The city’s delivery boys were hard at work today, but not all of them carried flowers and chocolate, because as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, there was no love in two letters sent by messenger this morning to the D.F.C. Commission of Inquiry. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today, former C.E.O. of the Development Finance Corporation, Troy […]
The showdown between rival ownership factions anticipated for Friday morning at B.T.L. headquarters will not materialize as scheduled. According to a press release issued by Jeffery Prosser’s Innovative Communication Company, the meeting, called to reassert the minority shareholder’s alleged rights, has been rescheduled for Thursday, February twenty-second at the Princess Hotel. The reason cited for […]
A man who was shot in the head not only survived the attack but has discharged himself from the hospital. Police say that on Tuesday night, they visited the K.H.M.H. where they found twenty-three year old Anthony Crawford suffering from gunshot injuries to the left side of his face and back of the head. Because […]
An armed robbery in the downtown area has resulted in the arrest of a Belize City car washer. According to court reports, this morning thirty-five year old Andrew August was charged with robbery, aggravated assault and use of deadly means of harm. He appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers today where he pled not guilty, was […]
There is also news from the Magistrate’s Court that a man who pled guilty to shooting at another man has been fined and released. According to twenty one year old Darwin Rocke, he was in his yard on Monday night feeding his dogs. At some point he looked up only to see two armed men […]
If you spent what seems like hours stuck in Belize City traffic today, rest assured you were not alone. It seems that a combination of five cruise ships in the harbour, and a whole lot of Belizeans heading out for a Valentine’s lunch resulted in major gridlock on the narrow streets of the old capital. […]
And speaking of traffic, today a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Government of Belize and the San Pedro Town Council in which G.O.B. granted three point eight million dollars for street rehabilitation. According to a government press release, the project was conceived several months ago by members of the business community, and is […]
The Belize City Council may be involved in some hard bargaining with central government over high finance, but there’s actually a softer side to the Mayor and council … and that’s what we saw today downtown. Zenaida Moya, Belize City Mayor “We knew that we always had to remember that many of us cannot always […]
Not a week, or in some cases not even a day, goes by without some politician or other public figure loudly proclaiming the need to do something for Belize’s young people. Today that call was repeated, but the pitch was not for any grandiose government sponsored project … just a little love. News Five’s Kendra […]
He’s not wearing the yellow jersey, but tonight Belizean cyclist Gregory Lovell is feeling on top of the world as this morning his sprint beat out a field of local and international competitors to claim his third stage win in the M and M Tour of Belize. News Five’s James Adderley has been following the […]
