Jose Coye and Marshall Nunez have been re-elected as Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Belize City… But that’s about the only thing upon which all nine City Councilors apparently agree. A press release issued today by City Hall says that the vote was unanimous and that no other candidates were even nominated. Councilor Merilyn Young, […]
By the start of this morning’s rush hour the obstruction had been towed off the road but for the previous twelve hours the butane truck had blocked the Northern Highway. Traffic was backed up for as much as a half mile in each direction as authorities were fearful that a spark from a passing vehicle […]
Just as Belize City has elected a mayor, so the Belize District has chosen a spelling champion. Patrick Jones was on hand at Parish Hall to record her victory. The Competition was tough today as seventeen Belize district Primary School boys and girls went head to head at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall to decide […]
They say appearances don’t always paint an accurate picture, but don’t tell that to the Belize Family Life Association. The ten year old organization today relocated its main clinic and headquarters to the old Belize City Hospital. B.F.L.A.’s Executive Director Jewel Quallo-Rosberg says the move to what was the operating theater wing, made possible by […]
While Holy Redeemer Parish Hall was the venue for the Belize District’s spelling finals, a different sort of competition was taking place thirty miles up the Western Highway at the Belize Zoo. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods wouldn’t think of missing it. The seventh annual Environmental Science Fair was not as big as previous years, but […]
In case you haven’t noticed it’s Women’s Week and while there was no shortage of news items devoted to women in politics, women in sports, women in the work place and women’s health, there was not one word expressed about a subject that is of more than just passing interest to many Belizean women: that […]
