He brought our men home from Guatemala and today he’s paying the price. On Tuesday, Ambassador Salvador Figueroa, who had only just unpacked his bags, was expelled from Guatemala. His crime? Apparently the three Belizean soldiers and one policeman, who were released into his custody by a judge on Friday, were not supposed to leave […]
Three women were enjoying an evening chat on Monday night on Eve Street when suddenly the son of one of them burst down the door and in a violent frenzy attacked his mother’s companions. Elizabeth Rudon is still in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, but Ilma McCann tells News Five a harrowing […]
The Inter-American Development Bank in Belize has announced the winners of the Youth Summit Competition. They are Cardine Coleman and Arthur Usher who were selected by an international panel in Washington D.C. They will join youth leaders from 25 other countries at the IDB/IIC Youth Summit in News Orleans later this month. Coleman is a […]
With an estimated one thousand students and workers commuting from Orange Walk town to Belize City on a daily basis, the announcement early this week that Urbina’s and Escalante bus lines had been bought by the Venus bus line caused quite a commotion. Orangewalkenos didn’t take the situation lightly; especially when they found out it […]
Belize is playing host for Rotary Conference 2000. Representatives of all the rotary clubs in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras will be meeting for the next two days to discuss the organization’s plans for the coming year. The representative of the president of Rotary International, Alejandro Pannini, says eradicating polio by the year 2005 is big […]
It is designed to help farmers and residents of the Toledo District help themselves, and today the project was launched in Punta Gorda. News Five was invited down south for the occasion. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Farmers and people of the southern districts of Stann Creek and Toledo will be able to access loans for small […]
