The dark hand of homicide has descended on a village not far from the nation’s capital and a tiny baby will now grow up without the love of his mother. News Five’s Marion Ali reports from the scene. Marion Ali, Reporting When forty-eight year old Horacio Sanabria and his family opened their grocery shop yesterday […]
The Belize Council of Churches and Belize Evangelical Association have announced their nominee for appointment to the Senate. He is Henry Gordon. Gordon is no stranger to the world of politics, having served as Cabinet Secretary in the last U.D.P. administration and more recently as an activist for political reform. He will join his fellow […]
The government Press Office has issued an explosive release stating that former prime minister Said Musa failed to refer the Senate Select Committee’s report on the Social Security Board to the Financial Intelligence Unit … and when questioned about it, lied to the House of Representatives. On closer inspection, however, it appears that the new […]
He didn’t participate in yesterday’s war of words involving fellow candidates Francis Fonseca and Johnny Briceño, but today Mark Espat weighed in on recent events in the race to be the new leader of the People’s United Party. Espat sent a series of emails to P.U.P. secretary general Henry Charles Usher saying that sixteen of […]
They began celebrating their hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary in June of last year and this weekend, Wesley College is still commemorating their historic milestone. On Saturday, the school will be hosting its first fair in nineteen years and according to the organisers, it will have been worth the wait. Melvin Hewlett, PR, Wesley Fair “As […]
Four local organisations have received grants from automobile manufacturers for environmental and cultural conservation projects. According to a release issued today, the winners of the Ford Motor Company Conservation and Environmental Grant Awards Program are the West Landivar Citizens Action Committee, which will receive eleven thousand dollars for their project: Dolphin Park, Green Spaces in […]
For ten years now La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge has overshadowed the traditional ninth of March harbour regatta, bringing out massive crowds from San Ignacio to Belize City. But one group of sailing enthusiasts has put in hours of practice to ensure that the decades-old regatta will not only stay alive, but attract new […]
There is no denying the importance of coral reefs: they act as a safe harbour for fish, protect the coast, help to control the amount of carbon dioxide in the water, and they attract foreign tourists and their hard currency revenues. But reefs are also susceptible to many negative impacts, one of them being that […]
Last week the Belize City Council prepared the public for the imminent paving of Albert and Regent Streets … but it turns out they jumped the gun. Today News Five’s Janelle Chanona found out why. Anthony Michael, Belize City Deputy Mayor “We want to see a transformation where we come to a first class street […]
