All too often we hear of shops being robbed, but schools? On Wednesday Nazarene high school employees were robbed at gunpoint and almost four thousand dollars taken. According to the school’s office manager Gilroy Audinett and secretary Gayle Gordon, a masked, barefoot man entered the main building around three forty-five in the afternoon through an […]
While there is still no official word about kidnapped Mennonite Menno Penner, another member of the Mennonite community and his family were threatened with bodily harm on Wednesday. Police arrested a Guatemalan Umberto Arevalo Hernandez and Belize David Landero of Billy White Village in the Cayo District after they allegedly took a letter, written in […]
One week ago, senior police constable Aloysius Guzman committed suicide by shooting himself in the temple in front of his wife. Today we learned that another police officer tried to end his life on Wednesday night. Reports are that the sergeant who resides in Ladyville and is attached to the patrol branch in Belize City […]
Two men from the Stann Creek district have been charged with having sex with minors, and one of the girls was only eleven years old. On Tuesday a woman in red bank village took her eleven-year-old daughter to a medical officer after she saw vamp marks on the child’s neck. He confirmed she had been […]
Several years ago Belize hospitals embarked on a Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative. But the ten-step plan to strengthen relationships between nurses and expectant mothers and promote breastfeeding in our maternity wards has been difficult to complete. Rural and public health nurses and midwives met today to discuss how they can ensure that by the end […]
For the past two weeks the old floor boards at the Belize Government house have felt young bones walk across it. In a workshop sponsored by the House of Culture, thirty-two children, ages eight to fifteen, have been refining their artistic skills under the direction of Pamela Bruan. Aimee Flores, Art Student “I needed something […]
Every fisherman on the planet has a story about the big one that got away. Well tonight on news five we’ve got a story about some big ones that didn’t get away. In fact, as Stewart Krohn reports from Placencia, they keep on coming back. With longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere and three […]
