It’s not often we lead our newscast with a story occurring outside of Belize, but this one hit us hard. Belizean Marion Jones, holder of three Olympic gold medals and generally assumed to be the finest female athlete on the planet, has failed to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team in her premier event, the […]
Shortly before noon today, San Ignacio police were alerted to the discovery of human remains found in Belizean territory just this side of the Guatemala border. Authorities say from information they have gathered from bits of a tattered passport found near the set of bones, they believe the remains are those of a Guatemalan woman. […]
Apart from those bones at the border, we are happy to report that there were no murders or shootings over the weekend…but one man was badly beaten during a robbery. The attack took place in Dangriga around ten-thirty on Friday night. According to police, around eleven that night they were called out to Southern Regional […]
Authorities in Punta Gorda have detained two people in connection with a break in that occurred at one of that town’s business establishments. Police say sometime between Thursday night and early Friday morning thieves broke into the store on Main Middle Street owned by twenty-four year old Frank Madrid. He reported missing from his store […]
San Ignacio police say four men who decided to visit their municipality for the purpose of crime will think twice before they come again. They report that early Saturday evening thirty-eight year old Leonard Augustine of Seine Bight, forty-six year old Ansel Welch of Gales Point and Belize City residents twenty-seven year old Wayne Castillo […]
Cabinet says no decision was ever taken on the project and the minister of culture says he’s against it…but those disclaimers have still not allayed fears that government may permit some form of privatization of the ancient Maya Site of Caracol. With the Belize Tourism Industry Association and Belize Ecotourism Association already on record with […]
It may be the wealthiest urban area in the nation, but residents of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, have not had access to a corresponding level of medical care. Now, thanks to a partnership between a service club and government, that situation may soon be remedied. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports.
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?ve logged on to this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Sagitun of Independence and Juventus of Orange Walk clashed at the People?s Stadium yesterday in what can be viewed as a preview of the Championship series inside the Regent Cups Insurance Cup tournament. It?s all smiles […]
