The plague of injuries and death involving public buses that afflicted the nation’s highways over the last year has not abated in 2002. Tonight two students from Ladyville are lucky to be alive after they were trapped between a moving bus and the metal pedestrian railing at Belize City’s Western Highway roundabout. News 5’s Jacqueline […]
Belize’s New Year’s celebrations managed to conclude without any loss of life, but the revelry was not without a few close calls. In Orange Walk Town, an all night drinking session at a local hotel ended New Year’s morning with a fight between two bar patrons. Twenty-eight year old Rene Juarez of Chan Pine Ridge […]
It may have lacked the tension of a bar fight or the drama of a street brawl, but the crime committed against the staff and students of a Belize City pre-school over the holiday may be more demoralising. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It’s not the first time that The Catholic Diocesan Child Development Centre has been […]
Most experienced mothers will tell you that undergoing the final stages of pregnancy during the Christmas holidays is no easy task. About the only possible advantage, they say, is the notoriety of giving birth to the first Belizean of the New Year. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams caught up with the latest winners at K.H.M.H. Ann-Marie […]
In New Year’s sporting news, Barney Brown made a big sprint from the top of the Belcan Bridge to take home first place in the annual Krem/B.E.L. Cycling Classic. Following Brown across the finish line were Hugo Monterosa, Mateo Cruz, Andrew Smiling and Ariel Rosado. Top honours in the women’s division went to Anamarie Bennett, […]
They said that the new year was going to be a big one for cruise tourism…and today Belize City felt the first reality of that prediction as two ships simultaneously disgorged their passengers onto the docks of the Tourism Village. Ann-Marie took the opportunity to take a closer look at the ins and out of […]
