His name is being withheld by authorities, but an eleven year old Belize City boy is in big trouble tonight, charged with the crime of attempted arson. The target? His school. Patrick Jones has the story. Patrick Jones, Reporting Central Christian School on Freetown Road is still standing, but if one of its students had […]
A Belize City man was shot on Wednesday and police are looking for the assailant. Forty year old Nelson Bowen was about to enter a shop at the corner of George and Basra streets when a man he identified as Jamaal Betancourt rode up to him on a bicycle and shot him in the lower […]
The sound of Blackhawk helicopters will no longer be heard over Dangriga, but what will remain are new classrooms and a community centre. The improvements are the result of a U.S. military humanitarian exercise dubbed New Horizons 2003. Today closing ceremonies for the three month operation were held and for Prime Minister Said Musa it […]
They are the men and women whose untiring work keeps a hungry nation well fed. And every year, Belize’s top agriculturalists are celebrated for their outstanding efforts with the naming of the farmers of the year. The judges have made their decisions and the 2003 award for woman farmer of the year goes to eighteen […]
It’s one of the nation’s largest financial institutions and with nearly thirty-five thousand members, the Holy Redeemer Credit Union is an economic powerhouse whose significance is difficult to overestimate. Last night the H.R.C.U. held its fifty-ninth annual general meeting and to absolutely no one’s surprise, once again reported impressive results. Total assets reached almost one […]
Thirty-eight years ago a group of women got together and formed the Hospital Auxiliary. The focus of the organization is to assist health institutions and also help individuals who are in need of medical care but cannot afford the treatment. Their money comes from donations and various fund raising projects like the Hospital Auxiliary Cookbook. […]
It is not a new story, but for people in Orange Walk it is still a big story. Once more, industrial pollution seems to be killing fish and nauseating residents. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods today spent some time on the river and returned with the following report. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting For those families residing along […]
