While the facilitators in the current effort to end the Guatemalan claim continue to stall for time, the inevitable rumours and speculation have begun to proliferate, both in the press and on the streets. On yesterday’s newscast we spoke to Foreign Minister Assad Shoman and our Ambassador to Guatemala, Moises Cal. Today we look at […]
Belize’s failure to allow U.S. authorities to broadcast propaganda into Cuba from a relay station in the Toledo District is being downplayed in Belmopan. A recent report in the Miami Herald indicates that the U.S. government was taken aback by the refusal of Prime Minister Said Musa to grant permission for the Voice of America […]
An Orange Walk woman is hospitalised tonight after being burned in an early morning fire. Twenty-year-old Aledes Ulloa, a Honduran national, says she was sleeping in one of the cabanas on the compound of the Rio Adventures Bar when she was awakened by intense heat and the strong smell of smoke. Ulloa told authorities she […]
Nineteen-year-old Andrew Tzib is lucky to be alive following a traffic accident that left him in a coma. Around 9:30 on Monday night, Tzib, a resident of Ladyville, was walking near mile two and a half on the Northern Highway when he was knocked down by a passing vehicle. According to police, after the young […]
Two suspects have been arrested after they allegedly held up and attacked the proprietor of a store in the Stann Creek District. The incident took place around 9:00 on Saturday night in Trio Village. According to Martha Perez, she and her common-law husband, Anacleto Garcia were about to close their shop, Henry’s Store, when two […]
Pioneer Belizean hotel owner Celi McCorkle has been honoured for her work in the development of tourism in the region. McCorkle, who opened one of the first hotels in San Pedro in the 1960’s, was among fifty people receiving awards from the Caribbean Tourism Organisation. The C.T.O. celebrated its fiftieth anniversary at the annual State […]
Another Belizean, honoured during his life as one of the nation’s greatest political figures, is receiving some new attention less than a year after his death. Today contractors were putting the final touches on a new monument and other improvements to the gravesite of Philip Goldson at Lord’s Ridge Cemetery. We are not certain when […]
Last week when the first real heat wave of the year descended on Belize, we took a look at how children responded by consuming record numbers of ideal ice pops. With temperatures still hovering in the 90’s, News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams today took a look at how the rest of us are responding to the […]
