The news media is only too willing to speed out to Hattieville…so long as the story involves a prison riot, an escape or a whipping. But good news does occasionally sprout up through the dusty soil of the Department of Corrections…and News Five was on hand to help it grow. Stewart Krohn, Reporting When former […]
Two knives and a shotgun were the weapons of choice in a pair of unrelated robberies which occurred in Belize City on Wednesday. Shortly after noon, a man described only as being of Creole descent walked into R & J’s Fashion Store on Cemetery Road. He pulled a knife on the female clerk and proceeded […]
They say it’s all about the Benjamins…but the U.S. banknotes with Benjamin Franklin’s likeness found by police on Wednesday did not do the man justice. The bills turned out to be bogus and the three men who had them, who were stopped on a Belize City bus, are now in Custody. Salvadorans Oscar Castillo, Genaro […]
It must be something about the holiday weekend that has workers on edge. Having seen calls for industrial action at WASA and Venus Bus Lines earlier in the week, this morning the truckers who haul the nation’s fuel aired their complaints to the media. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Operations at the Esso Terminal shut down for […]
This Easter weekend the highways will be extremely busy as Belizeans travel to their vacation spots for the four-day holiday. It is also a busy time for the National Drug Abuse Control Council, Transport Department and the Police. These agencies are working together to make our roadways a safer place to travel. One way the […]
This afternoon the public got a chance to see some of the athletes who will be competing in the 72nd Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic. The occasion was the annual cycling parade. It started behind the Supreme Court and took riders through the principal streets of Belize City. The race is 144 miles long […]
It started in 1980 with Dogs of War, revved into high gear with Mosquito Coast in 1985, coasted through Caribe in ’86 and continued through Heart of Darkness in 1993. Although its been seven years since a feature film director called “action” on these shores, another movie is today being successfully put together in Belize. […]
