Sudden death by gunshot is not a particularly unusual occurrence in Belize City, but a killing last night on Vernon Street has investigators trying to decide whether the death was a tragic accident or something more sinister. But with the triggerman still in hiding, there remain more questions than answers. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has […]
There is much less mystery surrounding another shooting that occurred Wednesday in Belize City. Forty-eight year old Ming Xong-stun lies in a coma at the K.H.M.H. after being knocked in the head during the course of a robbery. According to police, around 4:15 in the afternoon a number of men entered Ming’s shop on Raccoon […]
In Corozal a suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting and robbery that occurred on Monday. Twenty year old Peter Locke of the Skeleton Town area of Corozal has been charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of deadly means of harm and a single count of attempted murder. […]
It may not be as big a piece of news as yesterday’s announcement by U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow, but today the reform movement known as We the People, weighed in with its pronouncement on the proposals to end the Guatemalan claim. And that verdict is a resounding yes. Citing a desire for peace between neighbours, […]
We may have dodged Hurricane Isidore, but its effects on the Yucatan peninsula may yet be felt in Belize. According to a release today from Belize Electricity Limited, the damage to the power grid around Merida may mean that less electricity will be available for sale to Belize. Mexico normally supplies about twenty-five megawatts or […]
It fell through the cracks of our coverage, but what will stand up as the most lasting achievement of this year’s Independence celebrations took place on Saturday in Belmopan. That is the inauguration of the George Price Centre for Peace and Development. The two-storey building, constructed with private contributions, houses a library and meeting rooms […]
Another piece of the freshly paved Southern Highway was dedicated this morning. Section four of the road, paid for by a loan from Taiwan’s International Co-operation Development Fund, runs for seventeen point four miles from the South Stann Creek Bridge to the junction of the Big Creek Road. In his first major address as Minister […]
Today, the General Secretary and an executive member of the Football Federation of Belize resigned from their positions. This evening, Ruperto Vicente and Gina Zabaneh held a joint press conference to tell the media that their decision was based on several differences they had with the Federation and President Bertie Chimilio’s unwillingness to correct those […]
When media guru Marshal McLuhan articulated his vision of the global village, he probably was not thinking in terms of Los Angeles, California. But for better or for worse, L.A., with its endless summer and equally endless stream of Hollywood movies and television shows, provides the physical and cultural backdrop for a set of values […]
