It seemed eerily similar to last year’s riot at the Tower Hill Bridge: protestors throwing rocks, police responding with teargas and bullets and amidst the confusion, the original purpose of the demonstration all but forgotten. Tonight News 5 has assembled video shot by our cameraman Brent Toombs, supplemented by footage from Cayo Cable Vision’s Kent […]
Janelle Chanona “Now late this evening the government has appointed Chief of Staff Francis Fonseca to be their spokesperson on this incident and this evening he stopped by to give government’s position.” Francis Fonseca, Chief of Staff, P.M.’s Office “First of all Stewart, let me say that the Government of Belize fully respects and supports […]
He was detained shortly after the shooting death of Mark Henry on Saturday. Today, twenty-three year old Jason “Soup” Williams was charged with the crime of murder. Henry was shot twice on Waight Street in the Yabra area of Belize City.
The National Fire Service has concluded its investigation into the problems the San Pedro Fire Department experienced when it responded to Saturday’s early morning fire on the island. Fire Chief Henry Baizar says all the equipment on the truck was working when the team arrived at the location, but that the troubles began after they […]
Belize’s banana growers will benefit from a six million dollar grant provided by the European Union. The money, part of a larger aid package to A.C.P. banana producers, will be used to improve drainage and irrigation in order to increase yields. With its traditional preferential tariffs ruled illegal by the World Trade Organisation, the E.U. […]
Its policies in defence of banana giants like Chiquita and Dole may have put Belize’s banana industry on its knees, but the United States government is apparently trying to compensate in other ways. From May sixth to sixteenth, U.S. Army medical teams will be holding free clinics in Pomona, Silk Grass, Sittee River and Dangriga. […]
The stage is now set for the next round of Karaoke Television as last night at Club Calypso the competition’s tenth semi-finalist was chosen. Here’s how it went. Williams Neal, KTV Host “The winner is contestants number four…Dennis Peyrefitte.” Dennis sings “Purple Rain” by Prince Dennis Peyrefitte joins Adilean Coffin, Osvaldo Perez, Dale Turner, Joseph […]
Education in Belize is becoming more competitive, and secondary schools are reaching out to standard six students and selling their institutions with increasing vigour. Today, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited E.P. Yorke High in Belize City and found things looking up. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting If you happened to look up to the sky shortly after […]
