As our last story suggests, Belize’s World Heritage sites can be preserved and at the same time produce income for nearby residents; it all comes down to smart management. But what’s happening at the Blue Hole is considered by many to be anything ¬but smart. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports on the potentially lethal mix […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported on agreements signed with the European Union to assist farmers and residents of the sugar and banana belts. But not all the E.U.’s aid goes toward improving the efficiency of farmers in the north and south. News Five’s Marion Ali is just back from the Cayo District where she visited […]
While most residents of Belize City were making their way to work or school this morning, a drama was playing out in a quiet neighbourhood in King’s Park. News Five’s Janelle Chanona arrived on the scene as fire fighters were getting the blaze under control. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning Pastor Ruth Pipersburgh and her […]
It’s a common sight on Belizean streets… “sales-children” carrying containers of food door to door to help their families make ends meet. But over the weekend, one little girl selling Johnny cakes in Corozal Town was kidnapped and raped while making her daily rounds. According to the thirteen year old victim, she was in the […]
He was stopped for a relatively minor traffic offence but an attempt to bribe the arresting officer has cost a Corozal man an extra thousand dollars. Forty-two year old Mark Daniels of G Street in that northern town tried to pay off Corporal Ignatius Nicholas on Friday night after he and a female companion were […]
A delivery truck driver was rushed by ambulance to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital this morning following an accident on Cemetery Road. Around nine this morning, Twenty-seven year old Earl Johnson, accompanied by another employee of Sunnyside Bakery, was driving down the busy street when it appears he tried to avoid rear ending the vehicle […]
The World Trade Organization may have stripped Belize’s sugar and banana industries of their preferential trade agreements with the European Union, but the E.U. is attempting to compensate with technical assistance to make those industries more competitive on world markets. Today Prime Minister Dean Barrow and E.U. Ambassador Marco Alemanni signed two agreements that will […]
We may look with concern at the high number of high school dropouts but more children than ever are getting an early start on education. Nowhere is this trend more evident than during the month of March. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting Over one thousand children from preschools across Belize City braved […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you are most welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. Week three of the B.P.F.L. playoffs saw F.C. Belize being hosted by the surging Hankook Verdes inside the Norman Broaster Stadium out west. Where a pre-game downpour has reduced key spots of this vaunted pitch to less than conducive […]
