Police say all they have to go on are tattoos to identify a body found floating face down in the Belize River. The discovery was made in an area near Young’s Bank not far from Belmopan. Authorities say when the corpse was retrieved from the waters around nine on Monday night it was badly decomposed […]
With the People’s United Party well on the road to mass suicide the opposition U.D.P. needs to do little more than occasionally stir the pitcher of Kool-Aid. And that’s what it did today at a briefing called to criticise the government’s miscues already so amply chronicled by the media. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle […]
In reaction to a sharp increase in school fees, today students from the University of Belize held a press conference in Belize City to launch a plan of action against the price hikes. According to student activist Moses Sulph, the centre piece of their campaign will be the truth. Moses Sulph, Student Activist ?Our leverage […]
After weeks of declining requests for interviews, former Social Security C.E.O. Narda Garcia has finally made a public statement … albeit in the form of an email. In her three paragraph release addressed to the media, Garcia rejects the findings of the Senate Special Select Committee, maintaining that (quote) “I do not accept that there […]
A Belize City cable company has been touched for seven thousand dollars … but the jacking may not be all that it seems. A spokesperson for Baymen Cable told News Five that they strongly believe a Monday night robbery at their Baymen Avenue Headquarters was the result of an inside job. According to the spokesperson, […]
People residing in the Stann Creek District are being asked to be careful not to buy stolen goods. In this case, a fully equipped computer system, that was taken from the Seine Bight Health Centre. Authorities believe the burglary occurred sometime between Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The rural nurse, Jacqueline Nembhard, told police […]
One down and two to go as one of the suspects believed to be responsible for the hold-up of M and M’s Boutique on Euphrates Avenue has been arrested. Twenty year old Brandon Taylor appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord, where he was charged for attempted robbery, damage to property and two counts of […]
Partners of the Americas is a network of volunteer organizations in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. For forty years Belize has partnered with the U.S. State of Michigan. It is this joint venture that is responsible for the establishment of the 4-H Centre in Belmopan and a series of service oriented projects […]
There was a time not that long ago when Belizean exports could be summed up in one word: sugar. But while today’s economy is far more diversified, as News Five’s Alyssa Noble discovered, you can never have too many baskets for those precious exported eggs. Alyssa Noble, Reporting Whether its sugar, citrus or bananas, agriculture […]
For the last decade or so she’s lived on the idyllic island of Tobago … but rather than lament Rachel Heusner’s departure we prefer to treasure her regular visits back home. Today Kendra Griffith took a sneak peak at her latest show. Kendra Griffith, Reporting ?An Exhibition of Art? is Rachel Heusner?s latest creative offering. […]
