It’s been less than two weeks since Guatemala and Belize finalised the decision to expel residents of three illegal settlements near the border, but it somehow seems like an eternity. At newstime the settlers in Machaquila, Rio Blanco and Valentin Camp had still not returned to their native Guatemala, as the details of their departure […]
The first round in the legal battle to oust Justice George Meerabux from his seat on Belize’s Supreme Court will open on Tuesday. The venue is the courtroom of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, where lawyers for Meerabux have filed a constitutional motion to halt all proceedings to remove their client. Attorneys Kirk Anderson and Oscar […]
Temptation Island turned deadly over the weekend as a San Pedro man stabbed and killed his ex-lover. Around 8:00 Saturday night twenty-one year old Consuelo Pinelo, of Caribena Street took her child to use the latrine when she was confronted by her twenty-six year old ex-boyfriend Edgar Chan. Chan, apparently angry over the broken romance, […]
A teenage boy was killed in an accident in the Corozal District on Friday night. Around 8:00, fifteen year old Luis Angel Portillo was riding his bicycle by the police station on the San Narciso Road when he collided with a moving vehicle. Octavio Ek was driving his tractor with two trailers loaded with sugar […]
It’s only halfway into the government’s five-year term of office, but electoral politics is still very much at the top of the news. On Saturday the United Democratic Party made a show of strength with a march and rally in Belize City. Estimates of the crowd at its peak range from three to four thousand, […]
It is rare that an incumbent representative is defeated in a party convention, but that doesn’t stop aspiring politicians from trying. Today one disgruntled candidate in the Port Loyola division went public with charges that he was unfairly disqualified from running. Joseph Bradley Jr. says that PUP Secretary General, Carlos Espat called him last week […]
Belize will soon join in a regional surveillance programme to assist in fighting infectious diseases. The Central Medical Laboratory of the Ministry of Health today received a donation of seven new computers and associated software courtesy of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C., to facilitate the process. Lieutenant Colonel David Neibuhr […]
It may not be classified as a disease, but the epidemic of drug use and addiction remains at or near the top of Belize’s–and the world’s–gravest social problems. This morning News 5’s Jose Sanchez went to see what one Belize City high school is doing about it. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The drug trade was once […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we urge you to gather round for this crisp portion of Sports Monday. The Belize City football fans crowded the MCC Grounds Saturday night for the monster semi-pro football match-up between Kulture Yabra of the city and Juventus of Orange Walk. Both teams enter the fray in second and […]
