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$270,000 gone in Cayo bank robbery

The conventional wisdom is that there could never be a major bank robbery in Belize because the robbers wouldn’t have anywhere to unobtrusively spend such a large amount of Belize dollars. Well, times have changed and as I speak a small group of clever crooks is now trying to figure our just how to dispose […]

Chief Justice rules against Meerabux

The verdict is in on the Meerabux case and the Governor General has been given the green light to carry out his responsibilities under the constitution. Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh rejected the arguments of lawyers for Judge George Meerabux, who claimed that the actions of the Governor General in considering complaints of misbehaviour against Meerabux, […]

Montejo wins PUP nomination in Collet

It was one of the most anticipated and bitterly contested conventions of the current political season. News 5’s Jose Sanchez sought out the winners and losers on the morning after. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The results are official and Remijio Montejo will once again bear the PUP standard in Collet. But the race was not without […]

Rene Lui dies in road accident

He was a permanent fixture at the soft drink giant for over thirty years, but a tragic automobile accident has cut short the life of Rene Lui, an employee of Bowen and Bowen. On Saturday morning the sixty-year old Lui, on an outing with five Cuban doctors, had just entered the property of the Gallon […]

Taxi driver is latest lotto winner

He didn’t rob a bank, but one Belize City man made off with fifty-five thousand dollars…. and the score was one hundred percent legal. The winner of the March seventh Lotto Draw, Winston Denton had no idea that the quick pick ticket he bought at Peoples Drug Store on New Road would contain the winning […]

New billboard campaign targets AIDS

While scientists search for a cure or an effective vaccine, experts continue to stress that the best weapon in the war against AIDS is education. Ann-Marie Williams reports from the front lines. Ann-Marie Williams “The first in a series of billboard campaigns which reminds us of our collective responsibility in fighting the deadly disease AIDS […]

Three paddlers repeat win in Ruta Maya

When we left La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge on Thursday, seventy canoes had blasted off from Cayo’s Hawkesworth Bridge heading east. When they finished around midday on Sunday, there were only sixty boats remaining, but the pace was a torrid one. The winning team, sponsored by Koop Sheet Metal of Spanish Lookout, crossed under […]

Smiling wins Belmopan Cycling Classic

Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 19th Belmopan Cycle Classic attracted riders from North America, Mexico and Guatemala, as some eighty riders made a bid. We take you to the early morning sights and sounds at the start of the in front of Santos Diaz on Central American Boulevard, and […]