Precise details have been difficult to come by, but sources have confirmed to News 5 that both police and the Roman Catholic Church are investigating an incident in which one priest chopped another priest, leaving him seriously injured. Reports are that sometime last week, Father Santos Sol became embroiled in an argument with a fellow […]
Reports of accidental deaths over the long holiday weekend continue to trickle in to police. The latest fatality involves a Belize City construction worker. Seventeen-year-old Wilmer Alvarado, a Honduran of a Douglas Jones Street address, lost his life when on December twenty-third he fell from the second floor of the new building for the Wesley […]
Also on Christmas Day, a young man from the Cayo District lost his life, this time by drowning. According to friends, twenty-three year old Vincent Price of Santa Elena, along with two other men, jumped into the Mopan River from the hammock bridge near Branch Mouth. Price began to have trouble swimming and apparently went […]
As crimes go, vandalizing a vehicle is not in the same league with murder, rape or robbery…but for one Belize City woman, the heartless acts of an unknown antagonist have driven her to the point of desperation. Olga Jones, Victim “This Christmas somebody just broke my heart. I nice to everybody that come around, I […]
Connoisseurs of imported steaks will have to sharpen their teeth and settle for the local variety…at least for the near future. In the wake of the discovery of Mad Cow disease in the United States, officials of the Belize Agricultural Health Authority have, since December twenty-fourth, instituted a temporary ban on imports of U.S. beef. […]
Even though we’ve been conditioned to expect nothing but good news from Belize’s booming tourism industry, the latest statistics are still pretty mind-boggling. For the first eleven months of the year, tourist arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport, the nation’s primary port of entry, are up an astounding eighteen point one percent over 2002. […]
It’s the season of raffles, and it is a rare Belizean that does not have at least one crumpled ticket stub occupying a hopeful place on the dining room table. This afternoon I was on hand for one major draw right here in the city. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting As with all raffles, Atlantic Bank Limited […]
While many of Belize’s ardent cycling fans will watch the action without the benefit of a night’s sleep, the riders will have to do their celebrating after the race. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports on the first big event of 2004. Patrick Jones, Reporting Over ninety cyclists will take to the Northern Highway on January […]
