With the possible exception of the occupation of dealing drugs, it is the most dangerous job in Belize. Last night another security guard was shot in the line of duty, this time in Belize City. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting A single expended shell, believed to be the bullet fired […]
The press release from the Police Department called the amount “huge”, but at news time, despite many rumours, News 5 has been unable to confirm just how much money was stolen last night from the company that manages Lotto. The brief report indicates that around eight Monday night thirty-two year old supervisor for Tropical Gaming, […]
The ongoing dispute in football has now entered the legal realm as this morning, the Football Federation of Belize filed a suit in the Belize Supreme Court against the National Sports Council. A release put out by the F.F.B. states, “The suit asks for judicial review in the form of an order quashing the January […]
Last week the Prime Minister expressed his hope on this newscast that the deal to sell B.T.L. would be done by weekend. Apparently that wish has become half true. A brief press release posted today on the website of Carlisle Holdings indicates that the Government of Belize has completed the purchase of Carlisle’s fifty-two percent […]
He’s nothing if not persistent in his efforts to keep the waterways and communities surrounding them in the Cayo District environmentally healthy. And this week Luis Garcia was recognised with the James A. Waight Conservation Award. Garcia, whose work includes the “Save the Rivers Campaign,” “Village Tours”, and “Health Days”, picked up his trophy during […]
The statistics are startling: thirty-three point five percent of our population in Belize is below the poverty line. When it comes to children that figure rises to thirty-nine percent. Those numbers come courtesy of the United Nations Children’s Fund, an organisation which is intent on helping countries like Belize focus on the most urgent issues […]
The loans may be small, but the aspirations are large. Patrick Jones reports on the latest attempt by Youth for the Future to turn young Belizeans into business tycoons. Patrick Jones, Reporting The loan disbursement is for approximately twenty thousand dollars. Director of the Enterprise Unit Sandra Bradshaw says the money covers six projects with […]
Along with his parents, we have kept an anxious vigil on the career of Sergeant Frank Kuylen the third as he and a small number of other Belizeans in the U.S. military pursued that country’s war in Iraq. Tonight he is safe at home…where he spoke to News 5’s Jacqueline Woods. Irma Kuylen, Mother “Words […]
