In these strange pressure filled times it is increasingly difficult to tell where politics ends and the law begins. Today we are once again reminded of that tendency as another decision with strong political implications has been rendered in the civil suit of the Social Security Board versus V.H. Courtenay. Viewers will recall that last […]
Residents of the southern districts have experienced some bad luck this week. On Thursday evening in the village of San Juan in the Stann Creek District a twenty-one year old Guatemalan died as the result of a freak accident. Rafael Santos Juarez was reportedly riding his bicycle through the village when he lost control and […]
Around the same time as Juarez crashed in San Juan, a fire was destroying a building and generator at the big mango farm near Monkey River. The General Manager of Tropical Produce Company Laila Mehlum told police that she saw smoke coming from the twenty five by twenty five foot shed housing the farm’s light […]
In crime news, police in Belize City have nabbed two young men on robbery charges, resulting from separate incidents. Twenty year old Jason Flowers was arrested and charged on Thursday for the robbery of a Chinese shop on Oleander Street. The proprietor, Shu Wo Hui, told police that shortly after eleven o’clock on Tuesday morning, […]
Considering that it just announced a record thirty eight million dollars in profit, no one could argue that it wasn’t time for B.T.L. to show a little generosity. This morning News Five’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand as the company introduced one very lucky customer. It’s probably the best wedding gift that Deborah Moe could […]
While luck is a wonderful thing to have on your side, the two subjects of our next story are depending more on their skill as politicians. In tonight’s continuing series on “Elections ’98” we hear from Cayo Central’s Eduardo “Dito” Juan and Dan Silva. Eduardo Juan, U.D.P., Cayo Central “Well the campaign issues in Cayo […]
While politicians argue exactly how good or how bad things are in Belize, other segments of society are taking a more analytical approach, in the hope that solutions are best achieved after first ascertaining the facts. Today one such group unveiled a study that seeks to measure just how we’re doing as a nation of […]
With political wars raging all around us, News Five commentator G. Michael Reid has tonight chosen to elaborate on a battle fought not with words, TV commercials and blue notes but with real weapons like muskets, cannon and — you guessed it — pok-n-o-boy sticks. “Though I aspire to never belabor a point, my last […]
