It was looking like another unusually quiet weekend in Belize City, but in the wee hours of this morning the deadly thrust of a knife added one more digit to the nation’s murder tally…and left a grieving family to ask why. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Andrea Arnold, Girlfriend of the Deceased “I tell Tonios […]
The national malady of death by motor vehicle continued to rage out of control over the weekend with three killed in two separate incidents. We’ll begin closest to the city where a dangerous curve, a dark night and some risky behaviour ended the life of a Belize City man. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Olivera family […]
On Friday night two men died in the Stann Creek District when their vehicle barrelled through an intersection and ran off the road. Twenty-six year old Peter Ciego and forty-year-old Edward Nicassio, both of Dangriga, were travelling west on the Hopkins Village entrance road. But when they reached the T-shaped intersection with the Southern Highway, […]
It is his first election campaign as an incumbent Prime Minister, and coming off a twenty-six to three margin in the House of Representatives you would think Said Musa is coasting. But the Belizean electorate is a fickle one and since independence in 1981 no government has ever been elected to a second consecutive term. […]
In his interview this morning, Prime Minister Said Musa spoke at length about corruption in government, including measures his party would take to curb the practice if given another five years in power. Musa questioned the credibility of the Opposition’s zero tolerance platform, but it is a position that United Democratic Party Leader Dean Barrow […]
A dramatic river rescue by a joint British/Belizean team in the Cayo District over the weekend saved a U.S. student from the jaws of death. News 5 understands that just after one p.m. on Friday, twenty-two year old Daniel Brown, a student doing environmental course work in Belize, was swimming in the Macal River when […]
Saturday marked the official close of Scout Week, and on that night a fundraiser was held to enlarge the Scout endowment fund. The interest earned from that fund is used to finance specific projects of the association. Over forty-five thousand dollars was raised through generous donations from members of the business community and it is […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve just logged on to this fresh delivery of Sports Monday. After some eight months and a starting total of eight teams, the B.P.F.L. football season reached an abrupt ending Saturday night inside the Isidoro Beaton Stadium when the host Builder’s Hardware Bandits of Belmopan were hoping to force […]
