Even by Belizean standards, it was not a big demonstration. But the picketing on Princess Margaret Drive did mark the first time that advocates for AIDS care and prevention moved from singing songs to chanting protests. Diane Finnegan, Public Awareness Officer, BOWAND “I think that there’s a lot of covering up going on. People are […]
Talks between Belize and Guatemala have entered their second day at OAS headquarters in Washington. The low-key meetings, scheduled to conclude today, are supposed to assess the extent of compliance by both countries to the agreements made under the OAS sponsored negotiating process. While the talks do not deal with the substantive issues of the […]
A familiar landmark on the Western Highway has been destroyed by fire. The sawmill, which has operated for a number of years at mile forty-six on the outskirts of Belmopan, burned to the ground on Tuesday night. Only a caretaker was on the premises at the time and he reports that while eating supper between […]
More details have emerged on a bizarre traffic accident at the Western Border, which resulted in ten injuries and the destruction of a building. It seems that around 4:00 Tuesday afternoon, a truck en route from Benque Viejo to the border, lost its brakes while descending a hill. Driver Cecilio Neal of Santa Elena, Cayo, […]
In late news from that same location on the border, reports reaching News 5 indicate that around 5:00 this evening a Belizean policeman in the no man’s land between Belize and Guatemala was arrested by Guatemalan authorities and taken off to jail in Melchor de Mencos. The officer has been identified as Ebelio Itza Jr., […]
The competition went down to the wire and when the judges finally spoke, the ninth weekly winner in Channel 5’s Karaoke TV was chosen. Here’s how it went. Williams Neal, Host, Karaoke TV “The winner for tonight who’ll get a two hundred dollars gift certificate from Courts Belize Limited, a hundred dollars cash from Channel […]
Holy Redeemer Credit Union members who have saved regularly, borrowed wisely, and paid back promptly, stand to benefit from some surprises at tonight’s general meeting. President of H.R.C.U., Karl H. Menzies, says the fifty-seventh annual assembly begins at 7:30 at St. John’s College Gymnasium on Princess Margaret Drive. Karl H. Menzies, President, H.R.C.U. “The assets […]
The Social Investment Fund has donated eight Pentium Three computers and accessories worth twenty-four thousand dollars to three Belize City schools as part of its Hurricane Repair and Rehabilitation Programme. According to Oscar Alonzo, director of SIF, the donation was made possible through a government loan from the World Bank for one and a half […]
It may not have the headline appeal of mad cow or foot and mouth disease, but a tiny insect has the potential to wreak just as much havoc on Belizean agriculture. News 5’s Jose Sanchez travelled to Placencia to learn more about the notorious medfly. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The Mediterranean Fruit Fly had not been […]
