The nation’s violent crime wave may be centred in Belize City, but now and then the districts get to make the news as well. Today the police spotlight shone on Punta Gorda, as shortly after midnight a mobile patrol spotted a solitary figure inside the local branch of the Belize Bank. When the man spotted […]
She is no stranger to Belize’s legal system and now the outspoken journalist-turned-politician has decided to embark on a new career as a lawyer. A release from the United Democratic Party has announced that Audrey Matura Tillett, UDP Senator and editor of the party’s newspaper, The Guardian, will shortly be leaving Belize to study law. […]
Audrey Matura may be departing as editor of the Guardian, but her final days on the job have not been timid. The headline in today’s issue dropped the bombshell that the man recently hired to supervise the maximum-security section of Hattieville Prison is himself a former inmate of a U.S. prison. This afternoon News Five […]
Another citrus waste contamination of the North Stann Creek River has occurred today, as the result of heavy rains in the Stann Creek Valley for the second day in a row. This makes four times in less than two months that the Del Oro company’s ponds have flooded. At 3:10 this afternoon, WASA was once […]
Fresh on the heels of impressive statistics on tourist arrivals, Minister of Tourism Mark Espat today signed an agreement to access loan funds for improvements in tourism related infrastructure. The project documents signed by Espat and Inter-American Development Bank President Enrique Iglesias, provide for an eleven million U.S. dollar loan and seven hundred thousand dollar […]
“It Ain’t Easy” is the name of the new album that’s about to be released by The Heavenlies Gospel Band. Some of the tunes share the vibes of popular Caribbean music and the songs may be just what church leaders have been hoping for to pull young people back into the fold. The clean, inspirational […]
The rains were back in Belize City today and while the flooding was not as bad as on Tuesday, News Five’s Jose Sanchez discovered that it’s not just the precipitation that makes the streets hold water. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Its, not black gold. And the petroleum magnates have not come to Belize City to drill […]
It’s an island nicknamed La Isla Bonita, but the fact is that if a fire started downtown on a windy day, San Pedro could quickly become La Isla Quemada. Tonight, however, San Pedranos have reason to sleep a little bit sounder. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Last December a fire on San Pedro, Ambergris Caye destroyed two […]
