For those who are old enough to remember, it was a tactic lifted directly from the Heads of Agreement protests of 1981. Today cameraman George Tillett and I were in the thick of the latest political turmoil that bubbled through Belize City’s poshest part of town. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon, students of the University […]
If you have been tuning in to live radio, you may be aware of a violent confrontation taking place on the Belcan Bridge in Belize City as protesters clash with police. News Five?s Patrick Jones is just back from the scene. Janelle Chanona ?Patrick, what can you tell us is happening there?? Patrick Jones ?Janelle, […]
Our cameraman Brent Toombs is just back with us. He was stationed at the Belcan Bridge this evening, and he is going to bring us up to date on what is happening at the Belcan Bridge. Janelle Chanona ?Brent, what?s the latest?? Brent Toombs ?Well Stephen Ferguson, our driver and tonight my bodyguard, big up […]
At the same time that students and Opposition politicians were expressing their dissatisfaction in the streets, government officials were trying hard to put their best face forward. For the P.U.P. that face belonged to Minister of Education Francis Fonseca. This afternoon Fonseca was asked by News 5’s Patrick Jones how he thought the drama would […]
The plague of sabotage that brought the nation’s telecommunications system to its knees has spread to the supply of electricity. According to a release from B.E.L., around six-thirty Tuesday evening vandals cut down six poles supporting the company’s one hundred and fifteen kilovolt line from Mexico. The result was a series of blackouts lasting over […]
A Belize City man who was critically wounded in a Monday night shooting has succumbed to his injuries. Twenty-two year old Ordel Duncan died on Tuesday morning after being hospitalised with a gunshot wound to the lower part of his abdomen. Police say Duncan was walking alone through the Pickstock hutments on Monday night when […]
