Like many big news stories in Belize the mass robbery and accompanying murder which occurred on the Hummingbird Highway on May second has faded from the nation’s headlines. But the fear instilled by the criminals and then aggravated by the police in their wholesale roundup of Hispanic immigrants remains fresh in the memories of those […]
We’re not sure if it has anything to do with the failure of police to lay a hand on a truckload of Guatemalan murderers on May second but the U.S. embassy has announced that it is donating two big pickup trucks to the Dragon Unit. Their purpose? To rapidly transport interdiction teams anywhere in Belize. […]
A freak accident in Toledo has left a Punta Gorda man dead. Thirty seven year old Simeon Coleman was driving down the Southern Highway from Big Falls to the district capital when upon reaching near mile nineteen, his pickup began to shut down as it labored up a hill. As it sputtered to a stop […]
Two well known educational institutions opened their doors to the public today and News Five’s Arreini Palacio, herself on summer break from U.W.I., went back to school. Her first stop was at C.E.T. on St. Thomas Street. Five months of skills training was brought to the public today in the seventh annual Center for Employment […]
While the kids at C.E.T. were looking toward the new millennium the students at Belize Teacher’s Training College were focussed on other activities. It was a dream come true for any student… a time for teachers to entertain them. The second annual Belize Teacher’s Training College Expo was held today on the campus on University […]
While election fever may be raising the temperature of Belize’s body politic, a different type of democratic voting took place throughout Belize today. The choices were not between red and blue but instead ranged over a number of different rights of children as set forth by the United Nations. Patrick Jones covered the balloting as […]
