He’s an outspoken businessman with a reputation for shooting from the hip. As the main shareholder of the privatised Belize City port he also has a huge stake in the outcome of the deal in which Carnival Corporation will build a new cruise terminal in Port Loyola. And today Luke Espat took aim at those […]
It was Belize’s turn to experience our annual fifteen minutes of fame in New York–or in this case, twelve minutes–as United Nations Ambassador Stuart Leslie joined the World’s leaders to deliver his address to the UN General Assembly. There is no shortage of global, regional and local issues to cover and Leslie did his best […]
It wasn’t a hundred new Fords…but every little bit helps. And besides, these new police vehicles were free, courtesy of the Republic of China on Taiwan. During a brief ceremony at the Queen Street Station, Ambassador Charles Tsai this morning handed over an all terrain vehicle and two scooters to Minister of Home Affairs Ralph […]
And while mobility may be at an all time high, police behaviour on the job remains a sore point, with a number of officers around the country being accused of seriously abusing their authority. Fonseca says while he does not condone such behaviour, in most cases, the policemen are simply overreacting to the stress of […]
You don’t have to be a doctor to know that Belizeans are getting bigger…and I’m not referring to height. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on what one group of Belizean policy makers is doing to promote better eating habits. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting In 2004, it is expected that the Ministry of Health will spend approximately […]
If yesterday’s presentations at the forum on the impact of cruise tourism were polite, today’s could only be described as blunt. Representatives of Belize’s traditional overnight tourism sector openly called for greater control of cruise tourism, the unbridled growth of which, they say, is destroying the nation’s environment and will in the end degrade Belize’s […]
The marine areas of Belize, including internal waters, territorial sea and exclusive economic zone, total thousands of square miles…and policing this vast space presents formidable challenges for law enforcement authorities. That’s why it’s especially important that the Fisheries Department, BDF, police and Port Authority, join forces to make the best use of scarce resources. Today, […]
A release from Cabinet reports that at that body’s regular Tuesday meeting a number of decisions were taken. Among them: the implementation of a code of ethics for justices of the peace along with criminal penalties for those who go astray and the creation of an accrediting body to facilitate operation of the CARICOM single […]
Belize has joined three other countries, namely Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Brazil in an effort aimed at giving small community groups a chance to co-exist with the larger, better financed interests in the tourism industry. According to officials of the local partner, Programme for Belize, the idea is to show people, particularly those in rural […]
It’s a political organisation that takes its history seriously and today, on its fifty-fourth birthday, the People’s United Party paused to celebrate, not just with a toast, but with a book. The author is veteran photographer and former Chief Information Officer Norris Hall. The subject is the father of the Nation. Patrick Jones Reports. Patrick […]
In a time of intense financial pressures it’s the only real bright spot in the Belizean economy. Tourism–more specifically cruise tourism–is showing the kind of annual increases that even as recently as five years ago were unimaginable. But while those at the top and bottom of the cruise ship feeding frenzy seek to expand their […]
An accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a Ladyville man. According to police reports, around six twenty on Monday evening, sixty-nine year old Eulogio Perez was crossing the highway between miles nine and ten when he was hit by an oncoming SUV travelling to Belize City. The driver, thirty-four year old […]
It was one of the biggest international drug busts of the year: twenty-six thousand pounds of cocaine. And the narcotics were found buried beneath a load of fish and ice on a Belize flagged vessel. The fishing boat in question, the San Jose, was boarded on September twenty-second by U.S. coast guard personnel operating off […]
With little good news coming from statistics on the spread of AIDS in Belize, those charged with combating the disease continue to seek methods that will translate knowledge into action. And nowhere are those efforts more concentrated than among young people. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Belizeans between the ages of […]
If ending the AIDS epidemic ranks high on the Nation’s "to-do" list, its biggest competitor for the nation’s attention is the problem of crime. Again, today it was Belize’s youth being asked to make some adjustments in attitude. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting These high school students may have felt safe seated among a large number of […]
Twenty-one year old Belizean Andujar Bradley, is not only a model for Ralph Lauren, but he is the founder and executive director of a New York based youth organization, Team Revolution. Because Bradley has worked so effectively, The Young Men’s Christian Association wasted no time in bringing him to their compound to meet with a […]
It’s a classy venue and Belizeans seem to be growing more comfortable with the new reality of the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. Monday night News 5’s Patrick Jones sat in on rehearsals for the latest theatrical production, set to open on Wednesday. Patrick Jones, Reporting ? Such Good Children ? written and directed […]
Tempers seem to be short in Belize these days as incidents which in years gone by might have been settled with a good cussing or at most a fistfight, are now resolved with finality by a gun, knife or machete. Two men lost their lives this weekend, in what are believed to be such scenarios: […]
Meanwhile, around twenty-four hours earlier in Seine Bight Village in the Stann Creek District, another Belizean, forty-eight year old Roderick White, was about to have his life cut short. According to police, they found White unconscious on the floor of his apartment with what appeared to be cut wounds to the forehead and abdomen. He […]
The murder that took place over the weekend in Cotton Tree was not the only death to occur in that historic Village. Only a few hours before the killing of Gilroy Blancaneaux, two other members of the community lost their lives nearby in a traffic mishap. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-eight year […]
They say that what separates humans from animals is that humans are the only living creatures who know they will one day die. And while not all of us will leave this earth at a ripe old age, most of us hope to. Now you’d think these truths would ensure that our oldest citizens would […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley with a fresh delivery of Sports Monday. Yesterday we travelled to the Sandhill Field in an effort to play catch up with the Second Annual Reginald Jex Challenge Cup. We arrive in the second half of a Week II match featuring Lucky Strike Eagles in action against […]
If the number of media reports are any indication, then there would be no doubt that Belize’s children are the most heavily studied and subsidized group in the country. And while that point is debatable, what isn’t is that under the prodding of UNICEF and the local agencies it funds, the nation’s young people are […]
In crime news, law enforcement authorities have reported at least partial success in their efforts to maintain law and order and are also offering some advice to the public. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This is the car Belize City police believe was used as the get away vehicle in a robbery that occurred at a business […]
In a story, we ran in yesterday’s newscast we incorrectly reported that no suspects were ever apprehended in the robbery of the Belize Bank branch in Orange Walk in March. In fact seven people are currently before the Orange Walk magistrate’s court, accused of holding up the bank. About a week after the March second […]
