Imagine working on a piece of land for almost forty years – backbreaking labour to clear and keep clean. You plant every fruit and vegetable you can get your hands on, because this is the legacy you want to leave for your family. And then one day you find out that your piece of land […]
The Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association (BGYEA) is in its fourth year of existence and has been fighting for months to get titles and even leases to parcels of land in a community they call Harmonyville. It continues to be a frustrating process for the one thousand plus individuals who were given an acre of […]
There is also valuable lumber in Harmonyville that Petillo says is being pillaged by villagers living along the George Price Highway. He says that a businessman is offering to build additional roadways within the community in exchange for gaining access to the lumber. But that aside, Petillo says that he is frustrated with the state […]
Drug seizures are often the result of intelligence-led operations conducted by personnel from the police department or, in some cases, a collaborative interagency effort utilizing such information. Whether police at a checkpoint along the George Price Highway were tipped off about narcotics onboard two individual passenger buses or the subsequent busts were the outcome of […]
On Tuesday, we reported on the tragic death of a sixty-eight-year-old woman in the village of Boston. It is believed that someone broke into her home during the Easter weekend and violently attacked her with a piece of wood. Myra Miller, a Jamaican national, was clinging to life when she was discovered inside her home […]
Armed confrontations along the Belize/Guatemalan border, involving the Belizean military and Guatemalans conducting illegal activities within our country, have been a perennial issue which some may say remain unresolved. And on Monday, a Guatemalan soldier was detained in Belize within the Chiquibul National Park. The soldier and three others were found approximately two hundred and […]
On Tuesday, Foreign Affairs Minister, Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington told News Five that American Investigator and Director of the International Forensics Science Laboratory and Training Center in the United States, Dr. James Hamdi, was in Belize. His mission is to conduct an intensive and comprehensive investigation into the shooting death of Guatemalan national Tomas Ramirez back […]
The B.D.F. today officially launched the opening of the new location for its Saint George’s Church located at the Price Barracks compound in Ladyville. The newly retrofitted chapel is to provide the soldiers with a location where they can pray and worship. While the force already provides for the physical needs of the soldiers with […]
And now to an unfortunate issue close to home; Channel Five has covered the Holy Saturday Cross Country Classic for twenty-three years, but disappointingly, the tradition was broken this year. We regret that we were not able to bring to our viewers at home as well as regionally and internationally, the energy of the anticipated […]
Over the weekend, a transgendered woman who came into the public spotlight two weeks ago was the subject of a heated, emotional debate on Facebook. A post reported that Vanessa Champagne Paris had been murdered while in Placencia at the start of the Easter Holidays. That post sparked an immediate frenzy of comments, more than […]
While Vanessa was not killed or seriously injured, Orozco says that the increased attention drawn to the LGBT community has to some extent resulted in them being targeted. He, however, refuses to be pushed back into the invisible closet. Caleb Orozco, Executive Director, UNIBAM “One of the things I’ve learnt is that our community […]
Thousands of Belizeans traditionally head to the beaches over the Easter holidays. But unfortunately, two persons lost their lives due to drowning. On Friday, just after noon, Santa Familia resident, Arsenio Landero, drowned when his small canoe capsized as he and his common-law wife made their way across the river from Esperanza village. Landero was […]
There is a video that has gone viral on social media. It involves a confrontation between police and a civilian, on Sunday afternoon. A visitor to Caye Caulker was physically restrained by what onlookers call an excessive use of force by officers. The video shows at least three police officers, one in civilian clothing, holding […]
Holy Thursday is a busy time for vendors because fish and other types of seafood will traditionally be consumed on Good Friday. At the various fish markets this morning, we found that the demand for fish has driven the price up to an average of eight dollars per pound. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. FOR […]
Belizeans who were recruited to work in Canada are finding out that the jobs are not as lucrative; in fact, some say their experience working at McDonalds is a form of modern-day slavery. Jaime Montero is among the Belizeans that made it to Canada, but he tells an investigative reporter with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation […]
As we’ve done all this week, News Five has been providing tips to all residents on security and safety do’s and don’ts this Easter Weekend. Rural Executive Officer, Assistant Superintendent Christopher Noble has had his hands full in recent weeks, with everything from fatal road traffic accidents to a man-eating crocodile. Like his colleagues we’ve […]
Ovens across Belize have been lit since the beginning of Holy Week and bakers at home or at your favorite pastry shop are busy preparing a perennial Easter treat. Hot cross buns have been sung about and even used in poetry, but tonight we’re revisiting the recipe that brings it all home this Easter weekend. […]
The Belize Tourism Industry Association which has consistently opposed the Norwegian Cruise Lines port at Harvest Caye is heading to court having exhausted a number of other avenues. It is challenging an environmental appraisal to the fifty million dollar tourism project provided by the National Environmental Appraisal Committee on the grounds that the appraisal did […]
Around midday on Tuesday, the body of a homeless amputee was carted off to the morgue from the sidewalk at Mule Park in the downtown area of the City. His name may have been unknown to many but he was a constant on Albert Street moving around in his wheelchair. The homeless man passed away […]
Former University of Belize President Dr. Cary Fraser demitted office in mid-November of last year, amid a swirl of controversy as to whether he was indeed granted leave by the Board of Trustees or if he left on his own will. Since his departure six months ago, Dr. Wilma Wright, the university’s provost, was appointed […]
The appointment of a new justice to the Supreme Court is imminent. Justice Sonya Young of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines arrived in the Jewel on Tuesday and was today given a tour of her the Supreme Court buildings by Registrar, Velda Flowers. The newly appointed judge will be sworn within the next two weeks. […]
The Belize Police Department has been making the rounds of the media in the days before the Easter weekend. It is unfortunate, but true, that traditionally during this time there is a spike in burglaries, alcohol-related accidents and incidents and accidental deaths. With the focus to break tradition, Police Departments countrywide have stepped up patrols […]
In March, business operators and residents of Sixth Street in King’s Park raised the alarm when City Hall changed the street to one way overnight. Business owners in particular claimed that they would lose significant revenues, since customers would be inconvenienced by having to take another roundabout route. Mayor Darrell Bradley was advised of the […]
A homeless man, who was a fixture in the downtown area, died today at around midday, in the height of the rush hour. The unidentified amputee would continuously hang out on his wheel chair on Albert Street at day and at night he would be found among a group of homeless persons who made their […]
Government’s hiring of the daughter of Minister Erwin Contreras to a high level post in the Ministry of Health is meeting sustained resistance from the Pharmacists Association of Belize. The association will meet with the National Trade Union Congress of Belize this Wednesday as the situation heats up in respect of Danini Contrerass appointment. The […]
