They have done an excellent job of exposing the weakness of Government’s financial management…but tonight the Opposition United Democratic Party will put forth its own version of how to set things right. In a format that they call a town meeting, UDP leaders will meet the public tonight at seven at St. Mary’s Hall in […]
Authorities are looking for the driver of a vehicle involved in a hit and run just east of Belmopan. Sometime after midnight this morning police discovered the dead body of a Hispanic man lying in the middle of the Western Highway between miles forty-five and forty-six. A badly damaged bicycle was found nearby. Thus far, […]
The Christmas jacking season appears to have started early this year as another Belize City business establishment has been hit by armed robbers. Two men entered the Highway Grocery at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway around eight Tuesday night and one pulled a gun on proprietor Mia Tag Lui. The crooks […]
Police in Cayo had better luck in capturing two of four people who held up the Three Flags Service Station in Unitedville last week Friday. Investigations have led to the arrest of Arleigh Guild and Germaine Smart, both twenty-four years old and residents of Belize City. They have each been charged with three counts of […]
Two women were rescued from a burning house early this morning by a policeman. Around three A.M., police received reports of a fire at this small wooden house behind the Zoe Ministries World Outreach Centre on Vernon Street. Police Constable Lazaro Catch, who was working at the Mayflower police booth, was dispatched to the scene […]
And in news just in…a boating accident this afternoon offshore San Pedro town has left two people seriously injured. According to police press officer G. Michael Reid, a boat being piloted by thirty-three year old Amado Watson, ran over a smaller boat and its two occupants. Twenty-seven year old Anthony Thomas and thirty-one year old […]
Their two parks in Belize City–one on each side of the Creek–are popular places for residents who need a place to stretch out and chill. And now BTL has added a third public area to its domain, this time in Placencia. The park, located in the centre of the picturesque village, was built at a […]
They are fresh off the plane and heading soon to a health centre near you. Patrick Jones has the scoop on the latest batch of volunteers reporting for duty in Belize. The seventeen Nigerian technical cooperation volunteers arrived in the country on Tuesday and are headed straight to their assignments at different health posts around […]
Whether you like it fried, stewed, baked or barbecued, chances are chicken is on your menu more than any other source of protein. That’s why any possible threat to Belize’s favourite bird is not taken lightly. This morning I joined agricultural health officials in Spanish Lookout as they investigated what is hopefully only a blip […]
With major holiday weekend events set for Dangriga and Hopkins there will be no shortage of activities centred around Garifuna Settlement Day. But not all the celebrating will take place in the Stann Creek District…as News 5’s Patrick Jones found out. Patrick Jones, Reporting The style is the same…and so is the sound…but come Friday […]
