In terms of sheer numbers it was by no means the biggest Cabinet reshuffle ever engineered by Prime Minister Said Musa … but when it comes to impact, the political projectile launched this afternoon from Belmopan resembled a roadside bomb in Baghdad: powerful, unexpected, and lethal. But in Belizean politics–unlike Iraq–death is often in the […]
A one year old baby is dead and Corozal police are awaiting the results of a post mortem to determine whether or not they should charge the mother and uncle in her death. According to authorities, the child’s uncle, Juvencio Chan, told them that on Saturday afternoon he was at home in San Narcisco Village […]
An Independence villager is hospitalized tonight, following a stabbing in that southern community late Saturday. According to family members, around eleven-thirty that night, twenty-two year old Baudillo Vargas was riding his bicycle near the cemetery when he was struck in the back with a machete. Vargas fell and was hit again in the forehead and […]
The epidemic of break-ins at public institutions has spread to the nation’s premier cultural site, the beautifully recreated Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. The worst part was that this crime was not perpetrated by a bunch of kids out for mischief. William Neal, Executive Director, ICA “The security guard was not terribly hurt but […]
On Friday, forty-three year old Thierry Roquet, A French national residing in Guatemala, arrived in Belize for a three-day visit, but his vacation became a nightmare when later that same day he was run over by a boat. Roquet says that he was snorkelling approximately sixty feet from the pier in Caye Caulker around five-thirty […]
Some were masters, others, aspiring amateurs … but this weekend, they all received the same opportunity to impress the judges in the sixth annual Taste of Belize Competition. On Saturday, some forty-three participants showed off their bartending, cooking, grilling, and cake decorating skills to the sold-out crowd that gathered at the Radisson Fort George Hotel […]
They have been promoting the event for months and as I speak, some fifteen hardy souls and a small army of support troops are resting up for one more day of adventurous competition. Today News Five cameraman Rick Romero received an aerial tour of the event, sponsored by the Protected Areas Conservation Trust. News Five’s […]
Good Evening I’m James Adderly and we welcome you to Sports Monday. Game one of the RFG Cup Championship was staged at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday where F.C. Belize hosted the Revolutionary Conquerors of Dangriga to kick off the home and away series for this most prestigious football title. Folks, we’re just one minute into […]
