Last month it was housing loans; today Cabinet extended its cheap sale to students by offering write offs and discounts to over fifteen hundred borrowers from the Development Finance Corporation. According to the press briefing on Monday’s Cabinet meeting, that body will recommend to the D.F.C. board that all student loans with original amounts of […]
In other news from Cabinet it has been confirmed that Prime Minister Said Musa has received the report of the Senate Select Committee investigating Social Security. The document was presented on Monday morning by the clerk of the National Assembly and the P.M. has committed to making his views known at an early date. Among […]
In news from the world of politics, the suspense continues over who will be the P.U.P. standard bearer for Belize Rural Central. Incumbent area representative Ralph Fonseca is out of the country but his camp is maintaining that no decision has been made by the veteran politician as to whether he will seek a fourth […]
A teacher from Independence primary school is dead tonight, an apparent drowning victim. Police report that around nine thirty this morning, thirty-six year old Edelmira Morey, accompanied by nine other adults and eleven students on a summer camp, was tubing in the South Stann Creek in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary when she became entangled […]
Three men might be feeling like they walked away clean from a store robbery because they broke the surveillance camera … but they forgot to take the tape. That’s right; police have pictures of the perpetrators of an armed hold-up at M and M’s Boutique on Euphrates Avenue. According to the store manager, around eleven […]
A retrial has been ordered in the case of well known Belize City businessman Eduardo “Mando” Reyes. Reyes, the owner of Prime Cut Meats on Central American Boulevard, was convicted in March in connection with the death of Norman “Butta” Ferguson. A jury unanimously found him guilty of manslaughter after he shot Ferguson in January […]
Since Monday representatives from the Belize Defence Force, Police Department, NEMO, Coast Guard and a host of other organisations have been huddled in a room at Price Barracks in Ladyville. Their mission? To come up with a national search and rescue policy. According to B.D.F. Chief of Staff, Lt. Col. Reuel Black, in the last […]
If there’s one thing that Belize has in abundance, its young people … so when the United Nations looks at Belize’s population it?s not hard to figure out what they see. News Five’s Alyssa Noble has more. Arnulfo Kantun, Project Coordinator, U.N.F.P.A. ?This celebration is really celebrating people, young people and not just the statistics, […]
Last week we premiered the comeback C.D. of Punta Rocker Super G. Tonight we look at a less well known artist with a different kind of music. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Twenty-one year old Gilbert Alamilla a.k.a. ?Mr. Program? started out his career as a disc jockey. But he soon grew tired of buying music and […]
There is little that any of us can do to ease the pain suffered by the family of Vicente Avila following the boat captain’s death on Sunday on the New River. But today authorities and tour operators are looking for ways to make sure that this kind of accident will never happen again. Jacqueline Godwin, […]
