If history is any indication, third parties in Belizean politics are about as welcome as a case of pink eye. But that hasn’t stopped prospective candidates in the past and likely won’t deter them in the future. As for the present, the People’s Democratic Party invited the press to see what it has to offer […]
This weekend the Western Highway continued to uphold its reputation for traffic fatalities as a hit and run has left one man dead. Forty five year old Lincoln Hyde of Cotton Tree Village was pronounced dead on arrival at San Ignacio Hospital after he was knocked down sometime after midnight on Saturday morning near mile […]
An apparent suicide has taken the life of a watchman at Long Caye. On Saturday morning a fisherman and his son arrived at the thinly populated island, located between St. George’s and Caye Chapel, where they discovered the body of forty one year old Frank Young. It was hanging with a rope around the neck […]
A third case of cholera has been reported in the Cayo District. According to Luis Godoy, the Public Health Officer for the Cayo District, on Saturday a thirty-three year old woman from Succotz Village was confirmed with the disease. The latest incident follows the first cholera case, which was reported last week Thursday, after a […]
Not content to merely hang out a shingle and wait for customers, a number of Belize’s furniture manufacturers teamed up this weekend to show off their creations. The air at the Fiesta Inn was thick with the smell of sawdust and varnish… and News Five’s Patrick Jones was one of many on hand to take […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this CARICOM serving of Sports Monday. The fourteenth CARICOM Basketball Championships gets off at the City Centre on Friday night June nineteenth with six Caribbean nations participating. Here at the sports desk we felt there were a number of questions that needed answered before opening night so […]
