Hotel chambermaids occasionally walk into some strange scenes as they enter a guest room, but the one that greeted an employee at a Placencia resort Monday morning went far beyond rumpled sheets and damp towels. At around ten o’clock the startled housekeeper at Rum Point Inn discovered what appeared to be two lifeless nude bodies […]
It is Belize City’s most upscale neighborhood, but the pleasant surroundings do not make West Landivar and Caribbean Shores a stranger to crime. As home to a number of the nation’s largest educational institutions, the neighborhood is alive with people both day and night. As of today it will also have the full time presence […]
The sun rose this morning to a day that was clear, dry and cool–in other words a perfect day to work outdoors. News Five’s Jose Sanchez joined a number of his fellow citizens to perform some manual labour on this the international day of volunteers. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Habitat for Humanity is planning to build […]
This Christmas, the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired, BCVI, is inviting the general public to support its annual programmes for the blind by purchasing greeting cards made by one of their clients. Ten-year old Brendano Choco, who has been blind since birth, designed the card while he was at camp this past summer. Henry […]
The concept of projecting a photographic image onto a human model is not original to Jeannie Shaw…but it is the first time the technique has been used to depict a nation–in the case of Belize. News 5’s Jose Sanchez got a preview of the artist’s stunning exhibition, which opens tonight at the Image Factory. Jeannie […]
There has been a lot of publicity lately given to the issue of how teachers and students will make up the school days lost to Hurricane Keith. But while the question of whether to work over the Christmas holidays has been a controversial one, a far more important issue has barely been mentioned–that of teacher […]
