For most Belizeans, if you say the word “Hicatee”, immediately images of the tasty turtle meat simmering in plenty of gravy on top a bed of hot white rice spring to mind. But before you get your taste buds going, remember that while the season is now open, if you’re caught with undersized specimens of […]
A Belize City businessman is recovering from stab wounds tonight after he was robbed on Wednesday. According to twenty-seven year old Waiki Cheng, he was riding his chrome bicycle on North Front Street around 7:00 that night when a stranger walked up to him and pushed him off the bike. Cheng says the man then […]
Police are also investigating a drive by hold-up reported in Belize City. According to thirty-one year old William James, around 6:30 Wednesday morning, he was walking on Vernon Street when a car with darkly tinted windows drove up alongside him. James says as he turned to look at the car, the driver’s window rolled down […]
The wheels of justice turn slowly in Belize, due in part, to the backlog of cases before any one of the country’s courts. But the case we’re going to tell you about tonight is unprecedented because it spans ten years, involves three deaths and today, is finally over. Way back in 1991, a fire on […]
This morning, an environmental group from Placencia accepted a well-needed donation from the United Nations Development Programme and Global Environmental Fund. At a brief ceremony on the peninsula today, head of Friends of Nature–formerly Friends of Laughing Bird Caye–Brian Young, received just over thirty-one thousand Belize dollars towards various projects for the national park. According […]
For Punta Rock fans in Belize and beyond, the musical stylings of Chico Ramos is reason enough to get out of your seat and work your way to the ground. The artist has been in New York for the past three years compiling a new album entitled “School First”. Currently in the country promoting the […]
If you have driven into Belmopan lately, you might have noticed some activity at the Hector Silva airstrip. The work is part of an expansion project being completed by the British Army and as News 5’s Jacqueline Woods and George Tillett found out today, the additional tarmac will serve the country in several ways. Jacqueline […]
