A Punta Gorda businessman reported being robbed on the ninth of September of seventy thousand dollars worth of cash and jewelry during a burglary. Davidas Sukhlani told police fifteen thousand Belize dollars and twenty thousand in U.S. currency and an assortment of jewelry was stolen from the house on West Street. Police have detained six […]
The September Celebrations continue with the National Song Contest tonight. Brother David and the Tribal Vibes, Punta Rebels, Dell and the Sensations, Kenny Morgan, Roots Reggaematic, World Culture Band, the New Dimensions and Griga Boyz are competing for a one thousand, five hundred dollar prize. The winner will also receive the Nelson Diamond Award. Guest […]
One of Belize City’s hurricane shelters has been completely renovated through funds from the Social Investment Fund. The Salvation Army School on Orange Street took in three hundred people during Mitch and it became apparent that the facility needed urgent repairs to the roof, termite-ridden floor and restrooms. This week the school’s two hundred students […]
The National September Celebrations Committee in association with the Belize Arts Council invites you to come and experience Belizean culture in an ethnic atmosphere on the fifteenth and sixteenth. The Culture Village will provide you with a wide variety of ethnic dishes for breakfast, snacks, lunch and supper. According to Anita Cheong, Public Relations Officer […]
He never knew his father and has yet to see any of his father’s works of art but Percival Cain knows his father through the gift they share… the ability to capture Belize on canvas. He studied construction through the University of the West Indies Extra Mural Program and has been in the United States […]
While the work of veteran Percival Cain goes on display tomorrow, a young artist, twenty-eight year old Curvin Mitchell, is having his first show at the Bliss Institute. News Five stopped by for a look. Curvin Mitchell, Artist “Well I use the material that I can find locally around us like the bamboo, the coconut […]
The destruction of a marijuana plantation by the police and B.D.F. may seem like a routine event since it is so frequently reported. But if you are imagining a group of soldiers jumping out of a truck, running to a field just off the highway, counting and burning the plants and then getting back to […]
