Newly appointed Senator Assad Shoman was this morning sworn in by the Governor General as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The appointment, announced several months ago, had to await the recent passage of a constitutional amendment expanding the size of the Senate. Shoman takes over the portfolio from Prime Minister Said Musa, who will retain the […]
The Belize City man who allegedly chanced a police constable on New Year’s eve has been apprehended. Nineteen-year-old Kareem Barona of Dunn Street was arrested and charged on Thursday with the crime of robbery. P.C. Ronald Vernon claims that while off duty on Hyde’s Lane in the wee hours of January first, Barona became abusive, […]
The technological revolution which allows well financed international pirates to bootleg CDs, video games and high priced computer software also has a more positive side, in that consumer versions of the same technology have allowed an increasing number of people to create and promote their own art. Today, a pair of aspiring Belizean musicians visited […]
One of two teenaged girls seriously injured in a bus mishap on Wednesday morning, Nicole Vacarro of Ladyville is only now able to speak coherently about her ordeal. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited Nicole and families of both young women to see what the future holds. Nicole Vacarro, Accident Victim “Well I am not feeling […]
It was hailed and lampooned, lionised and criticised. It seemed that everybody had a strong opinion on N.H.I. …at least until the pilot health care project was finally inaugurated in August. Since then, it’s almost as if those three weighty letters have been purged from the alphabet…at least until today, when News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams […]
