A thirty-eight year old man was killed during a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. The man left his home to make a purchase at a shop, and it was during the return trip home, he met his death. The man was riding his bicycle when he was hit by a pick-up truck on Saturday […]
The second death that occurred this weekend, happened further north at the Rio Hondo River. A man from Yo Creek Village, who was reveling at a bar in the Mexican village of Botes, drowned when he attempted to swim back to the Belize side. Shortly after midnight on Sunday twenty-eight year old Elias Vargas plunged […]
Also on the Northern Highway, a fire at around two this morning in the Ladyville area has left a family of four homeless. The incident occurred at mile thirteen and totally gutted a one flat wooden structure measuring forty by fifty feet. One of the occupants, Romero Vasquez, says he was awakened by the intense […]
If you are travelling south, you will need to change your plans because since five this evening the causeway at the Kendal crossing on the Southern Highway has been under a foot of water. The National Emergency Management Organization advises that the river is rising up to nine inches every hour and shortly the entire […]
While Belize has not confirmed any case of the Influenza A H1N1, three more samples were sent for testing at CAREC in Trinidad last Friday. Those results were expected this evening, but up to news time tonight, they have not arrived in the Jewel and preparations for the possibility of the flu pandemic continue. It […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is the only tertiary level referral hospital in Belize. And while there have been no confirmed cases of Influenza A (H1N1), the hospital is bursting at the seams and patients outnumber beds at the Accident and Emergency area. Marion Ali has more in the following report. Marion Ali, Reporting K.H.M.H. […]
A sentence of three years behind bars was meted out to two teenagers for the crime of Robbery. Nineteen year old Valentine Baptist and eighteen year old David Sutherland re-appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie today after they were found guilty of Robbery last Friday. The two accused chose to remain silent when they were […]
In another robbery case today, twenty-one year old Jason Joseph pleaded not guilty when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie and was remanded until June eleventh. Joseph is charged in connection with the armed hold up of Jose Ketz on Friday. Ketz is the manager of Creative Marketing on Allenby Street and he had […]
A Fabers Road resident who fell asleep with his front door open became the victim of a home invasion. Amir Reed, an electrician and landlord, woke up in the wee hours of Sunday morning to a thief holding a knife to his throat and demanding money. The robber searched Reed and took over four hundred […]
The second sitting of the Primary School Examinations took place on May fourth. Over the weekend, ninety-two markers, twenty-four table leaders and ten supervisors were correcting the exams at the District Education Center in West Landivar. Yvonne Davis, Principal Education Officer, says the checking will be complete on Thursday. But despite the fact that some […]
On Sunday, the Ministry of Education officially launched Education Week. The week of activities is being celebrated under the theme: “Better Schools, Better Citizens, Better Belize: Whatever It Takes, It’s Everybody’s Business.” Schools countrywide will mark the occasion except for the Corozal District due to the threat of influenza A (H1N1). One of the highlights […]
The National Agriculture and Trade Show is back on the radar and a new date has been set to hold the show. After the Influenza A H1N1 scare caused its postponement earlier this month, the trade show committee and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries moved the event to the twenty-ninth and thirtieth of this […]
Channel Five has been recognizing and awarding deserving mothers on the occasion of this year’s Mother’s Day. The giving continued today and we went to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, to present a gift basket to the mom who gave birth to the first baby on Mother’s Day for 2009. She’s Kimberly Audinett and she […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this delivery of Sports Monday. The Mother’s Day weekend brought the twentieth Female Cross Country Cycle Classic to the nation yesterday as athletes, including five foreigners made a bid for the most prestigious title in the sport. An early look at the pelathon shows a compact […]
