Over the years the Image Factory has hosted numerous art exhibitions at its North Front Street gallery. And while each of the displays featuring sculptures, paintings, and photographs has been unique in its own way, the latest show, which opens tonight, is especially eye opening. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting “TAMARIND POPE SOCCER BULLET […]
Her name has not surfaced in this newscast before, but six months after the fact we have learned that a Belizean serving in the U.S. Army has been wounded in Iraq…and today she was rewarded with U.S. citizenship. Twenty-six year old Army Specialist Lucy Lopez, a native of Punta Gorda, began her military service in […]
There are few among us who will easily forget the successive onslaught of storms named Mitch, Keith, Iris, and Chantal. But unknown by people my age, an earlier generation lived through a similar experience, beginning in the mid 1970’s. The big names of that era were Carmen, Fifi, Hermine, and Greta…and the man who guided […]
Life on one of the Caribbean’s most beautiful islands is supposed to be stress free, but for the second time in a little over three years a Prime Minister of Dominica has died in office. Forty-nine year old Pierre Charles was rushed to the hospital yesterday after complaining of chest pains during a Cabinet meeting. […]
He weighed in at a healthy six pounds fourteen ounces. And just as Antoine Anthony Miles was taking his first breath his name was being inscribed in the record books as 2004’s first baby born at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. When Antoine’s mother, twenty-nine year old Marcia Usher of King’s Park, received the news […]
He is no stranger to the spotlight, and his public battles in the cruise tourism sector have earned him a fair share of friends and enemies, but President of the Belize Cruise Ship Industry Association Tom Greenwood is fast gaining notoriety in another area: winning big prizes in raffles at the Princess Hotel and Casino. […]
And speaking of winnings, this morning a very jubilant Maria Perez, accompanied by her husband and two daughters, went to Atlantic Bank to claim her grand prize, a 2004 Toyota Hilux pickup. Perez won the new vehicle after her ticket was picked from among one hundred thousand coupons in Tuesday’s draw at the bank’s headquarters […]
If there is strength in numbers then the latest musical release is as strong as they come. The contributors number a baker’s dozen, all from the Cayo District, who have joined together to bring their talent to the public. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods asked the producer to explain what’s behind the new CD. Nadir Leal, […]
There is nothing that can put a smile on a person’s face like money, and lots of it in the days just before Christmas. But that’s just the kind of good fortune that struck Geraldine Conorquie, who travelled from Georgeville village today to collect her eighty seven thousand, five hundred dollar lotto jackpot. Conorquie says […]
He’s a man who needs little introduction, and after I listened to his latest CD its easy to see why. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The new release is titled “Just Like That” and just as the name suggests, the artist, Leroy “The Grandmaster” Young, tells it like it is. The album’s sixteen tracks are based on […]
A woman from Seine Bight Village in the Stann Creek District is forty thousand dollars richer tonight following some good luck in the latest Courts Megabucks spin. The name of Julia Ariola was drawn last week from thousands of Courts customers and on Saturday she took her turn at the wheel at the store’s main […]
The competition was announced in April and artists from across the Caribbean responded with hundreds of paintings; but in the end only twelve made it unto the 2004 Corporate Calendar for CLICO, the Colonial Life Insurance Company. One of those dozen colourful images was the creation of Belizean artist Pedro Cruz. Aside from the international […]
It started out as a story, intended to help three children understand their family history and ended up as a history of Caye Caulker Village. Today, the daughter of Antonio Vega Senior came home to launch “Caye to Success”, a documentary of her father’s rise out of poverty. Mati Vega Gomoll, who currently resides in […]
The House of Culture invites the public to a rare exhibition bow underway at their gallery on Regent Street. The show features African kings and queens who lived between the period of 1500 B.C. and 1923 A.D. The display is sponsored by the National Institute of Culture and History in collaboration with the Institute of […]
Belizean artist Santiago Cal is this month holding his second exhibition at the Image Factory. The show, “Durable View”, opens tonight. The display merges sculpture with installation and uses a variety of materials such as tarpaulin, zinc and plastic. A major theme is violence and brutality in art history, including fourteenth century Christian images of […]
‘Tis the season for concerts, and this weekend while the Methodist Chorale will be holding their annual performance…the Christmas concert will also act as a send off for the grandmaster of choral music in Belize. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting His antics keep the group relaxed; but Edison Staine is dead serious when it […]
Belizeans travelling to most Caribbean countries in search of employment will no longer need a work permit. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to be when all the nations in CARICOM adjust their national laws allowing for the implementation of arrangements under the Caribbean Community Single Market and Economy. Since Monday, a team of […]
Payday at the end of November has traditionally marked the unofficial kick-off of the Christmas season in Belize, at least the shopping season. But in case anyone was wondering, Christmas is about more than new curtains and marley. One such reminder comes in the form of an unusual dance presentation this weekend in the nation’s […]
When the last phone call was made from this studio on Friday night there were thousand of disappointed viewers all over the country. But members of one household at mile forty-seven on the Western Highway were shaking their heads in disbelief. They had just won a ticket on American Airlines and five hundred dollars cash. […]
A two-day art exhibition opens tonight at the Smokey Mermaid restaurant in Belize City; but this will not be your usual display of pretty paintings hanging on the wall. In fact what you will see will be an array of handmade sterling silver jewellery straight from Havana, Cuba. A pair of jewellers from the island, […]
The big white building on the foreshore is once again open to the public following ceremonies on Saturday afternoon. The completely refurbished House of Culture, traditionally known as Government House was built in 1814 and until 1981 was the home of Belize’s colonial governors. The building now houses various historical exhibitions, art gallery, meeting rooms, […]
The latest winner in the Courts Megabucks promotion, Yvonne Bradley, made that familiar spin of the wheel on Saturday, this time in Dangriga. Bradley took home her full seven thousand dollars in winnings as Courts picked up the income tax bill. The next Megabucks draw will take place on December first, with the maximum jackpot […]
The process started months ago with auditions to select forty-eight contestants from all over the country. On Sunday afternoon the final four in each of two categories squared off at Club Calypso to select the champions in the 2003 edition of Children’s Karaoke Television. The first winner announced was in the junior category. Maureen Dawson, […]
With the tempo of preparations for next week’s Garifuna Settlement Day rapidly increasing, a group of Belize City students today had the opportunity to join in the fun…and feel the beat of the nation’s most vibrant culture. Patrick Jones, Reporting The banner strung across the Belize City Centre this afternoon said it all. It was […]
On Saturday afternoon the public is invited to the official reopening of a building that, from its stately perch on the Belize City foreshore, has witnessed many of the major events in Belize’s colourful history. News 5’s Patrick Jones managed to beat the crowd with an advanced tour. Patrick Jones, Reporting Walking through Government House […]
