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Little Junior Miss Belize is returning to the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts with a bang. After taking a two-year hiatus, the children’s pageant show is set to light up the stage at the Bliss tomorrow night. It’s a fundraising event put on by Concerned Belizean Women and according to member, Karen Vernon, seven […]
Written on September 14, 2018 | Posted in
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The landing of a Mexican police plane at the Philip Goldson International Airport caused a stir earlier today. The plane is a Boeing 727 which brought the Mexican Federal Police orchestra to perform tonight at the Winds Orchestra of Mexico Concert hosted by the Mexican Embassy. The size of the band and their equipment did […]
Written on September 13, 2018 | Posted in
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Saturday’s Carnival Road March featured ten bands, five in the senior and the remaining five in the junior category. It started at the corner of Neal Pen Road and Central American Boulevard and made its way to the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. While the parade for the most part was uneventful, the results of the […]
Written on September 11, 2018 | Posted in
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Get ready for Saturday’s carnival road march and stay tuned to this station for our live coverage beginning at one p.m. with the J’ouvert. Now, there are fewer mas bands this year than in 2017, but the energy and festive spirit is just the same. On Thursday night, the last three of ten bands were […]
Written on September 7, 2018 | Posted in
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Music lovers from across the country will converge on the Old Capital this carnival weekend for three nights of concert performances from Belizean and international artists. It’s a ticket that is billed as the first of its kind for the September Celebrations, one which includes dancehall legend Beenie Man and soca mainstays Alison Hinds and […]
Written on September 7, 2018 | Posted in
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It is the countdown to Saturday’s Carnival road march that starts at on Central American Boulevard at its junction with Neal Pen Road into Vernon Street on to Youth for the Future Drive, Douglas Jones, Baymen Avenue and ending up at the Marion Jones Stadium. On Wednesday night, judging of four other mas camps dispersed […]
Written on September 6, 2018 | Posted in
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Mas camps leading up to this year’s carnival road march got underway on Tuesday night. Tensions are flaring up on the south side of the city, but revellers were energised to impress the judges. The first stop of the three mas camps was over at Vernon Street where the junior queen champ hopes to win […]
Written on September 5, 2018 | Posted in
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There is controversy brewing over the results of this year’s carnival King and Queen Competition. The event was held on Saturday night at the Marion Jones Stadium. But when the results for the senior king category were announced, Belizean Jewel came out on top. Earlier today, the National Institute of Culture and History announced that […]
Written on September 4, 2018 | Posted in
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There is a new national Queen of the Bay to be crowed on the morning of September tenth. The title was clinched by Miss Belmopan, Jenny Lee Cruz, after her second go at the pageant. The nineteen-year-old was also picked as Miss Eloquence from among the other delegates from the districts. The first runner up […]
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Even as the city recorded a bloody weekend, over on the north side, there were several festive events taking place; the Belikin Bash at the B.T.L. Park and the Carnival King and Queen Competition at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex. As early as five p.m. on Saturday, prejudging commenced before the revelers from ten bands, […]
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On Saturday night, the Marion Jones Stadium will come alive with pre-carnival sights and sounds. At seven in the night the annual King and Queen of 2018 carnival will compete for the big cash and bragging rights. There will be twenty participants in the senior and junior categories. The President of the Carnival Association Sandra […]
Written on August 31, 2018 | Posted in
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Belize has a new beauty ambassador. She is twenty-seven-year-old Jenelli Fraser from Belize City who on Saturday clinched the title of Miss Universe Belize. The beauty queen was crowned after she bested ten other hopefuls from around the country. The new queen was crowned by outgoing Miss Belize Rebecca Rath. Fraser will represent Belize at […]
Written on August 27, 2018 | Posted in
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The Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts was bursting at the seams on Tuesday night for the grand finale of KTV, the Remix, even as social media lit up and viewers at home tuned in for the reveal of who would take home the ten-K grand prize. Five worthy finalists took to the stage to […]
Written on August 22, 2018 | Posted in
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Trinidadian Gospel Artist Blessed Messenger is in Belize for a free concert in Roaring Creek Village on Thursday night. The concert which is being put on by the Hearts of Christ Children’s Ministry and the Bay Area Community Church will feature a stellar line up of local gospel artists, including messNJAH. The concert kicks off […]
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Back in June, we shared the good news that the Garifuna Collective was selected to perform at the WOMEX Showcase to be held at Grand Canary Islands, Spain, in October of this year. But to go to the showcase, the band needs over fifty-thousand dollars and today the Music Ambassador Shyne Barrow made a presentation […]
Written on August 21, 2018 | Posted in
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And so to get to Spain, the Garifuna Collective needs more funds. Al Obando, the long time road manager of the band, says that while they have not been back to the World’s Music Expo since the days of the late Andy Palacio, the event itself is significant for Belize’s music. However, to get there, […]
Written on August 21, 2018 | Posted in
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All is in place over at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts where the grand finale of KTV, the Remix, gets underway at eighty-thirty with a red carpet segment. Five finalists, judges and fans will proceed inside the auditorium where a grand show is planned to culminate this season. The Garifuna Collective of international […]
Written on August 21, 2018 | Posted in
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Marimba musical group, Los Hijos del West, returned to the Jewel today after a spending a month in Taiwan. The group, including Ian Yacab, Christian Archila, Emil Hernandez, Luis Quiroz and Leandro Pacheco, represented the country in the Yilan International Children’s Folklore and Folkgame Festival for the past twenty days. The five members of this […]
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Over the weekend, on Saturday, the 2018 National Song Competition was held at the Santa Elena Sports Complex in the west. There were as many as twenty artists who competed in the junior and senior categories in national and carnival songs. After hours of patriotic and cultural performances and the bass of the bacchanal jams, […]
Written on August 20, 2018 | Posted in
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The Inspiration Centre held its fifth annual family fun day today at its headquarters off the George Price Highway in Belize City. Catering to just over one hundred persons annually, the objective was to bring together the community, including parents and persons living with diverse abilities for a day of fun-filled activities. News Five’s Duane […]
Written on August 17, 2018 | Posted in
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In Thursday’s newscast, you had a behind the scenes look at two of the five finalists in season two of KTV the remix. Tonight the other three are taking the spotlight. Meet twenty-year-old Rachel Westby. The Sand Hill resident is the other contestant that scored a perfect score for both performances in the finals. She […]
Written on August 17, 2018 | Posted in
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Victoria August started singing at an early age. She has always loved music and is particularly fond of pop. Unlike most of the other competitors on KTV The Remix, she wants to pursue music professionally. At just seventeen years old, she is already writing her own songs – and hopes to put out an album […]
Written on August 17, 2018 | Posted in
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Round out the top five in season two of KTV the Remix is Dangriga’s Ines Welcome. Welcome has the voice of a winner, exercising her highs and lows at every opportunity, sometimes much to the chagrin of her parents. But it’s those powerful vocals that have landed her a spot as a finalist in this […]
Written on August 17, 2018 | Posted in
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On Tuesday night, the Bliss Auditorium was overflowing with excitement as the five finalists for season two of KTV the Remix got underway. The participants first did their rendition of a song from a Belizean artist, before they took on the daunting task of performing an original track. Within the next two days, we’ll be […]
Written on August 16, 2018 | Posted in
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Sticking it out for the men in the competition is Guillermo Rodriguez from San Pedro. The twenty-one-year-old is recognized primarily for his renditions of great gospel songs and has won the hearts of social media fans. Rodriguez is a talented musician and singer; he plays the piano, guitar, bass and the drums and is very […]
Written on August 16, 2018 | Posted in
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