A Budd’s bus travelling from Lord’s Bank filled with school children crashed into a lamp post about eight twenty this morning at mile three and a half on the Northern Highway. Fortunately only a few children received minor injuries and were treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital; the rest were taken to school by […]
A Nigerian has been arrested for allegedly smuggling and selling what police describe as a large amount of heroin. Police tell News Five John Amah entered the country through the northern border on Monday and was staying at a Belize City hotel. Yesterday morning an undercover police officer offered to purchase the drugs during a […]
As part of a clean-up campaign the Belize City Council in partnership with the Belize Electricity Limited officially handed over garbage bins to eight primary schools in Belize City this morning. Bins have also been given out to residents of the Albert Division and the City Council says high demand will lead them to distribute […]
For the first time in its one hundred and eleven year history St. John’s College will have a lay person as its president. In a short ceremony this morning the school’s Board of Trustees officially introduced former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Carlos Perdomo as the new president of S.J.C. Perdomo an […]
Even if you’re a city dweller, you’d know a toucan if you saw one, wouldn’t you? Well the Belize Audubon Society is betting that with a little help you could recognize over fifty birds of Belize. To prove it, Rudi Burgos and other members of the B.A.S. staff are giving an introduction to bird watching […]
In November the Honduran Embassy was the clearing house for relief supplies donated by Belizeans to victims of Hurricane Mitch. Today there was a different sort of storm brewing at the embassy as representatives of Belize’s Garinagu community expressed their disapproval of a proposal being considered by the Honduran government. News Five was there. There […]
