For the second time in less than a week, a citizen armed with a licensed handgun has stepped forward to thwart a crime. The latest incident involving a gun toting Good Samaritan occurred on Friday in Belize City. Lorraine Broaster, Victim of Break-in “He violated my privacy, and at the early, early, early hours of […]
In other police news, two very lethal weapons have been taken off the streets. On Friday night in Belize City a young man fled on seeing a police patrol and was seen throwing an object away. It turned out to be a Tech nine automatic with eight bullets. Eighteen-year-old Emerson Young of Mahogany Street has […]
On Saturday police confiscated another firearm, but only after it allegedly was used to shoot at somebody. Forty-two year old Honduran Marciano Gonzalez has been charged with attempted murder, discharging a firearm in public and keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammo. Gonzalez is accused of using his nine-millimetre pistol to take two shots at twenty-year-old […]
Details are emerging on the new private management contract soon to be awarded for the operation of the Philip Goldson International Airport. In a telephone interview with management team executives Enrique Hoare and Linsford Rosado, News 5 has learned that the new owners of a thirty-year concession to manage the airport are a consortium of […]
Just a week after a lucky winner took home a Lotto jackpot of one hundred and twelve thousand, five hundred dollars, someone else has done it again. Lotto officials confirmed to news 5 that somebody is holding the winning ticket in Saturday’s fifty-two thousand, five hundred dollar draw…but that person has not yet come in […]
On Saturday night in Barbados, Belize had a big night as two of the nation’s media houses were honoured for excellence in the annual PAHO media awards. I was fortunate enough to collect both the UNICEF and U.N.D.P. prizes for the story I produced on children and crime. Those awards were shared with presenter Kayla […]
The initial round of Children’s Karaoke Television is now history as the fourth set of eliminations in the junior and senior categories took place on Sunday afternoon at Club Calypso. Here’s how it went. Maureen Dawson, Host, C.K.T.V. “And the winner in our junior category is Godwin Sutherland, all the way from Belmopan.” (Godwin sings […]
The University of Belize continues to upgrade its postgraduate offerings with the inauguration of its latest programme for a Masters Degree in business. The intake for the Executive M.B.A. course, which numbers twenty-one, is the third group of Belizeans to earn their degrees without major disruption of their professional or family lives, through U.B.’s collaboration […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The battle of undefeated teams in the Regent Insurance Cup playoffs brought a monstrous crowd to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday as Kulture Yabra hosted the Builder’s Hardware Bandits of Belmopan. So who becomes the daddy and who receives the spanking? Let’s check it out. Norman […]
