The police need your help in trying to locate a number of items that were stolen sometime early this morning in Dangriga. According to Dean Joseph, the owner of Dangriga Photo Plus, the thief or thieves gained entrance into the building by prying open a back door. Once inside, the burglar took $11,570 worth of […]
The Cash for Guns program is down to its last three days and there is still a steady flow of guns into the exchange center. Today the program safely removed eighteen firearms off the streets, including two 22’s, five 25’s, one 32, one 38, one 9-millimeter, one 357, one pen gun, two shot guns, two […]
After a hectic few days at the United Nations Prime Minister Said Musa is off to California. His three-day visit will be a busy one and includes encounters with Belizeans residing in the Golden State and a meeting with the Mayor of Los Angeles, as well as a reception hosted by filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. […]
For years Belizeans proudly boasted a literacy rate, which at over ninety percent, was the envy of the region. With those numbers having dropped drastically over the last three decades, however, educators have renewed their efforts at providing basic reading skills to all Belizeans. As part of that campaign a large number of students are […]
18-year old Maria Danielle Jorgenson of Corozal Town is the proud recipient of this year’s Belize Open Scholarship. Jorgenson recently graduated from S.J.C. Junior College, where she took the June 2000 advanced level examinations of the University of Cambridge. While she may have received a B in Chemistry, she earned A’s in the General Paper, […]
The excitement of September celebrations has been steadily increasing, but not all of the month’s activities involve jumping up. On Wednesday, Jackie Woods got in the spirit by taking in a show at… the library. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is the first of its kind exhibition hosted by the National Library Service of Belize. The […]
Officially known as Hidden Valley, it’s more popularly known as the Thousand Foot Falls, even though its true height is closer to fifteen hundred. This week it was in the news, not due to any discovery by ecologists, but because of one made by lawyers. Stewart Krohn, Reporting Before Belize even contemplated a tourism industry, […]
The carnival spirit revved up on Wednesday night as the city’s bands held their mas camps. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods visited some southside camps to get a peek at what we’ll see at Saturday’s road march. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting There are two more days to go before hundreds of Belizeans will be lining the streets […]
