The gunfire which reverberated through the St. Martin’s area on Monday was still echoing through the city today, as two innocent children were buried long before their time. In one solemn ceremony, the students of St. Luke Methodist School this afternoon laid to rest one of their own. The hour-long service conducted by lay minister […]
While the community tries to figure out how to deal with the senseless deaths and related violence, on last night’s “One on One” show, host Dickie Bradley asked a number of urban combat veterans for their take on the situation. According to Randy Petillo, the lack of jobs and impatience of youth makes for a […]
On Monday morning talks between Belize and Guatemala will open in Washington, D.C. Under the agreement signed in Miami on January seventeenth, the new round of negotiations, to be held at OAS headquarters, will for the first time deal with the substantive matter of Guatemala’s territorial claim. Just how far the parties will travel down […]
Three villages in the Toledo District are the proud owners of new community water systems. The water systems for San Vicente, Jacintoville and San Marcos, all inaugurated by Prime Minister Said Musa on Wednesday, were constructed at a cost of just under two hundred thousand dollars each. The government of Belize, through the Social Investment […]
In San Ignacio over fifty Belizean and U.S. educators are gathering for the biannual meeting of the Consortium for Belize Educational Cooperation, COBEC. The Belizeans, representing the nation’s tertiary level institutions, are exchanging ideas with counterparts from seven U.S. universities on how the two countries can cooperate in the field of education. The meeting, hosted […]
Earlier this week Cabinet announced approval of an initiative that promised major changes in the way Belizeans are educated. Today the people who will make those reforms work on the ground got together to begin the important task. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Part of government’s plans to reform Belize’s education system is the establishment of the […]
Last week we ran a story on the proud history of St. Catherine’s Academy and the dedicated work of the Sisters of Mercy. In the course of putting that report together News 5’s Jose Sanchez noticed that the tradition of going the extra distance to provide quality education was still very much alive. Jose Sanchez, […]
