When it comes to the transshipment of drugs, “wet drops” are traditionally the transportation mode of choice in Belize. But as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, traffickers will risk life, limb and a million dollar plane in their bid to get their product north. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This was the scene between miles forty and […]
The fallout over the ten million U.S. dollars from Venezuela that the public never knew about continued today with another member of the People’s United Party distancing himself from the deal. In an eight point press release by Francis Fonseca today, the candidate for P.U.P. leadership maintained that he found out about the additional money […]
An accused bomb maker living in the Stann Creek district has been deported to the United States. According to police, fifty year old Dean De Marks was put on TACA’s ten-fifteen flight to Houston where he was handed over to U.S. Marshals. De Marks is an insurance agent in New Jersey and was looking to […]
A former police constable who was serving ten years for manslaughter is out on bail tonight after the Court of Appeal ordered he be retried for the crime. Burton Caliz was convicted of manslaughter for the February 2004 shooting death of Leroy “Dan” Pilgrim in San Pedro Town. But according to the judges in the […]
Sixteen days after their loved one went missing, tonight a Belize City family is once again appealing to the public for information. According to the family of seventeen year old Anthony Roches, their reward of a thousand dollars stands even though they believe he is dead and his body has been hidden somewhere off the […]
In January, the LifeLine Foundation donated almost ten thousand dollars to two needy organisations but today the tables were turned on the charity group as a local bank stepped up to assist their fundraising efforts. During a brief handing over ceremony this morning, Scotia Bank contributed two thousand dollars to LifeLine representatives. According to Director […]
On Monday, Belizeans will get the day off to commemorate the death of one of the country’s greatest benefactors, Baron Henry Edward Ernest Victor Bliss. In his will Baron Bliss asked that every year a harbour regatta be held in his memory. The tradition began in 1927 and continues this Sunday, March ninth in the […]
While no one can dispute the remarkable accomplishments of Belizean women, all interested parties agree that we still have a long way to go. That issue was just one topic up for discussion today at the annual Women’s Summit. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Today two hundred women from across the country gathered at […]
While most of us will spend the long weekend relaxing, more than two hundred and fifty people will spend the holiday paddling from San Ignacio to Belize City. I can sit here and say that matter of factly but as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, it’s called the Ruta Maya River Challenge for a very […]
