The nation of Belize paused to collect its breath today and reflect on the unprecedented and apparently unprovoked killing of three ordinary citizens in as many days. Here at News 5 we did some reflecting of our own. Janelle Chanona, Reporting 2004 began with blood on the ground…with the brutal murder of twenty-six year old […]
While violent crime seemed to have taken the day off, there was no shortage of drama in the civil section of the Supreme Court. The case of Mike Williams versus Doctor Atanascio Cob and Universal Health Services alleging gross professional negligence came to a dramatic conclusion this afternoon, when Justice Samuel Awich ruled in favour […]
A Corozal family is tonight anxiously awaiting word on a relative who has been missing for a week now in Guatemala. Fifty-seven year old Orlando Bodden was contracted to transport a truck load of raw alcohol from the Guatemalan City of Puerto Barios to Belize last week, but his family lost all contact with him […]
This afternoon, Cabinet ministers, private sector organizations, citrus, sugar, and banana industry representatives, and financial services personnel joined members of the National Trade Union Congress and senior public officers at the Central Bank for the first meeting of the National Economic Council. The group will meet every quarter to discuss economic and social issues affecting […]
The Belize Barrier Reef, a world heritage site, is perhaps the country’s best known tourist attraction. But our reef forms the core of a larger entity known internationally as the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System. With more than sixty marine protected areas included in the M.B.R.S., two dozen park rangers, who work at sites from Mexico […]
One of the traditional complaints about cruise tourism is that visitors are here such a short time that they barely have a chance to acquire even the most superficial understanding of the place they are visiting. That may be true, but today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods found a noteworthy exception. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting When most […]
