The streets of downtown Belize City were filled with holiday shoppers on Saturday morning, but all heads turned when the cry of “fire” broke out. Smoke was billowing from the direction of the southern foreshore and within minutes fire trucks were making their way through the tangle of traffic. Two buildings were ravaged and ten […]
While firefighters were engaged at a blaze on the foreshore on Saturday morning, police were called to the scene of an accident on the Western Highway, just outside the city. The tragedy claimed the life of a child. The three Dougal brothers were riding to Belizean Beach for a Saturday swim when ten-year-old Resse Dougal […]
A tourist was shot in the arm in front of the Princess Hotel on Princess Margaret Drive Sunday night. Police report that hotel guest Jose Igea Ruiz of Navarra, Spain was with four friends around eight p.m. when a man came up and pointed a gun in his face and said something in English. But […]
An Orange Walk man has been charged with attempted murder after a chopping incident which left another resident in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Carlos Reyes of Gravel Lane was arrested on Sunday after Transito Arevalo Martinez of Riverside Street was found by the side of the road with multiple chop wounds […]
The Belize Police Department announced today they have received the final shipment of a generous donation of communications equipment from Mr. and Mrs. Erwin D. Eisenberg. The Eisenbergs promised they would give the Ministry of National Security one hundred handheld radios almost a year ago and have been steadily supplying the department since then. In […]
Lobster season may be open, but that doesn’t mean the Fisheries Department is not doing spot checks for size. Last week the department arrested five fishermen: Alfredo Cal, Roberto Cal Teul, Elodio Lara, Martin Almoro and Apolo Rivero for possession of undersized lobster in southern waters. All are licensed fishermen, but they now face fines […]
Things are looking up for Belizean trade with the European Union following a meeting of African Caribbean and Pacific countries with the EU last week in Brussels, Belgium. Minister of Budget Planning and Management Ralph Fonseca attended the third ACP-EU Ministerial Meeting and reports that the EU agreed to extend the current preferential treatment of […]
A private citizen is offering a reward for information leading to the prosecution and conviction of those responsible for damaging a number of young palm trees on St. Thomas Street in King’s Park. Stephen Heusner told News Five he decided to offer a three hundred dollar reward after he drove down the street this weekend. […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re strapped in for another ride on Sports Monday. Grigamandala went into week twelve of the B.F.L. season atop the standings and we all wanted to see if they could maintain the same against the dangerous Real Verdes at the Norman Broaster Stadium Sunday. Of course, Dangriga wouldn’t be […]
