Making good on their pledge to act quickly following Monday night’s murder in Conch Shell Bay, police today arrested and charged one suspect and are hot on the heels of another. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Twenty-five year old Leonardo Cassanova, a fisherman and resident of the Conch Shell Bay Area is one of the persons police […]
The victim of a fatal mishap in Orange Walk has been identified. He is Salvadoran Antonio Chilen. Police say they have no other details about Chilen whom they believe does not have any relatives in Belize. He was hit by a cane truck while riding a bicycle Monday on the Orange Walk bypass.
With the recent observance of World AIDS Day much of our attention has been focussed on efforts to combat the deadly pandemic and all its related effects. Today one of our most important national institutions made clear its own commitment to the fight. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from Price Barracks. Colonel Stephen Heusner, Deputy […]
Present for this morning’s launch of the B.D.F. initiative was Director of the National AIDS Programme Dr. Marvin Manzanero. In his presentation Manzanero reported that up to September 2006, there were three hundred and twenty-three new HIV infections and they’ve projected that by the end of the year that number will rise to four hundred […]
Minister of Health Jose Coye was admitted to the hospital this morning following an adverse reaction to prescribed medication. News Five understands that around eight thirty this morning, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Chief of Medical Staff Dr. Khalid Ghazy was at Coye’s King’s Park home to administer an injection but shortly after receiving the shot, […]
His appointment has come extremely late in the game but the Commission of Inquiry into the activities of the Development Finance Corporation finally has a forensic auditor. According to a government release, accountant Mark Hulse has been formally engaged to investigate D.F.C. transactions from 1999 through 2004 as they relate to the Commission’s work. News […]
This morning a very happy Elvis Usher and his family of five walked into the offices of Tropical Gaming Company to claim his grand prize of seventy-five thousand dollars for the draw held on November eighteenth. Following the usual fifteen percent deduction, Usher took home a total of sixty three thousand dollars, seven hundred and […]
To jumpstart the tourism season, hoteliers from across Belize made an unusual offer: they gave away free four day stays at their establishments to anyone who registered online at the Belize Tourism Industry Association website. All participants had to do was pay airfare to the Phillip Goldson International Airport and pre-book the hotel of their […]
Tourists weren’t the only ones receiving free goodies this week, as I found out this afternoon at the Belize City House of Culture. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting It may have taken the children some time to get into the party mood but after encouragement by the Continental Airline staff and master of ceremonies Neil Hall, the […]
