It’s a problem that grows a little worse with each election, yet neither political party seems to have the slightest inclination to do anything about it. That is the growing numerical inequality between the nation’s twenty-nine electoral constituencies. Despite a constitutional mandate that “each electoral division shall have as nearly as may be an equal […]
The numbers released by the Elections and Boundaries Department as of December, tell the story of the wide discrepancy between the size of Belize’s twenty-nine constituencies. Let me recount the number of voters, ranging from the largest to smallest: Cayo South: 7483 Cayo North: 6465 Lake Independence: 5676 Cayo Central: 5390 Port Loyola: 5386 Stann […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has left an elderly customs guard dead. Reports are that around six thirty on Saturday night, seventy-one year old Antonio Chan, a resident of Benque Viejo, was travelling to Belize City when the pick up truck in which he was riding, crashed into the back of dump truck […]
In Orange Walk an eleven-year-old girl was killed near her home in Buena Vista Village, following a collision between a bus and a truck. Bus driver, thirty-five year-old Victor Perez, reported to police that sometime around eight on Saturday night, he was heading in a northerly direction between miles seventy and seventy-one when he noticed […]
A night of drinking at a Corozal club, coupled with anger over an old dispute proved to be the recipe for murder over the weekend. Police reports are that sometime around ten on Friday night, twenty-three year old Elvis Vasquez and his older brother, Victor, were socializing at El Chital Nightclub on Second Street. But […]
It may not be as imposing as the massive structure near Freetown Road, but the new fire station on Dolphin Street will go a long way toward making the city safer. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand for today’s official opening. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The construction of the new fire station had to be […]
The recent boom in cruise tourism has not only benefited taxi drivers, vendors and hair braiders, but pretty soon one Belize City church will be looking to cash in. St. John’s Cathedral, the oldest Anglican Church in Central America, will soon be opening a gift shop. Today was the ground breaking. Rt. Rev’d Sylvestre Romero, […]
Belize may be changing in many ways, but on the male supremacy scale, the country is still well entrenched on the macho side of the continuum. How much longer that will be the case was an issue addressed this morning. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting It touches on issues ranging from job […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this latest issue of Sports Monday. The Belize Premier Football League playoffs found the two top teams with identical records of three wins, one loss apiece, in bitter combat for the lead in the standings with two matches per team remaining. Both teams go into […]
