It may be a couple of years too late for members of the Sound City Band, to reap the harvest of their work on creating “Conch Soup,” the song that was stolen and made it into an international hit by a Honduras group. But serious efforts now being made to protect the region’s music industry […]
They are just back from a U.S. tour and their latest CD has recently gone on sale. Things are looking up for the band known as “D-Revelation” and Patrick Jones found out why. The fourteen songs on the compact disc, all originals, continue in the well-known D-Revelation tradition. Public relations officer for the band, Paul […]
You’ve seen his work on this newscast before, but as I discovered this morning, artist Alex Sanker just keeps getting better and better. In the five years that Alex Sanker has been painting, there has been a tremendous improvement in this artist’s work. According to the artist, while he does not believe he has reached […]
He’s made it to the “Most Wanted” list, but no, punta rocker Aziatic is not being sought by the police. Instead the Los Angeles based artist is preparing to unleash his latest concoction of punta rock rhythms. The fifteen song collection is being promoted as the Punta Rock album of the year and Aziatic says […]
First it was “Hard Time, Ketch and Kill.” Now the self styled bachelor of antics is at it again, only this time Jim Arnold has ventured into the publishing business. His first book, a collection of Creole and English poems titled: “Just For You,” is available at bookstores in Belize City. Arnold says his book […]
It may be a long three months until Christmas but it’s not too early to start thinking of gifts. This morning we visited the Commercial Centre in Belize City and found that a number of artisans are urging customers to “think Belizean”. The exhibition displays a number of art and craft works created by a […]
He’s been absent from the local music scene for quite a while; but it doesn’t mean that Kungo Music specialist Brother David has been idling his time away. In fact, the veteran musician has been hard at work putting his best loved songs into one handy package. Apart from incorporating his twenty years of experience […]
Many of us walk by them every day without so much as a second glance: places like the Supreme Court or St. John’s Cathedral. But these rare architectural gems are a vanishing breed in Belize… and that’s why we’re fortunate that one man is photographing them, and other sometimes unappreciated Belizean scenes for future generations […]
On Saturday morning history will be made when for the first time a woman will be chosen to preside over this nation’s most important legislative body, the House of Representatives. But to focus on Sylvia Flores merely as the first woman Speaker, is to do her and all women a disservice… because beyond any considerations […]
Her first exhibition is being opened literally as I speak, but, judging from the quality of her work, artist Jeanie Shaw will become a regular on the Belizean art scene. Patrick Jones paid her a visit as she put the finishing touches on her show at the Fiesta. Attitude! Innocence! Meditation! These are just some […]
A year ago we first brought you their story, a group of energetic young Belizeans who are out to burn their names into the music industry circuit both at home and abroad. Twelve months after the release of their first album, “Midnight Run,” the Wood Dwellas are back. With fourteen new songs added to their […]
Police news usually involves crime, but not always. Word has been received that on August nineteenth Assistant Commissioner of Police, Alvan Rowland, suffered a stroke, which doctors have characterized as mild. According to Jesus Matute, the officer in charge of personnel and welfare, Roland is being treated in Merida and his condition is improving. We […]
It is with great regret that we report the death of another woman, not as young as Anna Lightfoot, but young in spirit. Helen Craig, subject of a number of News Five stories, passed away early this morning in Belize City. Miss Craig enjoyed a successful musical career both in Belize and abroad. She was […]
Not everyone today was caught up in the last minute rush of electoral politics. Arreini Palacio found some relief… in the judicial system. “Women expressing themselves through art,” is the theme under which BOWAND is holding the Women in Art exhibition. The display, which runs from August twenty-six through to September third, was opened in […]
His was a household name in the Cayo District and indeed the entire nation of Belize. It is therefore with great regret that we note the passing of Escandar Bedran. Bedran, one of the country’s most active and far sighted businessmen, died Sunday night in the San Ignacio Hospital after battling a series of illnesses. […]
A former senator, newspaper columnist and political activist has died. Rolando Perdomo, who served as a P.U.P. appointed senator from 1989 to 1993, passed away on Sunday in Mexico City where he was being treated for cancer. The sixty year old Perdomo was perhaps best known for his five years as author of the column […]
In Belize we are all too familiar with illness, and the ability or inability our medical system to restore and maintain our health. But as anyone who has ever endured a lengthy illness can attest, the process of recovery is an intensely personal experience. So it has been with Orlando Chavarria. His name was once […]
We usually only think of them to lick and stick on letters but from the twenty-fourth of July to the thirteenth of August, Belizean and Mexican stamps will adorn the walls of the Belize-Mexico Institute of Culture and Cooperation on the Newtown Barracks. The exhibition, which is open to the public, includes stamps drawn from […]
Music lovers will soon be able to enjoy the voices of Belizean children as the Arts Council prepares for the selection of the first National Youth Choir. Although it won’t be until August twenty-sixth that rehearsals get underway, interested children between the ages of eight and thirteen are being invited to try out for thirty […]
While the National Youth Choir is being formed, the Arts Council is also taking time out to honor outstanding Belizean artists in an awards ceremony to be held next week. According to Cultural Assistant Phyllis Butler, the theme for this year’s awards is “The magic of the theatre and the soul of the art”. Phyllis […]
The Mexican Embassy in Belize has announced that entry into our northern neighbor has now been made easier. This is the result of the third meeting of heads of government from Central America and Mexico held last week in El Salvador. The new measures approved by President Ernesto Zedillo will primarily benefit students and tour […]
Two months ago Carlos Perdomo, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security and Superintendent of Police Yolanda Murray, visited Costa Rica at the invitation of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. There, they attended a one-day meeting that focussed on community policing. It was at that gathering that the Institute became impressed with the […]
He was a benefactor to the National Library Service and the North Front Street extension was named the “Turton Library” in his honor. Finally, more than half a century after his death, Robert Sydney Turton is being singled out for recognition. The National Library Service commissioned Leroy Grant to compile a book entitled “The life […]
In regional news the Red Cross will begin intensive relief operations this weekend in the interior of Guyana. Over four hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars has been raised in a special campaign to help support fifteen hundred Amerindian families whose survival has been jeopardized by severe drought. In addition to food like rice, beans, […]
While the election campaign continues to intensify, at least two of the major players on the government side will be taking a few days off from the mayhem to attend to affairs of state. Foreign Minister Dean Barrow left today and Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel will depart tomorrow for a summit of leaders from Central […]
