James Adderley, Reporting The Francisco Morazan Stadium inside San Pedro Sula, Honduras, provided a field of dreams for Belizean football as Revolutionary Conquerors of Dangriga opened the 2007 UNCAF Champions Tournament against the Honduran powerhouse Real España last night. And indeed it couldn’t have been a better start for the Belizean sub-champion when the Real […]
Police continue to pursue leads in the execution style murder of businessman Richard Hoare. Sources tell News Five that the young woman whose cell phone was found in Hoare’s S.U.V. the night of his death, has once again been detained for questioning. The list of others pulled in by investigators includes some prominent names in […]
It’s been a rumour most of the week but tonight it’s official: the Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs Ralph Fonseca are on their way to Venezuela for meetings with that country’s president. According to a release issued by the Press Office today, P.M. Musa and Fonseca will join other CARICOM leaders in Caracas […]
Since July, there has been a buzz of political commotion countrywide as candidates and their canvassers make sure that eligible voters living in their constituencies have registered or transferred into the division. And while the two mass parties are already trading pot shots in the media and on the street, the independents are also soliciting […]
They call themselves “the largest and most positive worldwide organisation for building good citizens that the world has ever seen” … and who could argue with the Scouts? Today eleven local troopers and their leader returned home after taking part in their one hundredth world jamboree in London, England. We caught up with three of […]
With over two hundred miles of coastline, scores of cayes, dozens of rivers and countless lagoons and ponds, Belizeans should be comfortable in the water. But humans are not fish and many of us must be taught to overcome our basic fears. That’s exactly what’s been happening over the summer at some hotel pools in […]
The Belize Social Security Board has most recently been in the news in connection with its efforts to finance expansion of National Health Insurance. But while politicians and actuaries debate the amount the Board could or should contribute to N.H.I., Social Security for years has been providing significant assistance in the field of education. News […]
