It’s a story that we are used to seeing in the U.S. news media: a newborn baby, unwanted by its teenaged mother, is abandoned and left for dead. Tonight that story — or perhaps some as yet unknown variation of it — tops the news right here in Belize. This morning we were called to […]
In other crime news three men from the Corozal District have been arrested for a robbery which occurred last week in Santa Clara Village. On October ninth, twenty-two year old housewife Marcela Gomez reported that three men came to her house, hit her and robbed her at knifepoint of jewelry worth over thirteen hundred dollars. […]
In a follow up to a story we reported in yesterday’s newscast, police have identified the cyclist who was injured in an accident on the Bel-China Bridge as Roberto Orellano. Information is still sketchy, but it appears that the thirty-four year old Belize City resident was run over by the rear wheel of a mini-bus […]
Government continues to work toward the implementation of its campaign promises and today announced a number of decisions taken at Tuesday’s session of Cabinet. In a move designed to increase the accountability of ministers, Cabinet approved amendments to the standing orders of the House to grant increased powers to legislative standing committees to oversee activities […]
A release from the Professional Secretaries Association of Belize says that they have undergone a name change. Henceforth the organization will be known as the Association of Administrative Professionals of Belize. The new name conforms to a similar makeover mandated by the international association at its annual convention in August. Despite all the semantic secretarial […]
The organization known as “Friends of Pediatrics” today donated to Minister of Health Servulo Baeza over three thousand dollars worth of items for the children’s ward at Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Among the gifts were a twenty five-inch television, VCR, tapes, books and games. In an unusual request the group is appealing to the person […]
The last time a cruise ship appeared in the news it was because of the sexual orientation of its passengers. Tonight’s report, though less sensational, may be more welcome by tour operators in Belize City. On Thursday the Sea Breeze, carrying a maximum of eight hundred and fifty passengers, will make the first of what […]
The Broadcasting Corporation of Belize has gone through a number of name changes in its more than half century of existence, but by the end of this month, it will be called anything except alive. News Five’s Patrick Jones, himself a former B.C.B. employee, looks at how the winding down process is going. After eight […]
