Football fans will have plenty to cheer about this weekend as intervention by the Minister of Sports has resulted in an agreement to resume play in the BFL. The decision by the Belize National Football Association and Belize Football League came as the result of a meeting convened by Minister Cordel Hyde between BNFA president […]
Melvin Sebastian Nunez, aka “Sabe” is behind bars tonight, having been charged with theft. The twenty-seven year old was picked up in connection with an incident on Friday on Barrack Road in which Blue Creek businessman David Weiber had over fifteen thousand dollars in cash and cheques plucked from his shirt pocket.
A Belize City man lost his life in a motorcycle accident shortly after 10 this morning. Jason Hemsley, nineteen, an employee of Texaco Belize Ltd. lost control of a Honda 90 cc motorcycle he was riding on Newtown Barracks and slammed into the M.C.C. Grounds fence. The impact threw him off the cycle and as […]
On November seventh, the taxi men operating out of the Venus Bus terminal received notice that the stand had been sold and they needed to vacate immediately. However, the drivers said they had not received sufficient notice and would not move their vehicles. The police were called in to ease tensions and eventually an uneasy […]
For today at least, it seems that Santa Claus has replaced his elves and reindeers with the staff and vehicles of Belize Electricity Limited. In all the districts, BEL employees accompanied by St. Nick have been helping families by supplying them with hampers filled with food and other goodies. We caught up with the jolly […]
The spirit of Christmas did not occur only on the south side of Belize City. It travelled to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where the Glenn Godfrey group of companies accompanied by Ozzie the clown and Santa treated some sick kids to dinner, gifts and lots of laughs. News 5 was on hand for the […]
To help fill the air with holiday cheer the Belize City Council has several events planned for this weekend. The mayor, councilors and staff go caroling on Thursday evening and On Friday night, it’s the annual concert in front of the Commercial Centre. The council’s public relation’s manager Paco Smith says a festive time awaits […]
Beginning next month an environmental group based in San Pedro will conduct detailed research on the Nassau Grouper. The study by Green Reef has become necessary due to the steady depletion of this particularly tasty and vulnerable specie throughout the Caribbean. Today, Green Reef received a cheque for over fifty-six thousand dollars from the Global […]
People who want to experience nature usually have to leave Belize City, but it doesn’t have to be that way anymore. Just a few hundred yards beyond the Faber’s Road Extension lies a beautiful lagoon, surrounded by mangrove that has somehow survived amidst the hustle and bustle of urban life. The Belize City Council has […]
The horror of Hurricane Keith has largely receded in the frantic preparation for the holidays, but as Christmas approaches we decided to take one last look at how things are going on the two islands that bore the brunt of Keith’s fury. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting When we visited the island of Caye Caulker, most of […]
