We begin our news coverage tonight with a look at some new initiatives against the HIV epidemic. And while they happen to coincide with World AIDS Day on Saturday, the need for coherent action is both real and urgent. Janelle Chanona has our first report from Belmopan. Janelle Chanona, Reporting According to the latest national […]
Children were not the only focus of activists today as an event in Belize City highlighted the impact of AIDS on the world of work. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. Marion Ali, Reporting Today personnel from the Ministry of Labour held an open day in conjunction with World AIDS Week. The event was […]
While the Deputy Chief of Security at Hattieville Prison, Oscar Puga, awaits his day in court, public indignation mounts over his personal escorting of three inmates for a night out in Belize City. With the Kolbe Foundation under pressure to put Puga under manners, the focus now turns to who else may have been involved […]
A man found guilty of assaulting his girlfriend has been fined a thousand dollars. Justice Adolph Lucas today ordered twenty-six year old George Matthews to pay after a jury of five men and four women found him guilty on Tuesday by an eight to one majority. Matthews had originally been charged with Kidnapping but that […]
Being a police officer is a dangerous job anywhere in the world and Belize is no exception. With cops increasingly on the wrong end of deadly violence the department is trying to offer at least some kind of relief to grieving families. News Five’s Marion Ali reports that while the money may be small, at […]
Pardon the pun, but there is no hotter topic in the world today than the issue of climate change, better known as global warming. This year, in the launching of its annual Human Development Report, the United Nations Development Program has chosen climate change as its theme. The relationship between development and a warming planet […]
He is a volunteer soldier, mechanic, father, and husband. But two weeks ago Gonzalo Lizama added Lotto winner to his many titles. The thirty-seven year old resident of Hope Creek won the November tenth, one hundred and ten thousand dollar draw and today Lizama, his common-law wife and their four children finally made it to […]
If you are in the mood for humour this weekend, then you need to head to the Bliss on Friday night. The four local comedians who are scheduled to take centre stage are Dillon Jones, Rafael Martinez, Kenny Morgan and Lionel Mangar. And according to one comic, hearing laughter from the audience brings its own […]
