A team of young football athletes is representing the jewel in the CONCACAF U-fifteen Championship being held in the Cayman Islands. And today in their first match against St. Lucia, team Belize beat that country one-nil. The tournament will see participation from Central American and Caribbean countries as well as CONCACAF member states. And Belize’s […]
The Belize jaguars did not bring home the medal, but an up and coming team of young footballers in an international competition in Merida have made the jewel proud. The Youth with a Mission Under-seventeen football team competed against Mexican and other teams and were able to clinch a third place in the competition. The […]
News Five’s Duane Moody became a tourist in his own country as a guest of the Belize Tourism Board. The fam trip covered the Placencia area showcasing prime destinations and adventure tours. Tonight we bring you part two of the intrepid journalist’s odyssey across Belize. Duane Moody “The first day of our media tour […]
The Belize Tourism Board treated the media to a familiarization tour of various tourist destinations in the jewel over the weekend. The four-day tour started in Orange Walk with a visit to the Lamanai Mayan Site and ended in the Peninsula. News Five joined the tour on day two to experience the natural beauty and […]
After a heartbreaking loss to Cuba on Tuesday afternoon, which crushed their hopes in the first round of the Gold Cup, the players of Team Belize returned home early this morning from Hartford Connecticut where the last game was played. The Jaguars failed to qualify to the second round after consecutive losses to the USA, […]
Coach Ian Mork did not make it back…it is not because he is leaving the team, but because he stayed in the U.S. to deal with personal matters relating to his family. The players, however, were glad to be home today, but the lingering blues from Tuesday’s game against Cuba were evident. If you were […]
There are reliable reports coming out of Hartford, Connecticut that things got a little heated in the locker room after Cuba defeated Belize four zero because emotions were running high. And even as the players got on the bus back to the hotel after the game, the disappointment in the outcome of the game was […]
While the focus has been on the team captain, the coach and the goalkeepers, the other players on the team also had their post-game comments. Deon McCaulley, Belize National Football Team “I feel bad because we lost four to zero after coming off a very good game with Costa Rica. Having the key players […]
With zero points on three losses and no wins during round one, the Belize Jaguars earned the dubious distinction of being the team with the worst stats in the Gold Cup. The most attention the team got, from the international media at least, was because of the challenges it faced getting to the Gold Cup […]
The Jaguars are back in Belize, but F.F.B. Vice President, Rawell Pelayo, is not. Pelayo was nabbed reportedly by the Drug Enforcement Agency as he passed through Houston on his way to Portland to join Team Belize for game one against the United States. That happened on July eighth, and since then the only confirmation […]
After three years in the planning and pre-implementation stages, today the Ministry of Immigration and Nationality in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy officially launched a new border management system for the Immigration Department. The Personal Identification and Registration System known as PIRS is a comprehensive software program to input departure and arrival entries for travelers […]
The 2013 CONCACAF game between Belize and the United States was more than just a pit stop on the road to the Gold Cup. It was a mountain climb. The U.S. won six to one, but it was a tremendous effort for the national team which ranked one hundred and thirty in the world against […]
Following Belize’s crushing defeat at the hands of the United States, coaches and players from both teams fielded questions from the media. Coach Ian Mork, as well as several of the Jaguars, discussed the six-one loss and their plans going into the remaining matches. Those games are scheduled to be played in Sandy City, Utah […]
The cruise tourism project proposed by giant Norwegian Cruise Lines for Crawl Caye in the south of Belize is going before Cabinet for their approval, and one organization committed to the long term integrity of the reef is doing everything it can to ensure that doesn’t happen. In a letter to Prime Minister Dean Barrow […]
Earlier in the newscast, you heard Healthy Reef opposing the Norwegian Cruise Line’s interest in Crawl Caye. That mega tourism project also elicited a response from the Prime Minister at today’s press conference. The PM said that there is no contract with NCL and there is no final deal. But the government can’t ignore a […]
There is another issue that is moving to the front burner. Crawl Caye which is located in the South Water Caye Marine Reserve is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But all indications are that Norwegian Cruise Line is well underway to purchase the caye from four individuals for a mega tourism project. On […]
By all accounts the memorandum of understanding includes the ability for the company to open casinos and become an authorized foreign exchange dealer. The Sustainable Tourism Project, which was financed by the Inter-American Development Bank, hired a consultant in 2011 who concluded that, “Pocket cruise tourism is the only acceptable form of cruise tourism on […]
The Ministry of Tourism and Culture has been taking a hit in the wake of the destruction of the Mayan monument, Noh Mul. While its C.E.O. Tracy Panton, acknowledged these are dark days for the ministry, there are at least two rays of sunshine to report in the areas of flights to Belize and cruise […]
Crawl Caye, a small island just off the Placencia mainland, has been the source of some contention lately. Norwegian Cruise Lines has approached the government about constructing a cruise terminal there, but one immediate concern is that the caye lies within the South Water Caye Marine Reserve, which is a recognized UNESCO World Heritage Site. […]
Statistics for tourist arrivals in the first quarter of 2013 have been released and they are quite impressive says the director of the Belize Tourism Board. The hotel sector alone has registered revenue of approximately sixty million dollars since January with overnight arrivals at an estimated ninety-three thousand visitors. A new benchmark was also set […]
On Monday, a delegation of executives, representing Norwegian Cruise Line, met with government officials at the Belize Tourism Board office in Belize City to discuss the prospect of a mega infrastructure development project on Crawl Caye, off the coast of southern Belize. The impressive undertaking, once approved, should see the total transformation of the small […]
Is there a cruise ship port of call in the works for southern Belize? Talks of a massive tourism development project, to be spearheaded by Norwegian Cruise Line, has been bubbling below the surface for the past few weeks, despite strong objection from environmentalists, as well as residents of Placencia and surrounding communities. Crawl Caye, […]
Canada is one of the prime markets for Belize as a tourist destination. Today a contingent of some twenty persons from the Canadian travel industry arrived at the Phillip Goldson International Airport. The travel agents, tour operators and travel press are participating in a seven-day familiarization trip organized by the Belize Tourism Board which will […]
It was a big day for tourism today as the seventeenth edition of Destination Belize was officially launched. The magazine is the official visitor publication of the Belize Tourism Industry Association and is considered one of the best marketing tools on travel to the country. Destination Belize 2013 was launched under the theme – an […]
The Belize Tourism Board has released its tourism arrival numbers for 2012. On the bright side, there is an upward trend in overnight stays, but numbers went down in cruise ship arrivals. But generally, the industry notes a ten point seven percent increase overall. Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting A remarkable year for […]
