The world of university education is changing. What was once considered a cloistered life in an ivory tower has now become an interactive experience in the real world…a world that for the students in our next story includes Belize. Jacqueline Woods reports from Gales Point. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Ideally, every student who gets the opportunity […]
For a while it seemed that every day there was a news item on another school being equipped with an Intelco computer lab. Then at some point the press releases stepped and the only stories you saw about Intelco were about delays in the company’s introduction of service. Well, over the last week or so […]
Their fate hangs in the balance, and by the end of the night, accused murderers Leslie Pipersburg and Patrick Robateau will know whether they will face the hangman’s noose or not. The jury comprising seven men and five women, got the case from presiding judge Troadio Gonzales late this evening after more than four hours […]
The Belize Police Department had to arrest yet another member of its ranks this weekend after a young woman reported being raped. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid says it received a report that three couples had been partying in Hattieville on Friday night and checked into a Ladyville hotel early Saturday morning. But things […]
Belize City has seen a spate of fires recently, and this weekend it happened again. Around seven-thirty Friday night a house caught fire on Kraal Road. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Marva Young, who was sleeping inside her house at the time of the incident, says she was awakened by people screaming her name […]
The results of the post-mortem on Eustace Vernon, found dead at his business on Central American Boulevard, are indicating that he was strangled. However, almost a week after the eighty-four year old businessman was discovered bound and gagged, police have yet to make any arrests. They are asking anyone with information who could assist in […]
A traffic accident last night on the Western Highway has claimed the life of a fifty-year-old woman and left her husband hospitalised in Belmopan. Around ten o’clock last night, two small pickup trucks were travelling in opposite directions in Camalote Village when somehow they collided. The impact of metal meeting metal sent one of the […]
It took three and a half years, but today fifteen families displaced by Hurricane Keith got replacement houses in Caye Caulker. Funding was provided by the Board of Episcopal Relief and Development working through the Anglican Diocese of Belize, the Government of Belize, and the Caye Caulker Village Council. Today the Prime Minister Said Musa […]
It is a recurrent question: can humans coexist alongside crocodiles? The answer seems to be “sometimes.” But when the animals become a threat to the community, they need to be caught and relocated. One man decided there must be an easier way to trap the crocs than the usual snare method and devised a trap […]
It was an opening fit for a king, or in our case a Baron. On Friday, The Bliss Center for the Performing Arts reopened after a year of construction work to upgrade the facility named in honour of Baron Bliss, Belize’s greatest benefactor, and built in 1955. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights, audiences were […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week two of the B.P.F.L.’s semi-pro football season took the defending champions, Benny’s Kulture Yabra of Belize City north to the People’s Stadium in search of its first season win. At the very least, it was not going to be an easy win against the […]
Police in San Ignacio have moved quickly to charge one person in connection with the shooting death of a Georgeville resident on Wednesday night. Thirty-seven year old Sergio Castaneda is charged with manslaughter by negligence and causing the death of Pablo Darimple Loague by careless conduct. Castaneda, Loague and another Georgeville resident, Clive Alford, were […]
Police have detained a man after he allegedly collected over twenty thousand dollars by posing as a surveyor. Carmine Tedeschi a businessman visiting San Ignacio, told police he was making arrangements to purchase a piece of land in San Antonio Village and that a man charged him and his partner, Rudolph Melter, eight hundred dollars […]
When the phrase “perception is more important than reality” was coined, the writer was probably not thinking of fraud and corruption. But it’s a theme that fits perfectly with a half-day workshop next week in Belize City, organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in conjunction with the Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants. According […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs Godfrey Smith this afternoon hosted his Mexican counterpart, Doctor Luis Ernesto Derbez, to a meeting in Belize City. The session was closed to reporters, but a release from the Government Press Office says that the meeting, which also had the participation of Prime Minister Said Musa and Mexico’s Under Secretary of […]
The release from Belmopan will no doubt arrive on Monday, but the Foreign and Commonwealth Office today announced the appointment of a new British High Commissioner to Belize. According to the F.C.O. website, Alan Jones will succeed current High Commissioner Philip Priestly. Jones, who entered the diplomatic service in 1971, will take up his new […]
As part of Women’s Week, a presentation was made this afternoon on an issue they often neglect: their own health. The main message today was take care of yourself or you won’t be able to take care of others. Joan Musa, Chairperson, National Women’s Commission “Well, we think it is very important for women to […]
If you thought the mayor’s ball last weekend was the social event of the season, you might want to rethink that from the excitement that has been emanating from the Southern Foreshore for the past week in anticipation of tonight’s grand reopening of the Bliss. The “best of the best” are slated to perform over […]
For as long as there have been hunters, there have been hunting accidents. Last night in the Cayo District a man lost his life after a colleague mistook his movements for those of a wild animal. Today, News 5’s Patrick Jones travelled out west and found that while the killing appears to have been an […]
While the death in Cayo may still lack some evidence, at least all those involved are present and accounted for. Not so in the case of the eighty-four year old businessman found bound, gagged, and dead yesterday in Belize City. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has an update. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is hard to imagine […]
Chalk it up as another as-yet-unsolved mystery. Almost two weeks after the body of U.S. National Jovanna Poe was found floating in the lagoon in Gales Point, Dangriga police are no closer to solving the brutal murder. It is believed that Poe, who was scheduled to leave the country on Friday, February twenty-seventh, was killed […]
Two more suspects have been arrested for their involvement in last week’s bank robbery in Orange Walk. They are thirty-three year old Rafael Campos, a naturalised Belizean originally from El Salvador who resides in San Jose Village, and thirty-one year old Benjamin Orellano. Police believe that Campos is the leader of the gang that robbed […]
It may not have been on the scale of the blazes we covered on Wednesday, but once again the fire pumps were working overtime in Belize City. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the fourth time in two days, this afternoon fire officials were called to a house fire, this time at number twelve Vernon Street. According […]
The bashment was held on Friday, but it was today that the money raised from the Mayor’s Charity Banquet and Ball was officially handed over. Presenting a cheque for twenty thousand dollars to Belize City Mayor David Fonseca was committee chairperson Pauline Smith-Wade. Donations are still being accepted, which will be used to alleviate the […]
In the confusion of yesterday’s fires and subsequent downtown power failures we were unable to bring viewers the story of a major step forward in the world of education: the dedication of a brand new junior college on the southside of Belize City. Patrick Jones was on hand. Patrick Jones, Reporting The spanking new two-story […]
