When word that Belize’s Financial Intelligence Unit was investigating a possible money laundering aspect to last year’s immigration and passport scandal, it had the whiff of a fishing expedition, a U.S. instigated ploy to bring some heat on alleged passport fixers Gabby Affif and Hassan Al Sayed. Perhaps, but today News 5 has learned that […]
A Belize City businesswoman is over five thousand dollars poorer tonight, and she’s pointing the finger at three of her customers. Zhen Yan Li told police that on Friday afternoon three men entered her shop on Faber’s Road Extension and ordered a five gallon bottle of water. When she opened the burglar bar door to […]
Two people are dead tonight and two more have been injured, the victims of road accidents in Cayo and Belize City. The first happened around five o’clock on Sunday morning when sixty-two year old Oliver Wade was knocked down as he rode his bike across the Belcan Bridge. Police say the man was hit by […]
He was a low-profile official with a top-level position in the Belize office of the Inter American Development Bank. And tonight Carl Henri Dupui is dead. Dupui, a forty-nine year old Haitian national, has been serving in the post of Financial Specialist with the I.D.B. country office in Belize since 1998. When he did not […]
Almost one week after we reported that thirty-eight year old Gregory Skeen from Ladyville was missing, his family informed News 5 that over the weekend they were happily reunited after he was found in Chetumal. It is not certain how Skeen, who suffers from Down’s syndrome, managed to cross through both the Belize and Mexico […]
The Kid-O-Rama Show is Belize’s first radio programme to be produced by children. Today, the National Committee for Families and Children announced that the show has won the international One World/UNICEF Award for Outstanding Children’s Radio. According to the N.C.F.C.’s Executive Director, Judith Alpuche, late last year they decided to submit the entry because they […]
Chicken…it’s what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Belize cause face it, as a people, we stick with what works. But for the few among us who don’t know that riceandbeanschickenandsalad is one word, this week, the Ministry of Agriculture is conducting a survey of our kitchens to find out exactly what we’re eating and […]
With less than two weeks of vacation left for most Belizean school children, families are beginning to make the transition from holiday mode to the discipline of formal education. Today, in one last burst of fun, one of the city’s best known summer programmes graduated its latest squadron of swimmers. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The elementary […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this latest edition of Sports Monday. Week six of the Regent Insurance Cup Tournament brought back semi-pro soccer to the M.C.C. Grounds as Kulture Yabra hosted Real Verdes of San Ignacio. We open with the Belize City team on the attack as Daniel Thomas presses, […]
