It’s a controversy that threatens to be the spanner in the works of the People’s United Party’s high powered political campaign. Yesterday, the United Democratic Party emerged with allegations that government had granted a fifteen-year monopoly license on all major routes in the country to the Novelo’s bus company. The Prime Minister publicly denied the […]
It was the biggest maritime disaster in the history of Belize. Twenty people lost their lives when the motor vessel Wave Dancer capsized after it broke loose from its mooring in Big Creek at the height of Hurricane Iris. This week the families of those victims, eighteen U.S. citizens and two Belizeans, experienced at least […]
Police have charged one man and are looking for two others in connection with last week’s hold-up of a Chinese grocery in Belize City. Twenty-year-old Kendale Robinson of Ebony Street, Belize City, is charged with the robbery of twenty-four year old shopkeeper Jian Feng Liu of Antelope Street. The incident occurred shortly before eleven last […]
The reform movement calling itself “We the People”, is careful to say that it is not a political party… but that did not stop it from today announcing a federation of independent candidates for the upcoming general elections. Numbering eleven and counting, the new politicians–all men–range in geography from north to south. They are Roy […]
It took three hours of exchange between Belize’s only telecommunications company, its union and the Ministry of Labour. But by the end of the discussion, agreement was reached on a way forward for B.T.L. and its workers. Among the points settled are: A meeting will be held on Friday, February seventh between the management of […]
While Belize’s medical capabilities have grown tremendously in both size and sophistication, there are still a large number of procedures that cannot be handled locally. Today, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods looked in on one patient who needs your help to receive care abroad. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Three months ago, one-year-old Lashawn Gladden was drinking her […]
It’s not what you’d call hot news, but we will pause with many Belizeans to honour one of the fallen heroes of our region and indeed the world. In case you didn’t know, February sixth is Bob Marley’s birthday. The musical genius died in 1981 at the age of thirty-six, and his music shows absolutely […]
And on this date, we also choose to pay tribute to another giant of the entertainment world, this time, closer to home. Today is the anniversary of the day on which Edison “Seferino” Coleman passed away. Sefe stands out as perhaps Belize’s greatest broadcasting personality, despite having worked in an era when government control of […]
From the information in the press release, the event looked like a dry panel discussion on the intricacies of voting. But what transpired at the library this morning was anything but dry. News 5’s Marion Ali has the play by play. Francis Gegg, Independent, Fort George “So that is basically the basis of the We […]
I’ve grown up all my life being very conscious of my status as one half of a pair of twins. But it wasn’t until today that I looked at the situation from a different point of view: that of the mother. Larna Flowers, Mother of Twins “When they seh two babies, I wah cry.” Janelle […]
