This evening the mood at the Coca Cola Factory in Ladyville was somber, as one of the company’s longtime drivers was killed and a co-worker wounded during a holdup on the Old Northern Highway. While reports are sketchy at this time, it is reported that driver Anthony Felix and his sideman, twenty-two year old Allan […]
In other crime news police have arrested a suspect in the chopping death of an Orange Walk man on Saturday night. Thirty-two year old Guatemalan Rene Trochez has been charged for the crimes of murder and conspiracy to murder. Two other suspects are still being sought by police although reports into News Five late this […]
In other news from the north, the pool of detainees continues to increase as Corozal police have detained seven more people for questioning in connection with Friday’s hold-up of a travel agency. According to police, three people stole a car from the farm of Jesus Sosa on the Consejo Road, and used the vehicle to […]
He fought as vigorously as he could, taking his case as far as the Court of Appeals but in the end U.S. citizen Tommy Edward Crutchfield lost the battle and today found himself winging his way back to Miami. According to a release from the Solicitor General’s Office, Crutchfield was deported from Belize this afternoon […]
Things got a little bit out of hand on Wednesday evening in the often volatile world of politics. I had just finished presenting the evening newscast when I discovered that my day was not quite over. Things were quiet today on Central American Boulevard after Wednesday evening’s near riot between party supporters of Faith Babb […]
While the minor excitement in Collet left the participants unharmed, the political pressures being exerted at the government’s radio station have claimed their first casualty of the electoral season. Reliable sources have informed News Five that B.C.B. deputy chairman Cynthia Henry has been asked by the Minister of Broadcasting to resign her post. The flashpoint […]
In other political news the group of N.G.O.s known as the Civil Society Steering Committee has declined a challenge issued by the People’s United Party to investigate allegations of fraud in the naturalization and voter registration of immigrants by the ruling U.D.P. While a similar investigation was carried out by an N.G.O. consortium prior to […]
In tonight’s edition of our continuing series on “Elections ’98,” News Five’s Patrick Jones spoke with the candidates from the Orange Walk East constituency: veteran politician Elodio Aragon and his young challenger, Dave Burgos. Dave Burgos, P.U.P., Orange Walk East “We have three issues mainly that we are campaigning on in our division. One of […]
It’s the travel show’s third birthday and while this year’s edition is not as large as 1997, Arreini Palacio reports that BETEX ’98 is no less lovely than its predecessors. Eye catching… isn’t it? And organizers of BETEX ’98 hope that this eco-cultural beauty will not only sparkle in the eyes of local beholders but […]
