We last saw it in 1995 when a record summer heat wave was responsible for the phenomenon known as coral bleaching. Now, according to reports received by the Fisheries Department, the same symptoms seem to be coming back in the wake of the current high temperatures in Belize. Coral bleaching is the term given to […]
Late this evening, Terusuke Terada, the Japanese Ambassador to Belize, signed two separate contracts totaling twenty two thousand U.S. dollars with the Community Home Economics Centre of the St. Mary’s Women’s Group and the St. John’s College Music Education Introduction project. The agreements, are among eleven given to N.G.O.s and institutions under Japan’s Grant Assistance […]
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 […]
Government continues to put its house in order and today announced a number of key appointments involving the foreign service, finance and education. With so few Belizean embassies abroad there are not a whole lot of spoils to go around… but it appears that at least three of Belize’s five major diplomatic posts will be […]
In other news from Belmopan the Ministry of National Security has begun a review of disciplinary actions taken against a number of police officers last year. According to a press release, the review, which comes as the result of complaints from officers who believe they have been dealt with unfairly, will be conducted by former […]
In crime news, police are still trying to piece together last Thursday’s shooting in Belize City which sent one man to the emergency room and at least three others scrambling for cover. Twenty-two year old Denvor Willoughby is the prime suspect in the late night incident and police are anxious to speak with him. But […]
An early morning accident across the Mexican border has killed two and left seven others hospitalized in Chetumal. According to Corozal police, just shortly after one this morning, Chetumal time, a small car driven by twenty-one year old Hipolito Marin of Corozal town, was travelling on the main highway to Chetumal with three Mexican nationals. […]
From Chetumal to Guatemala, the news is no less tragic for another Belizean family, as a forty-five year old man was gunned down in front of his wife last night. According to police, Guatemalan national Carlos Canizales and his Belizean wife were walking from Melchor to Arenal Village on the Guatemalan side of the border […]
The weeklong deadlock at City hall over a successor to Mayor Jose Coye may soon be over. Acting Mayor Marshall Nuñez says the stalemate will be resolved shortly and without ministerial intervention. Nuñez told News Five that while the business of governing the City continues uninterrupted, he would prefer to have the job of Mayor […]
Many of us know someone who is HIV positive or is suffering from AIDS, but not all of us have had the painful experience of caring and preparing for the death of a loved one who has this invariably fatal disease. It’s a sensitive issue, that for the first time is being publicly addressed in […]
A late night hold up in Ladyville, has left a family of four Chinese nationals hospitalized suffering with numerous cuts to their faces. According to Corporal Fredrick Gordon, the officer in charge of the Ladyville Police Station, three men, one armed with a gun and knife entered Jim’s Restaurant at mile nine and half on […]
The body was discovered on Friday morning in a canefield near San Antonio, Orange Walk. The man identified as the victim, thirty-eight year old Honduran Anseliano Bonilla, died execution style from a single gunshot wound to the forehead. Police may not have caught up with the murderer but at least they know who they want […]
Just one week after reporting the death of Irene Canche, the sixty-four year old woman who was severely burned in a gas tank explosion in San Jose Palmar Village, word has been received of the deaths of two more of the fire victims. According to reports, thirty year old Luz Maria Jimenez succumbed to her […]
It probably would not have saved the victims of the gas tank explosion, but in many accidents the difference between life and death comes down to the speed and skill of emergency medical personnel. If that is the case then the citizens of the two northern districts may be in luck, as the Belize Emergency […]
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 […]
Belize City will never be mistaken for the Garden of Eden, but if a small group of public spirited citizens has its way, one of Kings Park’s newly refurbished streets will soon be as beautiful as it is smooth. Patrick Jones reports. The idea of landscaping the newly constructed St. Thomas Street Boulevard is the […]
A note of explanation to non-Belizean viewers: Because our Internet newscast is a text version of our TV broadcast we sometimes forget that not all viewers are acquainted with Belizean holidays. So while our local audience was aware that last Thursday and Friday were public holidays and hence there was no newscast, foreign Internet users, […]
It was uncomfortably hot, so much so that one visiting diplomat even fainted… but not even the intense heat could obscure the feeling of those present that the transfer of power in the nation’s capital may actually bring about some real change in the way our government operates. Patrick Jones reports. The ceremonial open-air opening […]
A quiet late night hangout on Central American Boulevard erupted in pandemonium on Thursday and when the dust had settled, a Belize City youth lay on the pavement with gunshot wounds. According to police, twenty year old Kimbran Mossiah was the only one of four people who were sitting down at the corner of Jane […]
While the victim of Thursday night’s shooting recovers from his injuries in the hospital, another man who found himself on the wrong end of a gun was not so lucky. Twenty two year old Anthony Watson Junior was shot dead around one thirty this morning, apparently as he was attempting to burglarize a Belize City […]
In other crime news last week we were called to the home of a viewer in Belize City, where I discovered that the word burglary has taken on a new meaning. Sixty nine year old Gwen Barnhart, who suffers with severe rheumatoid arthritis, had left the country last October to seek medical attention abroad, but […]
A hit and run accident in Corozal on Thursday night has left one man dead and another behind bars. Twenty six year old Santos Gutierrez was knocked down and killed as he attempted to cross the Northern Highway at the junction of Buena Vista and Caledonia villages. Twenty six year old Alexander Pech of San […]
The weather may be beautiful but there are some homeowners in Belize City who need rubber boots to walk down the street. This morning I joined them. It’s hard to imagine anywhere in Belize City being underwater after weeks of intense heat. But that’s exactly what has been occurring on the streets of Belama Phase […]
