Police in the Cayo District are reporting a strange occurrence that at news time has them baffled. Late this morning, alerted by a resident near Benque Viejo, officers were called to a bushy area near the border where they found a sixteen-year-old girl, naked, her hands and feet bound with duct tape. According to police, […]
A postmortem examination has been conducted on a Belize City man found dead earlier this week and it indicates that foul play was not a factor in his death. The body of Clive Lord, a mentally unstable resident of Euphrates Avenue, was discovered on the roof of his house Monday afternoon, a place where he […]
When business is good, the people at the Belize Tourism Board are always eager to keep the media supplied with the numbers that prove it. And in 2003, it appears that business is very good. The latest figures on April tourist arrivals at the P.G.I.A. show an almost unbelievable increase of over thirty-five percent in […]
But as well as things are going in the tourism sector, the economy of Belize is a lot bigger than just tourism. Agriculture remains the economic pillar of Belize and a quick roundup of the four major export crops indicates that 2003 will see stability in three areas and explosive growth in the fourth. For […]
While all those predictions of a new world of advanced communication technology at rock bottom prices have still not come true for most Belizeans, hope springs eternal…and there was no shortage of that today as Belize’s main provider observed World Telecommunications Day. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Hundreds of primary school students […]
Belize’s entry in next month’s Miss Universe Pageant departs for Panama tomorrow, and before leaving Becky Bernard has been making the rounds. According to a release from Pageants Belize, Bernard made courtesy calls on the Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, as well as working the radio talk show circuit. This afternoon she honed her […]
Last night’s karaoke competition was said to be the tightest yet…with virtually all the contestants giving performances worthy of victory. The drama was evident as host Neil Hall announced the winner. Neil Hall, KTV Host “Our winner is…recipient of one hundred dollars cash, one bling-bling watch and many other fabulous prizes is…Ladies and gentlemen, tonight’s […]
Population is a touchy issue in most countries, and Belize is no exception. But a meeting today in Belize City emphasized that numbers alone don’t tell the real story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The most recent census reveals that in May of 2000 there were just over two hundred and forty thousand people living in Belize. […]
