During Christmas, the drug of choice for most Belizeans is alcohol, but for the rest of the year the abuse of and trade in other narcotics remains one of the nation’s major social problems. Today the organisation spearheading anti-drug education in Belize finished a week of activities targeting students. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Three years ago, […]
Belmopan was the venue this morning for activities marking the end of traffic safety week. Primary School students marched around the Ring Road, accompanied by officials of the Transport Department, all urging drivers to cool it over the Christmas holidays. Bumper stickers were also distributed, some of which carried the week’s theme: “Drive with care, […]
This week may be devoted to traffic safety, but you’d never know it by watching drivers in Belize City. In the old capital, where bad driving has been elevated to fine art, it was strictly business as usual. Stewart Krohn, Reporting It’s a busy intersection where every driver knows that left turns up the bridge […]
Missing money at the Belize City Council has resulted in the City Manager being suspended. The official account from the City Council is that Marcia Mahler, the city manager for the past two and a half years, was suspended on the fourth of December and is now on leave until the fourteenth of January. According […]
Three weeks after the Police Department confiscated a fleet of late model vehicles from a farm in south Stann Creek, customs officials have yet to file any charges. Law enforcement sources tell News 5 that the investigation files on the ten trucks will be passed on to the department’s legal advisor, Gian Ghandi, who will […]
Statistics for the last three months show that despite the negative effects of the September eleventh bombings and Hurricane Iris, the Belizean tourism industry has held its own and should continue to grow during 2002. Numbers released by the Belize Tourism Board show that while September arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport dropped by […]
As we’ve seen on this newscast over the last few weeks, the people making local products for Christmas range from expatriate housewives to hardened prison inmates. Today, we discovered how the work of some young people not usually associated with handicrafts just may keep them out of Hattieville. Helen Rosalez, Supervisor, Youth Hostel “Society might […]
The YWCA has received some well-deserved notoriety over the years as the originators of the popular Miss Y pageant. But the organisation’s commitment to Belize’s most experienced citizens goes beyond just one night of entertainment. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It’s one time of the year that the senagers look forward to as an […]
It’s not the kind of hurricane relief that first come to mind in the wake of a disaster…but for several hundred hard hit children in Toledo, the gifts they are about to receive from Corozal may be the most cherished. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The “Pom Pom” girls of CET Corozal won themselves one hundred and […]
Members of the public who had planned to go to the public hearings ordered by the Public Utilities Commission to complain about the new BTL rates had to change their plans today, after learning the hearings have been abruptly postponed. On Monday, B.T.L. took the P.U.C. to the Supreme Court and walked out with an […]
The discovery of two bodies in the Chiquibul National Park has prompted a joint Belize/Guatemala investigation into their deaths. Forensic pathologists from Belize, accompanied by Belizean and Guatemalan officials, are in the area today to conduct an on-site post-mortem of the bodies of two men found on Sunday about two kilometers inside Belize. According to […]
Nearly two months after Hurricane Iris laid waste to several communities in the south, victims of the storm continue to receive much need aid from both at home and abroad. Today, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, donated twenty-five thousand dollars to the Red Cross Society to assist those affected by Iris. Director General of […]
Police have identified the body of a man found in the sea off Dangriga on Monday. According to police, he is twenty-one year old Shedrack Norris Jorgensen, a messenger of Ebony Street in Belize City. Jorgensen was found in the waters off the Dangriga Town Pier dressed only in his boxer shorts. The body is […]
If you decided to go au natural and get a real Christmas tree for your living room this year, you better make sure you get permission first. According to a release from the Forestry Department, they will not be selling trees this season due to the effects of Hurricane Iris in the southern plains and […]
You might not be able to have a real Christmas tree in your house this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have some other plant-life in your neck of the woods. Today, News 5 Ann-Marie Williams took to the streets of Belize City to dig up some greenery to deck your halls. Elena Usher, […]
Tonight, Dangriga police need your help in identifying a body that was found floating in the water off a pier in that town. Authorities were called out to the scene around 2:00 this afternoon where they observed the body of a man who is believed to have been in his late twenties or early thirties. […]
Christmas has come early for one little boy in Belize City. On Friday night, ten year old Calvin Tench was fast asleep when Janelle Chanona and Neil Hall called hoping to award the Gimme 5 grand prize of one thousand dollars cash and a round trip ticket to the United States courtesy American Airlines. But […]
But the bombshell of the day proved to be the proposal of a bill to reform the telecommunications act. While Minister of Public Utilities Ralph Fonseca says the reform has been in the works for some time, it is certain the decision by Belize Telecommunications Limited to rebalance rates has something to do with the […]
If you’ve got a big family, either at home, or at work, to buy Christmas presents for, you might want to pay keen attention to this next story. Ann-Marie Williams made it her mission today to find cheap, but tasteful gift ideas. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Every Belizean looks forward to getting a new calendar at […]
On the heels of Wednesday’s demonstration against Belize Telecommunications Limited, organisers of the protest have met with top company officials to discuss possible ways forward. According to Nuri Muhammad, the meeting with B.T.L.’s C.E.O. Ediberto Tesucum, Marketing and Sales Manager Karen Bevans, and Carlisle Holdings C.E.O. Ian Pluthero, was amicable but it is clear the […]
Handing-over ceremonies take place almost every day in Belize but this morning, one such ceremony was both historic and humanitarian. Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Jamaica, Guo Chongli, presented a cheque for twenty thousand U.S. dollars to the Belize Red Cross for construction materials for victims of Hurricane Iris. The move is […]
As far as we can remember, every time we’ve featured a story this year involving crocodiles, they were all violent. One involved a twelve year old boy who died after being attacked near his home in Belama. A second was about a man swimming in the Haulover Creek who was bitten several times in his […]
We’ve shown you pins, we’ve shown you books. We’ve even taste-tested a bit of the bubbly, all in the name of giving you ideas for Christmas gifts. If nothing you’ve seen so far has impressed you, we’re going to try again. This afternoon, Ann-Marie travelled to Belmopan to meet a man about some wood, carvings […]
At the unveiling of its revised rate structure on November sixteenth a BTL executive described the new charges as bringing “good news and great benefits” for BTL’s customers. But less than a week into the new reality of over one hundred percent hikes in the cost of local service it is clear that the public […]
Taking a stand against BTL’s new charges does not require a political act of courage. In fact, along with opposition to the Guatemala claim, it is probably the only national issue on which every political party, NGO and voter seem to agree. But that doesn’t mean the politicians are off the hook. While demonstrators expressed […]
