The case appears to have been placed in the slow lane ever since fourteen-year-old David Zabaneh was killed by a gang of Ghurkhas in May of 2001. Today, Britain’s Daily Mirror tells us that after nearly two years of supposedly intense investigation the six soldiers accused of murder will be set free for lack of […]
The first reports raised fears that it was a tragedy on the magnitude of January’s fatal crash on the Western Highway. But fortunately, while the sight of the overturned bus looked bad, in the end even the worst injuries were relatively minor. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Novelos bus was carrying twenty-nine passengers […]
Two separate Belize City shootings late this morning have left two men hospitalised at the K.H.M.H. The first incident occurred just after 10:00. According to police, one Eldon Roland was involved in a misunderstanding with two unidentified men when one of them pulled out a gun and shot Roland in his groin. So far police […]
Lady luck smiled on another fortunate Belizean this week as Saturday’s Lotto draw has produced one more big winner. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand for the handing over. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-seven year old Elena Gongora is not certain if her political party will win tomorrow’s election, but today she is definitely feeling […]
On Wednesday, in addition to going to the polls, many Belizeans will be going to church to mark Ash Wednesday, the official start of the Lenten season. Even though politics has dominated the media for the past month, religious leaders insist the event will not been overshadowed. This morning we spoke to Anglican Bishop Sylvester […]
Belize’s youngest children were at it again today as the preschool unit competes with the political process for the nation’s attention. Today the focus was on those preschool age children who are on the outside looking in. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting None of the two hundred children gathered here attend preschool. And […]
There’s an old adage popular in the legal profession, which says that anyone who chooses to defend himself instead of hiring a lawyer has a fool for a client. Independent Albert candidate Sydney Fuller may be feeling a bit foolish tonight as one day after he filed his own constitutional motion to have Marilyn Williams […]
In a season of very busy people she has been among the busiest. Today, on election eve, Chief Elections Officer Myrtle Palacio took time out for a few last words to the nation’s voters. Myrtle Palacio, Chief Elections Officer “The voter is the most important person in our democracy. In our culture in Belize, we […]
There are few more important obligations of citizenship than voting on election day. It’s difficult to generalize about voter turnout in Belize because the voting lists are not regularly purged of those voters who have died or moved out of the country. Probably the most indicative numbers are those from the 1998 election, which was […]
And in a story that we were hoping we didn’t have to report, it appears that one candidate in Belize City just couldn’t resist playing the race card, even if he did wait until the last day of the campaign to do it. The billboards, entitled “The national pie: how it is divided up” purport […]
