The fact that nobody, except two members of the press, showed up at the Central Bank this morning to hear the findings of the Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the Immigration Department, may be a definite sign that nobody is expecting much. But commissioners Paul Rodriguez, Mark Hulse and Sylvester Romero Palma remain undaunted […]
There’s another big immigration story making the news tonight and many viewers will find that it’s a bigger scandal than the illegal selling of passports. What I’m talking about is the cost of a tourist visa to visit the States. A release by the U.S. embassy today announced that on November first the price of […]
This morning forty year old Prakash Makijani, Manager of Babas Variety Store in Orange Walk Town, was taken by air ambulance to Guatemala City. Makijani was shot in the right side of his face Tuesday evening after three armed men entered the shop and held him up along with two female employees. Business was coming […]
With Christmas two months away, the heat is on for the post office to reorganize itself in the wake of the Paslow fire and prepare for the seasonal onslaught of mail. In Cabinet this week, Government decided to put a temporary roof on the building to allow the restoration of some of the postal services […]
This week Belizean sugarcane farmers got a hand from Government for their next crop, by way of cheaper fuel. According to a press release, farmers will be able to buy more than one million gallons of fuel at a duty-free discount of two dollars a gallon. While it certainly makes other drivers a little jealous, […]
Belize’s sole supplier of electricity, B.E.L., took time out last night to meet with residents of mile eight on the Western Highway. The purpose was to discuss the effects of the proposed installation of a large gas turbine generator not far from the growing suburb. B.E.L is now in the process of forwarding the environmental […]
This morning a parade passed our studios and, like most Belizeans, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods just had to find out what it was all about. After a trip to Wesley High she found out. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Five years ago the principal and staff of Wesley College started on a campaign to help their students […]
Young people may not believe it, but there was a time not too long ago when bicycles in Belize far outnumbered cars, when a luxury sedan was any sedan and the nation’s only SUV. was a beat up Land Rover. All that may have changed, but as News 5’s Marion Ali discovered, not all that […]
