The buzz among people in the tourism industry was that Belize was having a pretty good season, and if you’ve tried lately to buy a ticket on a flight to the States you know that somebody is filling all those airplane seats. Today the Belize Tourism Board confirmed that intuition and announced an unprecedented increase […]
With more people traveling through the International Airport it means that the Belize Airports Authority will be reaping a bonanza in departure taxes. And it looks like they’re going to need every penny. In a decision handed down on Friday the BAA has been ordered to pay almost a million dollars to the operators of […]
We are happy to report that 5-year-old Juanita Elmira Manzanero, who we reported missing in yesterday’s newscast, never did leave school and is today back with her family. News Five had received a phone call from the police late Monday evening informing us that when the child’s father had gone to the school at 3:30 […]
In light of the increased number of sexual crimes against children and the probability of a serial killer lurking in our midst, the Belizean community is struggling to come to grips with new realities. Unfortunately, it’s been the Belizean norm to sweep such occurrences under the rug. The social work programme of the University College […]
Nurses in Trinidad are still on the march in the second day of their walkout against government hospitals. The medical facilities are attempting to get by with a small number of non-striking nurses who are working multiple shifts. At press time tonight, there was still no news of a settlement. Nurses are demanding a 50% […]
In the waters off Belize City today there was good news and bad news. The good news is that a group of fourteen students from Belize Elementary, winners of a contest, were taken on a trip to see Belize’s manatees in the wild. The bad news is that the boat carrying six of the students–and […]
Today was the day of reckoning for an unhappy national football selection and a highly criticized Belize National Football Association. In the end while all was not necessarily peace and love, it appears that at least some common sense prevailed. Janelle Chanona, Reporting After missing three practice sessions, Belize’s national selection football team was back […]
