It is probably one of the biggest reunions ever planned–all past students of the former Belize Technical College. They will converge in Belize, beginning May eighteenth for a week of activities. Members of the planning committee, Darlene Gentle and Josephine Flowers, urge all alumni who have not yet signed up for the reunion to do […]
As Belize’s most essential publication, the B.T.L. directory, tends to start the year off in sterling condition then end up dog-eared, written in, and even ripped up–but that’s okay, the folks at B.T.L. are ready once more to give you a new one. News Five spoke with Public Relations Officer Linette Canto about the latest […]
It was a busy weekend for police in Dangriga as they collaborated with their Belize City counterparts to nab five more suspects in connection with last week’s burglary of Brad’s store on Vernon Street. Aldorae Flowers, Edwin Flowers, Joseph Conorque, Lawrence Longsworth, and Brian Smith, all twenty-two, and a fifteen-year-old boy were marched to Belize […]
A police officer is dead and his common-law-wife is in custody, accused of shooting him in the back. According to Belmopan police, they responded to reports of a shooting incident in the Las Flores area around seven on Sunday night. Constable Benedicto Salam was found wounded on the veranda of his home on Amapola Street […]
Police in Independence Village have detained one person following a violent incident that has left a Toledo man hospitalized in a critical condition. Around ten-fifteen on Saturday night, police were called to the home of Rufino Tush in San Roman Village, Toledo where they found him with chop wounds to his arms and chest. Investigations […]
After four hours of legal wrangling, the case of Government, joined by the Michael Ashcroft controlled E-COM Limited, versus Jeffrey Prosser?s Belize Telecom and I.C.C. over interpretation of the Articles of Association rested their submissions before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. In a strange pairing, Opposition Leader Dean Barrow representing E-Com and Solicitor General Elson Kaseke […]
With more and more Belizeans using the internet, it was just a matter of time before we would be able to pay our bills in real time, online. The first bank to offer this service is Atlantic Bank, and the first utility company to accept electronic payments is Belize Electricity Limited. The joint project took […]
A celebration of Belizean art and culture was held at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts today. The event, called ICA Day, was in conjunction with the first anniversary of the Institute of Creative Arts, the successor to the Belize Arts Council. Activities included storytelling, drama, and elocution competitions for schoolchildren, entertainment by performing […]
The Belizean government has announced three days of official mourning and Roman Catholic public schools are declaring Friday to be a day of prayer following the passing of Pope John Paul II over the weekend. As Belizean Catholics join millions of people all over the world in mourning the passing of Pope John Paul II, […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?re locked into this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The King of the Ballers Basketball Tournament returned to Big Bird?s Isle Friday night with the Ballers boasting a one-game lead in this three game championship series against B.T.L.?s Scare Dem Bullets. It?s a quick start for the Blackballers when […]
The transcript of Thursday’s hearing in Miami’s U.S. district court is in, and while the ruling is not quite as emphatic as ICC’s lawyer Lanny Davis would have us believe, his account was basically factual. “The Government of Belize is in contempt”, said Judge Ursula Ungaro-Benages, and invited submissions from both sides on what, if […]
At news time it appeared that Pope John Paul the Second did not have much longer to live. And while Roman Catholics in Belize number just under half the nation’s population, Belizeans of all faiths–and even those with no faith at all–will recognise that this Pope was a tremendously important figure during a remarkable period […]
Domestic violence usually takes the form of a fight between a man and a woman, but often a situation develops in which the squabble is extended to other participants, in this case with disastrous results. Cairin Reid, Stabbing Victim ?I was telling her to stop because she no have to do that and she just […]
A would be cat burglar is tonight enjoying the comforts of the Hattieville prison, thanks to the bravery of a Belize City resident and his alert neighbours. Around three on Thursday morning, fifty-one-year-old Henry Benguche told police that he was awakened by the sound of noise from the upper flat of his split level house […]
Since twenty-eight-year-old Daniel Tillett was reported missing one month ago the family has looked far and wide but still has no idea where their loved one might be. But they remain optimistic that Tillett, who suffers from mental illness, will be found alive and well. Today, Kendra and Darrel Tillett appealed to the authorities and […]
Fire is a popular topic these days, with the city garbage dump still burning, four buildings in San Ignacio destroyed and a number of homes levelled by both arson and less malicious causes. And that tally doesn’t include the threat of bush fires, which are always a danger during the dry season. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
A private residence in the heart of San Ignacio is a long way from the Belize City House of Culture, Image Factory, Mexican Institute and other more traditional centres of Belizean art. But the works on display in Cayo speak for themselves…and today News 5’s Patrick Jones was listening. Patrick Jones, Reporting The uncle and […]
