Virtually all of the news coming out of the tourism sector in the last couple of years has been good: what with “Temptation Island”, “After the Storm” and Marion Jones filling the world’s TV screens with pictures of suddenly fashionable Belize, it was no wonder that each month witnessed a seemingly meteoric rise in tourist […]
A fifteen-year-old girl is dead and the circumstances surrounding her death are a matter of some uncertainty. Police say Tanisha Trapp boarded a Novelo’s bus around 12:30 Monday afternoon from Belmopan to go home to Camalote Village. The police report goes on to say that she was on an express bus, which does not make […]
Monday clearly wasn’t a good day for Novelo’s as the B.E.L. collection agency at the company’s terminal in Benque Viejo del Carmen was robbed of fifty-eight thousand dollars in cash and thirty-one thousand in cheques. Police say Emil Novelo, a twenty-two year old supervisor, reported that at the close of business on Friday, the money […]
In other police news, the Ministry of National Security has issued an update on the case of David Zabaneh, the fourteen-year-old killed during an altercation with British Soldiers at Raul’s Rose Garden on May tenth. According to the release, over five hundred witnesses have been interviewed, but much more investigative work remains to be done. […]
On her whirlwind visit to Belize last year, Taiwanese Vice President Annette Lu was the picture of political professionalism and master of diplomatic deliberation. But this week she’s in trouble back home after suggesting that the densely populated island, beset by numerous natural disasters, might be better off shipping a bunch of its citizens off […]
At newstime, residents of San Pedro were still without water after that town’s sole supplier of the precious commodity detected traces of an oil like substance in the water supply and shut down its operations to investigate. The cut off came Monday morning at around eight and since that time officials of Belize Water Limited–not […]
It’s getting to be that time of year, when thoughts of summer vacations are being replaced by the anticipation of returning to school. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand at the U.B. Faculty of Arts and Sciences to sit in with the latest crop of scholars. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Despite the heat of the […]
What do you say to a six-year-old girl who, through no fault of her own, has been infected with HIV? News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spent some time this week with a young lady we’ll call “Maria.” While she has been forced to deal with things that at this point she cannot understand, there are other […]
