With the controversy over taxation and environmental concerns largely resolved, Belize’s fledgling petroleum industry has been absent from the headlines. But while the rhetoric has cooled, the wells, pumps, and tanker trucks have been running steadily … to the point where crude oil just may be the nation’s largest single export. News Five’s Janelle Chanona […]
A young wife is under arrest tonight after she stabbed her husband to death. Authorities found the lifeless body of twenty-three year old Cornelio Montero inside the couple’s residence in Succotz Village in the Cayo District. Police say their investigations revealed that twenty-two year old Glenda Lucrecia Montero and her spouse were having an argument […]
In Belize City Magistrates’ Court a man who broke into a home in Biscayne Village pleaded guilty to burglary and damage to property. Twenty-six year old Oscar Lopez Martinez was apprehended by neighbours and held for police after he entered the home of seventy-six year old Marjorie Tillett on June twenty-sixth. Six hundred and fifty […]
Every day Belizeans engage with used car dealers to purchase vehicles. Usually, the transaction ends happily … but not always. One that didn’t work out has resulted in a dealer being arrested. Twenty-nine year old Jude Coye of Johnson Street appeared today in Magistrates’ Court charged with Obtaining Property by Deception. It is alleged that […]
It used to be that an international summit meeting in Belize would have the whole country in a panic. But tomorrow on Ambergris, Caye not one, but two heads of government meetings will be taking place. The first involves the Central American grouping SICA and the second adds Mexico and Colombia, constituting the Tuxtla and […]
This week, Belize became the third country in Central America to sign onto a regional initiative that should modernise our ability to fight threats to our agriculture. According to a release issued by the Government Press Office, under the auspices of OIRSA, the International Regional Organization for Health in Agriculture, on Monday Minister Vildo Marin […]
We all may be aware that it’s hurricane season, but that knowledge doesn’t do much good if we don’t take action. One group that knows the value of hurricane preparedness more than most is the tourism industry. Today they gathered to hear some familiar–and critical–advice: plan ahead. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting It’s been six years since […]
From what we see on the streets of Belize City, our typical cruise ship visitors tend to be middle age and North American. Today, however, a very special group of tourists disembarked who were neither. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the story. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The Bahamas National Children’s Choir was welcomed to Belize by […]
