It was not a story we covered on Channel Five but it was an interesting piece of news nonetheless. Carlos Seguro, a prisoner who was three years into a five year sentence at Hattieville Prison, was pardoned by the Belize Advisory Council at the request of prison authorities. The reason was that he had AIDS […]
It’s the kind of thing that when it happens in isolation it’s not particularly big news. But the destruction of two vehicles by fire in Belize City early Saturday morning looked to be more than just coincidence. Twenty two year old businessman Jose Matus was the first to report his gray four door Chevrolet car […]
When accused murderer Frank Castro entered the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital last month, it was on a stretcher. When he left this afternoon, he was in an upright position and waiting anxiously for him at the hospital doors, were the police who wasted no time in slapping on a pair of handcuffs and dragging him […]
The Valentine’s weekend was not a romantic one on our nation’s highways. On Saturday, seventy one year old Justin Flores was knocked down as he walked up the Stann Creek Valley Road just outside of Dangriga. Twenty eight year old Eloy Martinez, a Honduran resident of the town, was behind the wheel of the van […]
A day later, it was much the same story in Corozal. Police found the lifeless body of fifty eight year old fruit vendor Pedro Gomez lying on the side of the Northern Highway in Calcutta Village. He had been knocked down that evening while riding his bicycle by a vehicle driven by twenty three year […]
He has worked on the front lines of conservation for over a decade… and tonight he is receiving some well deserved recognition. At a ceremony just underway at the Marine Terminal in Belize City, Ernesto Saqui of Maya Centre Village is receiving the Audubon Society’s highest honor, the James Waight Award. Saqui was manager of […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and welcome to this hefty portion of Sports Monday. The Third Annual Shell Valentine Cycle Classic took center stage yesterday as some fifty riders took off around 9:10 am from San Ignacio. Of course the starting line is always a spectacle of colors and here is cycling official Melvin Torres […]
