popular sporting event. But behind the flash and dash, every year the event is steeped in controversy…and this year is no different. Henry Moreira, Sunflower Team “I look forward […]
The driver believed to have caused Sunday night’s traffic accident on the Northern Highway, which left two people dead, has been charged. According to police, thirty-two year old Gustavo Cardenas Junior of Orange Walk town will answer to two counts of manslaughter by negligence, two counts of causing death by careless conduct, negligent wounding, failure […]
And this afternoon, near the opposite end of the Northern Highway, another vehicle went out of control, although no one was seriously injured. Around three-thirty, thirty-six year old Rigoberto Valdez of Orange Walk drove his Toyota Hilux off the road near mile seven and a half where its forward motion was stopped by a tree. […]
A U.S. citizen of the Stann Creek District is in trouble tonight, accused of keeping a stash of unlicensed weapons and ammo that would be more at home in Baghdad than Hopkins Village. According to police, fifty-year old Hudson Martin was arrested on Saturday after a search of his home resulted in the discovery of […]
Justice in Belize is not often swift, but don’t tell that to a burglar in Corozal. At one-thirty Monday morning police responded to a report of a burglary in progress at St. Paul’s Anglican School. When they arrived they saw a set of bars hanging from a window and four missing louvers. On searching the […]
They can sometimes be annoying, especially if you’re in a hurry and traffic gets backed up…but the presence of police checkpoints on our major highways is a high profile reassurance that authorities are serious about law enforcement. Today, the private sector, in a small way, expressed its appreciation for the effort. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline […]
On Friday, newly appointed Minister of Finance, Ralph Fonseca, joined his Central American colleagues in Washington, D.C., where they met with U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. According to a Belize Government release, the meeting focussed on strategies for growth. In his address to the gathering, Fonseca appealed for understanding […]
It’s called the Technical Assistance for Capacity Building for Trade and Investment Promotion Project…but don’t let the long name fool you…there’s a very simple objective behind all that jargon. A joint venture between the Government of Belize, via BELTRAIDE and the Inter-American Development Bank, what this initiative aims to do is develop already established Belizean […]
It happened last Thursday afternoon in Ladyville, and while it is clear that a boy has been horribly injured, what is not so certain is how and why. Jacqueline Woods is just back with the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Eight-year-old Jose Luis Ortega received first and second degree burns to forty percent of his body […]
On Sunday the Belize Police Department lost a good cop, not in the line fire, but to the death trap our nation’s highways have become. Just before eight on Sunday night, twenty-six year old Lincoln Kellyman was driving his silver Isuzu pickup from Corozal towards Orange Walk town when between miles fifty-one and fifty-two he […]
Police have arrested and charged three young Belize City men for the brutal murder of Boledo vendor Reynaldo Smith. Nineteen year old Ricky Valencia of Queen Charlotte Street, twenty year old Emilio Rivera of Waight Street, and twenty-four year old Sean Robinson of Allan Pitts Crescent, will all appear in Magistrate’s Court later this week […]
A street side gambling session turned into a shooting spree in Belize City over the weekend, leaving two men charged with several crimes. According to police, twenty-four year old Jason Williams was hanging out with friends on Kraal Road when something triggered the young man to start hitting a parked car with his fists and […]
