It has not been scientifically proven that the purchasing of illegal guns off the street will result in the reduction of violent crime, but authorities believe that it’s worth a try. Today the ambitious two-week project, combined with a daytime amnesty, got underway in Belize City. Judging by the quantity and particularly the quality of […]
Police and citizens were at odds Friday night over an incident in which one policeman was shot by another and a drug suspect escaped. An angry crowd gathered when police fired on the suspect his friends claimed was unarmed. Eyewitness #1 “We were in the house sitting down. They just came in and just burst […]
A fight at a disco in Caye Caulker has left one man dead and three others with stab wounds. At approximately 11:45 p.m. on Friday, Adolfo Cruz and a minor attempted to enter the Sunset View disco, without paying the entrance fee. Royden Cain and Nathan McKenzie, security guards for the disco, refused to let […]
Today, police and citizens of Caye Caulker were out on the sea looking for a young man who is feared dead after he fell off a boat late Saturday night. According to reports from the island, the skiff with four passengers onboard left Belize City around 9:00 that night to go to the island. Sources […]
Two well-known football players did not spend the past weekend kicking ball, but were instead locked down at the Orange Walk Police Station. On Saturday, Norman “Tilliman” Nunez and Charlie Slusher were arrested following a fight, which erupted outside of a nightclub. Today, Linda Nunez, mother of Norman Nunez, told News Five that her son […]
Belize has a new ambassador to the Organisation of American States. On Thursday Lisa Shoman presented her credentials to Secretary General Cesar Gaviria at OAS headquarters in Washington D.C. Shoman thanked the OAS chief for acting as a “witness of honour” to the ongoing talks with Guatemala, which are being held under OAS supervision. Although […]
A financial arrangement between the Social Security Board and the Government of Belize will result in some improvements to the town of Dangriga. A release from the Press Office reports that SSB has purchased the property on which the old Dangriga Hospital was located for one point five million dollars and that money will be […]
It received a little scare from Hurricane Debby, but the latest edition of the regional cultural extravaganza known as CARIFESTA rebounded strongly for participants and spectators alike. Today I went out to the airport to meet Belize’s returning artists. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Members of the Belizean contingent to CARIFESTA VII in St. Kitts and Nevis […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is another serving of Sports Monday. The three-stage Tour de Santino took centre stage over the weekend with fifty-three riders, including six Americans and eleven Mexicans in the hunt to be number one. It’s Friday 5:30 a.m. on the Western Highway as the time trials gets off with […]
