The latest AIDS statistics are out, and while it would be easy to portray the frightening numbers in eye catching graphics on your screen, we’ve found that numbers no longer seem to move our audience to any meaningful change in behaviour. So today, as part of our acknowledgement of AIDS Week, we’re going to try […]
He was murdered in September of 2002 and now, over a year later, the people accused of killing Claudio Cardinez have been charged with the crime. Twenty-year-old Enrique Cruz, thirty-three year old Javier Ramirez, and fifty-four year old Theodora Ramirez have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Cardinez’s common law wife told […]
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Central America today concluded two days of meetings with their Taiwanese counterpart. During the course of the eleventh meeting of the Central American Integration System mixed commission meeting, the delegates discussed areas of cooperation, with special emphasis on projects that are for the mutual benefit of both SICA and […]
Coming off a humiliating eighteen-nil loss to Guatemala, there is no dispute that the on-going battle between the Football Federation of Belize and the Belize Premier Football League has turned the Jewel into the joke of the football world. With virtually every top player in Belize participating in the B.P.F.L. tournament, and therefore ineligible to […]
Each year on November twenty-fifth, governments, non-governmental organisations, and private sector concerns across the globe hold activities to raise awareness about violence against women. Belize is no exception, and today a special ceremony took place at the Battlefield Park in Belize City. According to the Director of the Women’s Department, Anita Zetina, since 1985 they […]
Exactly one year ago, CARE-Belize was established to give special assistance to the disabled, especially young children. What makes the organisation’s work unique is that most of its services are conducted in the homes of the people it helps. That means its field officers must travel on the road to get their work done. Today […]
It’s that time when our thoughts turn to Christmas and the days that lay beyond. If your mind is straying toward 2004, News 5’s Patrick Jones has a suggestion. Patrick Jones, Reporting When the new year rolls around, Belizeans at home and abroad will have an attractive way to keep track of important dates, while […]
Archives: the name alone connotes stacks of dusty yellowed documents that crumble at the touch. But just as technology has moved from clay tables to DVD’s, the nature of our archives has similarly evolved. Today, as Belize’s Archives Department celebrated its thirty-eighth anniversary, Patrick Jones discovered that the information housed in its Belmopan headquarters is […]
