Presidential elections in Guatemala will be held in November 2011 but the news today is that Sandra Torres, the powerful wife of sitting President Alvaro Colon has for the first time publicly acknowledged her bid for the presidency. It is all interesting because Torres has Belizean roots through her mother, Teresa Casanova de Torres, a […]
The outrage at the shooting of civilians on Wednesday by police is still raging. And while police were pleading their case before the media, a fatal shooting took place dangerously close to a primary school. It ended in the instant death of Michael Warrior Young. Of the twelve bullets that were fired at him, two […]
This past Wednesday, Lorna Bainton Alarcon was hit in the legs by stray pellets when Ladyville police opened fire on a fleeing suspect. That same night a trio of Belize City men who were riding in a Dodge Ram pickup also came under fire from police officers when they were pulled over on Caesar Ridge […]
There has been a lot of reaction to the question: Does government have the right to take away land, if you own more than one parcel? One response that got our attention is the following: “Belize needs an online Land Management System so that ALL Belizeans would be able to monitor lands distributed by government […]
No area of Belize is spared of crime, and in La Isla Bonita, youths joined other residents to rally against the crime wave. They came out this morning in large numbers under the scorching sun and took their message through the streets of San Pedro as they lashed out at the growing problem in that […]
There is some relief for consumers to report tonight. The price of butane gas went down by four dollars countrywide effective today. In Belize City and in Corozal Town, the price is the lowest at one hundred and thirteen dollars per tank, in Orange Walk, it is retailing at one hundred and fourteen dollars, in […]
There were two shooting incidents in the Caesar Ridge area on Wednesday night. The first shooting was so blatant it occurred under the noses of the police, right next door to the Yabra Police Community Unit Office on Queen Charlotte Street. At about six-fifty-five p.m., Mark “Pele” Vernon was standing in front of a pink […]
The other shooting was in Ladyville where a woman was shot in the legs this past Wednesday as she sat at her home which is located next to the house of her Area Representative, Michael Hutchinson. The bullets penetrated the walls of her house and landed on her legs. The police were in pursuit of […]
The one hundred and six page long report from the Commission of Inquiry into the purchasing practices at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has finally been made public. For the financial year ending March 2009, the public debt that is owed to the K.H.M.H. is twelve million seven hundred eighty two thousand seven hundred and […]
There are a number of persons who claim that government is taking away their land or numerous reasons other than for public purposes. Some have gone all the way to the court but there are many who do not have the resources to do so. Our question is: Does government have the right to take […]
Land controversies are not new, especially in prime locations such as Ambergris Caye. News Five was in La Isla Bonita today when a number of residents turned out with government receipts in hand to confront their Area Representative, Manuel Heredia, about why their titles have been cancelled or put on hold. Heredia was met by […]
There is breaking news just in to our newsroom. The details are trickling in but a Ladyville resident was shot within the last forty-five minutes. What we have been able to find out is that a woman, identified as Lorna Alarcon, was inside her home when she was shot. According to reports, a man identified […]
Officials from the Customs and Excise Department have launched an intensive investigation into the mysterious disappearance of the contents of a twenty-foot container which was destined for the Commercial Free Zone in Corozal. The container entered the country through the Ports of Belize Limited on Monday and it was later transferred to the neighboring Customs […]
While customs officials are looking into the puzzling loss of cargo en route to the Commercial Free Zone another investigation is currently underway at the Port of Belize Limited where a pilot boat used to transport stevedores to cargo ships off the coast has been reported missing. It is unclear when the boat went missing […]
Turning to the hottest and most watched Tuesday night television show, what started out as an entirely new concept for a local live production, culminated with a bang on Tuesday night at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. Fourteen persons were selected from as many as seventy who auditioned from around the country late […]
So what’s next? A reality wedding. The couple who won the bid for Channel Five’s new show: from Yes to I do, Channel Five Will Follow You – was announced at the KTV Latino grand finale last night. Forty couples entered the competition, five were short listed but it was Julio Escalante and Vanessa Ramos, […]
There have been many incidents of sexual exploitation and violence against children and teenagers in recent days. We asked the question “Do you support a curfew for teenagers?” Those participating on our E-poll generally supported the notion of imposing a curfew. One viewer expressed “We need to get back our country and we need to […]
On Monday we reported that two of five fishermen from Jamaican had been rescued after they were lost for more than month at sea. Anthony Hibberd and Jason Noble set sail in the Gentle Breeze from the Old Harbor Bay in Jamaica in mid March and were found on Sunday off the coast of Mexico. […]
Another inmate flew the coop on Monday night shortly after seven o’clock. Edgar Roberts, a resident of Independence Village, who is not considered to be armed and dangerous broke free from cell number forty-three in the Medium Security Section of the Hattieville Prison by smashing a lock and exiting the building unnoticed. Roberts is described […]
There has been an arrest for the murder of Orange Walk resident Josue Velasquez. On Monday, Orange Walk Police charged nineteen year old Pablo Diaz, a laborer of San Lazaro Village for Velasquez’s murder. Velasquez’s body was found on March seventh in a drain off a feeder road with multiple chop wounds. Before he died, […]
Close to six hundred and fifty persons polled on last Friday’s question on whether or not they felt that their personal safety is more at risk. As many as ninety percent who voted thought so. In tonight’s newscast we focus on children given the number of violent incidents affecting their well being. The question is: […]
A number of business establishments in the city got surprise visits today from the GST Department and the Bureau of Standards. The spot checks were to determine if the businesses were properly implementing the tax increase. News Five’s Jose Sanchez found out who passed the test and got the reaction from customers. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
There’s an emotional story of survival tonight involving two Jamaican fishermen who are both lucky to be alive after thirty-six days of being lost on high seas. The boat they were fishing in, Gentle Breeze, had been reported missing from Old Harbor Bay in Jamaica since March twenty-first and was not found until April twenty-fifth. […]
Both men were rescued thirty miles northeast of Chinchorro, off the coast of Mexico, by Caribe Navigator, a shipping vessel that was en route to Belize. Captain Steven Spence gave the details of their rescue. Steven Spence, Captain, Caribe Navigator. “Yesterday at about eleven o’clock Belizean time, April twenty-fifth, we observed a fishing vessel on […]
A ruling in the case of the Westerhaven was delivered today by the Chief Justice, Abdulai Conteh. It is a landmark ruling, indeed the largest amount ever awarded for damages caused to the Barrier Reef. The cargo ship ran aground on the reef about fifteen miles north east of Dangriga back in 2009. Owners of […]
