The weather system that rose from the Eastern Caribbean now has a name and it’s Tropical Storm Harvey. Harvey’s strength is about forty-five miles per hour and is expected to strengthen tonight, before landfall on Saturday. According to Dennis Gonguez, the Chief Met Officer, the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) has met this morning and […]
At six o’clock this evening Tropical Storm Harvey, the first weather system expected to make landfall in Belize since the start of the 2011 Hurricane Season, was positioned two hundred and fifty-five miles east, southeast of Dangriga. The tropical storm is moving at a speed of ten miles per hour in a west, northwesterly direction […]
The mean streets of Belize City have been soaked with the blood of accused criminals and ex-cons but every so often, productive members of society get caught up in the crossfire. And tonight we report that a talented musician who has travelled in the company of Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective has been gunned […]
A family home and business were robbed on Thursday after two masked men held them up with machetes. They were getting ready to start their day when the robbers caught them off-guard, making off with cash, a gun and other material items. News Five’s Andrea Polanco went to Rhaburn Ridge to talk to the traumatized […]
On Wednesday we told you about the Hispanic man whose decomposing body was found at a farm where he stayed. The caretaker’s nude and gored body was discovered shortly before eleven at a farm in the Thurton Ridge Area in Western Paradise on mile eight on the Western Highway. While the particulars of his identity […]
In another update, twelve year old Ashley Janixta Perez of the Toledo District had been reported missing by her foster mother, Veronica Grant. Perez left her home in Emery Grove Village, riding a bicycle on August eleventh and did not return. That was eight days ago, but there is good news today because Perez was […]
On Tuesday the CCJ judges came off of vacation to issue a stunning injunction against any further sale of B.T.L. shares by the Government. The decision was unexpected because neither the Supreme Court nor the Court of Appeal had seen fit to grant any injunction. The CCJ did so in one day. The government promptly […]
Dark clouds loom over the battlefield on which the ownership of Telemedia will be decided. But the legal issue is not the only reason why the sky is expected to be dark throughout the weekend. A weather system that developed in the Eastern Caribbean has been slowly moving west. The Belize MET Service has been […]
The fluidity of a situation to change is well known to the Belize Sugar Industries. Although the factory has been diligently working to satisfy local market and cross border trade, the income has had little to stave off its own stormy weather in the form of a twenty million dollars debt to ING and millions […]
The Caribbean’s proud history of experience and desire to spread knowledge to the region’s common Diaspora had culminated into the formation of the Caribbean Broadcast Union, a group whose passion for media has no bounds. And during the first day of its Annual General Assembly in Belize, the CBU awarded those members with a minimum […]
One topic that the CBU members have been reporting is the results of the standardized high school examinations. The Caribbean Examinations Council grades are not out as yet, however, students who sat the CSEC have been able to access their scores online. Although CSEC has been releasing the rankings to the participating countries through its […]
The Ministry of Finance signed a memorandum of understanding in March of this year with the University of Belize for a clean solar energy project. It was predicted that the construction of the infrastructure would get underway and the university is proud to announce that they are keeping that schedule. Work commenced earlier this week […]
An unidentified man was discovered dead on a farm where he worked as a caretaker. The decomposing body which was discovered in the West Lake Area was observed with external injuries. And though it looked like another number would be added to growing murder list, it turns out the main suspect is not even human. […]
While that investigation is being played out on a farm, the murder of a US citizen is being played out unsuccessfully on two continents for the past thirteen years. On August ninth 2011, the Privy Council dismissed Rhett Fuller’s appeal of an extradition request by the United States government. Fuller is wanted by federal authorities […]
Another prominent businessman’s personal trials are being played out in the court. Earlier today in the Belmopan Magistrates Court, Mike Menjivar was committed to stand trial in the next session of the Supreme Court. The thirty-four year old businessman, known best as the owner of La Cabana Bar, will be tried on six out of […]
Since joining the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) in 1991, Belize is hosting its annual general assembly for the third time. While CBU executives have held meetings in Belize City and Placencia on prior occasions, they are tonight on Ambergris Caye where a two-day session is being held to discuss the development of the broadcasting industry […]
The trans-Atlantic slave trade cost millions of lives and disrupted and forever changed the future of Africa. But once transplanted in the Caribbean and Central America, the descendants of Africans mingled with the native people of the so-called New World and forged thriving cultures and traditions. According to Emerson Guild, several Belizeans are headed to […]
The litigation war over Telemedia continued by videoconference before the CCJ, today. Despite the objections of the attorneys for the government, Lois Young SC and Solicitor General Cheryl Krusen, the CCJ decided that the application was serious enough to be dealt with during the court’s legal vacation. After listening to attorneys Godfrey Smith SC and […]
Today’s special leave of the Caribbean Court of Justice also brought several important factors that will guide the battle for Telemedia ownership. The Boyce and BCB attorneys successfully argued their case previously on June twenty fourth 2011, when the Court of Appeal’s declaratory judgment said that the 2009 Belize Telecommunications Amendment Act, which gave the […]
On the heels of several organizations who have publicly expressed their opinions, the Belize Landowners Association Limited (BLAL) has announced its opposition to the proposed ninth amendment of the constitution, saying that the bill aims to negate the rights of the people. In its release, the association refers to the sixth amendment bill of 2008 […]
The deadline for the financially embattled Belize Sugar Industries Ltd. to meet its debt obligations to ING and First Caribbean International Bank is inching closer. The cash-strapped company is in the red to the tune of approximately twenty-nine million U.S. dollars to ING alone and there is a degree of uncertainty whether it will be […]
Tonight Ladyville police remain on the hunt for three men who attempted to rob the village’s branch of Atlantic Bank on Monday afternoon. The incident which resulted in two security officers getting shot was caught on surveillance camera. Sometime before two o’clock, three armed men entered the premises when a pair of guards, namely Ion […]
On Monday night we told you about a number of shootings that occurred over the weekend. The shooting spree continued up to mid-day today leaving two people hospitalized. The first incident took place shortly before ten-thirty p.m. on Monday. Twenty-three year old Ryan Davis was standing in front of his home when he was approached […]
There are two murders and two shooting incidents that occurred over the weekend. But a third shooting incident occurred just before two this afternoon. It was a brazen bank robbery attempt at the Atlantic Bank Ladyville Branch. Two employees were shot during a struggle with the robbers and are lucky to be alive. Our news […]
In the southernmost reaches of the country a resident of Jalacte Village was fatally stabbed at the start of the weekend. Details of the murder remain sketchy and News Five will have more information on the homicide as soon as it is made available by the Police Department. Toledo, nonetheless, was not the only district […]
