It happens every once in a while, probably not often enough. That is, when an armed robber gets a taste of his own medicine…when the hunter becomes the hunted. Jacqueline Woods reports on what was definitely not your usual Belize City shootout. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This afternoon security was tight in front of Tong’s Store […]
One aspect of the recent upsurge in violent crime is the proliferation of illegal firearms. Authorities have been targeting this problem and over the last week have produced some results. The most recent bust occurred Sunday in Belmopan when police searched a home in the Cohune Walk neighbourhood of the capital. There they found a […]
Unlicensed guns have also been confiscated in the Toledo District… in this case shotguns from a gang of illegal Guatemalan loggers. The four men: Landelino Lopez, Jeremias Garcia, Edwin Palacio and Samuel Garcia, were intercepted by police and forest officers as they were cutting mahogany trees in Belize’s southernmost protected area, the Temash-Sarstoon National Park. […]
A labourer on a San Pedro, Ambergris Caye work site is dead, presumably due to electrocution. Rufino Santos, a twenty year old Honduran, was employed on the construction of the new Belize Bank building on Barrier Reef Drive in the centre of town. On Monday at 5:15 in the evening the workmen were in the […]
The thirty-second General Assembly of the Organisation of American States is taking place in Barbados this week, and one result of the meeting has been a chance for Belize and Guatemala to hold bilateral discussions. According to an OAS release, Foreign Minister Assad Shoman has met with his Guatemalan counterpart, Gabriel Orellana, not to mention […]
The Belize Social Security Board is celebrating its twenty-first anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, S.S.B. is holding a week of activities across the country to sensitise the community about its work and the benefits afforded to the general public. Today officials invited both primary and secondary school students to an all day presentation at their […]
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about high tech additions to our schools and libraries in the form of internet connected computers. But there is more going on at the nation’s libraries than electronics. One old fashioned exhibition is reminding students that hurricanes are nothing to play with. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The exhibition is part […]
Elections are a regular part of life in democratic societies and in Belize they have become a particular form of social event, with their own etiquette, protocol and rules of engagement. Today, the Elections and Boundaries Commission held a seminar to help us understand more about this sometimes mysterious process. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams was […]
A few years back News 5’s Janelle Chanona unlocked the mystery of that favourite Belizean delicacy called the meat pie. Today, with temperatures hovering near a hundred, it was time to chill out with…what else? That aptly named frozen treat known as ideal. Janelle Chanona, Reporting With temperatures peaking at a hundred degrees lately, the […]
