He made a bold run for freedom by loosening the bars over his cell door, but twenty three year old Luis Urbina Junior could not evade the long arm of the law for long. Around two-thirty this afternoon Urbina was captured in a cane field near Xaibe Village, but he didn’t go quietly. According to […]
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has denied an application by two Belizean men to have their ongoing trial in connection with one of the biggest drug busts in Belize restarted. Hadrian and Robert Hertular are being tried for a May 2001 drug seizure during which Belizean law enforcement authorities confiscated two thousand, five hundred and fifty-four pounds […]
It’s a subject that the average citizen may feel is beyond his or her comprehension, not to mention interest. But for a country like Belize, which lives or dies according to its commerce with the outside world, the subject of international trade is critical. Today I had the chance to speak to the men who […]
Foreign Minister Godfrey Smith is in Barbados attending the seventh meeting of the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations. While most of the meeting will be taken up with discussion of the situation in Haiti, Smith took time out today to sign a memorandum of understanding with Antigua and Barbuda under which Belize’s Embassy […]
Belize Electricity Limited has reported a year of solid financial performance. At its annual general meeting, held Wednesday night, the company revealed that for the first time revenues from energy sales jumped the hundred million dollar mark. After tax profits also reached a record, rising eight percent to fourteen point one million dollars for the […]
In sporting news, the Belize Premier Football League has taken a hit with the abrupt departure of one of its eight teams in the middle of the season. Hankook Verdes is pulling itself out of B.P.F.L. play due to what it calls biased behaviour by league executives as well as the officials on the field. […]
The four-day Easter weekend may have put a dent in your pocketbook, but if you’ve recovered enough to go out this weekend, the folks at the House of Culture are inviting you to something special on Friday night. Patrick Jones, Reporting The show will feature beautiful young ladies modelling elaborate fashions from all over the […]
More visitors than most of us ever imagined now flock to enjoy Belize’s natural wonders. But while tourists from Milwaukee to Melbourne are enjoying themselves in our forests, rivers, and sea, most Belizeans have yet to catch the jungle fever. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods discovered that imbalance may not be permanent. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
