With images of Hurricane Keith all too vivid in the memories of most Belizeans, few people were taking chances with a tropical storm named Chantal. As I speak, the centre of Chantal, born last week to the east of Barbados, is just now making landfall somewhere near the Belize Mexico border at Ambergris Caye. At […]
San Pedranos were not the only Belizeans making a temporary migration to the mainland. When News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams visited the Belize City Marine Terminal she found that other islanders were also on the move. Ann-marie Williams, Reporting Taking no chances with tropical storm Chantal, residents of Caye Caulker were this morning encouraged to move […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed two lives. thirty-four year old Floyd Moro and seventy-three year old Daria Polanco, both of San Ignacio, died from severe head and body injuries following a head on collision near mile twenty. Moro and Polanco had been travelling east towards Belize City when they collided with […]
We usually gather at a wake to pay respects to the dead…but on Sunday in Dangriga, it became an occasion for murder. Forty year old Davis Martinez is said to have been attending a nine night at a home in the Lakeland area when he got into a fight with another man identified as fifty-three […]
Judging from the banners, posters and advertisements of Tony Leslie, one would have thought that the UDP contest in Port Loyola was a one-man race. Maybe it was…but on Sunday, that man wasn’t named Leslie. Anthony “Boots” Martinez captured his second Port Loyola convention for the UDP in a very close vote. He rounded up […]
Since Friday, we in the media have been fed with a steady stream of data on the progress of Chantal. Much of that information comes from our hardworking weather professionals. This afternoon Jackie took a look behind the scenes. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Handling storms is the responsibility of the people at the National Meteorological Centre, […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re in tuned with this Chantal version of Sports Monday. Game I of the semi-pro basketball semi-final series between Data Pro Raiders and San Cas U.B. might have gone to the Raiders, but Game II certainly produced much more fireworks. Brimming with confidence and looking to close out the […]
