There has been another robbery in Belize City, the third this week. Around eight thirty Wednesday night three Creole men entered the Jackpot Gaming House on Baymen Avenue, held a gun to a sixteen year old employee’s head and demanded money. She handed over sixty dollars and the men fled on bicycles. Police have detained […]
We often hear of liquor or foodstuff being smuggled across the borders, but toilet paper? On Tuesday customs officials at the Santa Elena border in Corozal intercepted a truck carrying one thousand bails of Mexican toilet paper. It seems duty had only been paid on half of the cargo. Police say the driver faces charges […]
The Prime Minister Said Musa and three of his Ministers were in Placencia today for a town meeting to discuss development plans for the area. The P.M. and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources Johnny Briceño, Minister of Works Henry Canton and Minister of Trade and Industry Jose Coye met with representatives of […]
In this the hurricane season, the Belize Red Cross and the United Nations Development Program, UNDP, continue their series of disaster preparedness workshops for villages. This time the workshops are in the Stann Creek District. Today forty-five village leaders from Silk Grass, Sittee, Hopkins and Maya Center met at the Silk Grass Community Center and […]
The carnival road march is on the eleventh, and while most groups are putting the finishing touches on their costumes, one junior band has to start over from scratch. The reason? Some malicious person stole all of their costumes, and the art supplies that Georgette Staine and her band members had worked so hard to […]
Last Friday night, August twenty-seventh, Ladyville held its beauty pageant in which five young ladies competed for the title. At the end of the contest, Sophia Williams walked away with the crown. Today, the student of Belize Continuation High School visited News Five to say she was shocked to learn that the first runner-up, Shana […]
The works of eleven Belizean artists are on display at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. The opening was held on August thirty-first and the group was represented by Yasser Musa and Gilvano Swasey who made a brief presentation to Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Jason Hu. The show, which runs until September twenty-sixth, includes the […]
Last month two babies died at the Karl Heusner Memorial within twenty-four hours of each other and the mothers went to the media. Both blame the hospital for the loss of their babies and the incidents have sparked the suspension of a doctor and a full investigation of the deaths. While the government has made […]
