There’s a sour taste in the mouths of sugar workers tonight as the country’s only processor, Belize Sugar Industries Limited, has confirmed that approximately ninety members of staff will be laid off. According to BSI’s Chief of Operations, Lennox Neal, effective October twenty-seventh, ninety employees, including factory workers, cultivation personnel and dockhands, will be made […]
Corozal police are tonight slapping themselves on the back after a tip led to the discovery of an arsenal of weapons and ammunition. According to authorities, responding to information from an anonymous caller, members of the Special Branch went to a bushy area near San Victor Village and under a fallen tree, discovered several wrapped […]
A hit and run accident on the Southern Highway has left one man dead. According to police in Independence Village, early this morning motorists informed them that a body was lying on the Southern Highway near the Swasey Bridge. When officers reached the scene, they found the body of a man, apparently dead, with severe […]
Cops in Cayo are tonight investigating what caused a chopping incident between one woman’s brother and her husband. Reports are that at around nine thirty on Wednesday morning thirty year old Rigoberto Villanueva was walking in Georgeville Village with his common-law-wife when her brother approached them and started chopping him with a machete. The weapon […]
It was to have had more fireworks than Independence eve, but the quarterly meeting of the Northern Fishermen Cooperative, scheduled for Friday in Belize City, has been postponed until mid-October. According to Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Fisheries, Michael Tewes, on Friday September seventeenth, the entire executive of the cooperative sent a letter […]
As of Monday, motorists heading to or from the Northern border will see their driving time and aggravation reduced as the Orange Walk Bypass officially opens to traffic. The five miles of new road departs from the Northern Highway at mile fifty-two, skirts the town to the east and then rejoins at mile fifty-seven. The […]
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for UNICEF as the UN agency is using the occasion of its mid-term review to highlight the status of children in Belize. Today, News 5’s Patrick Jones attended the launching of a new study at Bird’s Isle. Starla Bradley Acosta, Programme Officer, NCFC “This publication, “Children Should Be […]
If you are watching this newscast on one of Belize’s many cable systems, chances are there is one button on the remote that’s received more than its share of use: that is the Weather Channel. This morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods asked the experts at our own weather bureau to explain just why it is […]
To most Belizeans that necessary piece of household furniture known as a hammock is something you buy in Chetumal or Melchor or from a gift shop or street vendor here at home. But there was a time not that long ago when hammocks were something actually made by hand. No, I don¡¦t’ just mean weaving […]
