It’s a record number of deaths in the past twenty-four hours. Six persons are dead: three murdered and three others succumbed in a motorcycle accident. But first we go to Dangriga where two Chinese nationals were brutally stabbed to death last night in what appears to be a case of premeditated murder. Marion Ali reports […]
And the third murder victim is a thirty-five year old man who was gunned down on Central American Boulevard at about seven p.m. Monday night. After playing a card game, Kevin Hendy, a resident of Central American Boulevard, stepped up to a black car and according to residents a large volume of shots were heard […]
The death toll increased this afternoon when a motorcycle collision on the main Spanish Lookout road left three persons fatally injured. Around twelve-thirty, twenty-one year old Carlos Lopez, a mechanic of Duck Run One was riding his cycle towards the Iguana Creek Bridge. Going in the same direction on another cycle, were driver Jacob Klassen […]
In legal news, Attorney General Wilfred Elrington on Wednesday confirmed to News Five that he has received a resolution approved by the Bar Association in a special session. Elrington says he will think about the document very carefully and will seek legal advice before responding to the Association as he is not certain to what […]
Belize is awaiting word from the Guatemalans for the signing of the compromis which sets out the question to be asked in the referendum in respect of the Guatemala claim to Belizean territory. That is the latest from Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington. According to Elrington, once the Guatemalan version of the Cabinet gives […]
And in news from the Magistrates’ Court, Errol Fairweather, the poster boy for AIDS, has been charged with Attempted Burglary for breaking into the offices of Alliance Against Aids. Fairweather told the court this morning that he was looking for medication because he has full blown AIDS. The forty-two year old Fairweather, an outspoken activist, […]
Also in the Magistrates’ Court, a U.S. citizen and Asian national have both been charged with Illegal Hunting following last Thursday’s operation by the police and the Forestry Department which yielded a truckload of game meat. James Beachy, the owner of a grocery shop in the Bermudian Landing area was charged with four counts of […]
There is plenty news to report tonight but first we go to a development in the weather which indicates that another storm is forming in the southwest Caribbean Sea east of Nicaragua and could head our way. The Met Service has an update on this situation. Frank Tench, Forecaster, Belize Met Service “Okay, there’s an […]
And now we turn to the flooding, effective today, all residents of Douglas Village in the Orange Walk District were evacuated due to the possible treat of feet fungi, viral infections, and other serious health risks posed by the flooding. In the village water levels, although stable at some points, are up to eight feet […]
Also relating to the flooding, the Ministry of Education has announced that classes will now continue to December nineteenth to make up time lost when schools closed due to the high water levels. Classes were suspended in areas affected by the flooding throughout the Stann Creek, Cayo, Orange Walk and Belize Districts. Most re-opened by […]
And the National Emergency Management Organization has released preliminary estimates on damages caused by tropical depression sixteen. The Initial Damage Assessment Report at the end of October says that there has been one point three million dollars in damages to household items, another one point three million in housing infrastructure, ten point four million in […]
We have been following news about the musical icon, Byron Lee and tonight we confirm that Lee succumbed at around eleven-thirty this morning to bladder cancer at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica. Lee is recognized as the man who helped introduce an intricate form of soca music to the world and […]
He is known for his creative knack of turning a blank canvas into a work of art and today we caught up with him at the Mexican Institute of Culture. The fifty-four year old Belizean art extraordinaire, Pen Cayetano, is here from Germany where he resides, for his ninth exhibition, entitled Belize Bowl Race. Cayetano […]
