The town of San Pedro is no stranger to misfortune, but most of the community’s disasters are of the natural variety, namely hurricanes. But the storm which struck Ambergris Caye in the wee hours of Saturday morning was made of fire, and the evidence indicated that the conflagration may have been manmade. News 5’s Jacqueline […]
Owners of Belize’s bus lines and government officials remain closeted in Belmopan tonight, as yet unable to break the stalemate over bus fares. A protest in Benque Viejo this morning resulted in eleven people being issued summons for illegal assembly, after commuters refused to pay newly increased fares. The transport operators, led by mega-line Novelo’s, […]
A week ago he was ousted as general manager of the second largest credit union in the country, but on Tuesday, Vicente Canul will be back behind his desk. That’s right, after protestors staged a demonstration outside the St. Francis Xavier Credit Union in Corozal demanding the G.M. be reinstated, an emergency meeting of the […]
On Saturday, a Belize City man was gunned down and left to die on the street. According to police reports, twenty-nine year old Mark Henry was on Waight Street in the Yarborough Area when he was shot twice. Police have since detained two people: Henry’s ex-girlfriend and another young man. While police have yet to […]
An Orange Walk resident has been charged in connection with a hit and run incident on Saturday. Twenty-six year old Mayola Escalante allegedly fled the scene, near the Mi Amor Hotel, where thirty-three year old Pedro Martinez was knocked down as he crossed the street. Martinez, a Salvadoran, was rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital […]
Today is celebrated as Earth Day and to mark the occasion, the Belize Audubon Society is releasing their Environmental Agenda 2002 and Beyond, a follow-up to a similar document produced four years ago. The agenda is meant to assess the condition of Belize’s natural resources and makes specific suggestions for sustainable development. According to Audubon’s […]
Across the country, other environmental agencies were also celebrating Earth Day. In Belize City, participants in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System Project invited community leaders, students and the general public to attend a chain of presentations on Belize’s marine environment. While attendance was good, according to Noel Jacobs, the project’s regional co-ordinator, appreciation for the […]
While Earth Day celebrations focussed on the health of the marine environment, another ceremony in Belize City highlighted those Belizeans who depend on the sea for their livelihood. Members of the Belize Fishermen Co-operative Association, all six hundred of them, will be eligible for technical training, thanks in part to a fifty thousand dollar grant […]
The only connection our next news item has with the sea is that the man we interviewed happened to arrive this morning on a cruise ship. George Castillo, now retired, was only the second black Chaplain appointed to the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons. After thirty years working with the most hardened criminals Castillo […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is the latest serving of Sports Monday. We took our cameras inside the Lewis Leslie amateur basketball competition at the City Centre Friday night, only to be greeted by a monster female opener featuring the defending champion B.E.L. Sparks in action against B.T.L. Hawks. We join the ballgame […]
