A holiday weekend excursion to Bacalar, Mexico has ended in horror for a number of Orange Walk residents. According to Corozal police, shortly after six Monday evening, a small yellow bus, belonging to Chells Bus Company of Corozal, was returning from the Chetumal border to Orange Walk Town. Traveling at the same time, in the […]
A freak accident has left one man dead and two injured in Belize City. On Saturday afternoon Antonio Estrada, Douglas Gabourel and John Myvette were together on Coney Drive preparing a sailboat for launching. Apparently while lifting the sail its boom or mast made contact with the B.E.L. high tension lines overhead. All three men […]
In the Orange Walk District the lure of the dam on the Rio Bravo proved fatal for a young fisherman. On Monday afternoon twelve year old Eltezar Magana of Orange Walk Town was fishing at the dam, which is part of the Mennonite’s hydroelectric system at Blue Creek, when, according to a friend, he suddenly […]
The weekend’s string of tragedies continued on Monday when Belizeans were shaken from their holiday mood by news of a plane crash off the coast of Belize City. Fortunately, however, the only casualty in the accident, was mechanical. Twenty four hours after it crashed into the choppy waters off Hicks Caye, a part of the […]
First it was low world prices, then a labor dispute. Now there’s more bad news for Belize’s beleaguered citrus industry. The Agriculture Ministry has announced the detection of Mediterranean fruit flies at two locations in Southern Belize: Mile 2 1/2 on the Hummingbird Highway and Mango Creek near the Southern Highway. Government, with the cooperation […]
While agriculture officials are keeping an anxious eye on imports of Central American fruit, tomorrow we will be hosting a visitor from the South who should receive a friendlier welcome. Costa Rican President elect, Dr. Miguel Angel Rodriguez, will be visiting Belize for a one day courtesy call prior to his inauguration. He will hold […]
It was the first of its kind and rarely in Belize has an inaugural event caught on with such a bang. On Friday News Five’s Patrick Jones was on hand for the start of La Ruta Maya River Challenge…and on Monday he caught the finish. Menno Penner, Canoeist “Now I know why this race named […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this offering of Sports Monday. The 1998 B.F.L. Championship series moved to the People’s Stadium for game 2 after the defending champion Juventus had taken the opening match with a 2-zip score over Acros last Sunday at the M.C.C. Grounds. So we tied to Orange Walk and […]
