The dispute over who owns and controls Belize’s major telecommunications provider keeps getting nastier. At times the level of detail has become dizzying but we’ll do our best to put the situation in as simplified a version as possible. Basically, Jeffrey Prosser’s ICC, relying on a U.S. district court order issued Friday, claims to hold […]
It’s not the first time it’s happened and–official pronouncements aside–will probably not be the last. I’m talking about the burning Belize City garbage dump. Over the weekend a change in wind direction sent the thick acrid smoke directly into the heart of the old capital. This morning I visited the area and met with some […]
A fight between two teenagers from the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro has left one dead and another facing a charge of murder. Police say that around four thirty on Thursday afternoon, seventeen-year-old Lloyd Swazo and eighteen-year-old Jason Joseph got into argument, apparently an old beef that flared up again. The dispute came […]
It was not a good weekend for several Belizeans who sought relief from the intense heat. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods today visited Hattieville where two deaths by drowning are still being studied by police. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting A post mortem conducted on the bodies of eighteen-month-old Austin Young and nineteen-year-old Desiree James revealed that mother […]
The enticing waters of the Mopan River in Cayo claimed the life of a thirteen-year-old boy from Unitedville Village on Easter Monday. San Ignacio police say Enid Gentle went down to the river in Bullet Tree village to bathe with the family of forty-five-year-old Gregorio August yesterday afternoon. But sometime during the outing, Gentle apparently […]
The death of a thirty-three-year-old Belize City stevedore on Easter Monday is under investigation to determine if it was an accident or the result of foul play. Co-workers found the body of Andrew Betson in the sea near Stake Bank off the coast of Belize City around seven on Monday morning, one hour after his […]
A Belize City man is dead following a single car accident on the Coastal Road. Sixty-one-year-old Ryan Samuels was killed on Saturday when the Suzuki Sidekick he was driving went into a ditch approximately four miles from La Democracia. Injured was forty-two-year-old passenger Rubin Brown. Both men were security guards at the Karl Heusner Memorial […]
A fire in San Ignacio Town has destroyed a number of buildings in the downtown business area. Around one forty-five on Monday morning the alarm rang though the Burns Avenue neighbourhood that a warehouse belonging to the Bismilla Furniture Store was on fire. By the time, San Ignacio fire fighters scrambled to the scene the […]
Two cases of suspected arson over the weekend have destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property in Belize City and Orange Walk. According to police, the first incident happened shortly after two on Holy Saturday morning. Twenty-seven-year-old Shirley Lambey told police that she and her common law husband Travis Olivera were at the couple’s Jane […]
The search for the driver of a vehicle that knocked down a cyclist near San Estevan Village, fatally injuring him last week Sunday night has ended. Orange Walk police today reported that they have arrested thirty-one-year-old Udelmir Patt of San Estevan and charged him for the offences of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?ve tuned in with this post-Easter edition of Sports Monday which naturally translates into coverage of the seventy-seventh annual cross country cycle classic staged on Holy Saturday. We open with this shot of the national road champion Shane Vasquez of Western Spirit resplendent in the colours […]
