A Belize City man who came to the aid of a neighbour in trouble has been rewarded with a bullet to the head. News Five’s Marion Ali reports on the nation’s latest homicide. Marion Ali, Reporting As if the January murder of her brother, Norman Reyes Junior, was not bad enough, two months later a […]
In other crime news, two young men—one a teenaged bystander—were injured in a shooting in Belize City over the weekend. According to police, around nine on Monday night the intended victim, twenty-five year old Denver Skeet, was hanging out at the corner of Logwood and Lake View Streets when two armed men on bicycles pulled […]
A man from the Stann Creek District has been arrested for the rape of his eight year old daughter. On March eighth the child and her mother reported to Independence police that on February twenty-seventh the father took the girl into a bushy area near a farm where he forcibly had sex with her. A […]
Over the holiday weekend following the dramatic landing of a drug plane on the Northern Highway, police have arrested eight men and are looking for three others. According to investigators, Orange Walk residents forty-four year old Anthony Thurton, fifty year old Ricardo Rivera, twenty-two year old Luis Novelo, eighteen year old Irvin Cantun, nineteen year […]
It may not have blossomed into a major public controversy, but to the business people who have invested millions at the mouth of the Haulover Creek, the issue of the wall could not be bigger. Today the Supreme Court made its ruling in the civil suit, saying the obstructions must go. News Five’s Janelle Chanona […]
Bad weather over the weekend made for slick road conditions which produced a number of minor traffic accidents … but one stood out. This was the scene Sunday morning between mile forty-four and forty-five near Cotton Tree village on the Western Highway. According to the driver, Belmopan resident Godfrey Ramos, he and his wife were […]
This morning it was not business as usual for some taxi drivers at Terminal Four at the Fort Street Tourism Village. They claim they were being kept from making their living because of favouritism and unreasonable treatment from the Belize City Council. But that opinion was not shared by the City Council or the other […]
Roughly seventy-five students from the Collet constituency capitalized on Sunday’s strong winds by participating in a kite flying contest. The event was organised by the Poor and Famous Culture Club and while the sponsors provided the kites, the children also received paper and materials to build their own. Kirk and Corey Howard built the largest […]
For over a decade the Belize Cancer Society has been fighting a war on this notorious killer. This morning they got some ammunition from Scotiabank in the form of five thousand Canadian dollars: that’s over ten thousand Belize. Cancer Society President, Dr. Alba Mendez Sosa, says the funds will go towards pushing the message of […]
March is observed as Child Stimulation Month, a time when the need for preschool education is emphasized and the students’ skills highlighted. Last year, as a means of showcasing the creativity of the three and four year olds, the Preschool Children’s Festival of Arts was added to the list of activities. This morning, the 2008 […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly glad you could join us for this delivery of Sports Monday. The twenty-sixth Annual Cititrust Belmopan Cycle Classic reigned supreme on the Western Highway Sunday, ninth March Baron Bliss Day as some seventy-nine riders featuring twelve teams and five foreigners opted to be the best in a […]
