Just hours after a Supreme Court judgment that went against Belize Telecommunications Limited, the company is still trying to absorb the reality of the ruling. According to the company’s attorney, Lois Young Barrow, B.T.L. is calmly planning its next move. But she herself is nothing less than shocked by Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh’s conclusion that […]
The quiet of the Valley Community at mile eighteen and a half on the Stann Creek Valley Road was shattered today by a fire which claimed the lives of two small children. Reports are that shortly after 11:00 this morning neighbours heard the children screaming, but thought that they were being disciplined by their mother […]
Meanwhile, police are investigating another tragedy tonight which claimed the life of a child, this time, in Blue Creek Village, Orange Walk. Twenty-one month old Nathan Bergen was reportedly playing in the family’s yard at around 8:30 on Monday morning when he was run over by a pick-up truck driven by his father, thirty-one year […]
A Novelo’s bus driver has been charged in connection with a road accident last week in which two people died. Forty-two year old Daniel Archer has been charged with two counts of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, and negligent grievous harm. Twenty-three year old Benedicto Cal, who was travelling in the bus, […]
This week Belize will be hosting high level delegations from around the region. The occasion is the eighth regular meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Association of Caribbean States. The A.C.S., headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago, includes all the nations of CARICOM plus Cuba, the Dominican Republic and the mainland nations stretching from Mexico […]
As the various national and municipal elections draw closer, we will no doubt begin to see a number of stories like the next one…that is where politics is never far beneath the surface. Today’s tale centres around two bus stop shelters built in the Belama area of Belize City. The builder calls them a badly […]
You may have heard that this is World AIDS Week, but you may not be aware that we are also two days into Youth Week. This morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods discovered that today’s activities focussed on the plain old fashioned hard work of cleaning up the city. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The cleanup was just […]
Earlier in this newscast we mentioned the Association of Caribbean States meeting in Belize City. And while government officials gather in meeting rooms at the Princess, athletes from many of those same countries are competing in San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, in the Caribbean and Central American Games. Through an arrangement with Cayo’s Channel […]
Those many cynics in the community will say that they knew it all along: that with so many cruise ship passengers flooding Belize City, our aggressive entrepreneurs would inevitably begin to quarrel over all those U.S. dollars. As for inevitability, we’re not so sure, but as Jacqueline Woods found out this afternoon, all is not […]
