For years student life at the University of Belize was marked by what can only be called extreme apathy … but as the nation’s flagship institution of higher learning spreads its academic wings, so too are its students and faculty flexing their organisational muscles. Today those currents converged … and as News Five’s Janelle Chanona […]
David Price, Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation, was flown out to Cuba for medical care yesterday afternoon after his condition worsened over the weekend. Reports indicate that the trip went well for Price, who was transferred smoothly to a Havana hospital following arrangements coordinated by the Cuban embassy in […]
General Elections may be sixteen months away but the United Democratic Party is beginning to gear up for March 2008. According to a U.D.P. press release, a number of decisions were taken at an all day workshop for standard bearers on Sunday. Among them was the appointment of former B.D.F. Commandant Robert Garcia as the […]
He was wounded by gunmen in yesterday’s execution style killing of Kevin Parks. Today, from his bed at the K.H.M.H., Charlie Moss told us what went down on Euphrates Avenue. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Thirty-eight year old Charlie Moss is paralyzed on the left side of his body after the bullet entered under Moss?s left arm, […]
Twenty-four year old Trevor Matthews, driver of a U.S. embassy vehicle that crashed, killing a passenger, has been arrested and charged with a number of crimes. Appearing before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers, Matthews was arraigned for Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct, Negligent Harm, Driving Without Due Care and Attention and Failure to Conform […]
Over the next four or five days Belize will be hosting several hundred visitors from all over North, South and Central America, as well as the Caribbean. They’re here for the forty-second annual convention of Partners of Americas. That organisation, founded in 1964, paired various U.S. states with individual countries to the south. In 1966 […]
In today’s global financial system exports are the lifeblood of a nation’s economy. Just where Belize fits in to this reality was the subject of a meeting today at Old Belize. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning, the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service organized a one day symposium for local […]
They say that knowledge is power … and San Ignacio’s Cornerstone Foundation is doing its part to make sure that Belizeans stay informed on what’s happening with HIV/AIDS. The foundation has begun production of a magazine entitled AIDS Link. It features local, regional, and world news on HIV; info on what organisations are doing around […]
It may not be a new story but it sure is an important one. Diabetes continues to kill and restrict the lifestyles of thousands of Belizeans. Today was set aside to learn more and hopefully bring down the numbers. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting In a recent survey by the Pan American Health Organization, seventeen percent of […]
