The town is better known for its high standard of living than its political activism, but today residents of San Pedro were on the march. News Five’s Marion Ali travelled to Ambergris Caye to see what the fuss was all about. Marion Ali, Reporting The usual laid back attitude of San Pedro Town was momentarily […]
And because of that House Meeting speculation is rife that Prime Minister Said Musa will use the occasion to announce the date of General Elections. That possibility sent News Five’s Janelle Chanona digging into the archives. Janelle Chanona, Reporting So far in the run up to general elections 2008 there have been fights over signs, […]
It was Mark Twain who, reacting to a premature obituary, was heard to remark “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” The same could be said by a resident of the Stann Creek District whom we mistakenly killed off last night. According to a usually reliable source in the south, one Byron Williams of Pomona […]
And while we may have received wrong information on one of its patients we can report with confidence that last week the Southern Regional Hospital in Dangriga celebrated the approach of the holidays by erecting a Christmas tree in the lobby. The tree and accompanying festivities came courtesy of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and […]
Further investigations into the scam in which forged government cheques were used to purchase over a hundred thousand dollars worth of outboard engines, has resulted in the detention of two more suspects. The persons being held by police in Dangriga are both government employees, one from the Medical Department and the other from Labour. Already […]
A fire in the wee hours of Sunday morning has totally destroyed a well-known entertainment spot in Seine Bight Village. The Wamasa Beyabu beach bar was burned to the ground by a fire of unknown origin that began sometime before five a.m. Investigators from the National Fire Service visited the scene yesterday but have yet […]
She is best known as the tireless producer of the hit television show “Ultimate K.T.V.” But this morning Channel Five’s Mary Mangar hit a sour note courtesy of a purse snatcher. Mangar had just stepped out of a store on Freetown Road when an unidentified attacker pounced on her from behind. The brazen thief, who […]
Tonight two of the three men police believe attacked a woman and her two young sons are behind bars while a third is still at large. Today twenty-eight year old Delbert Hinds and seventeen year old Ryan Neal appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers where they were arraigned on charges of Aggravated Burglary and Conspiracy to […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions has opted to drop another murder charge against an accused killer. According to court reports, seventeen year old Ervin Franklin, arrested for the murder of twenty-year-old Cruz Sho, will not stand trial for the crime. On March fifteenth, the partially nude body of the young Ladyville resident was found on […]
Seven villages in the Stann Creek and Toledo districts will soon receive electrical service as part of the Banana Support Programme of the European Union and Belize Government. Under the five million Belize dollar project, Monkey River, Bladen, Trio, San Isidro, San Pablo and Cowpen will be electrified. The agreement signed today in Belmopan will […]
Months after Hurricane Dean wreaked havoc in northern Belize, contributions are still coming in to assist residents. One such donation was made this afternoon to the Belize Red Cross by its sister organisation, The Red Crescent Society of Egypt. The forty-nine boxes of medicines were handed over by Egyptian Ambassador, Aly El-Hefny to Red Cross […]
Over the years, the names of certain Belizean families or businesses have become inextricably linked to a particular set of numbers. In the case of the Novelo’s Bus Company that number is thirty million—the size of the loan it failed to pay back to the D.F.C. Today, in what is probably the grandest public relations […]
