Chances of another election before 2003 are slim and the Elections and Boundaries Department is taking advantage of the lull. The department has decided to step fully into the world of technology and totally computerize all its offices after years of repetitive manual data entry. This morning Prime Minister Said Musa was on hand to […]
This afternoon, two Belize City men were involved in a spectacular traffic accident but somehow managed to walk away uninjured. According the driver, Jaime Castellanos, the van was heading from Belize City towards Belmopan sometime after eleven this morning. When he reached the curve at mile 2, a trailer carrying a load of steel was […]
Logging is known as one of the most dangerous professions and on Tuesday it claimed a life. According to police reports 24-year old Abraham Neufield, a resident of the Mennonite settlement of Little Belize in the Orange Walk District, was using a chain saw to clear land along with a friend. One of the trees […]
As we reported yesterday, on Tuesday afternoon, residents of Central American Boulevard frantically called our newsroom claiming to have seen two known maximum security prisoners walking the streets in civilian clothing and without a prison guard in sight. Today News Five contacted Governor of Prisons Bernard Adolphus who confirmed that the convicts in question were […]
It seems everyone’s got a computer to give away these days but this time its not government or a big corporation but a local youth group doing the giving. Interact, the younger version of Rotoract, had some extra money to spend and decided to help out the Youth Hostel by buying them a computer. But […]
After E. P. Yorke’s successful EXPO on Tuesday, today, Belize Telecommunications Limited decided to take a stab at this open day thing. The company decked out their displays and invited their customers and students from all over the country. pretty soon, the compound on St. Thomas Street looked more like a mini fairground. The children […]
The Image Factory in Belize City has earned a reputation as an art gallery of wide ranging tastes. This week that reputation is being bolstered by a show featuring items from two of Belize’s best known collectors. Jacqueline Woods Eclectic is the latest exhibition at the Image Factory and as the theme suggests, the show […]
There is no shortage of unsolved mysteries in Belize. The list includes: who tortured and killed a half dozen Belize City girls? Whatever happened to the Garbutt family on the way to English Caye? And why is it that big time drug dealers never seem to get caught? But tonight we have a mystery story […]
