Thanks largely to an informal police brokered gang truce, the streets of Belize City have been murder free for the last three weeks … but that tenuous peace was shattered Monday night when a lone gunman entered a house on Poinsettia Street and began shooting. By the time he left, two young men lay dead, […]
Cuban medical professionals started coming to Belize in 1999 through a cooperation agreement between the two countries. Since then, the visiting doctors and nurses have treated tens of thousands of Belizeans throughout the length and breadth of the country. And it’s a practice that is going to continue, at least for the next three years, […]
There is good news and bad news tonight for residents of the Placencia Peninsula. The bad news is that the area’s airstrip will be closed for a total of ten days. The good news is that the reason for the closure is that the strip will be completely repaired. The work will take place in […]
After months of sweat equity, on Saturday afternoon the residents of the Valley of Peace celebrated the official opening of their new community centre. The building was declared ready for use by Prime Minister Said Musa. Scouts from Ontario, Canada contributed more than thirty-eight thousand dollars towards the project and in August, twenty-four volunteers visited […]
It has been in the pipeline for some time but today the staff and students of Buttonwood Bay Nazarene Primary School finally have their basketball court, courtesy of SOL Belize Limited. Company manager Joe Habet says they decided to help the children after they noticed a shortage of amenities at the institution. Joe Habet, Manager, […]
The popular image of a Belizean customs officer is that of a stern faced man or woman who pours through your suitcases at the airport or makes you file reams of paperwork to clear a shipment at the Belize City port. But those images are not the whole picture, as News Five’s Kendra Griffith discovered […]
Throughout what has become a long and bitter period of turmoil in the citrus industry, growers have debated the pros and cons of a twenty-five million dollar investment in the grower-owned processing company. But while the controversy has raged, the new shareholders, who control forty-six point five percent of the company, have simply been seen […]
