In a time of intense financial pressures it’s the only real bright spot in the Belizean economy. Tourism–more specifically cruise tourism–is showing the kind of annual increases that even as recently as five years ago were unimaginable. But while those at the top and bottom of the cruise ship feeding frenzy seek to expand their […]
An accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a Ladyville man. According to police reports, around six twenty on Monday evening, sixty-nine year old Eulogio Perez was crossing the highway between miles nine and ten when he was hit by an oncoming SUV travelling to Belize City. The driver, thirty-four year old […]
It was one of the biggest international drug busts of the year: twenty-six thousand pounds of cocaine. And the narcotics were found buried beneath a load of fish and ice on a Belize flagged vessel. The fishing boat in question, the San Jose, was boarded on September twenty-second by U.S. coast guard personnel operating off […]
With little good news coming from statistics on the spread of AIDS in Belize, those charged with combating the disease continue to seek methods that will translate knowledge into action. And nowhere are those efforts more concentrated than among young people. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Belizeans between the ages of […]
If ending the AIDS epidemic ranks high on the Nation’s "to-do" list, its biggest competitor for the nation’s attention is the problem of crime. Again, today it was Belize’s youth being asked to make some adjustments in attitude. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting These high school students may have felt safe seated among a large number of […]
Twenty-one year old Belizean Andujar Bradley, is not only a model for Ralph Lauren, but he is the founder and executive director of a New York based youth organization, Team Revolution. Because Bradley has worked so effectively, The Young Men’s Christian Association wasted no time in bringing him to their compound to meet with a […]
It’s a classy venue and Belizeans seem to be growing more comfortable with the new reality of the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. Monday night News 5’s Patrick Jones sat in on rehearsals for the latest theatrical production, set to open on Wednesday. Patrick Jones, Reporting ? Such Good Children ? written and directed […]
