Its dimly lit tavern has been the venue of choice for three generations of courting Belizeans and more recently the newly opened King Street Station was home to Karaoke TV. But as of today neither the bar, the restaurant nor any other part of the Bellevue Hotel was open for business. A Supreme Court order […]
A Belize City man is dead after being shot in his own home. Details are sketchy but it appears that thirty year old Denton Young, a side man for Bowen and Bowen, returned to his house at 7023 Iguana Street accompanied by two friends around 9:30 Tuesday night. Young’s common-law wife, Michelle Neal, greeted the […]
There’s a large quantity of building materials missing from the new satellite town at La Democracia. A security guard at the site told police that on Friday evening someone entered the storeroom and stole fifty-one five gallon buckets of paint. It has now been discovered, however, that the haul also included plumbing and electrical supplies […]
A family outing on the banks of the Mopan River in Bullet Tree turned tragic as a five year old boy drowned. Around 3:30 Tuesday evening, forty-one year old retired teacher, Jose Romero took his children Saul and Joanna to bathe in the river. While in the water Romero shifted his attention to his daughter […]
Reaction to the startling story of a Cayo Chinese restaurant found to have freshly skinned cat in the kitchen has been fast and furious. Anecdotal reports from around Belize City indicate that last night business dropped off sharply at Chinese food emporiums as local consumers abandoned chowmein and fried rice for more readily identifiable fare. […]
It took a few days for the winner of Saturday’s sixty-five thousand dollar lotto jackpot to come forward, but today she showed up to claim her cheque. Twenty-six year old Erlinda Lovelock, a mother of three and resident of East Collet Canal in Belize City, did not find out until Monday that she won the […]
The United Democratic Party continued to present candidates seeking to be standard bearers in the next general elections. This morning, at a press conference at party headquarters, Glen Leslie was unveiled as a UDP aspirant in the Lake Independence division. Leslie, a businessman and lecturer in U.B.’s engineering department, is a newcomer to politics. If […]
We’ve heard a lot of announcements from organisations putting on summer camps to help kids avoid boredom during their vacation from school. Today News 5 visited one such effort at the House of Culture and found that even on a rainy day, there are plenty of fun things to do. Jose Sanchez Because of bad […]
