As a source of Thursday news, Godfrey Smith’s column in the Belize Times is getting to be as reliable as a Rolex. In today’s issue, the Minister of Tourism for the first time publicly reveals what appears to be a crisis in the cruise industry. His take is that Luke Espat and Carnival have reached […]
Member countries of the Central American Integration System are meeting in Belize this week to hold regional information sessions regarding the work of the secretariat. At the end of the month, Belize will accept the pro tem presidency of the organisation and officials will use today and tomorrow to update their Belizean counterparts on the […]
We’ve been looking for a corporate response for several days now and this morning we finally received one. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the latest on last week’s environmental accident in the Spanish Lookout oil fields. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today Belize Natural Energy
Eighteen year old Dennis Ortega, twenty year old Sherwin Locke, and thirty year old Barrington Slusher are the three men police say entered the home of seventy-one year old Radiance Sutherland and eighty-three year old Camille Sutherland. The elderly couple were held up at gun point, assaulted, and robbed on Tuesday afternoon. This morning the […]
His arrest was part of last year’s hoopla surrounding Belize’s efforts to please Uncle Sam by pursuing cases of “human trafficking.” But today Jitendra Chawla, better known as Jack Charles, is a free man. The proprietor of Xtra House had all six counts of Unlawfully Withholding Travel Documents dismissed when Magistrate Margaret Gabb upheld a […]
Thirty-eight year old Arthur Wade, a resident of Crooked Tree Village, is cooling his heels at Hattieville prison tonight after he failed to meet bail on a Rape charge. The victim told police that around six on Monday evening, she met Wade by the village community centre and he asked her to take a short […]
Tips have been pouring in to police on the whereabouts of Belize’s most wanted, Louie Ganzie. Unfortunately, most of those tips place him in different parts of the country. Police say, however, that although he has likely shaved his dreads and beard, his face is recognisable enough that it’s only a matter of time until […]
We don’t want to “put mouth” on the issue, but it seems like Belize hasn’t seen as many major fires as it used to. We’re not sure if it’s good fortune or good prevention, but whatever the cause, firemen are not resting on their laurels. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting So far it has been a relatively […]
With today’s cool and rainy weather, global warming is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind, but in Belmopan researchers have been working hard to prepare us for what scientists says is the inevitable. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports that the regional effort is about to expand its resource base. Kendra Griffith, Reporting […]
