The three man commission of inquiry appointed to investigate the circumstances under which three patients at the K.H.M.H. received HIV infected blood, convened this morning in Belize City. Although cameras were barred from the public proceeding, News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams was in attendance and she joins me in the studio tonight for an update. Ernesto […]
A hit and run accident in Belize City has left a family mourning the death of their five year old girl. Shortly after noon on Saturday, Keely Oshon was killed on impact when a green Toyota pick-up ran her over as she tried to cross Barrack Road. Keely, her mother and brother, all Hattieville residents, […]
A desperate mother tried to use her young daughter to hide illegal drugs, but her ploy has apparently backfired. Police in Orange Walk have arrested twenty-five year old Guatemalan Sandra Reyes and charged her with drug trafficking after finding five point five grams of crack cocaine concealed in the underwear being worn by her seven […]
In what must be one of the fastest turnarounds in the history of Belizean publishing, the Government printer has just completed a book containing Belize’s oral arguments in the dispute with Guatemala. The case refuting the Guatemalan claim to Belize, made on May twenty-first and twenty-second in Washington, was presented at the OAS by Assad […]
This morning youths from all over the country took to the streets for the commencement of Drug Awareness Week. Marlon McNab, Co-ordinator for the National Drug Abuse Control Council, says that it’s important to educate students from an early age because misuse of drugs and alcohol starts in primary school. Marlon McNab, Programme Co-ordinator, NDACC […]
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada has returned eighty-two Mayan artifacts to Belize. The pieces, all but one of which originally came from the ancient Maya site of Altun Ha, were taken out of the country in the 1960’s under the care of archaeologist Dr. David Pendergast. At that time there were no facilities […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we certainly want to welcome you to this exciting version of Sports Monday. Instead of taking you out to the football field, we’ll take you instead to Belize National Football Association’s executive office on Simon Lamb Street. As you can see, there is a whole lot of unusual activity […]
