Election manifestos in most countries are the kind of documents that are read once and promptly forgotten by voters and politicians alike. That practice was certainly true in Belize, but in recent years a funny thing happened: manifestos somehow became serious business. The turning point came in the 1993 campaign when it is widely believed […]
An Orange Walk man lost his life over the weekend, the latest victim of a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. Reports to News 5 are that around 6:00 on Sunday evening, twenty-four year old Israel Nunez was riding his bicycle between miles forty and forty-one when he collided head on with an oncoming car. […]
The Northern Highway also proved deadly for another man, this time a resident of Xaibe Village in the Corozal District. According to police, just after 7:00 on Friday night twenty-six year old Diego Alcoser lost his life when his motorcycle collided with a Chevy Blazer. The driver of that vehicle, thirty-two year old Felipe Galaz, […]
A Canadian missionary working in Orange Walk drowned over the weekend at Goff’s Caye. Police reports indicate that sixty-four year old Evelyn Campbell was enjoying an outing with a group of friends at the caye on Friday, but around 10:00 that morning someone noticed she was missing. A search party was organized and around three […]
A series of unrelated attacks on Sunday has left three men recovering from gunshot wounds. According to police, around 1:00 a.m., twenty-three year old Norris Leslie and thirty-nine year old Mark McKoy were socializing in a yard on Casuarina Street in Belize City, when a car drove up and someone inside started shooting. When it […]
There’s an unsolved crime in Belmopan in which police are taking a special interest. It seems that sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning a thief of thieves broke into their Criminal Investigation Branch office in the nation’s capital and made off with at least two firearms, among them an Uzi automatic and a nine […]
The Mennonites have earned a reputation in Belize and elsewhere as people who follow the biblical advice to “turn the other cheek”. That may be true, but according to police, one resident of Spanish Lookout backed up his faith in the Lord with a loaded revolver. Forty-four year old Ben Wolfe pled guilty this morning […]
It was one of the first major projects announced by the P.U.P. government after the 1998 elections. And after a few delays, on Saturday the new city at mile thirty-one finally showed itself off to the public. Not only were there dozens of new houses, but also a new name. Carolyn Trench Sandiford, Consultant, Mahogany […]
Worldwide petroleum prices continue to climb, but for the moment at least, consumers in Belize will be insulated from the financial shock. A release today from the Ministry of Finance indicates that while the landed cost of the latest fuel shipment rose an average of ten cents per gallon, government has reduced its rate of […]
Under the new budget women over sixty-five will soon receive full coverage by the Social Security scheme. Today the attention for older Belizeans continued with the appointment of a National Council on Ageing. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting Once they leave the work force, Belize’s elderly are often ignored by the rest […]
With one of the highest per capita consumptions of sugar in the world, Belize has got to be an uphill struggle for dentists. All the more need for any help we can get. Marion Ali has more on one programme that has saved more teeth than we can count. Marion Ali, Reporting Project Smile started […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re strapped in for another ride on what we call Sports Monday. With the Builder’s Hardware Bandits already waiting in the wing, the battle to become the other finalist in B.P.F.L. football championship was fought at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday as Kulture Yabra hosted Sagitun of Independence in a […]
