The voters only went to the polls on Wednesday, but by early next week the wheels of government should already be turning smoothly. News 5’s Janelle Chanona was on hand in Belmopan this morning for the unveiling of the nation’s top executive body…and found that the second Musa administration is no clone of the first. […]
Fire is an ever-present danger in a city crowded with old wooden buildings…but as we get further into the dry season the probability of a major disaster increases. This afternoon, a rapidly expanding blaze was extinguished, but not before making a number of families homeless. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The fire burnt four […]
An American tourist visiting Placencia for a sailing holiday appears to have died of a heart attack. Police say that sixty-year-old Richard Fleming of New Jersey, went to sleep aboard a yacht moored just off the tip of the peninsula around ten pm on Tuesday, but when family members went to wake him up early […]
A woman from the Cayo District is dead tonight, the victim of a traffic accident on the Mountain Pine Ridge road. According to San Ignacio police, Vidalina Deaupres, a Mexican living in Santa Elena, was out with friends on Thursday morning when the pick up truck she was travelling in overturned. Deaupres, who had been […]
In other news from the west, police sources tell News 5 that western border traffic has been disrupted due to trouble on the Guatemalan side of the frontier. Reports are that a teachers’ strike in process now for several weeks, climaxed in the town of Melchor de Mencos when demonstrators blocked the Mopan River Bridge […]
We don’t know what the children of Guatemala are doing while their teachers are on strike, but here in Belize it was the students on the march. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Hey, the heat may have been unbearable for us older folks, but one thousand, five hundred primary school children paraded and […]
Most of its publicity was drowned out by the noise of the election campaign, but this morning as dawn broke over the Hawkesworth Bridge, you’d never know there was any event this week more important than the big canoe race. News 5’s Stewart Krohn reports from the banks of the Macal River in Cayo. Stewart […]
Due to a public and bank holiday on Monday in celebration of Baron Bliss Day, the next newscast will be on Tuesday, March tenth, 2003.
