They say that bad things happen in threes…and sure enough, on Monday night in Cayo, Belize experienced its third serious gas tank explosion in a little over a month. The latest catastrophe occurred around seven at Palma’s Restaurant on Savannah Road in San Ignacio. After the explosion six people were transferred to KHMH where they […]
Sixty-two year old Ethelbert Worrell lies in a serious condition tonight at the KHMH, after he was beaten in the course of a robbery. Worrell, the security guard at Venus Bus lines in Belize City, which also houses the Z-Line office, says he was attacked by two men around two this morning. Ethelbert Worrell, Robbery […]
Police and prison officials are still on the lookout for escaped prisoners Upston Lopez and Adrian Escobar. The inmates are two of six men who were on remand and broke out of the Hattieville prison last Wednesday night. They got away by knocking out the burglar bars covering a large section of a back window […]
Belize Electricity Limited, the nation’s sole distributor of electric power, is in the process of reorganizing its management structure. Forty-two year old CEO Lynn Young retains his executive position and has also been named to the newly created post of president. He remains a member of the board. Veteran Fernando Coye will retire at the […]
A week of activities focusing on drug prevention and celebrating a drug-free lifestyle for youths officially opened this morning at Wesley College. It’s called Red Ribbon Week. School principal Brenda Armstrong and counsellor Elizabeth Goff told News Five that while the “Red Ribbon” idea started elsewhere, it still resonates in Belize. Elizabeth Goff, Counsellor “Red […]
With a number of fire engines and other equipment being dispensed countrywide, the Belize Fire Service is undergoing something of a transformation. But new tools don’t put out fires if the personnel are not trained to use them. That process is an ongoing one, which has received a helping hand from the far north. Jacqueline […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome to this big time dish of Sports Monday right after Garifuna Settlement Day, celebrations weekend. Some twenty-eight riders suited up for the seventy-mile Garifuna Day Cycle Classic, which got off Sunday Morning at eight-fifteen. Some five miles after the start at mile thirty en route to Dangriga through […]
