As the oppressive heat of the dry season bakes the Belizean countryside, more people try to cool off with a dip in the nation’s rivers, lagoons and sea…and invariably some of those people become drowning victims. That’s what happened to a fourteen-year-old Belize City girl Sunday afternoon. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from the scene […]
Another accident, this time in the Orange Walk District, has claimed the life of a sixty-year-old man. Police say that Santos Dominguez, a farmer from the village of San Felipe, was killed on Sunday night after he fell out of a pickup truck. Dominguez’s nineteen year old daughter, Marienela, told authorities that she was driving […]
Crime is a nationwide problem, but individual communities are taking local action to assist police in their work. On Friday the Rotary Club of San Ignacio and Santa Elena presented a motor scooter to the twin towns’ Police Department. The vehicle will help officers shorten the response time to reports of criminal activity. The scooter […]
Back in the days before independence, it was known as the Anglo-Guatemalan dispute, a difference of opinion in which Belize was vitally interested, but officially a bystander. All that changed with Independence in 1981, and with it went Great Britain’s role as a major protagonist in the drama. But as the curtain is about to […]
The first try was in 1977 with Belize Airways Ltd., and while that effort provided some of the best in-flight service in the world, the laws of economics eventually prevailed. Since that time a number of local operators have tried and failed to find a niche in the finicky market…and to be fair, the list […]
It’s an annual event that showcases the talents of the Belize District’s most creative students. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has a preview. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The eleventh Belize District Schools Festival of Arts will see two hundred and fifty entries. Beverly Smith-Lopez, Director, Belize Arts Council “I’ll tell you something, the two hundred and fifty […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The Belize Basketball Association proudly opened its annual semi-pro season Friday night at the City Centre and we join B.B.A. Commissioner Troy Gabb as he thanks his sponsors in his remarks. Troy Gabb, Commissioner, B.B.A. “I would like to thank […]
