If anything has characterized the People’s United Party’s campaign this election year, it has been it’s festive atmosphere awash in blue and white, and dances set to the tune of their theme songs. And true to form, today, when the P.U.P. took to the streets of Belize City on this, Nomination Day, they lived up […]
The P.U.P.’s might have been the first ones out of the gate this morning, but in the heat of the afternoon sun, the United Democratic Party standard bearers made their impression felt. And as News 5’s Jacqueline Woods found out, what they lacked in numbers, they made up in confidence. Jacqueline Woods “Following the 1998 […]
And while nomination day activities dominated the media in Belize City, in the districts, the two main political parties were also presenting their candidates to the people. Here’s the final list of the People’s United Party candidates: in the North, Valdemar Castillo in Corozal North; Vildo Marin in Corozal Bay; Florencio Marin in Corozal South […]
An elderly man is dead after he was knocked down on Friday night on the Northern Highway. According to police, sixty-nine year old Jesus Vasquez of Chan Chen Village was walking in the village when he was hit by a car. As Vasquez lay bleeding on the ground, suffering from serious head and body injuries, […]
Meanwhile, another robbery has left an elderly man clinging to life. Reports are that the victim, seventy-nine year old Francisco Gutierrez, was manning his bar on Friday night in Cattle Landing, Toledo when a thief or thieves broke in, viciously beat him up, stole money and merchandise, then left him there to die. Gutierrez was […]
An armed robbery in Belize City over the weekend has netted one thief a twenty thousand dollar booty. According to police, around six Saturday evening, a masked gunman walked into the offices of the Western Union at the corner of Mahogany Street and Central American Boulevard and demanded money. Employees handed over approximately twenty thousand, […]
Tonight, Orange Walk police are looking for a man who stands accused of stealing money from his employer. He has been identified as Jorge Tolango, a resident of Trial Farm. According to Gasper Vega, owner of Vega’s Imports in Orange Walk Town, several of his clients paid Tolango as much as twelve thousand dollars…but the […]
An afternoon fire in Belize City has left one man homeless and a school building charred and waterlogged. Around one o’clock today, residents of Freetown Road saw smoke coming from this wooden building at number fifty-two Freetown Road. Within minutes, flames had engulfed the structure and began to lick at the Bethel primary school building. […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we’re rolling into another fresh version of Sports Monday. Football fever raged at full pitch inside the Michael Ashcroft Stadium Saturday night where Sagitun played host to the Builder’s Hardware Bandits of Belmopan to kick off the three-game B.P.F.L. football championship series. For whatever reason, Belmopan gave up its […]
