More people have today come forward to protest the continued incarceration of Alfonso Teul and Eluterio Vasquez, two farm workers who have been charged with murder and robbery in the May second mass holdup on the Hummingbird Highway. News Five’s Patrick Jones has just returned from the citrus orchards of the Stann Creek Valley and […]
The People’s United Party has decided to end its boycott of the National Assembly and will return to the House of Representatives for this Friday’s sitting. The return, which had been rumored for several weeks, was confirmed by P.U.P. Secretary General Godfrey Smith in an interview this morning on F.M. Two Thousand’s “Breakfast Show”. While […]
For a while last year they were among Belize’s most wanted, but today the Leiva brothers, Javier and Othon, are free men. According to Director of Public Prosecutions, Adolph Lucas, there was a lack of sufficient evidence to convict them of the murder of twenty four year old Corozal farmer Luciano Basto, and therefore he […]
According to B.E.L. the cycle of blackouts that has been plaguing the Cayo, Stann Creek and Belize Districts is over. A company press release issued today says the grid is back to full power, following the installation of two imported portable generating units at the Ladyville Plant. Three weeks ago the company’s generating capacity was […]
It’s getting on toward that part of the school year when a young student’s thoughts turn toward anything but schoolwork. And as News Five’s Arreini Palacio discovered, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. A normal day at St. Mary’s Primary School would include reading, writing and arithmetic but today the students decided to add a […]
While students at St. Mary’s were displaying the many cultures of Belize, some visitors from across the Gulf of Mexico are in town with some culture of their own. Anthony Williams, Assistant Professor of Music, Dillard University “One of the things our president wants us to do is to have cultural exchanges and to have […]
Belize is no stranger to eccentric artists, so a professor currently visiting from Louisiana’s Dillard University should feel right at home. From as far back as he can remember, Dr. Willie F. Hooker has been doing what he loves best: bringing to life ethnic images on canvass. Hooker, who is an Associate Professor of Art […]
