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According to Castro, if Belizean auto dealers are required to purchase insurance when traversing from Texas to Mexico, then it is only fair that bus owners and drivers purchase insurance to move around in Chetumal. On the Phone: Edmond ‘Clear the Land’ Castro, Minister of Transport “We must respect the law of the land […]
An airplane belonging to Tropic Air was flipped by gusty winds in Guatemala. Reports from Peten are that strong winds caused the plane, which was parked at the Mundo Maya International Airport, to overturn. The incident occurred late this evening. There are no reports of any injuries and the damages to the plane have not […]
Written on July 17, 2018 | Posted in
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Shaphan Domingo was only twenty years old when he was shot four times. One of the bullets hit his spine and left him paralyzed and eventually he lost both legs. For the past few years, he has been trying to get help to undergo surgeries for a chronic urinary tract infection as well as for […]
Written on July 17, 2018 | Posted in
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Tropic Air announced the resumption of its flights to Caye Caulker. In a statement today, President of the local airline John Grief the third said that “now that the renovations to the airstrip are nearing completion, we are happy to let the residents know that we are back and ready to fly more tourists to […]
Written on July 16, 2018 | Posted in
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The Belize Tourism Board is boasting ‘groundbreaking’ figures as it relates to tourism arrivals. B.T.B.’s latest stats show that for the first six months of 2018, overnight tourism arrivals and cruise ship arrivals registered a seventeen point one cumulative increase. For the month of June, B.T.B. registered more than forty-three thousand overnight arrivals. This is […]
COPA airlines and Tropic Air have signed off an agreement that will potentially increase the number of visitors to Belize. COPA already has two weekly flights to Belize and will now be able to promote travel to the Jewel by South American nationals. The agreement allows persons to book domestic flights through COPA travel agents. […]
On Thursday, the Diario de Quintana Roo in Chetumal quoted the Honorary Consulate of Belize in Quintana Roo, saying that the construction of the international airport in San Pedro has been given the green light and all that is left, is a date for works to begin. That piece of information, says the Mexican newspaper, […]
Written on June 15, 2018 | Posted in
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The Pickstock Development Association provides services to residents of the Pickstock and Lake Independence communities, primarily through after school initiatives, gardening and coffin-making. Elrington says that as many as a hundred and fifty children benefit from these services on a daily basis. The area rep says assistance provided may be jeopardized if Brian Espat is […]
Belize’s Barrier Reef remains a place of great interest to visitors, whether those come to relax or seeking answers to some of the great mysteries under the ocean waters. Now, it is being featured as one of the world’s fifty best dive travel destinations by the venerable National Geographic Magazine. As part of their year-long […]
Belize’s commuters are already experiencing the growing pains of the infrastructure work taking place across the country. But there is a lot more to come, as in the next two decades current and future governments will be operating under the aegis of a document released today. It is the Comprehensive National Transportation Master Plan, coordinated […]
The Ministry of Immigration and Nationality continues to investigate how two citizens of the Kingdom of Nepal were granted entry to Belize on landing at the Philip Goldson International Airport on Tuesday last, despite being considered high risk. News Five understands that they arrived on a COPA Airlines flight but their current whereabouts are unknown. […]
Millions of dollars, as much as seventeen, were spent on the overhaul of the Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airstrip which was launched with much fanfare in November 2016. But a week ago, which is less than two years since its renovation, the runway had to be closed because it needed repairs. Imer Hernandez was the […]
The Belize Airports Authority confirms that works will be carried out on the runway of the Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airport this weekend. The scheduled remedial works, however, for the next four days are not expected to interrupt operations and flights will be relocated to the taxiway which is equipped to be used as a […]
Written on April 13, 2018 | Posted in
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If the Belize Tourism Board’s statistics are to be believed, then Belize is a more popular place to visit than ever. Just this past March alone, more than fifty-five thousand overnight visitors touched down on the Jewel’s shores – that is about one in every seven of Belize’s actual population of around three hundred and […]
Written on April 13, 2018 | Posted in
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While we know where they are coming from, where are the tourists going? Popular destinations like Placencia, San Pedro and Caye Caulker, and the San Ignacio-Benque Viejo area remain cream of the crop, but there is an even distribution for both overnight and cruise visitors according to Stephen. Jocelle Stephen, Marketing and Public Relations, […]
So what are the Board’s plans to keep the bumper figures up as tourism enters the so-called “slow season?” Stephen says the B.T.B. has been leaning on its international partners to do special presentations for outlets, including promoting the Jewel as the next great wedding and romantic adventure, and teaming up with Australia to promote […]
If you are planning to travel from the Belize City municipal airstrip this weekend, you will likely have to make new plans. There is word tonight that the airstrip will be closed for urgent repairs to the runway. The relevant authorities met today to consider the concerns of the operators and took the decision to […]
Written on April 12, 2018 | Posted in
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Passengers traveling from Belize to Denver, Colorado on Sunday via Southwest Airlines found themselves in Houston, Texas instead after a problem developed with the aircraft. Reports say the plane lost pressure in the cabin during the flight. At altitudes above ten thousand feet, low air pressure can cause several psychological conditions including decompression and altitude […]
Written on February 19, 2018 | Posted in
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There’s an article online that’s been attracting attention in the area of tourism. Naughty Island. It’s off the coast of Belize, and according to a U.K. newspaper, later this year; visitors on a special vacation package get to live out their fantasies there. The private island in question is eight miles off the coast or […]
The northern border may be seeing some extra traffic over this holiday, as Belizeans go over to neighboring Chetumal to shop while others go to holiday at Mexican destinations. The Mexican Embassy in Belize wants to remind travelers of the procedures at the border. Hugo Suarez tells us some of the main things you should […]
Written on December 21, 2017 | Posted in
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The Caye Caulker Airstrip project, an initiative that was, to an extent, prompted by Tropic and Maya Island Air’s decision to suspend flights to the island because of a faulty runway, is in limbo tonight. That’s because the Belize Airports Authority was banking on a loan facility from the Social Security Board to conduct much […]
Earlier this week, the Government of Belize signed a memorandum of understanding with developer International Airport Alliance Belize Limited to develop and manage a hundred-million U.S. dollar full service international airport in North Ambergris Caye, to be named after tourism pioneer Efrain Guerrero. San Pedro native and booster Manuel Heredia, the Minister for Tourism and […]
Written on December 15, 2017 | Posted in
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A landing as much as five years in the making happened this afternoon at the Philip Goldson International Airport. Canada’s flag-carrier, Air Canada, made the first of its twice-weekly flights between Canada’s largest city, Toronto, and Belize’s largest, Belize City, by way of Ladyville. The two countries are the only English-speaking Commonwealth countries on the […]
The Government of Belize and COCESNA have invested roughly thirteen million dollars for better management and security for the airspaces within Belize. Today the Department of Civil Aviation officially opened the Approach Control Center at the Phillip Goldson International Airport. The state-of-the-art equipment features an upgraded radar head, which provides information on aircrafts flying over […]
Written on December 8, 2017 | Posted in
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A new luxury resort was launched today in San Pedro just in time for the tourism high season. A year later and over a hundred million dollars in investment, Mahogany Bay resort opened its doors to Hilton members visiting the island. At the launch today, it was announced that this latest CURIO brand resort is […]
