The Caribbean, according to foreign myth, is supposed to be one of those stress free places where the smiling natives live happy, carefree lives. Well, we all know differently…and this morning the stress that affects the lives of most of us at one time or another reached a point where one Belize City resident could […]
Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the victim of what appears to be a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Wednesday night around eleven police observed the body of an unidentified Hispanic man on the roadside near mile twenty-one and a half. The deceased was clad in blue jeans, a green shirt and […]
And in another traffic tragedy, an Orange Walk woman is dead following a freak accident in which she was crushed between two vehicles. According to police, twenty-six year old Aminta Cornejo of San Francisco Street was leaned over the engine compartment of her car trying to get it started when she apparently succeeded. The vehicle […]
Word from Guatemala is guardedly optimistic about the chances of recovery for a grocer critically wounded last week in a robbery attempt. And here in Belize City, two young men have been arrested and charged for the crime. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Police say nineteen-year-old Louis Gillette of Oleander Street […]
And in less cheerful medical news, we regret to announce that B.D.F. recruit Rafael Pop has died. According to a spokesman for the K.H.M.H., Pop succumbed to his injuries around eleven Wednesday night. He had been in a coma since Friday after collapsing during a training run in Ladyville. Pop had been declared brain dead […]
It is only the latest in a disturbingly long list of outrageous incidents perpetrated by Guatemalans on the Belize side of the border. But for one newly employed Belizean worker, the prospect of being abducted at gunpoint was definitely not in his job description. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from the Cayo District. Patrick Jones, […]
It was the kind of a bizarre medical emergency that is every mother’s worst nightmare. And in the case of Sandra Lewis, not only did she have to cope with the grim reality of a pin stuck in her son’s throat, but the added burden of not having the money to have it removed. Over […]
