Tonight the Musa administration is celebrating the news that in an “exceedingly rare” event, almost all of Belize’s bond holders have opted to participate in the country’s debt restructuring proposal. According to a press release issued by Belmopan, ninety-three percent of holders have agreed to exchange their existing claims for new lower-interest bonds that would […]
Three Belizeans have been killed in two separate traffic accidents. On Tuesday night in the Toledo district sixty-three year old Mona Ellis and thirty-three year old Kenon Rodney lost their lives when the vehicle in which they were passengers went out of control and rolled over on the Southern Highway. The driver, forty-three year old […]
To our knowledge it has never happened before, but today we have received news that the Governor General, on the advice of the Belize Advisory Council, has exercised the prerogative of mercy to set free a convicted criminal who has been shown to be innocent. The man in question, Omar Vellos, was sentenced to twenty […]
If you think a summons to jury duty is something to ignore you better think again … at least if the judge in question is Supreme Court Justice Adolf Lucas. Today Lucas not only fined an absent prospective juror but also ordered her boss to appear. On Monday when Doris Mencias failed to show up […]
Wednesdays are busy at the Fort Street Tourism Village and today saw five ships in the harbour, unleashing thousands of cruise visitors on the city and country. But the story out of the Village this morning was not about record numbers; it was about a single tourist, coming ashore off the Grand Princess, who had […]
This morning, the staff and students of the Anglican Cathedral College officially declared open their new school building. The structure is the first to be built on the campus since St. Hilda’s College and St. Michael’s College merged to become A.C.C. in the early 1980’s. According to Principal Ismael Requena, the building will be used […]
Minister of National Development Mark Espat and Financial Secretary Carla Barnett were at the Central Bank this afternoon to sign an agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank that would see more than a million dollars invested in making the Government more efficient. According to the I.D.B.’s Operations Specialist Harold Arzu, the initiative is part of […]
This is not the first story we’ve done on the Rotary Club’s Gift of Life Programme and we sincerely hope that it’s not the last. Today I spoke to doctors and others involved in the latest patient evaluation sessions and continue to be impressed that in a world so torn by irrational hatred and violence, […]
It’s a story that touched a nerve with viewers and by this morning, it seemed that everyone had an opinion on the injury and subsequent mercy killing of a horse on the Western Highway. Today, News Five’s Janelle Chanona caught up with the mare’s owner to find out more about how the animal may have […]
