Statistics on HIV and AIDS for the third quarter of this year have health officials concerned that more than twenty years after first detecting the deadly virus, Belizeans are still not getting the message. The problem is not only that a growing proportion of those being tested are coming up positive, but that not enough […]
It’s not uncommon during the rainy season for us to run a story on flooding in Belize City, usually in the Belama Phase Three area. Today is no different except that we’ve shifted focus slightly to the developing neighbourhood of Belama Four. The problems I discovered there are more serious than high water. Jacqueline Godwin, […]
Police have arrested and charged a Ladyville duo for two separate robberies. According to police reports, thirty-year old Dennis Quilter and seventeen year old Kareem Arnold, both of Mitchell Estate in Ladyville, are believed to be the men responsible for burglarising the home of Ronnel Berges. Berges reported that sometime between October twenty-seventh and November […]
Two residents of Orange Walk have been arrested for keeping counterfeit currency. Fifty-six year old Daniel Lopez and twenty-five year old Laurieni Melgar were busted when, acting on a tip, police found nine thousand five hundred dollars in bogus blue notes at their residence on Custard Apple Street. Interestingly, hidden under the mattress along with […]
An officer at Hattieville Prison has been arrested after he allegedly helped an inmate to escape. Thirty-eight year old Wilfredo Gonzales was fingered by the convict he allegedly helped break-out of the correctional facility on October twenty-seventh. That prisoner, Roberto Garcia, told police after he was recaptured that Gonzales told him that he would let […]
For an institution that has spent almost fifty million dollars, the Social Investment Fund has maintained a remarkably low profile. Today, however, in celebration of its tenth anniversary, officials allowed themselves a small pat on the back. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from the nation’s capital. Johnny Briceño, Deputy Prime Minister ?In ten years the […]
We overlooked it on Tuesday when we covered the anniversary of Hurricane Hattie. But the following dramatic footage of that deadly storm is a reminder to all Belizeans–especially those in Belize City–that hurricanes are not to be taken lightly. The remarkable pictures were shot on eight millimetre film on the morning of November first, 1961 […]
