Gianni Taylor also interned at City Hall briefly and Mayor Zenaida Moya shared fond memories of her. Zenaida Moya, Belize City Mayor “Gianni of course I’ve known from she was a young girl and a sweet person. She attended Pallotti High School—not with me; of course she is way younger than me. She asked me […]
There was another accident earlier in the day; it happened at around nine-thirty this morning on the Western Highway. Two buses, one from D and E Bus Line and the other from G-Line, both heading into the city from the Belmopan terminal collided around mile fourteen and a half. At least fifteen persons were injured […]
Millions of dollars, at the last count, more than thirteen, are owed to the Sales Tax Department and they are cracking down on businesses that are in the red. In July a number of established businesses were issued with committal warrants for failure to pay. Well, today the Sales Tax took well-known attorney Lionel Welch […]
Tonight’s question is: Should the Ninth Amendment be put on hold until a referendum is held to determine the people’s will on the constitutional change? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to […]
A repeat domestic abuse offender became the victim of vigilante justice at Mahogany Heights on the Western Highway. Elston Leopold Gentle is a convicted offender and on Friday night he repeatedly stabbed his common-law wife inside their house. When she fled, he pursued her and continued inflicting wounds but the residents also caught up with […]
There were no murders reported in the City over the holiday weekend but trigger-happy robbers in the west caused the demise of a supermarket owner. Three others were injured when the robbers fired indiscriminately at employees and customers. It happened after seven on September tenth night when the store was buzzing with customers. News Five’s […]
Three persons are in custody tonight, including two cops, for a huge robbery at the Commercial Free Zone. The three are expected to be arraigned on Tuesday. The two officers, one from Corozal and the other from San Pedro, are believed to have facilitated the crime, while Emmerson Skyers is alleged to have carried out […]
In the heated and drawn-out debate over the proposed ninth amendment to the constitution, several independent thinkers have suggested that the controversial bill should be taken to a referendum. That view has been picking up steam since the debate on the ninth has been totally politicized. Well, today the NGO, Friends of Belize (FOB), launched […]
There is a shutdown of butane gas companies in Belize City and around the country. Since Friday Gas TOMZA, BWEL and ZETA Gas have not been supplying gas to distributors in all districts. Their employees have been sent home until there is a resolution to the shutdown that is having an effect on consumers. The […]
Well known Santino cyclist Marlon Castillo has had his share of tragedy. Recently, Castillo was the driver in an accident that resulted in the fatality of his good friend Ariel Rosado. Castillo has been charged for that accident and he is now facing the loss of a close family member. His father, well known business […]
Also on Thursday night, another unexplained brutality occurred; this time on the Northern Highway. A Belize City taxi driver had a horrific near-death experience. Forty-seven year old Rocliffe Orin Stevens, known to many as “Bull”, picked up three passengers in the Pickstock Street area of Belize City and they asked to be taken to a […]
There is a countrywide shutdown of butane from three of the country’s largest suppliers of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG). Since Thursday, supplies of LPG have been systematically dwindling by mandate of Belize Western Energy Limited (BWEL), Gas Tomza Limited and Zeta Gas Limited. Jose Mai the General Manager of BWEL told News Five via phone […]
The government will meet with the Central American Group of importers during the course of next week to arrive at an amicable solution. However, GOB reiterates that it will not contemplate any price increase with any individual or grouping until there is full compliance with its regulations. BWEL’s manager disagrees. But how much of an […]
At the top of the newscast we told you about innocent citizens who have been targeted by violent criminals. The blood lust amongst gangs have been set on citizens rather than on opposing street factions since last week’s meeting with the Prime Minister. PM Dean Barrow brought the Belize City gangs to the table to […]
The banana belt in southern has been battered by three consecutive nights of intense thunderstorms, losing an estimated twenty to twenty-five million US dollars. Recovery is expected to take months and some growers will virtually have to start from scratch by replanting their farms. New Five asked the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Rene Montero […]
The Ninth Amendment public consultations are clearly drawn along party lines. Supporters of the government offer blind support while those that back the blue vehemently oppose. It’s a recipe for contention and on Wednesday evening in Dangriga, it got pretty heated and confrontational. The U.D.P.s Minister Melvin Hulse was ahead in the queue while the […]
The new Chief Justice arrived in the country earlier today. Guyanese National Kenneth A. Benjamin will assume post on September fifteenth. He has worked in courtrooms for over seventeen years. His experience has made him a Chief Magistrate in Antigua and Barbuda. He is also the former High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme […]
James ‘Raindrops’ Swan is tonight a free man following a brief stint in prison for a weapons-related charge stemming from a search of his family home a little over four months ago. A pre-dawn raid on the property of the businessman by GSU personnel on April eighteenth netted fifteen thousand dollars in various denominations of […]
Going into the September tenth holiday, there is word that three major butane gas suppliers: TOMZA, Zeta and BWEL, are threatening to stop supplying butane to distributors beginning this Friday. Already two Belize City distributors are out of butane and others could be running short as early as this Friday since most depots only keep […]
There’s more bad news for the banana growers of the Stann Creek District, whose farms were battered for a third time by thunderstorms on Wednesday night. The first two nights of freak storms caused financial losses estimated at some twenty million dollars and that figure is going up considerably. In an update via phone, General […]
There are thousands of voters in Port Loyola. It’s one of the largest constituencies in Belize City and every vote counts for P.U.P.’s Gilroy Usher and U.D.P.’s incumbent Anthony Boots Martinez. Boots won the division hands down in the last elections and this morning, the P.U.P. standard bearer, flanked by supporters, took on the Elections […]
Belizean businessman Rhett Fuller, wanted for extradition by U.S. federal agents, appeared before Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington in Belmopan this morning. Fuller, who surrendered to local authorities on August twenty-second, was escorted from the Belize Central Prison to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by armed officers. The latest turn of events in Fuller’s […]
According to Fuller’s wife, Ann Marie, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, with whom the power to extradite her husband rests, exercised tremendous objectivity during the hearing. There were several issues of concern for Elrington, including what is being considered an act of bad faith on the part of the U.S. Government. In August 1998, a […]
Belize exports bananas to Fyffes; the first fruit brand in the world and arguably one of the most important fresh produce companies in Europe. But banana production is under threat after two nights of thunderstorms battered the country’s banana belt. That means that exports from the south of Belize to Fyffes’ headquarters in Ireland and […]
Just before the newscast, the anticipated game between Belize and Guatemala ended in Belmopan. All eyes were on the Belize National team at the Football Federation of Belize stadium as it took on neighboring rivals from Guatemala. Expectations were running high and there was impressive support for the local boys. Hundreds of Belizeans turned out […]
