Murder number three for 2008—and the second for Belize City—took place last night in a familiar place and involved a name not unknown to police. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the story. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Around eight-thirty last night, twenty-one year old Carlton Tasher was riding his bicycle on Gill Street when a lone gunman […]
And while three homicides are still three too many, that rate is still well off last year’s record pace which, according to official figures, saw a total of ninety-seven people killed. Belize, however, was not the only Caribbean country that had a bad 2007. Jamaica, a nation with roughly ten times our population, recorded over […]
Three months after they changed their stories on the stand, the police officers involved in the collapse of the manslaughter case against Belize City businessman Ben Bou-Nahra have been convicted by the department’s disciplinary panel. According to a police press release, today a police tribunal found Clement Cacho, Darius Ramos and Anthony Polonio guilty of […]
Eight days after a San Pedro Credit Union was hit by armed robbers, thieves decided to target a gambling house in the island town. According to police reports, around four on Tuesday morning, two masked men broke into Casino Belize, located on Coconut Drive and stole fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars in cash […]
A labour dispute has slowed work at the site of the Vaca hydroelectric facility near Benque Viejo in the Cayo District. Reports reaching News Five indicate that somewhere near eighty of the two hundred eighty workers employed on the project have been off the job since yesterday. They have complained of low wages and poor […]
On last night’s newscast we reported that ninety-three candidates had signed on the dotted line and paid their deposits for the February seventh general election. Tonight News Five’s Janelle Chanona has their names. In the Freetown Division, the P.U.P.’s Francis Fonseca squares off against Michael Peyrefitte of the U.D.P., with Jorge Ernesto Babb as an […]
And in other campaign news, it appears that there will be at least one formal political debate … and it will take place in Orange Walk. A release from BELPAC, Belizeans Promoting Active Citizenship, reports that last night the local civic group met with representatives of the P.U.P., U.D.P., and N.R.P. and agreed to debate […]
Most of the damage from Hurricane Dean has been repaired but today we learned of one casualty that has yet to be dealt with. It involves fifty-three year old Alfred White senior, a resident of Corozal who, in the wake of the storm, could not cope with his new situation. The mental patient has been […]
With a rate of population growth among the highest in the Caribbean, need for new classrooms never ends. Today one Southside Belize City school found some breathing space and took time out to celebrate its good fortune. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Over two hundred fifty students in standards two, three and five of St. Luke Methodist […]
Superman, at one time may have found a phone booth to be a convenient venue for switching identities … but in the age of the cellular do we really need pay phones? Actually, we do, and this morning News Five’s Janelle Chanona found out why. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Belize’s first pay phone was installed in […]
It’s a constituency rich in history, encompassing a major city of the ancient Maya as well as the prime logwood swamps so favoured by the early Baymen. But tonight Belize Rural North is in the news, not because of its past, but because of its future. Ann-Marie Williams reports from the campaign trail. Ann-Marie Williams, […]
