And while the Foreign Affairs Minister was upbeat about the new book, there was no getting around the fact that Belize is mired in a foreign affair that has a federal judge in Miami lashing us mercilessly to the tune of fifty thousand U.S. dollars per day. According to Smith, G.O.B. is not happy with […]
Since the violence and destruction of April twentieth in the commercial capital, the silence from the student body governments of the University of Belize and Saint John’s College Junior College has been deafening. But this afternoon, U.B. and S.J.C.J.C. called a joint press conference in Belize City to “clear their name.” While admitting to leading […]
It’s a good thing that a twenty-one year old Belize City woman decided to call the police instead of walking into her house after noticing something amiss with her front door. The woman, a B.D.F. soldier, had just returned from work around four this morning when she made the discovery. Police arrived shortly after her […]
If the following story doesn’t make you lock your door, then I don’t know what will. Police report that around four Tuesday afternoon a thirteen-year-old student of Kraal Road was confronted by a man standing inside her house wearing not so much as a stitch of clothing. The teenager told police that she was watching […]
The situation is reminiscent of those classic cartoons starring the Roadrunner and his arch enemy Wiley Coyote. You’ll recall that every time Wiley thinks he’s got things under control and is about to capture Roadrunner, something goes wrong and he finds himself about to be blown up, propelled over a cliff, or slammed into the […]
For the first time in two weeks, things were back to normal at the Esquivel Telecom Centre on St. Thomas Street as employees who claimed they had been locked out, returned to their workstations. It is not clear under what arrangement the B.T.L. workers were allowed back into the company, as suspicion lingers over how […]
Things are not getting any better at Belize Electricity Limited, as another act of sabotage over the weekend has set back the company’s plans for a return to business as usual. According to a B.E.L. release, at about four-thirty Saturday afternoon a B.D.F. air patrol reported utility poles on fire in an area near San […]
An old beef. That’s the familiar motive for the nation’s most recent homicide. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from Lord’s bank Village. Khadijah Castillo, Sister of the Deceased ?I wouldn?t want to wish bad for the family. I no have no problem with the family, because I would never, ever want that. Nobody else have […]
Tonight two families from the Cayo district are mourning the loss of loved ones after separate drowning incidents along the Belize River. According to thirty-year-old Irma Messa, on Friday, she took her children to an area near Santa Elena Town called “Trapich” where they could swim while she did laundry. However, Messa says that around […]
A freak accident in the Stann Creek district has left one man dead and investigating officers scratching their heads. According to police, around nine on Saturday night, nineteen-year-old Hipolito Gonzalez was riding his bicycle on the Stann Creek Valley Road when he crashed into a pedestrian near mile thirteen. One eyewitness told police that he […]
In more news from the crime beat, police have arrested and charged a Belize City resident in connection with a shooting incident last week. According to the cops, twenty-two year old Brian Herrera of George Street stands accused of attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, and dangerous harm. It is alleged that Herrera […]
A Saturday morning robbery attempt has left one perpetrator recovering from gunshot wounds. According to the authorities, a Ladyville businessman of Marage Road was manning his counter on Saturday morning when two would be thieves burst in and tried to get into the money drawer. But the shopkeeper took out his licensed nine-millimetre handgun and […]
Today marks the seventh anniversary of one of the most audacious crimes ever committed on Belizean soil. On May second 1998, more than two hundred men women and children were held hostage for several hours just outside the capital city of Belmopan on the Hummingbird Highway and robbed of their jewellery, cash and sense of […]
For the past week, hundreds of customers along the Northern Highway have endured less than clean water, the result, it turns out, of busted pipes. News Five understands that approximately eight hundred consumers in the Belama and Buttonwood Bay neighbourhoods have had to live with brown “gunky” water. Tonight, public relations officer Haydon Brown of […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this week?s serving of Sports Monday. We take you immediately out to the City Centre where the WIN-Belize female basketball competition was in full effect Friday night as league-leading Maria Chance Eagles took on archrival, Sparks. Enid Dakers finds herself at the right time at the right place to […]
And just before we go, we have one final play to show you, coming out of the just concluded Central American Juvenile Female Softball Championships. This was a bittersweet effort turned in by two of the outfielders for the Belizean team. On a ball hit to left-centre-field, centre-fielder Kaina Martinez and left-fielder Nikita Young both […]
