It was a weekend of carnage on the nation’s highways with no less than four people dead in accidents involving motor vehicles. The most recent occurred today at around seven forty-five A.M. in Belize City. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams arrived on the scene to find the victim’s body still lying in the street. Ann-Marie Williams […]
On Friday another man was killed by a motor vehicle, this time in Orange Walk. Sixty-five year old Guatemalan Ricardo Arriaga was knocked down around six-fifteen in the evening near mile forty-nine on the Northern Highway and was pronounced dead on arrival at Orange Walk Hospital. Twenty-eight year old Carlos Montalvo, the driver of the […]
Last week it was the police, this week it’s the Belize Defence Force that faces some tough questions on its weapons policy. According to a police report, the BDF is missing three M-16 rifles, which were supposed to be secured in the ammunition compound at Price Barracks in Ladyville. A number of soldiers have been […]
Police have arrested and charged a man in connection with last month’s robbery and shooting of a Dangriga shopkeeper. Eighteen year-old Alvin Sabal has been accused in the January twenty-sixth assault on businessman Kyu Huan, based on the testimony of an eyewitness who picked Sabal out of an I.D. parade. Police are still looking for […]
While crime often dominates the local news, by no means do we, or other news outlets anywhere in the world, report every single infraction of the law. For example, numerous houses and vehicles are broken into every day around the country that are not considered important enough to mention. But when the same place is […]
A seventeen year-old student from Edward P. Yorke High School has received an award from the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. Darnell Cooper has been fooling around with ham radios for three years, but during hurricane Keith his hobby suddenly became serious when he found himself communicating regularly between the Meteorological Office and […]
Those cool nights over the last month were not just good for getting a sound night’s sleep. They also helped produce a bumper crop of potatoes. Speaking at a ceremony at Seven Miles community on the Mountain Pine Ridge Road, Agricultural Minister Dan Silva announced that imports of potatoes will no longer be needed as […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into that busy frequency called Sports Monday. After it’s first regular season loss last week, Juventus of Orange Walk rolled into town yesterday at the behest of Acros of Belize City, team with a suspect record despite its playoff ambitions. We open to Danny Diego’s Belize City […]
