The Central Bank of Belize today moved to calm fears over the lack of money in the private banking system available for lending. A Central Bank release issued this afternoon admits that liquidity is tight and that the commercial banks have been asked to shift their lending priorities from consumer loans to the productive sector […]
In crime news police report that they have arrested two men in Monday’s sexual assault of a woman in the Stann Creek District. Twenty-six year old Hector Cohouj of Indian Creek and thirty-four year old Oscar Mejia of Santa Cruz Village have both been charged with the crime of rape. The victim, a forty-nine year […]
And if police have their way, the pair from the south will be joined by another accused rapist from Cayo. On Wednesday a twelve-year-old girl, accompanied by her mother, told Belmopan cops that two years ago, when she was ten, her stepfather had sexual intercourse with her. Police are now looking for the offending family […]
Mention the word passport and it’s usually preceded by the word “illegal”. But believe it or not, Belmopan does occasionally grant citizenship to those foreign nationals who actually deserve it. On Wednesday, seventy-two such new Belizeans took the oath of allegiance in a ceremony held at the Belmopan Convention Hotel. The oath was administered by […]
A student of S.J.C. Junior College has been awarded the 2003 Belize Open Scholarship. Gian Garfield Cho was judged the top performer out of the one hundred and twenty Belizeans who sat the University of Cambridge International Exams in May and June. Finishing just behind Cho were Jacqueline Usher and Bruno Samos, also of St. […]
They didn’t come back with the gold medal they had their hearts set on, but today the Belize National Under Twenty-Two basketball team sat down with the media to report on what happened in Guatemala at last week’s regional tournament. According to the coaching staff, Belize was at a disadvantage even before the first whistle […]
We regularly run stories on people who need the community’s help…and often as a result of the ensuing publicity they receive it. It’s not always, however, that we get the chance to follow up such stories… particularly one with such a happy ending as that found by News 5’s Jacqueline Woods. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting One […]
It’s quite an honour to be considered an icon in the fickle world of the arts. But what if you’re a legend in two artistic pursuits: painting and music? Welcome to the world of Pen Cayetano. Patrick Jones, Reporting From the Wanaragua to the Mahogany Logs to Punta Night, the latest creations to spring from […]
