For the second night in two weeks Belizeans from north to south will have trouble sleeping as a powerful hurricane charts a tenuous course in our direction. At news time Hurricane Felix was approaching the Honduras/Nicaragua border with maximum sustained winds of one hundred and thirty-five miles per hour. The big question is whether the […]
When you’re not really sure where a storm is going, trying to decide whether to stay or go is never an easy decision. That’s the situation in which residents of Belize City find themselves tonight. Today I made the rounds in the old capital to see how preparations were going. Jacqueline Godwin Today as Belize […]
While most Belizeans spent the weekend fixated on the evolution of Hurricane Felix, some were busy engaging in some man-made destruction, otherwise known as crime. Tonight San Ignacio police have three people detained for questioning following the discovery of a corpse on Saturday morning. According to investigators, the body of forty-eight year old taxi driver […]
Meanwhile cops in Belize City have arrested a teenager in connection with another shooting in the commercial capital. According to police, a mobile unit in the vicinity of St. Ignatius School heard a gunshot and then spotted a masked man riding away in a hurry. Officers set chase and watched as the suspect dropped his […]
News of her coronation has been put on the back burner by Hurricane Felix but over the weekend, the sixty-second Queen of the Bay was crowned. Twenty- three year old Miss Belmopan, Ronnie Coye, was selected from among eight candidates during the Saturday night pageant at the Belize City Centre. First runner-up was Queen of […]
If there is one place in Belize that does not need any additional stress it is the Corozal District. And while latest indications are that Hurricane Felix will make it’s presence felt primarily in the south, Corozaleños, as News Five’s Marion Ali discovered, are taking no chances. Marion Ali In the Corozal District the experience […]
