Tonight we are happy to report that thirteen year old Daniela Olivera, better known as “Marcela”, is back home alive and well. This morning sometime after seven, the standard five St. Ignatius student was found by her vice principal on Amara Avenue. According to the educator, after receiving a tip she went to the area […]
They broke out of the San Ignacio jail, but one by one the five young men have all made their way back behind bars. The latest to return are thirteen year old Jodine Vidal and fourteen year old Jose Guzman, who were apprehended this morning by a mobile police patrol in San Ignacio. Yesterday eighteen […]
Dangriga police are tonight investigating an apparent homicide following the discovery of a human skull and bones near Silk Grass village. According to investigating officers, around six thirty on Monday morning, a farmer from the village was clearing a piece of land off a feeder road in an area known as “Pine Ridge”. But in […]
An accused murderer has been slapped with a new offence … a sexual assault allegedly committed two years ago. Details remain sketchy but apparently, twenty-six year old Edward Arthurs, the man charged with the murder of sixty-two year old security guard Oliver Blanco, has been positively identified by a Belize City woman as the man […]
On Friday Belize will host the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning. Manning, accompanied by CARICOM Secretary General Edwin Carrington, will hold a short meeting with Prime Minister Said Musa in Belize City followed by a press briefing at the Radisson. The discussions will focus on regional issues as Manning nears the end […]
It is not the kind of initiative whose effects will be felt overnight, but nobody ever said that the serious problems now confronting our society would be quickly or easily remedied. Today at the Biltmore a process began that seeks to take a comprehensive look at the task of making Belizeans feel secure. News Five’s […]
It’s the beginning of summer, that time of the year when parents are wondering what they can do to keep the children occupied. Well, over the course of the next few weeks we’ll try to offer a few solutions. Yesterday, NICH announced that through the Institute of Creative Arts it will be hosting its second […]
The development of local television in small poor markets like Belize is not a particularly encouraging proposition. With high costs, relatively few viewers and a tiny talent pool it’s difficult to make the numbers work. But that hasn’t stopped a handful of creative souls from trying to defy the laws of economics … and at […]
