This morning a number of people came out to the Supreme Court in support of Audrey Matura Tillett, a United Democratic Party Senator and the Editor of the Guardian newspaper who was there to answer charges of contempt of court. Matura Tillett was summoned to court because of an article she had written about the […]
Just when we thought the hurricane season had calmed down, today yet another tropical depression was upgraded to a tropical storm, and it’s in the same general area where Mitch became a hurricane last year. At three o’clock this evening, the fifteenth tropical depression of the season was officially named Tropical Storm Katrina. The storm […]
Today Dennis Codd walked into the Lotto office to claim his prize: a whopping sixty-two thousand, five hundred dollars. Codd says it was not until this morning that he decided to check the tickets he had bought on Saturday, October twenty-third. Codd has been buying Lotto for sometime now and was recently laid off from […]
On every last Thursday of the month, Helpage Belize and the House of Culture organize an event, usually a party, for the elderly. This month was no different and in a festive Halloween spirit, the seniors wasted no time in donning their scariest costumes. Q: “They look forward to these weekly activities?” Joyce Trapp “Yes, […]
If you don’t believe in putting on a mask and going trick or treating for candy, then you won’t be left out this weekend. A concert called, “The Jesus Thing” is well underway in front of the Commercial Center in Belize City. On Thursday concert organizers Robert and Teresa Oliveras stopped by to give us […]
Whether you’re planning to go to the concert, just stay home or pull out a bag of tricks — if there are no treats, — don’t let the feeling of the Halloween weekend take your common sense away. Extra police personnel, the Dragon Unit and traffic officers will be patrolling Belize City and they have […]
In a story aired on News Five on September fourteenth, we said, “much of the Belizean border with Guatemala is an imaginary line.” Right after the report aired, the Ministry of National Security and Immigration called to inform us that there are in fact two principal monuments and thirty-nine border cairns marking the border with […]
