This morning, following a two month suspension of public hearings, the Development Finance Corporation Commission of Inquiry was back in front of the cameras. The only difference this time around was a slightly higher level of drama as the witness list moved up the food chain at D.F.C. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, […]
Today, Belize City police escorted to Magistrate’s court the two young men they believe severely chopped twenty-four year old watchman Luis Armando Ibanez, causing him to lose his left hand and two fingers from his right. Construction workers nineteen year old William Burgos and eighteen year old Miguel Chacon appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb where […]
Eighteen year old Sheffield Ysaguirre is the man caught by police at the Prosser Fertilizer shop on North Front Street. Cops say around two this morning they received a report of a burglary in progress at the historic riverside building. When a team was dispatched to the location officers observed a man exiting the establishment […]
The results of the annual Caribbean Broadcasting Awards have been released and, once again, Channel Five has taken home its share of the gold. Claiming the top spot for the region’s Best Television News Story was reporter Janelle Chanona and cameramen Rick Romero and George Tillett for their coverage of the 2005 protests in Belmopan. […]
Today fifty-three year old Antonio Guevara walked into the offices of Tropical Gaming Company to claim his Saturday jackpot prize of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The father of eight children says he has been playing Lotto for quite a while but never thought he would win big. That’s why he was in no […]
For most high school students life is complicated enough without having to worry about making a living when you grow up. But reality being what it is, it never hurts to think about a future career. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today, the students of Sadie Vernon Technical High School took time out from their regular classes […]
It has not yet become a major issue in Belize due to the relatively small scale of our agriculture. But scientific developments in the area of food technology could one day present tough choices to Belizean officials. For now they are getting ready to face the future. Dr. Michael Deshield, Director, Food Safety, BAHA ?A […]
Tonight a mother of two is asking the public’s assistance to access badly needed but costly treatment abroad. Thirty-eight year old Chriselda Ramirez was diagnosed with cervical cancer two months ago and is urgently in need of both chemo and radiation therapy, which are unavailable in Belize. Ramirez, who was released from the K.H.M.H. on […]
When Belize Defence Force Sergeant Ramon Aguilar went missing and for the next nine days had an entire nation praying for his safety; the eyes of Belizeans were forced to focus clearly on the issue of jungle survival. But apart from his becoming lost and then found, we knew little about why Aguilar was out […]
