Former Minister of Government Eduardo “Dito” Juan was in an accident this morning on the Western Highway. One of his companions was killed. According to reports reaching News Five Juan was taking two of his workers Martha Molino and Leopold Palacio to deliver meat to Belize City in his Toyota pick-up. At mile twenty-two Juan […]
The school is only thirteen years old, but students are worried about its future. Not because it is in financial trouble, but because the government wants the University College of Belize to be absorbed into a national institution. But while the government committee consults and formulates its plans, the students are also consulting — with […]
U.C.B. students are not the only ones wondering about their future. Today the Ministry of Education announced that they are withdrawing their financial support amounting to some forty two thousand dollars a year from the Belize School of the Deaf and closing the school. The Ministry says they will be integrating all of the students […]
The recently formed Alliance Against AIDS is offering support services to those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS in Belize. The A.A.A. is conducting a six-week training course for HIV hotline operators. The hotline will be launched June first to coincide with the official inauguration of the center. Facilitators for the hotline training are […]
Four years ago the Pete Lizarraga Preschool in San Estevan Village in the Orange Walk District sent home its staff and students and closed its doors due to budgetary constraints. Today, the school was officially reopened with an enrollment of thirty-five children and two teachers. The curriculum will be based on music, basic phonics and […]
This Saturday the New Beginnings Ministries of Dangriga invites you to their second concert in Belize City. Michael Evans, the band leader for Two Roadz says it will be an intense concert filled with dance routines and drama. Evans says the goal is to show the youths of Belize that there is a solution to […]
The Methodist Mission has received some welcome assistance today for the completion of their multipurpose center on Albert Street. Area Representative Mark Espat handed over sixty thousand dollars from the Government of Belize today to Reverend Leslie Anderson for the facility. It will house a theatre, a neighborhood medical clinic, meeting rooms and offices and […]
During their election campaign, the People’s United Party, and Queen’s Square candidate in particular Dickie Bradley, said the southside of Belize City had been neglected for too long. Among the promises they made was to improve the recreational facilities as well as commercial areas. Today the Minister of Housing and Urban Renewal Dickie Bradley showed […]
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