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Neighbours thwart Corozal kidnapping

Two young children are still in shock tonight after an attempted kidnapping in the Corozal District. According to police, around seven-thirty on Wednesday night they were called out to an area of Corozal Town known as White Cocal where they found a crowd of people surrounding a small white car. Officers waded through the mob, […]

Benque mayor sued over park construction

A land dispute in Benque Viejo del Carmen is now in the hands of the Supreme Court, complicated by politics and missing documents. According to the Mayor of that municipality, Said Badi Guerra, the property in question had been designated as a park years ago, and even though it was later subdivided into lots and […]

Crash nearly sends truck into canal

We have heard about the city’s shortage of parking spaces, but this is carrying things a bit too far. Around five this evening this Nissan Frontier was making a turn from South Street onto West Canal when a pickup truck belonging to the Customs Department travelling south on West Canal ran the stop sign. It […]

Museum displays treasure of stamps

With email, internet, and gradually declining international telephone rates, most of us don’t write as many letters as we used to….which means we are also losing our familiarity with stamps. But those tiny square bits of paper, as News 5’s Jacqueline Woods discovered, are not just for the postman. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The exhibition entitled […]

The Gulf of Honduras: paradise in peril

The waters, cayes, and coastline that make up the Gulf of Honduras are still considered well off the beaten path…not just by tourists from North America and Europe, but even by most residents of the three countries that define it. But as the global stage shrinks and its smaller actors must fight ever harder to […]