The first of two Belizean crewmembers who perished while aboard the dive boat Wave Dancer was buried this afternoon in Corozal. Eloisa Johnson, the boat’s cook, died with nineteen others on Monday night when the Wave Dancer capsized in the port of Big Creek while trying to ride out Hurricane Iris. Tonight, one member of […]
Relief efforts in the Stann Creek and Toledo districts continued to expand today as floodwaters recede on the Southern Highway and large amounts of supplies mobilised for distribution to stricken areas. Updated damage assessments by NEMO indicate that over four thousand houses were destroyed or significantly damaged with just under eleven thousand people left homeless. […]
Minister of National Security Jorge Espat’s resignation from Cabinet becomes effective on Monday, but before departing he took the opportunity to hand over the four hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars of the Police Trust Fund to the care of Commissioner Hughington Williams. Jorge Espat, Minister of National Security “This ceremony has both unique and special […]
Police have officially charged five people, four men and one women in connection with the trafficking of three thousand, three hundred and seventy-eight pounds of cocaine found in an apartment on the Northern Highway on Tuesday morning. They are thirty-eight year old Belizean Liston McCord, Oscar Moreno Aguirra, twenty-seven, Zulema Carrasco, twenty-five and Jorge Carlos […]
He was a leading light in Belizean public affairs for the better part of half a century. Today Philip Goldson was laid to rest. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Funeral services were held today at Holy Redeemer Cathedral in Belize City for Philip Stanley Wilberforce Goldson Sr. The elder statesman is perhaps better known for his patriotism […]
It is a path that News 5 reporters have trod many times over the last month…and the problem is that the walk keeps getting wetter and wetter. Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Approximately twenty homes have been affected by the floodwater that has spread into the yards off Faber’s Road Extension and […]
