A four-year-old boy is dead tonight, believed to be the victim of meningitis. The child, a student of Hummingbird Primary School in Belize City, was admitted to the K.H.M.H. around seven Monday night, but his condition rapidly deteriorated and within hours, he was brain dead, kept alive only by a respirator. The boy’s paediatrician, Dr. […]
The body of a man missing for a week has been found in the Cayo District. Thirty-one year old Abdul Sarraj was found dead near the Iguana Creek Bridge on the outskirts of Spanish Lookout, apparently the victim of murder. The businessman was last seen on the morning of October thirtieth when he left his […]
Today, a group of twenty Belizean businesspersons returned to the country after attending the nineteenth Havana International Trade Fair in Cuba. But this year the group got more than they bargained for, as they were greeted by a category four hurricane named Michelle. Derek Nisbet, Investment Officer for BELTRAIDE, says despite the fact the show […]
It’s an issue that has been bubbling for several years, but as the decision on building the Chalillo dam gets closer, those for and against the project are racheting up the rhetoric. Today both sides took to the streets of the nation’s capital. Janelle Chanona, Reporting While one side chanted for Chalillo, the other side […]
The embarrassing case of the overnight purchase of a Belizean passport by an accused Mexican drug kingpin is moving from the scandalous to the preposterous. While in Belmopan today, News 5’s Janelle Chanona stopped by the office of BECIP, the Belize Economic Citizenship Investment Programme, to get an explanation of how Carlos Moreno, now on […]
Officials of Belize Electricity Limited have announced that the company is well on its way to restoring full power in the areas devastated by Hurricane Iris on October eighth. B.E.L.’s C.E.O. Lynn Young, in a press release, said that seventy-five percent of customers have had their current reinstated and that one hundred percent of high-voltage […]
The second winner of Saturday’s twenty-five thousand dollar Lotto jackpot received her cheque today. Nadia Baptist of Neal Pen Road in Belize City took home ten thousand, six hundred and fifty dollars after taxes. It was only her second time playing the game and she picked the winning numbers after looking at a B.T.L. phone […]
Have you noticed that more and more Belizean children are sporting healthy smiles? This morning News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams found out one reason why. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Dentists advise that in order to maintain good oral hygiene, you should visit them at least twice per year. And St. Mary’s school, as part of its parish […]
On Sunday, Prime Minister Said Musa took the opportunity to visit the village of Monkey River. What he found was that despite being almost totally demolished by Hurricane Iris, a spirit of renewal has gripped the community and residents, instead of griping, are working. Janelle Chanona and Brent Toombs made their own trip to Monkey […]
