For two days he had remained silent while the local and foreign architects of the proposals to end the Guatemalan claim explained them to anyone who would listen. But this afternoon Prime Minister Said Musa stepped up and put his not inconsiderable weight firmly in favour of a settlement. Janelle Chanona reports. Prime Minister Said […]
It once carried the nickname of Rambo Town, based on its reputation as home to ruthless gunslingers who shot first and asked questions later. The image of Orange Walk may have softened in recent years, but this morning a cold blooded murder reminded residents that old ways die hard. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from […]
In other crime news, a Belize City man is tonight recovering from chop wounds inflicted by an angry woman. Twenty-two year old Elbert Anderson told police that around 7:30 on Wednesday night he was buying boledo at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Freedom Street when he was accosted by a woman be knew, […]
In the first breakout since Hattieville Prison came under private management, two inmates are tonight on the loose. Two seventeen year old Guatemalans, Oscar Cardosa and Miguel Angel Gregorio, were working outside the prison compound on a labour gang on Tuesday morning when they slipped away from their supervisors. Although the two men carried machetes, […]
Details are still sketchy but tonight, Corozal police are investigating the mysterious deaths of two men from Paraiso Village. According to police, the men, identified as thirty-three year old Enrique Sosa and twenty-nine year old Adrian Villanueva, were found dead with their hands and feet bound, six miles north of Corozal Town on the Northern […]
The PUP manifesto promise to build ten thousand houses is a familiar political mantra, but a less well known commitment involves the establishment of Houses of Culture in every district. With Belize City and Benque Viejo already operating, today was Orange Walk’s turn to join the cultural revolution. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Orange Walk’s House of […]
He modestly calls himself the Calypso King of the World–and there are few who would dispute his royalty. With a Trinidadian passport in the name of Slinger Francisco, the man who touched down at the P.G.I.A. today is the quintessential Caribbean entertainer. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning, popular Calypsonian “The Mighty Sparrow” and his band, […]
