The O.A.S. sponsored effort to resolve the Guatemalan claim to Belize continues to move toward what is hoped will be a successful conclusion. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced that on April twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth the two facilitators in the process will make their proposals to representatives of both nations in Washington D.C. Those […]
Two young men from Dangriga tonight remain missing at sea. On Friday afternoon twenty-six year old Gerald Thomas Junior and his cousin, thirty-six year old Gregory Martinez, also known as Gregory Flores, were hired to transport several tourists from Dangriga to a resort on North East Caye in the remote Glover’s Reef Atoll. The group […]
When a tanker ship bringing petroleum products to Belize fails to make port in time, the resulting fuel shortage creates panic at the pumps. But what would happen if the trucks that carry the gasoline and diesel from the port to the pumps fail to arrive? That’s just the prospect that faced the management of […]
A businessman from Spanish Lookout is in serious condition tonight after he was stabbed Monday morning during an armed robbery. According to police, thirty-five year old Aaron Fehr, an employee of Western Dairies, was making a delivery on Jane Usher Boulevard around 10:30. But as he did so, a man walked up to him, stabbed […]
The body of a human foetus was found this morning in the garbage dump off the Western Highway in Cayo. Around three this afternoon an attendant at the dump, located between San Ignacio and Benque Viejo, discovered the premature baby as a bulldozer was levelling a load of refuse. The lifeless foetus, believed to be […]
He was stabbed on Saturday night by a man he had once arrested and today P.C. Nelson Nunez is slowly recovering from his injuries. Nunez had been waiting at the bus stop at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard to get a ride home to Roaring Creek, when a teenager he had […]
Local attorney Kirk Anderson has been appointed as Belize’s new Director of Public Prosecutions. Anderson will assume the high-pressure post come May first. In a brief telephone interview with News 5, the attorney says as soon as he takes over, he will be meeting with the staff to outline his plans for the department. He […]
The amazing length people will go to in order to call Belize City home is something that we’ve profiled several times on this newscast. The image of plywood shacks sitting in dirty water connected by rotting, leaning London bridges is a reality several hundred people go home to everyday. This morning, residents of Antelope Street […]
If you were driving on the Western Highway near mile twenty-seven on Saturday morning, you may have been startled by the sight of soldiers dropping from the sky. Don’t worry, they weren’t Guatemalans. These paratroops were army personnel of the U.S. Southern Command carrying out a training exercise with the full permission of the Belize […]
Beginning Thursday afternoon thousands of Belizeans will be on the move, looking to get an early jump on the four day Easter weekend. On last night’s newscast we looked at one popular holiday destination, the village of Placencia. Today, Ann-Marie Williams travelled to the island of Caye Caulker…and returned with the following report. Javier Novelo, […]
