Weather is often a news maker in Belize, running the gamut from hurricane to drought. Tonight’s big story is flood. Generated by unseasonably heavy rains in the northern half of the country, rising waters cut off the frequently travelled Western Highway between Belize City and Belmopan for much of the day. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods […]
And while the flooding in the rolling hills of Cayo went down just as fast as it came up, for residents of a city barely above sea level, it was a different story… one that has many people soaking mad. Frank Longsworth, Area resident ?I noh know how I?m gonna recover from this right now. […]
Thirty-five year old Charles Grant, a special constable attached to the Tourism Police Unit, remains in a very critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he tried to kill himself. The suicide attempt followed Grant’s shooting of police constable Ian Geban in the head. Luckily, the bullet lodged just under the skin below […]
A suspect has died while in police custody. Forty-five year old David Gallego of Ladyville had been detained on Monday pending charges of handling stolen goods. On Tuesday morning around six-thirty his three cellmates at the Ladyville Police Station alerted an officer that Gallego was not moving. By seven he was declared dead by Dr. […]
Two men have been found guilty of burglary and sentenced to seven years each in jail. Eighteen year old Shane Bahadur and twenty-one year old Bruce Reneau received their jail time today from Magistrate Sharon Fraser. The crime occurred on the morning of September twenty-seventh, 2004, in Lord’s Bank Village. The duo, having entered the […]
Two weeks ago we reported on Jeffrey Prosser’s troubles in a Delaware courtroom; tonight it appears that he’s about to lose one of his major assets to the bank. Reports out of Port of Spain indicate that the U.S. Virgin Islands based communications mogul has failed to repay his loan to the Trinidadian bank R.B.T.T. […]
The Sisters of Mercy will be praying for fair weather on Saturday as the convent celebrates more than a century of service in Belize with a five mile walk and fair. According to organiser Sister Carolee Chanona, even though the first seven sisters arrived from New Orleans one hundred and twenty-three years ago, the message […]
If walking isn’t your thing, on Sunday cycling enthusiasts will congregate in the Toledo district for the start of the first annual Temple to Temple Cross Country Bicycle Expedition. The race route begins at the Lubaantun archaeological site at seven-thirty in the morning and over the next seven days riders will travel to different ancient […]
According to the Elections and Boundaries Department, when the cut-off date for new registration of voters passed on January tenth, a whopping two thousand, one hundred and seventy-seven people had been added to the electoral list. This afternoon Chief Elections Officer Stuart Leslie maintained that this is a record for Belize. Official sources indicate that […]
