Police have made arrests in two murders that stunned the city in the wake of September celebrations. Twenty-year-old Dwight Stanley Francis of North Creek in Belize City has been charged in Saturday morning’s fatal shooting of Dylan Ferguson. Ferguson was killed on Central American Boulevard following an argument at Archie’s Restaurant and club. The second […]
More unlicensed and prohibited firearms continue to be taken off the streets, some as the result of the Police Department’s Cash for Information programme. The latest seizure involves a sawed off shotgun discovered at a house in the Belama area of Belize City. Arrested was twenty-year-old Moises Shoman. The shotgun, with its original full-length barrel, […]
In News from New York, Foreign Minister Godfrey Smith today addressed the fifty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. His speech was short and to the point. In return for their consistent economic support and friendship, Smith urged the admission of Taiwan to membership in the world body. He then made the case for […]
We will try to modestly report on this next item, but it is with great pride that we announce that News 5 reporter Jacqueline Woods has been named the winner of two prestigious prizes in this year’s Pan American Health Organization Media Awards. The story on “Children and Crime”, produced by Woods, presented by Kayla […]
It’s one of those ideas that prompt people to ask, “why didn’t I think of that?” Well, the subjects of our next story not only thought of it, they actually did it. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting Long before Belize City was inundated by the roar of SUVs the most common sound in the […]
With the tourism boom showing no signs of letting up, there will be increasing pressure to find new visitor attractions and bring more formal organisation to existing ones. The result is that while the natural wonder may retain its beauty, the socio-political fallout can get downright ugly. The cave I visited yesterday is a good […]
