Orange Walk Police are tonight in search of a pastor from that municipality. They believe that he can help them get to the bottom of a sinister plot involving the church, money and sex. Preliminary investigations are revealing that Pastor Rafael Perez of Zion Ministries Assembly of God Church, in Orange Walk Town, has been […]
This morning, News Five also spoke to residents in the area of the Zion Ministries Assemblies of God Church in Orange Walk Town. They told us off camera that almost every day young women would visit the pastor at the church. They told us that when the women would go inside, Perez would close the […]
A Chinese businessman from San Jose Village in the Orange Walk District has been detained after a shooting on Wednesday night. Reports are that at around six p.m. three men were at the Chinese store in San Jose drinking beers when they got into an altercation with the owner and began banging on the door. […]
The restoration of Memorial Park, a massive undertaking spearheaded by the Sustainable Tourism Project, through the Belize Tourism Board, has been completed after months of painstaking labor. The newly renovated space will be officially opened to the public in time for the September Celebrations. While the property is that of the Belize City Council, activities […]
Meanwhile, in the downtown area, finishing touches are being added to Battlefield Park, having undergone a much needed sprucing up recently. To complete the face-lift, City Hall is in discussion with Stephen Okeke to adopt the bust of Antonio Soberanis. Despite all the work going into the rehabilitation, public safety remains an issue for the […]
UNICEF Belize and its partners, BCVI and CARE Belize today officially launched its Situation Analysis of Children with Disabilities and the Situation Analysis of Blind and Visually Impaired Children. Also revealed was UNICEF’s annual State of the World’s Children’s Report. Both provides data about children with disabilities highlighting the need to break the barriers to […]
Fourteen high school and sixth form students were today awarded opportunities to pursue secondary and tertiary education through B.T.L.’s scholarship program. The twenty-second annual Scholarship Award Ceremony was held at the Radisson this morning, where thirteen students received high school scholarships and one was awarded a sixth form bursary. The scholarship committee, made up of […]
A Belize City hair braider, whom police say assaulted one of their own, was before the court this morning to answer to three criminal offenses. Forty-three-year-old Carol Wade, of Dolphin Drive in the Faber’s Road area in Belize City, appeared before Magistrate Dale Cayetano where she was slapped with one count of aggravated assault upon […]
A pair of Belize City fishermen, caught in the act of harvesting conch from Southern Long Caye on Wednesday, by a team of fisheries officers, was before the court today after being charged jointly with the offense of taking conch during closed season. They are forty-four-year-old Ernesto Vasquez and forty-one-year-old Lloyd Reyes of a Conch Shell […]
A Honduran woman, who was picked up by police in relation to a stabbing incident during which her husband was stabbed in Belize City over the weekend, may have escaped criminal charges for that matter but ended up having to answer to immigration offenses. Twenty-four-year-old Wendy Xiomara Membrano Ardon, a domestic of a Gibnut Street […]
The Belize Diabetes Association today received twenty thousand dollars in medicine for patients in need of podiatric care. The donation was given by Harvest Ministry, a Belizean-led religious organization operating out of the United States. The medication, since the association cannot legally distribute the ointment, will be dispensed through several health centers and medical facilities […]
Belize is being represented to the fullest in the 2013 CARIFESTA in Paramaribo, Suriname. Despite being the smallest delegation; the jewel is showcasing Belize at its best in music, dance, theatre, visual arts, literary arts, fashion and jewelry. The participants in creative arts have been performing at various venues throughout the ten-day event. The contingent […]
Aside from the Belize delegation in Suriname that has been making a name for the country in its cultural and artistic form, two junior teams are representing Belize internationally in different sporting disciplines. The National U-fifteen male football team although not medaling in the CONCACAF U-fifteen Championships, made Belize proud when they were acknowledged by […]
Men don’t access healthcare as often as women do. Problems with the prostate are common with aging men. Prostate cancer is one of the top cancers affecting men in Belize. Healthy Living seeks a specialist to explain the common symptoms of possible prostate problems. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting It seems that when most men hear […]
