If the scenario that unfolded today in the United States of America was part of a script for a proposed movie, it would be rejected as being too farfetched. But the hijacking of four large U.S. airliners and the subsequent crashing of three of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and […]
Belizeans in the United States were not our only citizens effected by the disaster. Because of the closure of U.S. airspace, all flights in and out of that country were cancelled, including those to and from Belize. This meant that Belizeans and visitors wanting to travel today were forced to make other plans. News 5’s […]
Another facility in Belize, which felt the impact of terrorist attacks on the United States, was that country’s embassy here. The embassy, located in Belize City, was closed sometime this morning. Officials there reached by News 5 declined to comment, saying that they would be issuing a press release later in the day. That release […]
Four men wrongly expelled from Belize on Thursday morning were welcomed back by their families over the weekend in Dangriga. The boat, dispatched by Prime Minister Said Musa when he rescinded the expulsion order on Thursday evening, picked the men up in Puerto Cortez, Honduras. Two of the men, Oscar Maradiaga and Rigoberto Maldanado, were […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial is the only public hospital in Belize City that provides a twenty-four hour accident and emergency care. However, it has become increasingly dangerous for those who must provide treatment to the injured, especially over a long holiday weekend. Shortly after three on Sunday morning, two men, Keon Williams and Hugh Thomas, […]
A pair of traffic accidents over the holiday weekend has left two men dead. Police say that around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday Nick Chan, nineteen, of Palmetto Street in Orange Walk, was driving his car on the Northern Highway when he collided into the rear of a parked bus on the side of the road […]
A San Ignacio resident was sleeping when he was woken up just in time to be robbed at gunpoint. Reports are that on Saturday, thirty-six year old Sunil Sukhlani of Church Street, woke at around 1:30 a.m. only to find two dark-complexioned men, one with a thirty-eight calibre revolver and the other with a knife, […]
Over the weekend, police destroyed almost all of the two thousand, three hundred and eleven pounds of cocaine seized last week in the nation’s fourth biggest drug bust. The coke–minus a small amount retained as legal evidence–was burned in the incinerator at New River Enterprises in Orange Walk. One suspect was captured in the bust, […]
He lives in New York, but the tragedy which befell Belize’s former Ambassador to the United States and United Nations took place right here in Belize. Edward Laing, home on holiday, died this morning on the island of Caye Caulker. Reports are that the fifty-nine year old Laing was snorkelling when his tour guide noticed […]
Belize marked the two hundred and third anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye on Monday with ceremonies held at the Memorial Park in Belize City. Both Human Development Minister Dolores Balderamos Garcia and Mayor David Fonseca addressed the gathering, saying the Battle of St. George’s Caye helped to shape our country. David Fonseca, […]
It may have been one of the smallest carnival road marches in recent years, but the scaled down parade did attract large numbers of spectators in Belize City on Saturday. Winner of the senior band competition was Cultural Heritage. Winner in the junior category was the group Legacy, which is affiliated with senior champion Cultural […]
If today’s events in New York and Washington have you keyed up, a good place to calm your nerves may be the House of Culture where a new photographic exhibition is on. Jacqueline Woods reports. Noel Escalante, Photographer “It’s relaxing because you can see nature, you can actually see God’s creations in just about everything […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this September serving of Sports Monday. The criterium ride has become an annual fixture on the celebration calendar. But one would not have known this year from the number of riders who showed up for this twenty-five lap event on the Central American Boulevard yesterday. […]
