The pilot of a flight from Kanantik resort to the P.G.I.A. this morning had to make an emergency landing in a swamp near the airport. Fortunately, he got the plane, and the passengers, on the ground safe and sound. News 5 was at the scene. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It has still not yet been determined […]
Relations between Belize and Guatemala have been simmering on the diplomatic back burner over the last few months, but the heat was turned up last week when a group of Guatemalan xate farmers attacked a Belizean patrol unit inside the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. The joint B.D.F./Police patrol took one of the Guatemalans into custody. The […]
Caye Caulker police and the Castro family of Belize City have still not recovered the body of nineteen-year-old Andrew Castro, presumed drowned after he fell off his boat over the weekend. According to the family, Castro who is the captain of the vessel named Liz was chartered by a group of friends to go to […]
In another tragic incident, on Holy Saturday another man drowned, this time while attempting to save the lives of several other swimmers. Reports are that Juan Manuel Orellano was with a group of friends and family at Grace Bank near Sandhill when two girls encountered difficulty in the water. Juan and his father jumped into […]
Also this weekend, a traffic accident on Holy Saturday resulted in the death of a Belize City man. According to police, forty-five year old Winston Smith was a passenger in a Grand Cherokee, which was traveling on the Western Highway towards Belize City when the vehicle crashed into the Roaring Creek Bridge. Winston Smith suffered […]
Police in Corozal have charged a man in connection with the brutal murder of seventeen-year-old Sheila Hall over a week ago in San Antonio Village; he is twenty-seven year old Shane Morgan. Hall’s decomposing body was discovered last Tuesday morning by a man who had gone to cut bush on a piece of land situated […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this dish of Sports Monday. We hope you enjoyed the Easter and we know you know that the Easter always brings the annual Cross Country Cycle Classic on Holy Saturday, so we take you immediately out to Georgie August on the Western Highway for the […]
