It may have lacked the drama of the gang truce proclaimed at Bird’s Isle in 1995, but today two well known warriors from the George Street and Ghost Town areas of Belize City got together to ask the public to renounce the violence that has already claimed too many young lives. News 5’s Stewart Krohn […]
It has descended like dusk in the rainforest. What I’m talking about is a news blackout now in effect over the talks with Guatemala being held in Washington. Both the Belizean and Guatemalan delegates, along with their OAS facilitators, have agreed not to release anything to the media until they have decided exactly what they […]
A six year-old student of Wesley Infant School is under observation at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was knocked down by a truck in Belize City. Police say Monday evening Elvis Anderson of Louise Bevans Street in Port Loyola, stepped off a Novelo’s bus on Central American Boulevard in the vicinity of Jane […]
In an effort to avoid more of those tragedies in the future, authorities in Belize City have turned their attention to the problem of two wheeled vehicles. Ann-Marie Williams has more. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting In wake of Steven Bent’s death, the Department of Traffic wasted no time to suddenly brakes all cyclists committing traffic offences. […]
It seems that every week we hear news of another remote rural community inaugurating a village water system. But not all the people needing water live far from the city. News 5’s Jose Sanchez found one suburb just now hooking up. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Children drinking pipe water is not an unusual sight, but this […]
While residents of Sandhill were taking pride in their water, many Belizeans have been fearful of WASA’s plans for privatisation. WASA’s chairman, Ray Lightburn, says that the country’s growth requires major private investment. Ray Lightburn, Chairman, WASA “Well, one of the reason for seeking a strategic partner in privatisation is to continue to expand. For […]
The Image Factory has never been shy about breaking new ground in the world of art…and that boldness also applies to names given to the gallery’s exhibitions. Yasser Musa, Director, Image Factory “It kind of a celebration of women art. Not because they are women artists, but we have to recognise the fact that like […]
