Thousands of Belizean students had their already long weekend extended by an extra day, as their teachers left the classroom to stage a protest in Belmopan. Citing government’s failure to take their contract negotiations seriously, the demonstrators took their message within shouting distance of the corridors of power. Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Estimates […]
A midday murder/suicide in Cotton Tree Village has left two dead and two others fighting for their lives. According to police, just before noon today, forty-eight year old Orlando Figueroa and his fourteen year old daughter Daisy, had just gotten off a bus near this house when they were approached by thirty-nine year Anthony Quiroz. […]
A community leader in Pomona Village has been stabbed to death. Details are sketchy, but around three Sunday morning following a village social event, thirty-nine year old Alvin Cain, a former village chairman, was involved in a dispute with Gilbert Requena, a twenty-nine year old security guard of Silk grass Village. According to police, Requena […]
A young Chinese woman and her cousin were severely beaten by a man who broke into their home early Sunday morning. The incident took place at number sixteen Orange Street in Belize City. Sixteen-year-old Seng Yen and her cousin, twenty-eight year old Zhu Juan Chen were sleeping downstairs in the house. Seng told police she […]
The often rocky relationship between police and the public has once more been put to the test. This morning in Belize City a police officer pursuing a suspect shot him in the leg after the accused felon had allegedly threatened him. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods filed this report from the scene. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Residents […]
This morning tragedy struck Hopkins Village as that community lost one of its very young residents. Dangriga police say around ten-thirty this morning two-year-old Rondeen Nunez was playing in her yard when her mother, twenty-four year old Rosella Lopez, left her daughter’s side to go inside and check on some fish frying in the kitchen. […]
The Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate a shooting incident which claimed the life of three Guatemalans in November of last year got underway this morning in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. Six witnesses took the stand this morning, who gave their account of what happened on November twenty-second 2001 when sixty-one year old Jesus […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re welcome to this Baron Bliss edition of Sports Monday. The busy weekend of sporting activity got off Saturday night with the kick off of the Regent’s Cup playoffs at the Capital City’s Isidero Beaton Stadium. There the number one seed, Builders Hardware Bandits, played host to the number […]
