Police were once again on the offensive today following a serious eruption of armed robberies and assaults in Belize City. This morning I was on the scene as officers collared two men and a weapon they believe figure prominently in the recent crime wave. Two more suspects in the recent robberies against Chinese establishments were […]
It just wouldn’t be another news day in paradise if we didn’t report on the armed robbery of a Chinese owned shop. The latest outrage occurred Tuesday at Sunlight Grocery on Queen Charlotte Street. According to police reports two dark complexioned men wearing masks and wielding guns walked into the store and confronted forty-two year […]
Ministers of Defence from Belize and Guatemala will meet for the first time this week in an effort to ease tensions between the two nations. The talks, to be held in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, will take place on Friday and Saturday. They form part of the negotiating process initiated last month in Washington D.C. […]
The “slow” season for Belizean tourism has been anything but, as July airport arrivals show a twenty percent increase over last year. Ten thousand, nine hundred and thirty-eight tourists arrived at the PGIA in July compared to nine thousand, one hundred and thirteen in July of 1999. According to the Belize Tourism Board, it is […]
Another citrus waste contamination of the North Stann Creek River has occurred as a result of heavy rains in the Stann Creek Valley. The leachate ponds of Del Oro Limited overflowed their banks around 10:00 on Tuesday morning. The citrus company alerted the Water and Sewerage Authority about the situation and WASA immediately switched Dangriga’s […]
They returned to Belize on Tuesday and today members of Belize’s National Volleyball Team showed off their silver medals. Volleyball Association President Allan Sharp says that strong corporate support has been helpful, but it was the team chemistry which put Belize into the finals in El Salvador. Allan Sharp, Vice President, BVA “The team has […]
It is customary when a television station broadcasts a programme containing potentially offensive scenes depicting nudity, violence or foul language, that an advance warning be given to viewers. While our next story is neither lewd, violent or foul, we’ll still issue a caution: the following story is about snakes and News Five will not be […]
