A child injured over the weekend at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend has still not fully regained consciousness and remains at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Hospital officials tell News Five, 2-year-old Adrian Smith was able to sit up today and is showing signs of further improvement, but is not completely normal. Perhaps more […]
The Regional Language Center was inaugurated on Monday at the UCB Belmopan campus. The idea for the center was first suggested by Prime Minister Said Musa in the early 1990’s when he attended a regional meeting in Honduras as Belize’s Foreign Minister. He revived the concept at the beginning of his current term. The Prime […]
This week is being celebrated as Tourism Awareness Week. Opening remarks were given by Minister of Tourism Mark Espat on Sunday. On Monday members of the BTB were featured on Love FM‘s Morning Show and held a Tourism Appreciation Day at various venues including the International Airport. Today, they were on Krem‘s Morning Show and […]
The Deputy Head of the German Embassy in Jamaica met with Ministry of Housing personnel this week, to discuss plans for the satellite city at mile 31 on the Western Highway and other projects in Belize. Dr. Bernard von Muenchow-Pohl met with project coordinator Carolyn Trench Sandiford and representatives of Adolp Lupp, a German company […]
The Belize Women’s Political Caucus (BWPC) will be holding its annual convention on Saturday. The convention begins at 1:00pm at the Belize-Mexico Institute of Co-operation and Culture in Belize City. Guest speakers include Professor Judith Aguilar, President of the Women’s Movement, State of Quintana, Roo, Senator Audrey Matura and Chairperson of the Belize Tourism Board […]
He’s not the first and sadly, he won’t be the last teenager who’s had to be airlifted out of the country for medical attention. News Five was at the intersection of St. Thomas Street and Princess Margaret Drive on the night of October 27th when a car, carrying 16 year old Duane Cano and his […]
While public attention has recently been captured by cases of runaway girls falsely claiming they were kidnapped, one year ago this week on March 22nd, 1999 a little girl did go missing, for real. And like Sherilee Nicholas, Jay Blades, Erica Wills, and Noemi Hernandez, this little girl never came home. Tonight, News Five remembers […]
This week, the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will meet in New Orleans to analyze the financial situations of Latin America and the Caribbean. According to an IDB press release, reducing poverty, income distribution and capital flows in the region are some of the topics that will be discussed. One seminar […]
