While most of Belize City was sleeping off the effects of the first night of a long independence weekend, residents of Craig Street and Barrack Road were awakened to cries of “fire”. Quickly on the scene was News Five special assignment reporter William Neal who was soon joined by cameraman Wilson Pat. What they found […]
In related news, while the Airport Fire Service provided much needed help in fighting the blaze, it did not come without cost. A second truck, which was on its way to the scene in Belize City never made it, having run off the road around mile six on the Northern Highway. Reports are that the […]
It’s official: the three-week stalemate over a successor to Jose Coye as Mayor of Belize City is over. At a mid-afternoon meeting of the full council at City Hall today, Marshall Nuñez emerged with the majority vote to confirm him as the new Belize City Mayor and Steven Latchman as his Deputy. Information out of […]
In crime news, Belize City police are trying to piece together the circumstances surrounding what appears to be the murder of a Guatemalan woman. Although it was only reported on Monday, thirty six year old Dalila Martinez was admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital around eleven twenty last Thursday night. According to police, she […]
A traffic accident on Sunday night in Cristo Rey Village, Cayo, has left two boys dead. According to police reports, eleven year old Eduardo Montalvan and fourteen year old Jose Arnoldo Leonardo were riding a bicycle on the Cristo Rey/San Antonio Road when they were knocked down by a vehicle driven by twenty-three year old […]
It was a stifling ninety-six degrees in the shade on Monday, but it wasn’t enough to keep thousands of Belizeans from turning out for the annual Independence Day celebrations. The festivities commemorating the seventeenth anniversary of independence began on Sunday night with the flag raising ceremony behind the Supreme Court. Official ceremonies on the twenty […]
While the Prime Minister’s speech was well received by Belizeans and visitors alike, there was one foreign diplomat who never made it to the park. On Saturday morning the French Ambassador to Belize, having traveled here for the occasion from her base in El Salvador, was beaten and robbed as she walked down the street […]
The long holiday weekend marked seventeen years of independence… but there were several Belizeans who had special reason to celebrate. Saturday’s Lotto draw produced, not one, but three winners. Manager of Tropical Gaming Carol Young explains. Carol Young, Manager, Tropical Gaming Company “We wind up with three winners, this time because the main jackpot was […]
While Young and her staff prepare for the future, one of the winners of the forty-two thousand, five hundred dollar regular jackpot, Roy Sutherland, wasted no time in collecting his half of the prize. Sutherland says he plays the Lotto “every now and then” and that it is the first time he has won. The […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this fresh portion of Sports Monday. Sunday, the day before Independence Day brought B.F.L. soccer to the M.C.C. Grounds as city based Acros played host to Sagitun Football Club of Mango Creek. In the opening minutes it’s Acros on the attack but what looks like a breakaway […]
