Okay, so by now the sight of Belizeans in a glass booth frantically grabbing slips of paper isn’t unusual, but it’s still pretty funny. Today, News 5 was invited to the Courts compound on the Northern Highway to watch six more people try their hand at catching the cash. Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting […]
Carnival is coming in September and as usual, money is scarce. Today Ann-Marie visited a group of imaginative fundraisers who are offering some family entertainment and looking for your support. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Seven little girls between the ages of six and eight years old compete for the title of Little Miss Southside at St. […]
More counterfeit currency has turned up in Belize City as police reported three incidents on Wednesday alone. The forgeries are very high quality and the counterfeiters have wisely confined their fakes to twenty and ten dollar denominations so as not to arouse the suspicions associated with blue notes. Police say that some of the serial […]
As I speak there is a ceremony taking place at U.B. featuring graduates of a course for emergency medical technicians. While I couldn’t be in two places at once, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spent time with some of the nation’s emergency medical workers and gained a new respect for what the new graduates will be […]
The league’s stars may increasingly hail from the streets of North America, but the quality of their play is drawing a growing number of Belizean fans. Last night was no exception as Janelle Chanona reports from courtside at the Belize City Centre. Janelle Chanona, Reporting When players the of San Cas U.B. and the Corozal […]
Closure in the death of Corozal’s Francis Diego is still at least a day away as a post-mortem scheduled for this morning in Belize City was postponed. The reason was the Diego family’s inability to secure transport to the K.H.M.H. to witness the procedure. Diego, a familiar figure to Corozal law enforcement authorities, died on […]
Businessman Jitendra Chawla, better known as Jack Charles, who owns Xtra House Supermarket on Cemetery Road is out on two thousand, five hundred dollars bail plus one surety. Chawla appeared in Court number two this morning before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers where he pled not guilty to customs duties evasion, falsifying customs declarations, importing a restricted […]
The Co-operatives Department said all along that irregularities at Corozal’s St. Francis Xavier Credit Union would result in criminal charges…and this week that prediction came true. Rafael Dominguez, a field officer with the credit union, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with forgery and claiming of a document. The charges follow an investigation by the […]
The CARICOM summit proceeds in Guyana, but the headlines out of Georgetown have more to do with events in the streets than in the conference centre. On Wednesday police fired on a group of demonstrators who broke into the presidential compound, killing two and wounding six. The small group of anti-government protesters broke away from […]
