With less than fifteen months until Belizeans cast their ballots to choose a national government, a new Chief Elections Officer has been installed. As News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, both the boss … and the system, have been altered. Danny Madrid, Justice of the Peace
They say that the Peoples United Party is working to end its internal squabbling and pull together into a unified electoral fighting force … but you’d never know it by reading the Belize Times. In another one of his mystifying columns, First Deputy Party Leader Godfrey Smith not only revealed some startling new details of […]
A Coca Cola truck driver was held up at gunpoint Wednesday and robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash. According to a report from Bowen and Bowen Limited, at four thirty p.m. a driver and his sideman were making their usual sales rounds when they stopped at Perez Hardware at the corner of Woodpecker and […]
A Toledo man has died, apparently as the result of an accidental drowning. The body of eighteen year old Fermin Choc of Crique Sarco was found by a search and rescue team at the bottom of the Temash River near the village. He was last seen on Tuesday morning talking to another man by his […]
After major publicity on the city’s two television newscasts, we are pleased to report that work crews were hard at work this morning in downtown Belize City patching holes in the wounded streets. And motorists will be happy to note that the fill being used is not sand, but tar and stone. We are told […]
In these final weeks before Christmas there have been literally dozens of special raffles, large and small. But none has generated more buzz than the one conducted by General Sales Tax Department. News Five’s Janelle Chanona was on hand for today’s grand prize draw. Janelle Chanona, Reporting As part of a month long awareness campaign […]
It’s a tortured acronym called GENACIS, which stands for Gender Alcohol and Culture: An International Study. Basically it’s a survey designed to tell us whether Belize has a drinking problem. And while no one who has stepped outside the house in the last thirty years needs a study to answer that question, the results make […]
If you are looking for a place to party this holiday season you can hit all the clubs you want … but when you really want to get serious on the dance floor, there’s only one venue to visit: Sister Cecilia’s. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting While many Belizeans are just getting ready to celebrate Christmas, the […]
