There’s still uncertainty in cruise tourism tonight. As it stands, Carnival is yet to make a decision on proposals presented on behalf of the Executive Tenders of Belize Ltd which says it is not budging from the six dollars and fifty cents it charges to ferry passengers to and from the cruise line. The tender […]
Flames consumed two houses over the weekend; one in the City and the other in Lord’s Bank. The blazes are both believed to have been deliberately set but fortunately no one was injured. A total of eight persons lost all their belongings. We start in Belize City, where Sunday night’s fire followed a quarrel between […]
The second house that went up in fire over the weekend belonged to a single mother, Maria Rodriguez of Lord’s Bank. Rodriguez now has to rebuild a house for her six children, some of whom are of school age. News Five’s Delahnie Bain found out that the family was in the City when the structure […]
It is the close of January and so far there have been seven murders for this month, statistically it is one more than last January. While the victim is from the San Martin area of Belmopan, his body was found all the way near Arenal, the famous village that separates Belize and Guatemala. It is […]
OPIC, the state owned Taiwanese company, recently announced that it had given up the second largest exploratory concession for oil that stretched across the Belize Barrier Reef. The environmental N.G.O. community applauded the OPIC decision and APAMO today took it one step further. It called on the government to persist from the issuance of any […]
One of two suspected burglars who broke into Publics Supermarket in the early hours of Sunday morning is tonight in police custody after being identified on the store’s surveillance footage. The men gained entry into the building, located at the corners of Nargusta Street and Central American Boulevard, by prying open a door on the […]
A Belize City man was jacked on Saturday night. He was being a good Samaritan when a man he knew as Troy asked him for a ride while he was a gas station on Central American Boulevard. When he dropped Troy downtown, he then wanted to pick up another friend near George Street. After they […]
Funeral Services were held today at the University of Belize in Belmopan for Irvin Penner, brother of Minister Elvin Penner. Penner’s body was discovered around nine-twenty on Saturday morning at a farm near Camalote Village in the Cayo District. The twenty-nine year old, who lives in Belmopan, was said to be on treatment for bi-polar […]
The land being reclaimed by the Belize Grass Roots Youth Empowerment Association, BGYEA, is thirteen hundred acres and includes an area already being settled by a group comprising mostly of Central American immigrants; they have named the area Valle Nuevo. BGYEA convened a meeting on Sunday for persons who want to legitimately own a piece […]
So far the news has been about the uproar over uncontested conventions in the People’s United Party. But on Sunday in Corozal Bay, the field was crowded by four aspirants to that constituency. It didn’t quite add up to the numbers of the U.D.P. convention, but still over one thousand seven hundred voters cast their […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is sports Monday. The Belize District Basketball Association U-17 and U-15 competitions blasted off inside the Civic Center Friday and indeed the fans were not ready for the monster package of excitement that would have been unwrapped. We pick up the action in the 1st quarter of the […]
