Police were on the scene well into last night and today they’ve been busy trying to piece together a motive and the physical evidence to find the man who shot a Tropic Air employee. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods today visited Universal Health Services where Loren Augustus clings to life with a bullet lodged in his […]
Late last night the murder cases brought against twenty-nine year old Mark Vega and twenty-four year old Luis Urbina ended in the Belize City Supreme Court… but the conclusion has brought no solace to the victim’s family. A jury of their peers returned a not guilty verdict for Urbina and was deadlocked in its deliberations […]
Tonight investigations continue at the Immigration Department following sensational reports in the international media that a notorious smuggler of illegal immigrants into the United States had been arrested carrying a Belizean passport. Latest information to News Five is that this woman, Cheng Chui Ping a.k.a. Big Sister Ping, was holding Belizean nationality documents in the […]
The hurricane season doesn’t officially begin for another two weeks, but here we are, still in midst of a record drought…with a named storm on our doorstep–that is our back doorstep. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Tropical storms in the Pacific Ocean rarely threaten Central America. That is why this unusual weather system […]
In March, Belize Electricity Limited, as part of a full tariff review proceeding, applied for a fourteen percent increase in rates, largely on the basis of increased costs for imported diesel. The Public Utilities Commission, in its initial decision, granted only an eight point six percent increase. Now, as part of the review process, following […]
It has become the mainstay of Belize’s economy…and unlike other major foreign exchange earners, the fortunes of tourism are not tied to the fickle fate of world commodity prices. But while the tourism industry is looking good its future is only as strong as the people who work it… as News 5’s Patrick Jones discovered […]
