On last night’s newscast we asked for the public’s help in trying to answer some nagging questions about what appears to be the illegal sale of Belizean passports. Specifically, we aired the names, street location and photos of twenty-two applicants for Belizean passports, whose documentation appears to be suspect. These applicants, from Taiwan, Mainland China […]
A late afternoon shooting on Rocky Road in Belize City has sent two men to the hospital. Details are sketchy, but around 3:00 this afternoon two gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on one Alex O’Brien, twenty-six, of a Dean Street address and another man, described only as “Natty”. Reports are that O’Brien received gunshot […]
Meanwhile in Cayo, police report that a fight this morning between two men has left them both dead. When police arrived at the scene on the Bullet Tree Road on the outskirts of San Ignacio at around 2:30 a.m. they found Bebe Felipe Ical suffering from stab wounds to the head, neck and back. He […]
A mid-morning collision on the Northern Highway has left four people injured. Twenty year old Nolberto Meggs, Richard Dominguez also twenty, seventeen year old Roger Bradley and eight year old Megan Leslie were all admitted to the K.H.M.H. after their vehicle, attempting to overtake, collided with another heading in the opposite direction near mile eight. […]
For several years, the efforts of Habitat for Humanity have been helping low-income Belizeans build their own affordable homes. By all accounts the program is a good idea, but for one reason or another, Habitat has yet to become a household word in Belize. Yvonne Bowen, Habitat Homeowner “When you work on your own home, […]
The epidemic known as AIDS is no stranger to Belize or the media, and by now we’ve learned that whatever progress is made against this modern day plague will come in small, but nonetheless important increments. Today I was on hand for one such step forward. Janelle Chanona, Reporting On Monday, nine-year-old Eldrid Martinez died, […]
In recent years the Belize Defence Force has taken on new tasks that go beyond the traditional role of a professional army. And with those new duties of law enforcement and disaster relief comes new training–even for the BDF volunteers. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It was the first time that the […]
