What appeared to be a routine trip to the hospital on Sunday has resulted in the death of a Cayo youth. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods is just off the road with the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting San Ignacio police have launched an investigation into the death of thirteen-year-old Jairo Larios. Inspector Gilroy Nicholas, O.I.C., San […]
Belize will join the Caribbean Court of Justice… and while that intention has been known for some time, it was only yesterday that Cabinet gave its formal endorsement. The actual instrument of ratification will be signed by Foreign Minister Assad Shoman immediately after the Senate gives its approval at its next sitting. The agreement establishing […]
Another international agreement that Belize will soon ratify involves that treatment of turtles. Cabinet has endorsed the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Turtles, a move that will make Belize eligible for training and financial assistance to preserve turtle habitats. The video on your screen shows one of the nation’s most important turtle […]
It took a licking in the record floods of June, and today we are told that the weakened Beaver Dam bridge at mile forty on the Western Highway will soon be replaced. Government has approved the purchase of a modular steel frame span from an Austrian company, which should be in place by February of […]
In addition to a new bridge, government will also be building new police stations in three communities that receive heavy use by tourists. The reinforced concrete structures, to be erected in San Pedro, Placencia and Gales Point, will be financed in a unique manner. Since they are all either hurricane damaged or in poor repair, […]
On the immigration front, former Minister of National Security and Immigration, Jorge Espat, has denied a report aired last night on News 5 that he issued a directive to withhold the processing of nationality applications by certain groups of immigrants. Speaking over the phone, Espat told News 5 today that upon assuming the immigration portfolio […]
Law enforcement officers in the nation’s capital are tonight on a manhunt for two “bad men” while one of their accomplices recuperates in the hospital from gunshot wounds. According to Belmopan police, during their investigation of a series of robberies in several villages along the Western Highway and Belmopan, they found themselves at a home […]
Most of us can probably remember going to school and having to learn to speak and write proper English or Spanish. And while the vision of sitting in a classroom conjugating verbs may not fill you with warmth, the two girls in this next story were not put off by the prospect of learning a […]
