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The Festival of Arts is one of the highlights of the scholastic calendar. Today, students from across the country participated in simultaneous ceremonies declaring this year’s primary school festival open. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin has previews of this year’s performances. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Organizers tell News Five some six hundred and thirty students from thirty […]
Written on May 9, 2006 | Posted in
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In the spirit of helping the aspiring artists among us break onto the music scene, tonight we feature the work of Theophilos and his gospel album entitled “Rain”. The Belize City resident says the lyrics represent his innermost feelings. Theophilos, Artist ?Well the album is inspirational; it?s more like my journal. Except that it is […]
Written on May 5, 2006 | Posted in
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Diplomats and other government officials gathered in Belize City today for the ninth meeting of the Belize Cuba Mixed Commission. According to chief executive officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amalia Mai, the idea is to expand relations between the two countries, particularly in areas of health and education but also branching out into […]
Written on May 4, 2006 | Posted in
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Belize and Taiwan have forged closer relations thanks to a new agreement between cultural counterparts. According to officials of the National Institute of Culture and History, on April fifteenth the Mayor of Kaohsiung City Chu-Lan Yeh officially opened a Belizean exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. According to NICH President Yasser Musa, “We are […]
Written on April 24, 2006 | Posted in
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It took a while for the Belize Tourism Board to get its stats together but the B.T.B. is reporting a record year for 2005. Tourist arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport reached almost one hundred seventy-five thousand, a seven point four percent increase over 2004. The P.G.I.A. handles around three quarters of the nation’s […]
Written on April 21, 2006 | Posted in
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when we think of the art scene in Belize our minds usually focus on places like the Image Factory, Houses of Culture or the Mexican Cultural Centre. But since Good Friday the nation’s art capital has migrated seventy miles west to downtown San Ignacio. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports that Shane Vasquez is not the […]
Written on April 20, 2006 | Posted in
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In related news, while I.D.B. funds help Belizean youths find jobs, Belize’s representatives on the bank’s board are meeting with fellow directors to chart a future course for the institution. According to a release from the press office, Minister of National Development Mark Espat and financial secretary Carla BarnettCBelize’s governor and deputy governor to the […]
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As part of closing activities for Music Week 2006, this morning Belize City students were treated to a concert at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. And as News Five’s Karla Vernon found out, the acts on stage might have even inspired the boys and girls in the audience to explore their own talents. […]
Written on March 31, 2006 | Posted in
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Political history was made in Jamaica today as the country swore in its first female Prime Minister. In front of six thousand invited guests in Kingston this evening, Portia Simpson-Miller took over leadership of the country from former Prime Minister, P.J. Patterson. Patterson, a politician for thirty years, served as Prime Minister for fourteen, but […]
Written on March 30, 2006 | Posted in
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As any budding artist will tell you, one of the hardest things about breaking into the music industry is getting that “hit” song recorded in a professional studio. But for the past two days, young Belizeans have been belting out their lyrics thanks to the efforts of the Music Industry Association of Belize. News Five’s […]
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The International Marine Registry of Belize, better known as IMMARBE, has received a vote of confidence from the United States Coast Guard. According to press release Belize is one of only nine countries to qualify this year for the Coast Guard’s Qualship twenty-one program. The designation is based on no incidents of Belize flagged ships […]
Written on March 27, 2006 | Posted in
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In news involving Belize on the international stage our diplomats and soldiers are very much on the move. Today in the Bahamas, Minister of Foreign Affairs Godfrey Smith, along with his CARICOM colleagues, met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. The topics of discussion were wide ranging and included trade, development, governance, and crime […]
Written on March 22, 2006 | Posted in
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He’s been serving the rich and famous at Cayo Espanto for years, but tonight Ernesto Azueta is, at least by Belizean standards, rich and famous in his own right. On Wednesday, Azueta won the seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollar Lotto jackpot. The thirty-two year old stopped by Tropical Gaming this morning to pick up his […]
Written on March 20, 2006 | Posted in
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A new art show opened over the weekend at the Image Factory in Belize City featuring the work of conceptual Honduran artist Adan Valencillo. The exhibition is called “Asepsic Power” and according to curator Gilvano Swasey, is sure to provoke a lot of thought. Swasey says the idea is to shake up the norm. Gilvano […]
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For years advocates have been appealing for high school students to take centre stage a la their younger peers in the Festival of Arts. And though this is not the first time secondary schools have participated in the event, when the show officially opened this morning, it was clear that the Belize district institutions were […]
Written on March 20, 2006 | Posted in
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The religious community is in mourning tonight after the loss of one of their own. Today I spoke with the grieving family members. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Shortly after three this morning, President of the Baptist Association of Belize and well known personality, Pastor Rodney Gordon died after suffering from a massive heart attack. Diana Gordon, […]
Written on March 17, 2006 | Posted in
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Left paralysed after a shooting near her home in Taylor’s Alley, tonight twenty-three year Lisa Garoy continues to amaze her doctors in defiance of their prognosis that she would never walk again. We caught up with Garoy and her now seven month old son, Leroy, at home where she told News Five’s Karla Vernon about […]
Written on March 13, 2006 | Posted in
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Father’s Day may not be until June, but one grateful son is paying tribute to his artist father the only way he knows how: by dedicating his first exhibition to his favourite teacher. News Five was at the House of Culture in Belize City today for the opening of Alex Croft’s “Uncovered”. Karla Vernon, Reporting […]
Written on March 13, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s become a trendy thing for American college students to devote their Spring Break to volunteer service instead of just partying the time away. But for the undergrads at the University of Louisville, coming to Belize is nothing new as the Kentucky school’s International Service Learning Programme has been active here for the past seven […]
Written on March 13, 2006 | Posted in
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It’s flourishing in our schools, on the stage, and in the streets. Poetry is making a comeback in Belize and no people are more pleased than those who met this morning at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting There were far more people seated at the head table than in the […]
Written on March 9, 2006 | Posted in
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From the dance floor on Wilson Street, it was a short hop to the exhibition floor on North Front Street where the interlocking worlds of work and artistic expression were on display at the Image Factory. Janelle Chanona, Reporting It?s called ?She means We?, the official exhibition of Women?s Week in Belize. The show features […]
Written on March 7, 2006 | Posted in
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Not all the artistic expression of Women’s Week was manifested through crafts. On Saturday night the stage at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts came alive with the poetry of women from Belize and abroad. Here are some highlights, courtesy of the National Institute of Culture and History. Poet #1 ?Today her spirit freely […]
Written on March 7, 2006 | Posted in
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Details are still sketchy but police reports to News Five indicate that three Guatemalans have been arrested and charged after they were caught harvesting xate leaves in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. The detainees have tentatively been identified to us as Freddie Perez, Nery Abdulio Mantar and Humberto Hernandez. All three were arrested and convicted of […]
Written on February 27, 2006 | Posted in
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When we last spoke to Viola Myles, the one hundred and two year old had just fought off an armed intruder at her home on Allenby Street. But tonight the unexpected heroine is in the news for an entirely different reason. Tomorrow Miss Myles will celebrate one hundred and three years of life. This afternoon […]
Written on February 24, 2006 | Posted in
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Earlier this month Belizean musicians travelled to San Jose, Costa Rica, where they joined artists from throughout Central America for the first ever Papaya Music Festival. Team Belize was represented by Punta rocker Mohobub Flores who opened the four-day event with his turtle shells, and poet Leroy “Grandmaster” Young who stole the show with his […]
Written on February 23, 2006 | Posted in
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