It was not the massive public demonstration the unions were hoping for, but the turnout and conviction of the marchers were still sufficient to keep up the pressure on government to reconsider at least parts of its proposed increases in Social Security contributions. Here’s how it looked this morning in Belize City. Janelle Chanona, Reporting […]
The protests against government organised by the National Trade Union Congress were not confined to the old capital. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from Orange Walk, where union workers from the Tower Hill sugar factory added to the size–and credibility–of demonstrations in that northern town. Patrick Jones, Reporting Hundreds of demonstrators armed with placards queued […]
In news just in, reports to News 5 indicate that two people are dead following a collision on the Western Highway. The accident, which occurred around five this evening near mile twenty?one, involved a westbound Guatemalan tour bus operated by Linea Dorada and an eastbound minivan. Two occupants of the minivan are believed to have […]
No one is sure exactly why a resident of the St. Martin de Porres area of Belize City was murdered over the weekend, but there is no doubt that the final moments before his death were filled with terror. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the grim story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Authorities say evidence they found […]
A domestic dispute in Dangriga turned deadly over the weekend and tonight two children are without their mother. According to police sources in that southern town, just after seven on Sunday evening, twenty-eight year old Delma Lucas was at her home at First New Site when her former common-law husband and the father of her […]
He has spent his entire adult life working in virtually every nook and cranny of our system of justice. Today that experience paid off. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This morning, under the watchful eyes of the legal community and invited guests, former Director of Public Prosecutions, Adolph Lucas was officially sworn in as Justice of the […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and allow me to welcome you to this issue of Sports Monday. It might not have been properly publicised, and in fact, it did not attract the number of fans an event of this magnitude usually commands, but the Belize Basketball Association nevertheless opening the curtain Friday night on the […]
