With so much cocaine coming in and out of Belize it was beginning to look like the whole of the country was one big flourmill. The result was that the homegrown marijuana industry, once renowned worldwide for “Belize Breeze,” had almost been overlooked. No longer… thanks to a massive bust this morning in Belize City. […]
It may not have been as audacious as the Brodies theft, but when it comes to guns, a political candidate in Cayo has reported a robbery of epic proportions. Fifty-year-old San Ignacio businessman Ainsley Leslie, who is also the P.U.P. candidate in Cayo North, told police that on the afternoon of May thirty first his […]
There were no guns evident in Belmopan today but close to forty people showed up to take aim at the new business tax proposed by the Esquivel administration. The occasion was a public hearing on the legislation before the House Ways and Means Committee. The committee, chaired by Melvin Hulse and including Dito Juan, Salvador […]
Reports from the north indicate that one of the area’s major Maya sites has been excavated…not by archaeologists, but by a public works crew building cane feeder roads. A report on LOVE FM indicated that tour operator Tom Greenwood, who visited the site this morning, found that half of one mound at the site, which […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported on a new court being laid down at City Centre just in time for the CARICOM Basketball Championships. Today the B.N.B.A. called journalists together for an update on the big event. The competition, which starts on June eighteenth at the Belize City Centre, features six female and male teams from […]
The first time we saw Stephen Okeke, it was to admire his life-size sculptures of famous figures from Belize’s past. We next found him turning commonplace items like coconut shells and cohune leaves into arts and crafts. Today News Five’s Patrick Jones found him working with a new medium. The flashy pieces of wood sculptures […]
