Over the weekend the campaigns of both the People’s United Party and United Democratic Party peaked as each held televised rallies in Belize City. The last two days before the elections are almost anticlimactic as the rival political organisations seek to fine tune the election day machinery that will ultimately decide the outcome of Wednesday’s […]
For the U.D.P.’s Dean Barrow, Said Musa and his colleagues do not deserve a second chance. Dean Barrow, Party Leader, U.D.P. “Given all that has happened over the last four and a half years, there really is a need for a change and that the United Democratic Party does possess the determination and the ability […]
The P.U.P. said it wasn’t going to bother and the U.D.P. dared them to try. Well today both parties could only watch as independent Albert Division candidate Sydney Fuller quietly filed a motion in the Supreme Court to have his U.D.P. opponent, Marilyn Williams be declared ineligible to run for a seat in the House […]
Police are tonight asking the public to help solve a mystery. That is the identity of a corpse found on Sunday night near mile thirty-eight on the Northern Highway. The badly decomposed body is that of a man approximately five foot, three inches tall with medium build and wearing black pants and a black shirt. […]
Tonight, a twelve-year-old primary school student lies unconscious in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after she was knocked off her bicycle on Saturday afternoon. According to police, around noon that day Melanie Conorquie was riding her bike along the Western Highway near Lord Ridge Cemetery when she was hit by a truck. Authorities say driver […]
In 2002, four hundred and thirty-one people living in Belize tested positive for HIV, but authorities suspect there could be thousands more, totally unaware of their status. To encourage Belizeans to get tested, this morning the Ministry of Health officially opened the first voluntary counselling and testing centre located on the Cleopatra White compound on […]
To those who can remember when the law enforcement vehicle of choice was a bicycle, the purchase of one hundred new cars and trucks for the Police Department is something out of science fiction. But seeing is believing and today the cops took the opportunity to show off their new transport. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This […]
For many Belizeans, it is their first contact with formal education. All the more reason then that preschool education needs to get off on the right foot. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods took to the streets this morning where Belize City’s pre-schoolers were on the move. Dativa Martinez, Coordinator, Preschool Parade “It seem to me that […]
When we last visited Hunting Caye in October of last year we noticed that while this queen of Sapodilla range was still a radiant beauty, her crown had grown a bit tarnished. Over the weekend steps were taken to restore the shine as one hundred and fifty coconut trees were planted to replace those that […]
When you add up all the candidates for Wednesday’s general and municipal elections, the total numbers over two hundred aspirants for public office. But while most of those politicians may have spent the weekend campaigning, as far as we know, there was only one man really running. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On Sunday […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we’re glad you could join us for this fresh package of Sports Monday. Sagitun of Independence has claimed the semi-pro football title, so we now turn out attention to the Harrison Parks Cricket Competition, which has been heating up inside the Belize Rural. We’re four weeks into the season […]
