Just after dawn today fire and police officials responded to reports of a blaze on the Western Highway. And as News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin explains, while no one was hurt, the incident has left the family with more questions than answers. Sherilee Mangar, Fire Victim
The citrus controversy is heating up again in the south as a published notice to growers is calling for yet another special general meeting. According to the advertisement, the meeting has been called for January twentieth at the Citrus Growers Association’s compound at mile nine on the Stann Creek Valley Road. Items on the agenda […]
Belize Natural Energy continued its damage control efforts today, releasing a copy of a letter from Belize Water Services regarding possible contamination to Spanish Lookout’s water reservoir. In the document Chief Operation Officer Frederick Sandiford informs B.N.E. Chief Executive Officer Dr. Gilbert Canton that lab tests conducted on samples from the two ponds showed that […]
An Orange Walk family is in mourning tonight after their loved one bled to death in a cane field. Police investigations reveal that around one on Thursday afternoon sixty-two year old Hilario Vasquez, a resident of San Roman Village, was using a machete to clear out a cane field when he fell into a hole. […]
Police officers in the Cayo district are tonight looking for the driver of a vehicle who knocked down and killed a Roaring Creek resident. Reports are that around eleven-thirty on Thursday night, cops found the body of Alford Parham lying in the middle of the Western Highway between miles thirty-five and thirty-six. Parham, suffering from […]
Manuel Matute may be thirty-eight years older than the thief who tried to rob him, but that fact didn’t stop the well known jeweller from chasing and catching the culprit. The drama unfolded around eleven Thursday morning inside Manuel’s Jewellery Shop on West Canal. Matute was behind the counter when a fifteen year old boy […]
In 2005, Moses Sulph became a household name as the militant student activist from the University of Belize. But Sulph’s reputation came under fire in April of that year when police arrested him on charges of organising and taking part in a procession without a permit, trespassing on the compounds of Pallotti and Saint John’s […]
As the hunt for accused killer Louie Ganzie continues, thirty-three year old Allison Hemsley, better known as Dan Man, has been touring the media circuit with his latest release. The veteran reggae artist says the recent violent attacks against women, especially the murder of his friend Keisha Sutherland, have motivated him to produce the album […]
Today international experts on fish ecology and the human impact on marine ecosystems dropped a bombshell on local environmentalists: a popular fish species is disappearing. From the depths off the Belize Barrier Reef, scientists have extracted cold hard facts for the Nassau grouper and as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, there is no quick fix. […]
For many people, the term “climate change” invokes thought on environmental policy, especially regarding global warming and its effects on life as we know it. But as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, while world leaders are tasked with the challenge of mapping the way forward, each of us can make a difference. Kendra Griffith, Reporting […]
