A three-year-old girl is dead as the result of a traffic mishap at the Baking Pot ferry in Cayo. Gianni Guerra was a passenger in a vehicle being driven by her father Elias Guerra and carrying her grandfather Juan Guerra Senior. The Guerra’s pickup truck was parked on the ferry, which had not yet left […]
A Cayo man is in prison tonight, charged with the rape of a ten-year-old girl. The child’s mother told police that on Saturday, seventeen year old Antonio Zetina of Santa Elena, a labourer hired to do yard work, entered the house and had intercourse with her daughter. A subsequent medical examination confirmed that the child […]
Police have made arrests in two recent armed robberies. In Orange Walk, twenty-eighth year old Javier Salazar has been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery for his role in Saturday morning’s hold up. Salazar is accused of being one of three heavily armed men who jacked Jaime Bustillo as he walked down the street. Police […]
In other police news Albert Haylock has been slapped with multiple charges arising from Saturday’s hit and run death in San Ignacio. In addition to manslaughter by negligence and related traffic offences, Haylock has also been charged with drunk driving. Forty-seven year old Leslie Guy was killed when Haylock ran into him at around eleven […]
As part of our continuing coverage of National AIDS Week, tonight we look at the campaign to curb the global epidemic here in Belize. The population group most affected by the deadly disease is young people. With that in mind, today representatives of the National AIDS Commission took to the classroom. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Having […]
Tourism officials and industry representatives from Central America are meeting in Belize this week as part of the regional meeting for the International Year of Eco-tourism, which has been slated for 2002. The delegates will be discussing a wide range of topics that include eco-tourism planning in protected areas and community involvement in eco-tourism ventures. […]
One of Belize’s pioneers in the eco-tourism business has been recognised internationally for its work in that field. The Lodge at Chaa Creek was presented with the 2001 ASTA Environmental Award from the American Society of Travel Agents at their World Travel Congress in New York earlier this month. The award recognises the resort’s environmental […]
Food was very much on the minds of journalists today as the Ministry of Agriculture invited the press corps to the Cayo District for a look at what local producers are putting on the market. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It’s that time of the year when we will be scouting the supermarkets to […]
Eco-tourism is booming and birdwatchers in particular are flocking to Belize in record numbers. But the nation’s birdlife is not confined to the bush, as News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams found out. Rudi Burgos, Birdwatcher “Pigeons are from a fairly big group of birds that are distantly related to chickens, turkeys. In Belize we have several […]
