Belize Police are at this hour still engaged in tallying the haul from Monday night’s massive drug bust at Hicks Caye. While a final figure has not been released, the forty-five bales of cocaine are expected to weigh in somewhere in excess of two thousand pounds with a street value estimated by police at around […]
Lest viewers get the impression that all illegal drugs in Belize are imported, police have also been actively engaged in destroying the nation’s once thriving marijuana industry. On Friday morning an anti-drug operation in the Orange Walk District led to the discovery of a weed plantation a mile and a half east of San Felipe […]
The Supreme Court building in Belize City was once again the venue for an inquiry into events that took place some fifty miles to the north, over a month ago. As has become her habit, News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams was on hand for the Q and A. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The Commission of Inquiry charged […]
Justice Blackman also found it necessary to clear the air today about a misunderstanding in the print and broadcast media that the riot act read by police at Tower Hill was void and that rioters could not be charged for their wrongdoing. He said that title fourteen of the Criminal Code of Belize specifies a […]
In 1995, Herschel Armstrong received the Michael and Jane Nembhard Award after being named Belize’s top primary school student. Four years later, he earned nine passes in the CXC General Proficiency Examinations and was honoured as one of the top students at the secondary school level. Today, the young man, now eighteen years old, continues […]
The tourism industry continues to re-write the record books, almost on a monthly basis. Figures for August show that tourist arrivals at Philip Goldson International Airport rose ten point six percent over the same period last year. The precise figures are eleven thousand, two hundred and sixty-six in August 2001 versus ten thousand, one hundred […]
While industry officials are bullish on tourism, hotel operators and residents of San Pedro are raising hell about the continued lack of water at the nation’s number one tourist destination: Ambergris Caye. Although they were promised water by six p.m. on Tuesday, twenty-four hours later, San Pedranos’ pipes were still dry–as they have been since […]
“We welcome competition.” That’s the response given by Ediberto Tesucum, BTL’s Chief Executive Officer, when asked how he feels about government’s decision announced today by Cabinet, not to renew his company’s exclusive license to provide telecommunications services. Tesucum says they have not received any notification as yet from the government, but it’s a decision that […]
To demonstrate its ongoing commitment to service, despite the impending loss of monopoly in 2003, BTL today inaugurated a new customer service centre in Belize City. C.E.O. Tesecum says that customers will be able to use the facility to access all of BTL’s services. Ediberto Tesucum “We have been gradually renovating our offices. San Ignacio […]
His conversion from rude boy to choir boy rocked the Jamaican music scene, but the entertainer known as Papa San takes it all in stride. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand at the airport when the artist arrived in the country this morning. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Shortly after arriving in Belize, Tyrone Thompson better […]
