As darkness descended, an intensive air and sea search underway for three people missing at sea since Friday night were forced to return to Belize City empty handed. News 5 understands that Johnston International employees: project manager Ian Jackson and mechanic Charles Moody, accompanied by Moody’s seven year old son, left Belize City around five […]
Separate traffic accidents on the Western Highway on Sunday have left twelve people recovering from various head and body injuries. According to the police, the first accident happened between miles twenty and twenty-one. Reports are that just after lunch on Sunday, construction worker George Andrews was driving his pickup truck to Belmopan when he came […]
Fire officials were busy this weekend after blazes in Belize City damaged three houses and left seven people homeless. The first fire started around one Friday morning at an abandoned building at number fifty Tigris Street. Flames quickly gutted the building and the wind carried sparks to a nearby house. The occupants of that house, […]
Another week, another allegation of brutality at the hands of the police. According to Belize City resident Glenroy Rocke, when the police arrived at number eight T Street, only his wife, Yvonne and his fifteen year-old daughter, Zetora, were at home. Rocke alleges that the police used unnecessary force to gain access into his house. […]
Tragedy in the air was narrowly avoided late Friday evening after a Tropic Caravan was forced to make a wet landing just shy of the island’s airstrip. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the details. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It had been raining all day when Gulf Hotel, a Cessna Caravan 208, owned by Tropic Air departed […]
Believe or not, there is some good news to report tonight. On Friday, Fortis Incorporated, through Belize Electricity Limited, donated some four thousand dollars to the Salvation Army. According to the company, the work of the social programs of the Salvation Army deserved its corporate support and it is hoped that other companies will take […]
In news from the education front, this afternoon, two students from Belize City were awarded for their academic excellence in the A-Level exams. Kimberly Haughton and Kalilah Enriquez ranked among the top five in the world in the Cambridge International A-Level English Literature exams for 2002. The brief ceremony at the S.J.C. library proved to […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome to our closeout show for the year 2002. The sporting community at large might have taken the Christmas pause, but the fever is growing inside the football world as the Belize Premier Football League heads into its playoff round beginning January fourth and fifth. We are therefore very […]
