The Police Department has released its crime statistics for 2007 and although murders are up, the overall crime rate has dropped significantly. According to a release issued today, a total of three thousand two hundred and four crimes were reported during the year in comparison to three thousand eight hundred fifty three in 2006, a […]
The homicide count for 2007 was almost raised by one when shots rang out in Belize City just before the year expired. Fortunately, twenty-one year old Marlon Foreman survived the gunshots. The incident occurred as Foreman was riding a bicycle on Iguana Street around eleven forty-five on Monday night. His mother, Geraldine Usher, says she […]
The weather over Christmas and New Year’s was about as perfect as it gets around here but—like all good things—today it came to an end. News Five’s Marion Ali reports on the season’s first major norther. Marion Ali, Reporting Today seas were rough, winds gusty and the air chilly as a strong cold front continues […]
Earlier in this newscast we presented the Police Department’s annual crime statistics and to stay with that theme we went looking for another set of important numbers: tourist arrivals. According to the Belize Tourism Board, they’ve been having a little bit of difficulty coordinating the count with the Immigration Department, but through the end of […]
New Year’s is just one of the thirteen public and bank holidays celebrated in Belize, so if you’re counting down to your next vacation, get your pen and calendars ready. According to the revised list put out by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the first long weekend falls on March tenth, a Monday, in observance […]
The run up to the Krem New Years Cycling Classic may have been dominated by controversy, but once the riders hit the road in Corozal the competition tested to the traditional skills of strength, endurance and strategy. And while the four riders of the Santino’s team were allowed to enter by order of the Supreme […]
For twenty-eight year old Maria Young, 2008 started out with hope as her first-born child came right along with the New Year. Young said it was no surprise because that was the due date predicted by her doctor. At eight minutes past ten on New Year’s morning, Gennalyn Reanna Young, weighing seven pound twelve ounces, […]
