In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a political crisis in Belize and as we get closer to Friday’s crucial vote in the House of Representatives, the level of noise keeps increasing. Today there was no end of meetings, pronouncements, and press conferences, not to mention unending ads on radio and television. What’s hard to determine, […]
The Leader of the Opposition vowed last week that come this Friday, his supporters would be back on the steps of Independence Hill. And while over the last few days there were doubts that authorities would let Dean Barrow have his way, today the planned demonstration received the thumbs up from the Supreme Court. News […]
Dry weather and old wood: it’s a deadly combination that can result in disaster. And that’s just what I experienced this morning on Curl Thompson Street in Port Loyola. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting When News Five arrived on the scene, the fire had already burned one small wooden house and the flames had spread to this […]
This morning’s fire would not have been big news if a number of other blazes, deliberately set last night, had succeeded. Politics, it seems, was being expressed through arson. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Shortly after midnight someone threw what is believed to be kerosene on the Women’s Department building on Albert Street and set it on […]
Police have added to the woes of Mark Medina, the man charged yesterday with the murder of businesswoman Cui Su Xhau. Today the twenty-three year old was additionally charged with Aggravated Burglary based on a complaint filed by a resident of Ordonez Avenue. Eighteen year old Michael Cocom told police that on Friday morning a […]
Two women have been charged with assault for unrelated attacks involving machetes. The first incident occurred in Seine Bight Village on Sunday between sixteen year old Alejandra Diego and thirty-five year old Valerie Bernard. According to the teen, around five that evening she was talking with some friends when a machete-wielding Bernard suddenly came after […]
A ten year old girl has drowned in the Belize River. According to police Jacqueline Carcamo of Belmopan was swimming near Banana Bank on Monday afternoon when she went under and did not resurface. She was accompanied by her mother and sister. Jacqueline’s body was recovered at the scene and a post-mortem conducted on Tuesday […]
An independent expert has been appointed by the Public Utilities Commission to offer input in the Annual Review Proceedings for Belize Electricity Limited. He is Dr. Paul Sotkiewicz of the University of Florida. Under the terms of the P.U.C. regulations, Sotkiewicz will review the initial P.U.C. decision and deliver his report within twenty days. Following […]
The majority of Belizeans have probably heard of or seen a performance of the Garifuna dances John Cunu or Charikanari, as well as the Mayan Deer and Cortes dances. But how many of you can say who or what influenced these cultural displays or what they mean? Fortunately, that’s the purpose of an exhibition at […]
