For the last few years the conventional wisdom, based on the results of municipal elections and reinforced by various public opinion polls, has the Peoples United Party as a definite underdog in the upcoming general elections. But a new poll, taken over the weekend and released this morning turns that expectation upside down. News Five’s […]
There’s no way to tell what may have influenced all those voters sampled in the latest poll, but one major election pledge by the P.U.P. involving free computers for students seems to have struck a chord with the children … and their parents. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports on the formal introduction of the programme. […]
The money required for the laptops may seem steep but it’s chump change compared to the thirty-three million plus that G.O.B. was on the hook for with its guarantee of the Universal Health Services debt. Today Prime Minister Musa defended the deal under which the bank guarantee was abolished but a different kind of financial […]
In news just in two men have been injured in a shooting in the Port Loyola area. Police report that after five this evening twenty year old Kareem Gillett and seventeen year old Kyle Lambey were wounded when a man approached them on Cesar Ridge Road and opened fire with a number of shots. Gillett […]
It began with a jealous rage which led to a fight … and ended with two brothers in the hospital. The altercation occurred last night sometime before midnight through an alley off North Creek in Belize City. When it was over, twenty-five year old Dwight Palacio got the worst of it with a stab wound […]
A Salvadoran man from San Andres Village in the Corozal District will spend the next eight and a half years behind bars after making the mistake of robbing his neighbour. Forty-three year old Juan Mejia was arraigned today in Corozal Magistrates’ Court where he pleaded guilty to Aggravated Burglary, Possession of an Imitation Firearm and […]
A taxi man from Corozal Town is dead following a head-on collision between his minivan and a car on the Northern Highway this morning. The mishap occurred near Ranchito Village around seven thirty and claimed the life of Alvin Leslie of Seventh Avenue. Police say Leslie was heading towards Orange Walk Town when the car, […]
The value of the assistance probably amounts to less than what the U.S. government spends in Iraq and Afghanistan in a few minutes … but fortunately, Belize is at peace and the latest aid from Uncle Sam is decidedly non-lethal. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the story from Ladyville. Robert Dieter, U.S. Ambassador to Belize […]
In terms of Belizean municipal geography we have the new capital, the old capital … and the culture capital. And it’s in that southern town where we tonight find News Five’s Ann-Marie Williams on the campaign trail. Cassian Nunez, P.U.P. Candidate, Dangriga “The confidence is there definatley but elections are won on election day as […]
