Three more police officers are in trouble tonight, accused of planting drugs on a businessman and trying to shake him down for a bribe. The man who blew the whistle is a Taiwanese Belizean of St. Mark Street in Caribbean Shores. He reported to the police Internal Affairs Department that around five a.m. on February […]
A man who stole a safe containing forty-three thousand dollars has been sentenced to five years in jail. Thirty-four year old Ernest Gladden pleaded guilty to the burglary, which occurred in May of last year at the office of Hugh Parkey’s Dive Connection at seventy-one North Front Street in Belize City. Gladden also pled guilty […]
The Development Finance Corporation has five new board members. The appointments by Prime Minister Dean Barrow in his capacity as Minister of Finance, were announced today in a release from the Belize Press Office. The three new non-government directors are Perla Perdomo, Pamela Joan Neal and Karim Berges. They join ex-officio appointees Yvonne Hyde, who […]
The government of Cuba has announced the award of scholarships to twenty-one Belizeans to study medicine in that country. According to a release from the Cuban Embassy, the students were selected following a series of interviews with officials in the ministries of Education, Health, and Foreign Affairs in addition to the embassy. They will begin […]
In line with the Women’s Week motto of “Women: Equal Partners in Belize’s Development,” on Thursday night, eight women will be honoured for the contributions they have made to their organisations and community. This afternoon one of those Outstanding Women shared her story with News Five’s Kendra Griffith. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Meet forty-eight year old […]
Three Belizean organisations have been awarded grants to enhance sustainable tourism around the barrier reef. The Toledo Tour Guide Association, Green Reef Environmental Institute and Belize Audubon Society were singled out by the Friends of World Heritage for assistance in promoting projects that will raise income levels in communities surrounding the World Heritage sites while […]
As our last story suggests, Belize’s World Heritage sites can be preserved and at the same time produce income for nearby residents; it all comes down to smart management. But what’s happening at the Blue Hole is considered by many to be anything ¬but smart. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports on the potentially lethal mix […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported on agreements signed with the European Union to assist farmers and residents of the sugar and banana belts. But not all the E.U.’s aid goes toward improving the efficiency of farmers in the north and south. News Five’s Marion Ali is just back from the Cayo District where she visited […]
