Caught between the rock of overwhelming debt and the hard place of almost non-existent cash flow, the telecommunications company known as INTELCO appeared to take one step closer to the brink of disaster today as it closed three district offices in Orange Walk, Belmopan, and at the airport, and let go an undetermined number of […]
Corozal police have charged three young men, one of them a minor, following the stabbing death of twenty-two-year-old Miguel Angel Lin. According to police, Lin was at the Miramontes Bar in Santa Elena around eleven-thirty on Saturday night when he apparently became involved in an argument with sixteen-year-old Jose Omar Machado, eighteen-year-old Antonio Anderson and […]
Belize City resident Crystal Woodye, believed to be in her early twenties, lies in a critical condition tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The young woman was inside her house on Neal’s Pen Road around eight this morning when she was shot in the face. The bullet entered Woodye’s left cheek and she has […]
A two-year-old Dangriga boy has died tragically from electrocution. According to police, the child, identified as Cory Rosa, was playing in a yard with his siblings when he touched the live wire that the family used to get current from a neighbour. According to the mother, Patricia Rosa, she was sleeping around eight-thirty on Saturday […]
Police in Belmopan are investigating the circumstances behind the discovery of a dead body found Sunday in the Belize River. The corpse, found behind the Warrie Head Lodge, has been identified as twenty-eight-year-old Felix Jimenez of Ontario Village. A post mortem is scheduled at Western Regional Hospital.
With construction about to start on a modern cruise and port complex in Belize City, it appears that the administration of the country’s maritime interests is also expanding to meet new challenges. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Major (Retired) Lloyd Jones, Ports Commissioner ?You could never be a hundred percent secure. I think that […]
Belize is currently hosting the third Central American Air Navigation Experts Working Group. The meeting, which opened this morning at the Princess Hotel, includes the participation of the International Civil Aviation Organization and the Central American Corporation for Air Navigation Services. According to Department of Civil Aviation operations officer, Gilberto Torres, the gathering is just […]
Summer vacation officially started this week for thousands of the country’s students. And while most will travel to vacation spots at home and abroad, a group of forty-five teachers will spend the first half of their summer break in the classroom, working towards their Masters degree in Education. Coordinator of the Masters in Education programme, […]
Rex Nettleford; his name has long been synonymous with the University of the West Indies–and to honour him UWI has created a travelling exhibition. That presentation is now in Belize…and News 5’s Patrick Jones checked it out. The exhibition chronicles the inspiring rise of Professor Rex Nettleford from humble beginnings in rural Jamaica to become […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re rolling out another portion of Sports Monday. The Regents Insurance Cup playoffs found two winless ball clubs Saturday night inside the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in week two of the post season as Builders Hardware Bandits played host to Griga United of Dangriga. Shall we say both ball clubs […]
