It was one of the ugliest sights in the history of Belizean sports. Video shot after the football match on Sunday between the Kulture Yabra football club and Fabro’s Juventus Stars showed images of the game’s head referee getting hit twice and a police officer wrestling with a player for his baton. After a closed […]
If you were depressed by the sight of police officers having to fight off angry footballers, then this next story will not make you any happier. Janelle Chanona, Reporting In the heat of this afternoon, the quiet of Mayflower Street was shattered by gunfire. When we arrived on the scene, heavily armed police officers were […]
In a more successful operation, police have detained two men in the shooting death of twenty-eight year old Denver Hamilton of Pelican Street Extension in Belize City. Hamilton was shot twice in the temple around 8:30 on Sunday night while working under the hood of his car at the corner of Iguana Street and Central […]
Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord on Monday ruled that Belizean businessman Kevin Morris should be extradited to the United States to answer charges of conspiracy to traffic cocaine. Morris, who only recently was granted bail, had been imprisoned for fourteen months while the extradition proceedings played out in court. Today, News 5 spoke with Morris who […]
As a matter of policy, we don’t report bomb threats on this newscast, on the theory that such publicity only encourages the perpetrators. Such incidents are more common than you might think and lately the U.B. campus at West Landivar has been the favourite target of bomb hoaxes–believed to be called in by students seeking […]
The skills involved in this next story may not be called upon to save lives, but they certainly make life richer. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It stands eight feet tall and is the biggest sculpture ever created by Curl Gordon. The piece represents family unity and is chiselled entirely from part of a mahogany that was […]
They come from as far away as Taiwan, Korea and the People’s Republic of China and as near El Salvador, Panama and Cuba. These foreign students, along with their Belizean counterparts, all attend the U.B.’s Regional Language Centre in Belmopan. Jacqueline Woods visited the campus this morning to get a taste of the different countries. […]
