Meetings surrounding the controversial Carnival contract continued this week as key players met in Belize City to navigate a way forward in negotiations. News 5 understands that on Monday, Minister of Tourism Mark Espat and Chairman of the Belize Tourism Board, Therese Rath, met with representatives of the Carnival Cruise Line, namely Giora Israel, Vice […]
In crime news, a shooting incident in Belize City on Monday evening has left one man injured and a series of unanswered questions for which the police are trying to find answers. Around five o clock Monday evening, twenty-seven year old Kevin Garcia says he was standing in a yard on Antelope Street when he […]
A concerned caller who used the 922 Crimestoppers hotline to voice his concerns has led police in Cayo to solve two crimes in one. According to authorities, the complainant informed them that two children, one of them a fourteen year old were being neglected by their parents in a village in the Cayo District. When […]
The upstairs of this two storey concrete structure situated at the corner of King Street and Euphrates Avenue looks like a normal residence, but its occupants were doing more than just living at the location. Today members of the Belize City Council’s Sanitation and Environmental Department along with the police and Public Health officials literally […]
The final report on the redistricting of electoral boundaries has been sent to and approved by the Election and Boundaries Commission. Building on the work of the first task force, which increased the number of constituencies from twenty-nine to thirty-one, and allowed for a wide variance in the number of voters in each, the second […]
He’s our favourite folklore character, having survived for centuries on the lips of Mahogany cutters and generations of irrepressible grannies. And today Anansi’s exploits were celebrated in a new book. News 5’s Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting He?s the perennial underdog; but in the world of Belizean folktales, Bra Anansi always beats the […]
The major thrust of AIDS education, in both Belize and other places, has been promotion of safe sex; that is…use of a condom. But you don’t have to be a Jesuit priest to know that the safest sex of all is…no sex. Not a realistic option you say? You may want to think again…as News […]
