With the clarity of twenty-twenty hindsight, it is painfully obvious that the excitement generated by the presentation and subsequent debate of the proposals to end the Guatemalan claim could never be sustained. Today, almost two months after their unveiling, not only has the excitement subsided, but those proposals are in fact without a discernable pulse–killed […]
It is the kind of justice that has become all too rare in Belize. After all, it’s not every day that less than fifty-four hours after the commission of a crime the culprit is caught, charged, convicted, sentenced and serving time at her majesty’s hotel in Hattieville. On Sunday morning the caretaker of a Caye […]
In case you were wondering whatever happened to all that undersized conch confiscated last month in two busts by the Fisheries Department… wonder no more. As News 5’s Marion Ali found out this morning, it’s all going toward a good cause. Marion Ali, Reporting Today, the fishermen’s loss became a handsome gain for thirty institutions, […]
In another action by fisheries officers, four Hondurans have been arrested in connection with the theft of a boat at Glover’s Reef. Brothers Tony and Selvin Martinez, Herman Chavez and Jeraldo Alvarez, all of Tela, Honduras, are in the Queen Street lockup tonight. They are accused of making off with a twenty-five foot skiff belonging […]
INTELCO, Belize’s new telecommunications company, still has a long way to go before reaching its goal of five thousand computers in schools…but the “to do” list decreased by thirty-seven today as St. Luke’s Methodist and the Y.M.C.A. received their high speed access to the internet. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was at the Y’s headquarters on […]
The story of overcrowded schools is nothing new, but one major secondary institution in Belmopan has decided that, even while waiting for construction of new classrooms, there are still ways to improve the existing situation. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports from her alma mater. Barrette Belisle, Principal, Bmp. Comprehensive School “It wasn’t conducive to studying […]
