It was the high seas equivalent of the Hummingbird Highway hijacking. Only this time there was no holdup–only gunfire. When it was over 5 passengers and the captain of a boat on its way from Puerto Barrios to Punta Gorda were dead, either drowned or shot by 3 gunman. The story unfolded on Tuesday afternoon […]
While the casualties were being counted in Punta Gorda surviving passenger Larry Smith was being operated on at the KHMH in Belize City. The 49-year old Smith, an American by birth and Naturalized Belizean, is a hotel owner in P.G. who has lived in Belize for the last 27 years. He told News Five’s Stewart […]
The Belize Audubon Society held its annual general meeting on Tuesday night and for some reason the environmental NGO, once an obscure collection of inveterate birdwatchers, has become the focus of politicians from around the country. Over 300 members–over half of whom couldn’t tell the difference between a flycatcher and a flyswatter–jammed into the Radisson […]
It was billed as “Challenge Day 2000: Dance for a healthy heart.” And that’s just what thousands of Belizeans did today in an activity coordinated by the National Sports Council. The idea was to emphasize the need for exercise and physical fitness by having participants dance for 30 minutes. Music was provided by Love FM […]
He came on a mission to resuscitate a relationship that may have been suffering from neglect. But by the time CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington and his 7-member team left the country this afternoon it looked like Belize’s geographic position had been moved at least several hundred miles to the East. This morning Carrington, his […]
Ever since the world first began to understand the magnitude of the global AIDS crisis, authorities have tried to fight the deadly disease across a wide range of fronts. On Tuesday evening concerned Belizeans gathered in the nation’s capital to make a statement of their own. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting In 1986, the first AIDS case […]
