Police are tonight focussing on a Mexican connection in the murder of two Belize City men early Sunday morning. Investigators believe that Edward Felix and Anthony Haylock, proprietor and employee of Trends Guesthouse on Freetown Road, may have been killed by a trio of guests at the establishment who checked in but apparently left without […]
Police are also looking for a group of men who armed themselves with an arsenal of weapons and robbed two Belize City residents on Tuesday night. According to twenty-seven year old Alex Jones, he was hanging out with a friend on the hood of the friend’s car around 8:30 in the North Creek area, when […]
A Belize City resident is tonight charged with attempted rape after he attacked a woman early Saturday morning. According to police, the victim, a thirty-six year old Salvadoran, was sleeping in her home located near the Haulover Bridge, when a man she knew only as “Neto” broke into her house. She reports that the man […]
Today, the Belize Red Cross received a generous donation of ten thousand dollars to assist that organisation in its hurricane Iris Relief efforts. Since October eighth, Red Cross branches have been working hard in the south helping those people who were affected by the storm. The financial gift, which included two separate cheques of five […]
The collection of money for hurricane relief is only one half the disaster recovery equation. The other is how that money is spent. Today, officials from NEMO, PAHO, The European Community and CDERA visited areas affected by Hurricane Iris and in two villages distributed storm assistance. In Seine Bight Dorothy Ramirez, an unemployed mother of […]
It was an opportunity for academics and intellectuals from around the region to exchange ideas, disseminate research and provoke thought. Ann-Marie Williams reports from the U.W.I. on Princess Margaret Drive. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The Third Annual Country Conference series of the University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies opened this morning in Belize […]
With more families being headed by working parents there is increasing concern about what the children are doing after school. One group of women from Belize City is solving the problem by turning the traditional idea of an after-school programme into what they term “funducation”. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The concept may not […]
The last time the Belize National Basketball Team took to the court they were eliminated by Barbados, albeit with a good measure of help from officials. Next week the venue will shift from the Caribbean to the Central American Games in Guatemala. News 5’s Janelle Chanona caught up with the squad at their final workout […]
As chairman of Belize Electricity Limited and C.E.O. of its parent company, Fortis of Canada, Stan Marshall is the man who opponents of the Chalillo dam love to hate. Over the weekend News 5’s Stewart Krohn sat down with Marshall as he and his board prepared to inspect hurricane devastated areas recently resupplied with electricity. […]
