A fifth victim in Monday’s horrific traffic accident has died. Twenty-year-old Kareem Griffith, the driver of the Kia truck, succumbed to his injuries just after nine this morning at the K.H.M.H. According to hospital authorities, Griffith not only fractured two of his legs, but sustained severe head trauma, chest injuries and a ruptured spleen. Griffith, […]
He is not only Commissioner of Police, but by coincidence he was also among those people who found themselves stranded at mile twenty-eight by Monday morning’s highway tragedy. This afternoon I sat down with Commissioner Carmen Zetina to see what role the police have to play in making Belize a safer place for motorists and […]
A two-year-old child is dead after she suddenly collapsed at her home in Spanish Lookout on Tuesday. The toddler, Ismelda Salazar, had reportedly been left in the care of her twelve-year-old sister since early morning by their mother, thirty-year-old Diviljilia Salazar, who had gone to work. The twelve year old told her mother that she […]
The body of a Punta Gorda man missing at sea since Saturday has been found. Twenty-two year old Alford Smith was one of three men who went out fishing on Saturday, only to have their dory capsize. Enfield Arzu swam to shore but Smith and Carl Ramclam did not make it. Ramclam’s body was found […]
In news just in, a Belize City man has been seriously wounded in a ride-by shooting on Antelope Street. Sources tell News 5 that around 6:00 this evening Roland Small was shot in the head and back and has been admitted to the K.H.M.H. in critical condition. A young woman was also hit in the […]
A major figure in Belize’s early anti-colonial struggle has died. Seventy-nine year old Nicholas Pollard Senior succumbed to a heart attack at his Belize City home on Tuesday afternoon. Pollard was a union leader and political activist closely involved in the founding of the People’s United Party, although he later broke with the P.U.P. Pollard […]
This morning, for Belizean bus companies, it was business as usual at the Mexican border. This follows a Tuesday evening meeting in Chetumal in which the Mexicans agreed to a sixty-day moratorium on enforcement of new regulations, which would have had the effect of banning Belizean commercial vehicles from Mexico. According to Belize’s Ambassador to […]
Two more educational institutions today received computer donations through the G.O.B. Intelco schools computer programme. P.U.P. Freetown standard-bearer, Francis Fonseca, handed over eighteen internet ready machines to Saint Joseph’s Primary and fourteen to the YWCA, both located in his division. Aside from the computers, Fonseca also handed over two printers to the Y, and said […]
Meanwhile, in similar, though less partisan fashion, the Japan International Cooperation Agency today presented three Pentium powered computers and a LaserJet printer to the Ministry of Human Development. Coordinator of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers Programme, Mizutani Kyohei, handed over the equipment to Acting Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry, Anita Zetina. The donation will […]
It may have been for charity, but the players gave it all they had–and so did the fans. The numbers are in and Friday’s celebrity basketball games raised a total of one thousand, three hundred and fifty-four dollars. Those funds will be used to purchase fifty-one basketballs, enough to equip all of the Belize District […]
One sporting organization that does not operate on the principles of charity is the semi-pro Belize Premier Football League. But that hasn’t stopped one of its teams in Belize City from giving something back. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Edward P. Yorke High School Football Club has been around for a […]
Odinga Lumumba, born Wilhelm Buller in 1942, earned a place in Belizean history when he spearheaded the organised rioting against the Heads of Agreement in March of 1981. Lumumba hung around for a few years after independence before returning to the continent of Africa, a place where he had worked extensively during the 1970’s. In […]
