Ara Macao … Spanish for Scarlet Macaw. The large scale tourism project has been a long simmering and controversial issue for residents of the Placencia Peninsula–and by extension the entire nation. With a decision on its environmental impact assessment due shortly, today Prime Minister Said Musa, appearing on Love FM’s Morning Show, took the opportunity […]
Among the many topics covered in this morning’s appearance was the current financial crisis facing the Belize City Council, particularly its inability to pay the two sanitation companies that keep the old capital clean. Prime Minister Said Musa ?The position is that the City Council, the mayor has come to us with her difficulties in […]
There are many issues being discussed at the sixteenth International AIDS Conference, but two of the most positive developments involve advances in science and finance. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from Toronto. Kendra Griffith, Reporting It?s been ten years since anti-retroviral therapy revolutionised the way the persons infected with HIV are treated … but that […]
A Belize City woman has been arrested on drug charges in San Pedro Town. On Tuesday evening twenty-four year old Pauline Flowers was searched by police who found two parcels of cocaine, weighing almost three pounds, in her backpack. Flowers has been charged with Drug Trafficking.
A man has been charged with the rape of a seven year old girl. According to court reports, Elias Gonzalez was arrested following a police investigation after the little girl’s mother filed a report which claimed that the minor was sexually violated. Gonzalez, a resident of the Belize district, today appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers […]
Charges were dropped today against one of the men accused of the Christmas Eve 2004 killing of Police Constable Nedy Reymundo. Chadrick Debride and Winston Jones, who were to be tried jointly for the crimes of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, today appeared before Justice Troadio Gonzalez where the charges against Jones were withdrawn […]
She is already a well known figure in Belize City, but from this day forward seventy-eight year old Violet Gomez will most likely be recognized as the lucky lady who won seventy-five thousand dollars in a Scotiabank raffle. Violet’s lucky ticket was one of fifty-eight thousand entries in what proved to be a very successful […]
There are two areas of Belizean life that have clearly improved over the last eight years. One is the arts and the other is the prison. Today they combined in the form of a unique exhibition. News Five’s Alyssa Noble reports from Hattieville. Yasser Musa, President, NICH ?I think that art should never be forgotten […]
