With the exception of a short lived truce in the days of the Maritime Areas Bill, observers of Belize’s history today witnessed an act that generations of their forefathers never got to see: two opposing Belizean political leaders publicly embracing a common policy. News 5’s Stewart Krohn was on hand for the landmark event. Stewart […]
If you are wondering why we have not heard from the Guatemalan side of the dispute, it’s because in Belize at least, they’re keeping a low profile. Today, in the belief that it never hurts to ask, we approached Guatemalan charge d’affaires in Belize, Carlos Avila, and asked him how it felt to be in […]
Two men were killed and another injured in a traffic accident that occurred Monday night on the Western Highway. The men were travelling between miles sixty-eight and sixty-nine in a Honda Civic around 7:00, when the driver lost control of the car, causing it to overturn. Peter Saldivar, believed to be the driver, died on […]
Two dangerous convicts remain on the loose tonight after escaping Sunday night from Hattieville Prison. Police believe that Juan Ramirez, serving a life sentence for murder and Carlos Duarte, on remand for murder, are heading for the Guatemalan Border. While police had no luck with Ramirez and Duarte, they were a little luckier, in capturing […]
Hugh “Angel” Thomas, the man who was involved in a high-speed chase on Saturday night, turned himself in to police custody this morning accompanied by his lawyer Wilfred Elrington. Thomas allegedly fled the scene of a minor traffic accident, which prompted a chase by a number of armed police officers. In the course of the […]
Some employees of the Belize Social Security Board are up in arms with management about the way a number of work related issues are being treated. According to Christian Workers Union General Secretary Antonio Gonzalez, one hundred and ten of SSB’s two hundred and fifty employees are members of the union and say the situation […]
Agnes Quilter, who was believed to be the oldest living Belizean, has died. Quilter was born in 1893 and gave birth to twenty-two children. News five interviewed Quilter, a native of Lords Bank Village, in 1997, on the occasion of her one hundred and fourth birthday. Jacqueline Woods “I understand that you can still get […]
The week’s second regional conference opened this morning in Belize City and News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams found that the delegates had come to the right place. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting CARICOM Ministers of Finance and Planning this morning met with their colleagues, who are responsible for the environment, as the first joint meeting of CARIFORUM ministers […]
