Belize City is often bypassed by tourists in favor of the cayes or more exotic destinations inland. But there is a move afoot to get visitors, especially the cruise ship passengers, to linger a while in the old capital, and of course spend some of those Yankee dollars. News Five was at the Memorial Park […]
La Democracia, designated as one of the new satellite towns, will be growing by leaps and bounds in the future with the addition of some two thousand new homes, but today the folks already living there got a new water system. But at a cost of over two hundred thousand dollars, the system will provide […]
Something strange happened in Trinidad Village on the night of October sixth and police are trying to determine why one of the men involved was killed. Police say Eduardo Tillett has been detained after the death of Pluterio Hamilton around eight thirty p.m. Hamilton is alleged to have knocked on Tillett’s door armed with a […]
It was rumored that he was heading for the States, but he didn’t get far. The seventeen-year-old messenger for the Belize City Magistrate’s Court was picked up by Mexican police at Villa Hermosa and handed over to Corozal police this morning. Kenroy Humes is wanted in connection with the disappearance of over six thousand dollars […]
Twelve people at a house in Orange Walk were held up by six armed men on Tuesday night. Jose Trepaz reported that around seven p.m. six men entered his house in Trial Farm and robbed the occupants of over seven thousand dollars in cash and jewelry and a cell phone. The robbers then fled in […]
Belize’s papaya farmers met with potential European importers today in Belmopan. Importers from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and Belgium indicated they would be in a position to accept four hundred thousand pounds of fruit per week. To meet this demand, the farmers would have to increase cultivation by eight hundred forty-eight acres. At […]
We often hear of various organizations getting grants and loans to improve their facilities, going off to the Caribbean for training, or launching new initiatives and programs. But sometimes the most direct route is the most effective. Actions do speak louder than strategic plans. This week Janelle Chanona found out how a group of concerned […]
