The two day meeting of U.S. and Central American military brass ended today in Belize City and before the assorted generals and colonels jetted back to their respective bases the press was given a brief update. For General John Craddock, head of the U.S. Southern Command, Belize and Central America play an important role?in both […]
Craddock’s co-host, B.D.F. Commander Lloyd Gillet, offered an outline of what the conference accomplished and went on to field questions on the two security issues of greatest importance to Belize: drugs and the Guatemalan claim. Brigadier General Lloyd Gillett, Commander, B.D.F. ?We want to find out how we can measure how we are making success […]
And while the Guatemalan Army Chief of Staff did not necessarily share the B.D.F. Commander’s enthusiastic style, he did admit that he’s on board with the reduction of tensions along the border. Gen. Ronaldo Leiva, Chief of Staff, Guatemalan Army ?I hope that a diplomatic relationship continues between both countries. The reality is that we […]
The national under twenty-one football team continues its quest for international status despite being impeded by lukewarm support from the Belizean public. As the best loser from round one of the Central American under twenty-one championship, Belize finds itself paired with Panama for a final shot at the tournament in Cartejena, Colombia. The odds in […]
Tonight a boat owner with a big investment is counting on your help in trying to locate his stolen vessel. Tour guide Dean Belisle told police that the boat was docked at a pier in Button Wood Bay when it went missing the night of April fourth. The blue and white forty-one foot fibreglass skiff, […]
He is the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, but that exalted title could not prevent Joseph Brown, better known as Brutus, from being on the wrong side of a sharp machete. Brown, currently in serious but stable condition at the K.H.M.H., was involved in an argument in front of the Royal Club […]
It happens more often than we’d like but is not always brought to the attention of authorities. Tonight, a Belize City man has been arrested for threatening a witness in a criminal trial. Twenty-three year old Arthur Higgs, a horse and carriage driver working out of the Tourism Village, has been charged with “attempted suppression […]
Diabetes: There’s hardly a family in Belize that has not been affected by the alarming rise of this sometimes fatal condition. But diabetes does not have to kill or disable so many Belizeans … and that’s why PAHO and the Ministry of Health may soon be knocking on your door. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting A total […]
when we think of the art scene in Belize our minds usually focus on places like the Image Factory, Houses of Culture or the Mexican Cultural Centre. But since Good Friday the nation’s art capital has migrated seventy miles west to downtown San Ignacio. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports that Shane Vasquez is not the […]
