Last night we visited San Pedro to chronicle an execution style murder. Tonight there’s another hit to report, this time in Orange Walk, which left two men dead and one injured. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. Emerita Ramos, Mother of Nazim Romero “What he do, he take away a son of one person […]
There was another fatal shooting today, late this evening on Gill Street in Belize City. News Five’s Marion Ali is just in from the hospital where Senior Superintendent Chester Williams gave her some of the details. Sr. Supt. Chester Williams, O.C., Eastern Division “Sometime around five-fifteen there about, the police were called to Gill Street […]
Belize City police are tonight looking for two men in connection with a home invasion which left a housewife injured and fourteen thousand dollars poorer. The victim is thirty year old Fromi Daly, a resident of Dean Street. According to Daly, about a quarter to five on Wednesday morning she was coming out of her […]
The battle over who will succeed Said Musa as leader of the Peoples’ United Party is heating up as the prospective candidates engage in exploratory talks with each other and with key party officials. Early favourite Francis Fonseca enjoys the support of the party hierarchy and can presumably count on whatever post election financial reserves […]
Battlefield Park was converted into an outdoor dining room this afternoon as the City Council teamed up with local business houses to feed the homeless. An estimated two hundred and fifty people sat down to lunch through the efforts of City Hall, FirstCaribbean International Bank and Extra House. According to Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya, […]
Like every other municipal body in Belize, the Belize City Council is made up of elected representatives of the United Democratic Party. Following the party’s landslide victory in last week’s general elections, today Mayor Moya, who is also President of the Belize Mayors Association, told us that with the U.D.P. in central government, conditions in […]
It’s an accusation that’s been leveled at the Post Office many times: cheques that are sent to Belizeans from abroad mysteriously go missing from the mail, only to eventually turn up cashed at foreign banks. Today one woman who claims to be a victim in the scam had this message for the perpetrators. Radiance Morter, […]
On February sixth the Rotary Club held the first of its semi-annual heart clinics in which over a hundred Belizean children were examined by visiting doctors. The money to send those young patients for medical care abroad is collected through a number of fundraising activities. This morning one such effort climaxed when a winner was […]
On election day and night, radio and TV correspondents for our Channel Five/Love FM joint coverage fanned out nationwide in search of facts and figures. Unfortunately, with thirty-one constituencies reporting in rapid succession, not all the video reports made it to air. Here’s an interesting filing, from Patrick Jones, who took a look at one […]
Stages two and three of the M&M Tour of Belize were held today and—for Belizeans—things took a negative turn. James Adderley has the story. James Adderley, Reporting Sugar City O.W. looked real sweet this morning for the start of stage two of the M&M Tour of Belize, a sixty-six mile ride that would culminate in […]
