As I speak hope appears to be fading in the search for any survivors in a plane crash that was first reported to our newsroom only twenty five minutes ago. Air traffic controllers at Philip Goldson International have just told News Five that a foreign registered twin engine Beechcraft fifty-eight with four people aboard took […]
It’s a slow news day so we’re forced to lead tonight’s broadcast with the type of story that, mercifully, only seems to pop up during election campaigns. Appearing this morning on radio station FM Two Thousand’s “Breakfast Show,” U.D.P. Mesopotamia representative Michael Finnegan showed why he has been properly placed as Minister of Mobilization. While […]
Three Caye Caulker fishermen set out on a fishing trip to Turneffe three days ago, but what they hauled in was not what they expected. It was big, blue and had two three hundred fifty horse power diesel engines. According to B.D.F. Maritime Wing officials, they suspect that the boat, which was towed into Belize […]
Since their arrival in Belize in the fifties, the Mennonites have over the years kept a low profile. But in the last couple of months, they’ve exploded onto the news scene in dramatic fashion, being implicated in everything from drug busts to phony gun licenses. Today’s news, however, is more tragic. Orange Walk police say […]
Members of the press are speaking out in protest over what they perceive to be ill treatment by the organizers of the upcoming prime ministerial debate. At an organizational meeting held Tuesday night journalists seeking to rekindle a press association took issue with statements allegedly made by SPEAR and the Chamber of Commerce to the […]
She carries a name which is synonymous with music in Belize, but it was not her name which earned Natasha Young a place in one of the world’s finest music schools; it was her talent. Arreini Palacio reports. Natasha Young, Musician “you can really like put your soul and mind to it and express yourself […]
While a story earlier in this newscast may indicate otherwise, there is much more going on in Belizean waters than the transshipment of drugs. Tonight, in the second part of our story on the conservation of marine resources, we’ll see what steps fishermen are taking to insure the survival of their industry. Alan Burn, Chairman, […]
