Tonight a primary school student is still in severe pain after he was viciously beaten and left with a broken jaw more than a week ago. On March twenty-third, fourteen year old Jermaine Arnold, a student of Saint Ignatius School decided to spend his first day of the Easter holidays washing cars to earn spending […]
In an update to a strange bombing incident we reported on Tuesday, tonight police say a Belize City man has been charged. According to police, a man identified as Dennis Acosta of a Zericote Street address has been charged with committing a mischievous act. Police press officer G. Michael Reid says Acosta told them that […]
A Belizean delegation is currently in Guyana attending the third United Kingdom Caribbean forum. Head of the Belizean mission is Minister of Foreign Affairs, Assad Shoman. While in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, Shoman and other foreign ministers will meet with the UK’s Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Jack Straw. Topics on the table […]
Minister of Local Government Valdemar Castillo is currently on a familiarisation tour of the country’s town and city councils. Castillo travelled to Belmopan on Tuesday where he visited several sites including the proposed locations for a new bus terminal, orphanage and expansions to the University of Belize campus. While in Belmopan, Minister Castillo also swore […]
He is an inspiration to athletes across the country and a constant source of amazement for his coaches…and he’s only fifteen. Local track and field star Jaheed Smith is making headlines again by becoming only the second Belizean athlete to bring home a medal from the CARIFTA Games, held over the weekend in Nassau, Bahamas. […]
This Friday, Belize joins countries across the world in celebrating World Health Day, under the theme “Move for Health”. In an effort to promote better health practices in Belize, the Ministry of Health is staging a national media and public open day on Friday, at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital from eleven in the morning. […]
It might have been divine intervention or simple God given talent, but whatever the case, the winner for week seven of Karaoke Television is a Catholic priest. Father Oliver Smalls impressed the standing room only crowd–not to mention the judges–Tuesday night with his version of “Can You Feel the Love Tonight”. William Neal, KTV Host […]
For many Roman Catholics across the country, this week marks an important event in the diocese. For only the second time in the history of the religion here, a Belizean will be named as Bishop. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods went to the presbytery earlier this week and found out how such an honour is handed […]
