There is news on the Guatemalan front tonight, some of it exciting and the rest just downright perplexing. The exciting part is that after two years of involvement in what seemed to be a never-ending facilitation process, a date has been set for the final act of the drama. On August twenty-eighth facilitators Sir Shridath […]
In more comforting news from the Foreign Ministry, today a Master Plan of Operations was signed between the Government of Belize and UNICEF. The agreement, which extends through 2006, was initialled this morning by Minister of Foreign Affairs Assad Shoman and UNICEF Country Representative Nadya Vasquez. The programme will focus on enhancing the development of […]
He had been missing for forty-eight hours and this evening the worst fears have been confirmed. A short time ago Corozal police found the body of thirty-eight year old Samuel Carter on the road to Chunox Village. Carter was last seen on Tuesday night around 9:00 and the next morning his abandoned Toyota Corolla was […]
One of Belize’s most wanted is behind bars tonight. Twenty-eight year old Dean Augustine of San Ignacio was handed over to Belizean police on Wednesday by their counterparts across the border in Mexico. Augustine, who was apprehended in Chetumal, was wanted in connection with the April twenty-seventh robbery in San Ignacio of almost one hundred […]
Disputes over how land in Belize is developed are nothing new. But while recent squabbles over the Chalillo Dam and Western Highway landfill have involved government and environmental groups, the latest fight pits angry residents of a seaside community against private landowners. Janelle Chanona reports on the battle for the beach in Hopkins Village. Janelle […]
Just when you thought that basketball was over–at least for the next six months or so–along comes News 5’s James Adderley to serve up another helping of hustle on the hardboards. What the subjects of his next story may lack in height and heft, they more than make up for in heart. James Adderley, Reporting […]
It is often said that local television news is all about crime, violence and traffic accidents. We won’t get into that argument right now, except to say that while the next story began with a horrible automobile mishap, it has a happier ending than most. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Four months after doctors […]
