Who would have thunk it. Peace breaks out in usually boisterous Benque Viejo while the oh so laid back capital of Belmopan hosts a riot. News Five’s Patrick Jones and cameraman Brent Toombs are just back from the wild wild west and report that when it comes to protest, Belize City does not have a […]
Meanwhile in Benque Viejo, a union rally this morning had protesters looking positively well behaved. Anthony Fuentes, President, B.N.T.U. ?Today we are out here to show and let the government of the day know that the National Trade Union Congress of Belize will take back Belize. Belize belongs to Belizeans and we are tired of […]
The British Government has announced today its plans to contribute almost a million Belize dollars to the O.A.S. Peace Fund. That fund was established by the Organization of American States as a means of pooling the financial resources of the international community in order to implement projects along the border between Belize and Guatemala. This […]
It is left to our imagination to determine exactly what happened on a bus travelling through the Stann Creek District, but tonight a U.S. resident of Hopkins is missing a whole lot of money. Lois Chandler told police that she was conned out of fifty-five thousand dollars in cheques, four thousand five hundred dollars in […]
A police officer injured in a traffic accident on Tuesday afternoon lies in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Twenty-one year old Leroy Kerr was off duty when the Mazda he was driving collided with a Mitsubishi Montero near mile fifty-one on the Western Highway. The other driver, Henry Barrera, a Guatemalan missionary, […]
After almost three months of having their vehicles gathering dust in the Customs yard in Belize City, a number of owners had hoped to drive their late model S.U.V.’s and pickups home today. But although the appropriate documents were finally ready, the petitioners were told yet again: come back tomorrow, as no officer wanted to […]
“You’ve got to get in it to win it” is their motto, but with downed telecommunication lines, no one could get it. But the phones are back and so is the Lotto. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today, the machines have been ringing at the Lotto office since the announcement that the popular […]
An old Bob Dylan song tells us that you don’t need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing…and Belizeans certainly don’t need a television newscast to tell them that the country is in the grip of a nationwide drought. What News Five’s Jacqueline Woods can tell you, however, is how serious […]
The destruction that occurred in downtown Belize City last Wednesday night was accomplished in a matter of minutes. The rebuilding, however, has taken longer. This morning I visited Albert Street where the sound of commerce had replaced that of breaking glass. Leopoldo Silva, Owner, Venus Photos and Records ?I?m very optimistic that we will get […]
