It was a meeting of the House of Representatives that will not be remembered for the electricity of the debate or the length of the deliberations. Indeed, with Dean Barrow and Michael Finnegan both out of the country, it was left to Cayo West’s Erwin Contreras to man the lone opposition seat for the session’s […]
Ralph Fonseca was not the only minister with the nation’s health on his mind this morning. A sobering report on the nation’s war with AIDS was presented by Minister of Human Development Dolores Balderamos Garcia…and the news from the battlefield was not good. Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Minister of Human Development “HIV/AIDS has already begun to […]
The minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office responsible for Britain’s relations with Belize has concluded a three-day visit. During his visit, John Battle met with the Prime Minister and other high level officials. Before departing, he spoke to the press at the British High Commission in Belmopan. John Battle, British Minister of […]
An anti-drug operation in the Orange Walk District has resulted in the shutting down of a major marijuana plantation. Between 5:00 and 7:00 Thursday morning, police raided an area near San Carlos Village and discovered a field they say contained ten thousand cannabis trees between four and five feet in height. The weed was destroyed […]
Late this evening, News Five received a report that a foetus was found floating in the South Creek in Belize City. When our crew got to the scene, the police had just picked up the foetus, believed to be a boy, and transported it to the KHMH morgue. Elvis Lewis, who witnessed the gruesome discovery, […]
A prisoner who escaped from Hattieville has been recaptured. On Tuesday evening police corralled Enrique Martinez in the Salvapan area of the nation’s capital. Martinez, who had been serving a three-year term, had escaped in May.
Another runaway prisoner was rounded up on Thursday, but the events, which followed his captured have overshadowed his original and subsequent crimes. Twenty-five year old Randolph Miller, who was serving a twelve-year sentence for aggravated burglary, escaped from Hattieville Prison on July thirteenth. On Thursday, the inmate was captured by the police in a house […]
If you’re looking for something to do in Belize City this weekend and already blew your paycheck at the movie theatre, don’t worry as there is no shortage of low cost entertainment. On Sunday the Belize Tourism Board is organising what they call a Downtown Carnival Fete. The idea is to help clean up the […]
To celebrate its one-year anniversary, St. James National Building Society is going to give away a house to one of its members. The society will be holding an open house at the site of the newly built bungalow in the Belama Phase Three area. St. James’ Frank Ramclam was proud to give us the details. […]
“Doorstep Tales” is the latest reading programme that will be launched by the National Library Service. The one-hour activity for children between the ages of five and thirteen will be held the last Saturday of each month at the Turton Library Centre on North Front Street. What makes the project interesting is the fact that […]
