Although Belizeans may only have heard about it this week, the issue was making headlines in Mexico and the United States for weeks. When the furor was over the drivers had won, and the Mexican government suspended the new law requiring a deposit for vehicles entering Mexico. That’s right, just one day after the announcement […]
Police have located the remnants of a small twin engine plane in the Toledo District. They suspect the aircraft was involved in the illegal transshipment of drugs because it was discovered on an abandoned makeshift runway. The main body and tail were extensively burnt, so it is believed the aircraft may have crashed into the […]
A teenager has died from the injuries he received in an accident two weeks ago on the Northern Highway. Police investigations reveal that around seven on the night of Saturday November twentieth, Fred Nicholson was driving towards Corozal Town when between miles sixty-two and sixty-three he knocked down seventeen year old Estilito Alcoser Jr. who […]
The score cards are in and the winners have been announced for the first organized event of the School Health and Physical Education Service, SHAPES. On Thursday, twelve schools from all over Belize came together at the City Centre to compete for prizes by doing songs and skits about various health issues. In the song […]
There are only twenty-two more days until Christmas and if you have not started your shopping or if you do not know what to buy, then the Women’s Issues Network may have a solution for you. On Saturday WIN is holding its first Christmas Craft Show. According to Mirlin Halliday at WIN Belize, there will […]
A group of five musicians from Chicago is holding two benefit concerts in aid of the Ambergris Caye Museum. The first is tonight at the United State’s Ambassador Carolyn Curiel’s residence in Belize City and the second is at the British High Commission in Belmopan on Saturday. News Five was invited to a rehearsal today […]
Belize’s first millennium celebration will be held this weekend in the open air at Rogers’ Stadium. D-Revelation Band says the Barefoot ’99 concert will be a chance for families to get together and celebrate two thousand years of Jesus Christ. Performers include the Heavenlies Gospel Band, which had their own sold out concert a couple […]
On Saturday December fourth, the Caribbean will be in Cuba… in song that is. This year the sixteenth Caribbean Song Festival is being held in Havana, Cuba where over ten contestants from all over the region will compete in the song contest. The festival will be aired on Channel Five at seven p.m. Don’t miss […]
Today is International Day for Disabled Persons. To commemorate the event News Five spoke to some of the people who live with a disability and the people who work with them. One thing they all have in common is the desire to succeed. But they can’t do it alone. In 1993, Wilbert Smith was thrown […]
