At last there is forward movement to report on the evacuation of three illegal Guatemalan settlements in Toledo. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guatemalan authorities on Wednesday began to pay compensation to heads of households and some have already headed west across the border. The process began slowly with only three of approximately […]
Police have announced the long awaited break in the case of eleven high powered weapons stolen from their Belmopan armoury on January twenty-ninth. An official release this morning cites the recovery of six of the weapons and asks the public for assistance in finding the rest. Police press officer G. Michael Reid told News 5 […]
In crime news a Western Dairies salesman was robbed of his bankroll this morning as two thieves attacked him as he made a delivery near the corner of Dean Street and East Canal. They ran off with his waist bag containing between fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars.
An arrest has been made in a shooting that occurred on Sunday. Twenty-year old Cecil Gill has been charged with attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm in the attack on James Whylie, which occurred at Whylie’s house on Tanoomah Street.
The injunction preventing BTL from blocking the use of money saving Internet telephone devices has been overturned by the Belize Court of Appeal. The order nullifies last year’s Supreme Court decision by Justice George Meerabux that prevented the phone company from barring the use of the I.P. Star machine and similar services under its exclusive […]
While Glenn Godfrey may have lost a legal battle today, he’s still hoping to win the larger telecommunications war. Last week in his budget speech Prime Minister Said Musa announced the signing of a contract with Godfrey’s ITL and Korea’s LG Electronics, which would give the newcomers the right to install a wireless Internet network […]
Caves Branch now boasts a new bridge as part of the completion of the Hummingbird Highway upgrade. The new road was built by Cisco Construction Company in two phases with work starting in April 1998. The first part of the project, which covered eight miles from the Sibun Bridge to Caves Branch, cost over nine […]
A new machine to aid in the processing of beans has been installed in Spanish Lookout. The pre-cleaning machine, which will be used by bean farmers in the area, separates cracked beans from whole kernels and is expected to make exports more efficient. Minister of Agriculture, Dan Silva, and company chairman Levy Penner were on […]
Belmopan farmers are one group who will have to deal with the effects of global changes in climate. This week a workshop is underway to outline policy options for dealing with what could be one of the major environmental challenges of the new millenium. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Chief Meteorologist, Carlos Fuller says climate change affects […]
Belizean novelist Zee Edgell is back home, this time as special guest of the Ninth International Congress of Central American Literature underway at the Princess Hotel. The congress opened last evening and News 5 took time out to speak to Edgell about the event as well as her next novel. Zee Edgell, Belizean Novelist “I […]
An art show opened today in Orange Walk and News 5’s Jose Sanchez discovered that while the medium may have been familiar, the message was not. Jose Sanchez, Reporting After Hurricane Keith faded, the damage left behind was thought to be primarily to buildings and crops. But that’s not necessarily true; our minds are also […]
