Details are in short supply, but what is clear is that last night law enforcement officers made one of the largest drug busts in Belizean history. Around 7:30 a maritime patrol, believed to be acting in co-ordination with a helicopter from the British Frigate HMS Coventry, intercepted a large skiff, allegedly of Colombian origin. The […]
We have a follow up to a story we ran last week about the escape and recapture of two inmates from the Youth Enhancement Academy adjacent to Hattieville Prison. The two young men, Fredrick Arzu and John Elijio, were tried on Friday before a panel of visiting justices and pled guilty to the crime of […]
Residents of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye are without water for the second time in two months. On Monday morning a pump belonging to Belize Water Limited, the island company which supplies desalinated water to Belize Water Services Limited, broke down. With a second pump already out of service, this meant that there was no way […]
San Pedranos were not the only ones having problems with water today. Unlike their island brethren, residents of one Belize City neighbourhood have too much. This morning Ann-Marie Williams donned her boots to investigate. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Tropical Storm Chantal didn’t do any damage to Belize City, but you’d never know it by looking at […]
The Belize Bank this afternoon made good on a pledge to Habitat for Humanity to assist in their continued work of making affordable housing available to lower income Belizeans. Habitat Belize former President Carla Sainsbury accepted the donation from the bank’s Senior Vice President Louis Swasey. Louis Swasey, Sr. Vice President, Belize Bank “It’s been […]
In case you were wondering what has happened to this year’s September celebrations, don’t worry, you’re not alone. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods took a walk around Belize City, only to find that the spirit has not yet seemed to catch fire. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting There may be a few businesses in downtown Belize City that […]
Last week the region’s radio and television broadcasters gathered in Havana, Cuba for the Annual General Assembly of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union. It was the first time in thirty-two years that the meeting was held in Cuba, as that country’s national broadcaster, ICRT, was admitted to full membership in the organisation just one year ago. […]
Superstar Marion Jones made headlines last month when she failed to win the hundred-metre sprint at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada. But last night in Brisbane, Australia at the Goodwill Games, Marion got her sweet revenge when she beat her Ukrainian nemesis, Zhanna Pintusevich-Block in convincing fashion. Here’s how is looked. Commentator “Pintusevich-Block […]
While San Pedranos have been having some problems with their supply of drinking water, they have earned some notable success working under the water. At a competition held in the Bay Islands last week a pair of videographers from San Pedro took first and fourth place out of over fifty entries. The divers, each equipped […]
