An elderly woman crosses a dimly lit major highway on a dark night. An oncoming vehicle sees her but it’s too late. Moving metal meets frail flesh. You know the rest. It’s a tragic event that happens more often than we’d like. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on how it played out last night on […]
Two men from the capital city have been charged with murder following the death of a Salvapan resident. According to police, twenty-nine year old David Aguilar, involved in an altercation outside a bar on Saturday night, succumbed to his injuries at the Western Regional Hospital on Wednesday night. Aguilar had been recovering from chop wounds […]
After staying out of the headlines for a couple of weeks, tonight PUP area representatives and former ministers Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde have weighed in with their opinions on this weekend’s national convention. In a joint release from the Lake Independence and Albert committees entitled, “A Call for Greater Democracy”, Espat and Hyde say […]
Last night Belizean environmentalists gathered in the old capital to honour one of their own. Well known conservationist Eloy Cuevas has been selected as the recipient of this year’s James A. Waight Award by the Belize Audubon Society. According to BAS, Cuevas was chosen for his work in the development of alternative livelihoods for fishermen […]
It’s one of those events that can easily be dismissed as a talkshop with no tangible outcome besides money being spent to hold a press conference. But tonight organisers of a new government initiative say the job of enforcing environmental treaties signed between Belize and governments around the world will be challenging but achievable. According […]
Over the years, their lifestyle has been revered and ridiculed but whether you’re down on or down with your neighbourhood Rastas, there is little argument over Bob Marley’s place in the musical and cultural history of our planet. Today, the House of Culture unveiled its latest collection featuring the legend that is Bob Marley and […]
I’ve rappelled three hundred feet down into a sinkhole, flown over land and sea in ultralight aircraft and hiked with soldiers through miles of jungle in search of marijuana plantations…all in the name of journalism. But none of those adventures could come close to the rush I experienced yesterday while covering a story in San […]
