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Police detain suspects in arms smuggling ring

Belize City police have detained three people, one of whom is highly suspected of being the point man in a plot to get more guns on the streets. News Five’s Patrick Jones reports. According to Inspector Edward Broaster, police intelligence information led them to this house on East Collet Canal in Belize City where illegal […]

Belize City taxi driver robbed at gunpoint

Authorities are investigating a mid-morning armed robbery of a taxi driver in Belize City. Fifty one year old Theodore Henry reported to police that shortly after ten o’clock this morning he was stopped by a young man at the corner of Vernon Street and Lindo’s Alley requesting taxi service. Although he had a passenger in […]

1992 Nobel Peace Prize Winner on two day visit to Belize

Fourth and sixth form students in Belize City are this week being given the opportunity to meet the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Rigoberta Menchu. She arrived in the country this morning, and News Five’s Julietta Burrowes was at the airport to greet her. She is recognized all over the world as an activist for […]

V.S.O. announces it is pulling out of Belize

After the nearly forty years of providing development assistance to Belize the British charity organization Voluntary Service Overseas is pulling out. A three man team of V.S.O. program directors from the Caribbean, working in conjunction with local employers today began a three week review of existing programs. This evaluation is designed to develop an exit […]

Belizean children to go to the polls later this month

The term of office for the current National Assembly will expire at the end of next month and although their vote won’t make a difference in who gets to make up the next government, some very important people will get to make their mark well in advance of the General Elections. News Five’s Julietta Burrowes […]

Image Factory hosts “Minus 2” art exhibition

Since the opening of the Image Factory on North Front Street, the gallery has been host to different forms of art exhibitions. But none like the one that is currently underway. “Minus 2” as it is called, is using the latest available technology to mirror the fast paced society in which we live with the […]