This report just arrived by fax and I will read it verbatim. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that three of four Guatemalan Nationals who attacked a Belize Defence Force patrol near San Vicente Village in the Toledo District today were shot. There are two possible fatalities as a result. Belize’s Ambassador to the Republic […]
Desperate circumstances sometimes drive people to take desperate action, and this afternoon officials at the Belize City Port saw first hand what has become routine in places like South Florida and the Bahamas. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports on the incredible journey of three young boys who spent four days at sea, without food or […]
Police have impounded ten late model vehicles found in a Stann Creek warehouse on the suspicion that they were stolen and illegally imported. The vehicles: four Toyota Hi-Lux pickups, two Toyota Prados, two Four Runners, one Nissan Patrol and two Dodge Caravans were seized from a building at John Zabaneh’s Mayan King Farm at the […]
In more crime news from the south, a Dangriga bar owner lies in serious condition after he was shot last night in a robbery attempt. Police report that thirty-six year old Desidora Maldonado was shot in the left side of his chest around 10:30 after he failed to comply with an armed assailant’s demand for […]
Two men are hospitalised tonight after they were attacked in Sandhill just after midnight this morning. According to police, sixty-four year old U.S. citizen John Craver and forty-one year old Wayne Cattouse arrived at Craver’s house on mile seventeen on the Northern Highway, only to surprise two men who were in the process of burglarising […]
The sign may read, “Closed for Renovations”, but the management and staff at Xtra House are rearranging more than just the furniture. The store’s owner, Rajesh Chawla, was ordered to close down the establishment until he complies with certain health requirements. The decision was made by the Belize Trade Licensing Board in consultation with the […]
Big businesses and foreign governments are not the only entities contributing to hurricane relief. On Wednesday, forty thousand dollars worth of zinc roofing was delivered to the hard hit banana belt villages of Bella Vista and Cowpen. Funding for the donation was provided by the Irish organisation APSO and co-ordinated jointly by Help for Progress, […]
On Monday, the National Under-21 Male Football Team and the National Women’s Team departed for Guatemala to compete in the Central American Games. Tonight the men will play their first match and according to Dr. Bertie Chimilio, President of the Football Federation of Belize, both squads are ready to play. Dr. Bertie Chimilio, Pres., Football […]
Government has tried to help the local music industry by passing copyright legislation and allowing musicians to bring in their recorded CDs duty free. But now it’s time for Belizean promoters to bring the music to the public. So said, so done. Radio Announcer “Up next I have got for you a selection from his […]
In Belize we have no shortage of protected areas, both on land and sea. But while parks and reserves have proliferated like termites, their financing has not necessarily kept pace. Janelle Chanona reports from Caye Caulker. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today, people involved with Belize’s marine protected areas met in Caye Caulker to discuss the conservation […]
With Justice Meerabux removed from the bench and a new crop of high calibre judges manning the Supreme Court, there is for the first time in years a sense of optimism about the direction of Belizean justice. Today those charged with administrating that judicial system met for an assessment. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The first Bench […]
