He was brought in to clean up the mess in the Immigration Department in the wake of major scandal. But after less than two years on the job, Director of Immigration Colonel Peter Parchue has found himself in the middle of controversy. His troubles began with the arrest of his daughter, April Parchue, a cashier […]
Prime Minister Said Musa left Singapore today en route to Taiwan where he will attend the inauguration of re-elected President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu on Thursday. Meanwhile, halfway around the world in Geneva Belize was providing Taiwan with diplomatic payback for the generous economic support that country provides. The occasion was the […]
It may lie in the same district as the nation’s commercial and population hub, but the rural communities of the Belize River Valley sometime seem as isolated as the villages of Toledo. That situation should change however, with the paving of the road from Burrel Boom into the district’s heartland. On Friday, Minister of Works […]
A new road doubling as a runway would have been helpful, but last month the pilot of a Maya Island airplane had to settle for an emergency landing deep in the mangrove off the Western Highway. We would never have believed it could be done, but recently the wreckage was extracted from the mud. The […]
It was a horrible crime that spanned two neighbouring countries and has the respective police forces working overtime. Today I travelled across the border to find out why anyone would want to torture and murder a Belizean businesswoman trying to make a living in Melchor de Mencos. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Fifty-five year old Carlota Yacab, […]
With numerous heavy rains in March, April, and May 2004 will go down in history as “the year without a dry season”. Today News 5’s Patrick Jones visited the Meteorology Department to find out what’s going on with Belize’s weather. Frank Tench, Forecaster “The dry season has been more wet than normal because of the […]
