A small plane belonging to Tropic Air made an emergency landing in a cleared area on the south side of Belize City. Fortunately, none of the four people aboard were injured and despite being stuck in the mud, the aircraft may one day return to service. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around three this afternoon, the Cessna […]
Mark Espat, the Albert division representative who was a no show at Sunday’s national P.U.P. convention, has finally explained his absence … sort of. Speaking by phone with News Five this afternoon the former Minister of National Development said that he and Ex Defence Minister Cordel Hyde met with Prime Minister and P.U.P. Leader Said […]
It provided major media drama back in January when the Belize City Council successfully agitated for government to hand over one U.S. dollar from each cruise passenger’s head tax to defray wear and tear on the city’s infrastructure and services. When government capitulated we thought the matter had been settled, but today Mayor Zenaida Moya […]
It has been tried before with varying success and beginning the night of Friday July thirteenth, Belize City will once again impose a curfew for children. According to a release from the Press Office, the effort is being carried out by the Ministry of Human Development, with the help of the Police Department, NOPCAN, and […]
A three year old girl in the Stann Creek District has drowned after she fell into a well. According to police, they were called to Bella Vista Village around six Monday morning where they found the lifeless body of Sylvia Yutz lying on the floor of a house. They were told by the child’s mother, […]
Two suspects have been formally charged for crimes reported on this newscast last night. Thirty-nine year old Alvin Gabb, a resident of Dolphin Street, has been charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, and Deadly Means of Harm in connection with the stabbing of Nolan Arana. Arana remains in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial […]
In court news, a Belize City man has pled guilty to Causing Death by Careless Conduct for an accident that occurred in April of 2006. Around nine the night of the twenty-second, Justo Reyes and five friends left the Triangle Bar on East Collet Canal and were heading to another establishment on Barrack Road. Reyes, […]
It is often joked that in the hierarchy of untruths there are three categories: lies, damn lies, and statistics. With such a widespread belief that official numbers are not to be trusted, it’s no wonder that efforts are being made to beef up the credibility of our statisticians. As News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, some […]
On a list of cataclysmic geological events it may not rank with the San Francisco earthquake, destruction of Pompeii or the eruption of the Mount Saint Helens volcano … but by Belizean standards the sudden draining of Five Blues Lake in 2006 was big news. But wait, the story gets better … much better, as […]
