While one utility was being granted a rate hike, another was struggling to provide service to one of its biggest customers. At eight twenty-five this morning the entire island of Ambergris Caye lost its electricity supply and power was not restored until over four hours later. According to a press release from Belize Electricity Limited, […]
If you haven’t put up your Christmas tree yet, it’s about time you get with it…and while you’re at it this year you may want to consider going natural. The Forest Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources will have a limited number of real pine Christmas trees on sale this Thursday in front of […]
A group of Belizean artisans have come together to form the Belize Woodcarvers and Handicraft Producers Association. The B.W.H.P.A. say they will be examining the role of Belizean handicrafts in the Tourism Villages, the increasing number of imported handicrafts, funding for production and government support, and increasing sales and export opportunities. President is Tony Peyrefitte, […]
The rains that have inundated Belize over the last few weeks have taken their toll on the nation’s streets and roads. It is just in time, then, that we note the arrival of close to half a million dollars in maintenance equipment for the Ministry of Works. The gear includes an asphalt batching plant, compactors, […]
At an expected output of only two point eight megawatts, it’s tiny, even by Belizean standards, but that electric power, to be provided by a new hydroelectric plant in Toledo, will still be appreciated. Today it was announced by Belize Electricity Limited that the company has signed an agreement with Hydro Maya to supply power […]
Archives: the name alone connotes stacks of dusty yellowed documents that crumble at the touch. But just as technology has moved from clay tables to DVD’s, the nature of our archives has similarly evolved. Today, as Belize’s Archives Department celebrated its thirty-eighth anniversary, Patrick Jones discovered that the information housed in its Belmopan headquarters is […]
On Tuesday thousands of people flocked to Dangriga to celebrate National Garifuna Day. But it was not just the re-enactment that brought them to that southern town. In fact, organisers of Punta Fest 2003 estimate that two thousand people turned out at the Why Not Island for their first annual punta concert. According to the […]
One Punta group that made the trek to Belize this year for National Garifuna Day was “Punta Cartel” of Los Angeles. They describe themselves as sixty percent Belizean, forty percent Honduran, and their music as “ancestral” mixed with a little Latin flavour. Band leader Nuru and promoter Rafael Larios spoke with News 5 today. “Nuru” […]
News 5 has been asked to issue a correction to statements made on Thursday’s newscast regarding the cost of the new NEMO headquarters in Belmopan. According to Daedra Isaacs, the building was built for two point three million dollars–not twenty-one million. The funds were provided by the Caribbean Development Bank, with the Government of Belize […]
Although Belize has played host to several feature films in the past twenty-two years, the country has yet to develop a movie industry of its own. Recently, seven aspiring filmmakers gathered in San Ignacio hoping to take the first steps of a long journey that may one day change the way we see ourselves. News […]
Due to a public and bank holiday in celebration of Garifuna Settlement Day on Wednesday November nineteenth, the next newscast will be on Thursday.
We don’t tend to think of libraries as very dynamic places…but beneath their quiet relaxing exterior, ideas are always bubbling. And many of those are being discussed this week at a meeting of Central American librarians. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting At least three years ago Belizean librarians were introduced to a concept called […]
“We are fixing the problem.” That’s the word from Belize Telecommunications Limited as the company is faced with another outage of email service. According to Public Relations Manager Suzette Tillett, B.T.L. is in the process of installing anti-spam and anti-virus software. This, she says, is in response to customer’s complaints of too many unsolicited emails, […]
In other police news, the department today received a computer upgrade for the press office and records keeping section. At brief ceremonies at the Raccoon Street station, Assistant Commissioner of Police Maureen Leslie this morning accepted the donation from General Manager of Fultec Systems Dean Fuller, who says the gift is part of his company’s […]
We can’t give the name of the lucky winner, but tonight we’re a little closer to solving the mystery of Saturday’s fifty-two thousand, five hundred dollar Lotto jackpot. We have been informed by Tropical Gaming Company that the winning ticket holder has indeed come forward and will appear tomorrow to claim his or her cheque. […]
Just a week after a lucky winner took home a Lotto jackpot of one hundred and twelve thousand, five hundred dollars, someone else has done it again. Lotto officials confirmed to news 5 that somebody is holding the winning ticket in Saturday’s fifty-two thousand, five hundred dollar draw…but that person has not yet come in […]
The initial round of Children’s Karaoke Television is now history as the fourth set of eliminations in the junior and senior categories took place on Sunday afternoon at Club Calypso. Here’s how it went. Maureen Dawson, Host, C.K.T.V. “And the winner in our junior category is Godwin Sutherland, all the way from Belmopan.” (Godwin sings […]
With the common use of the internet and email, a whole generation of Belizeans has perhaps grown up without the experience of dropping a letter in the post box and hoping for a rapid reply. Today, with the release of a new issue, the post office reminds the public that there’s more to stamps than […]
It may seem a bit early, but those viewers planning vacations or special events next year may be interested in the recently published official list of public and bank holidays. January first falls on a Thursday, which means that revellers will have only a day to get rid of their hangovers. Baron Bliss Day on […]
Over the years, the town of San Pedro on Ambergris Caye has grown from a sleepy fishing village to a bustling tourism hub, and this weekend it became proud owner of the nation’s newest marine docking facility. At ceremonies held on Friday morning, residents of the island joined Prime Minister Said Musa and Minister of […]
They fell shy of their two-day target of five thousand… but the new telephone company, INTELCO, still had a pretty good opening weekend. According to INTELCO’S Director of Business Development, Steve Anderson, a respectable three thousand, two hundred subscribers signed up for cellular service between Friday and Saturday. And Anderson says that number is expected […]
Three down, one more week to go in Children’s Karaoke, 2003. On Sunday two more winners were selected in the junior and senior categories. Here’s how the competition went at Club Calypso. Maureen Dawson, Host, CKTV “And the winner for the junior category is…Marlecia Lizama.” (Marlecia sings “Greatest Love of All” by Whitney Houston) Maureen […]
And finally, while Belizeans are no strangers to auctions, two coming up next week merit special mention. On Wednesday and Thursday, November sixth and seventh, the government of Belize will be auctioning off two recently acquired twin engine aircraft–both believed to have been used for drug smuggling. The first, a Russian built Antonov 26, was […]
A U.S. tourist has died after SCUBA diving. On Wednesday fifty-five year old Kenneth Goth was diving near the reef at Gallows Point, eight miles east of Belize City, when according to his wife, he began to experience problems breathing. He surfaced and those with him administered C.P.R., but those efforts failed. Goth’s body awaits […]
People all over Belize have been receiving form letters from the United States concerning a legal case involving claims against Western Union, the money transfer company. It seems that over a number of years the company was overcharging for its services and a successful class action lawsuit has resulted in a proposed settlement under which […]
