As we have reported, the Belize National Team is bound for the Dominican Republic for the Centro Basket games where it goes up against some of the best teams in the region, including Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico. The national team has big names in basketball but had only one week of […]
Remember Stephen Buckley? He is the Belize City man who was shot on Farber’s Road by the police on the night of April twenty-eighth. His prognosis did not look good initially but Buckley beat the odds and began to make an impressive recovery. It is now two months later and Buckley and his wife Juanita […]
Thirty-eight Mayan communities in the south are still reeling from a third legal victory, which affirms their rights to customary land tenure. That ruling was on Monday in the Supreme Court by Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. Today the Maya Leaders Alliance issued its interpretation of the judgment. The Mayas also take issue with government’s intention […]
While the Mayas were victorious on Monday, the Christian Workers Union also made headway following a one-day strike. The staff of St. Martins Credit Union, a member of the CWU, staged a sit-in on Tuesday. Employees showed up to work but offered no services to the public. The issues at the center of the strike […]
Word of an uprising among inmates at the Hattieville Prison this morning spread like wildfire this morning. There were reports that prisoners were revolting inside the facility and that shots were being fired by wardens and security personnel to subdue them. News Five and various media houses responded to the alarm and drove the fifteen […]
The first test for this active hurricane season was last weekend when the then Tropical Storm Alex breezed through Belize. In anticipation of rising water levels, shelters were opened in vulnerable areas. So on Tuesday we asked: Do you think that hurricane shelters are adequate to accommodate needy families? Eighty-two percent of our viewers are […]
The Maya Leaders who brought a suit against the government over property rights, headed back to the south on Monday to celebrate victory. Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh took over two hours to deliver a sixty-two page ruling before a packed courtroom. The CJ ruled that the Maya communities of the south, thirty-three villages in Toledo […]
It was big news on April first when the police top brass, flanked by Prime Minister Dean Barrow, called a news conference and dropped a bombshell saying that rogue cops were the mastermind behind a series of armed robberies that had taken place across the country. The story took several twists, and Police Constable Jermaine […]
The policeman that was detained and subsequently charged was Police Constable Jermaine Mangar. But his attorney Dickie Bradley says the police really have no evidence against Mangar because the more serious charge against his client is about to be withdrawn. Richard “Dickie” Bradley, Attorney for P.C. Jermaine Mangar “His name is tarnished because it happened […]
Tropical Storm Alex is expected to gain strength and upgrade to a hurricane by the end of the day. Alex is now located in the Gulf of Mexico and moving north-west. Hurricane warnings are in place in north western Mexico and Texas. Alex breezed through Belize this past Saturday and fortunately there was no loss […]
Pallotti graduate, Neisa Pipersburgh was found dead on June nineteenth at Burdon Canal at Mile Six on the Western Highway; three days after she had gone missing. Police detained a few persons, but then released them after questioning. One of those detainees was a neighbour whose car was impounded. And while police have not come […]
The first storm for this hurricane season, Alex, swept across Belize in a matter of six hours this past Saturday. Many headed to the supermarkets for last minute supplies, the winds were in the range of forty miles per hour, the rains poured down the heaviest after six o’clock, and while some areas are impassable, […]
Alex has gained back strength and is again a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico. Locally, the highest amount of rain was registered in the south at Barton Creek. But on Saturday News Five’s Jose Sanchez and cameraman, Alex Ellis took to the streets of the City to find out how the residents were […]
News Five got an update this afternoon from the Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Works, Cadet Henderson, who says there are still some sections of the country that are impassable due to flooding. Via Phone: Cadet Henderson, CEO, Min. of Works “There was some flooding particularly in the Cayo and the Belize Districts […]
A News Five team was in the south on assignment when the weather system shifted. Throughout the day, authorities monitored the Kendal Bridge but for the most part, residents in the Peninsula were prepared for the storm and continued with the Lobster Fest. Flights to the area were cancelled early in the afternoon and resumed […]
It is a historic day for the Maya communities whose representatives packed the courtroom this morning. The long anticipated ruling of a case involving property rights but that extended to other rights was delivered by Chief Justice Conteh among his last judgments before he vacates the seat as Chief Justice. The case was brought against […]
The first weather system for the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane season formed into a Tropical Depression this afternoon. What’s worse, it’s heading our way this weekend and the amount of rainfall it could dump over flood-prone areas can create flash-flood conditions for people living in those areas. The National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) has put into […]
Because Tropical Depression number one is eerily close to Belize, it has prompted the National Emergency Management Organization to spring into action. Many residents are already stocking up for any eventuality and the depression has altered major plans that were in store for this weekend on the islands. News Five spoke late this evening with […]
Dionicio Salazar, the twenty five year old man, who had been named in the brutal murder of Marlon Rivera and shooting of Dean Dougal, has been captured. Police caught up with Salazar on Thursday afternoon in Belize City following a tip to Crime Stoppers. The shooting occurred on June thirteenth in San Ignacio near the […]
In respect of another murder, a red Volkswagen Jetta remains impounded at the Queen Street Police Station pending the outcome of an investigation into the murder of a former Pallotti student. The day before Neisa Pipersburgh’s disappearance last Wednesday, her mother, Alice Williams, recalled seeing a heavily tinted car driving slowly past her residence on […]
In Thursday’s newscast we posed the question: “Do you think that the independence of the Judiciary is at risk?” Votes to our e-poll showed a total of eight-two percent of viewers expressing strong concern about the threat to the judiciary. One viewer wrote saying “politicians and civil servants need to leave the courts alone, we […]
Late this afternoon, police were reportedly processing a vehicle believed to have been linked to the murder of nineteen old Neisa Pipersburgh. The vehicle, a small red car, is being closely guarded at the police compound on Queen Street. The name of the owner will not at this time be disclosed pending confirmation but we […]
In the other murder last week, police believe they have the man who cold-bloodedly murdered nineteen year old Joyce Mitchell in front of her Sibun Street home a week ago. This morning, Daniel “Danny” Anderson, a fisherman of Belize City, who has been in custody since last week, was taken to court in handcuffs and […]
This past June fourteenth, the Court of Appeal handed down a legal victory for Telemedia workers when it ruled in a case brought by Dean Boyce and Keith Arnold on behalf of the Belize Telemedia Limited Employees Trust. The judgment proved the legitimacy of the Trust which was established in 2005 under Sunshine Holdings Limited. […]
Smith further told News Five that the Telemedia management sent out a seven point bulletin to its employees questioning the validity of the trust despite the recent court ruling, which proves the legitimacy of the trust. Godfrey Smith “Even though three people came, as I understand it, there were union representatives there representing the majority […]
