On last night’s newscast a late schedule, dead battery and slow moving motorcade combined to prevent us from showing footage of the Belmopan leg of President Chen Shui-bian’s state visit. Tonight we’ll bring you up to date on those events in the nation’s capital. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Shortly after arriving at the George Price Centre, […]
It’s the new telecommunications company, with competitive rates and cutting edge technology, offering exciting services to thousands of new customers. No, we’re not talking about INTELCO, although the business plan pitched to the press this morning sounds eerily close to the rhetoric uttered barely two years ago by the now defunct company. It’s the latest […]
By all accounts it’s doing the kind of high quality reasonably priced printing that customers have always wanted…but that hasn’t stopped Print Belize’s vocal competitors from crying foul over the way in which the former government printery was privatised. Today the Belmopan based company raised its profile by opening a branch in Belize City and […]
You may have seen them making the rounds in Belize City but lest you think Dalila Vanzie, Miss Belize World and Jade Fulford, Miss Jamaica World, are in the country promoting yet another pageant, you will be surprised to know that these two young women have been working for a more meaningful cause. The project […]
Late August and September is traditionally the time that Belizean musicians release their latest recordings, just in time for the celebrations. This year, one local artist has put a new twist on an old practice. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting “Belizean Products” the latest music video to hit the local scene. The song, produced by the Kungo […]
On our newscast of last night Minister of Home Affairs and Investment, Ralph Fonseca, alleged that attorney and UDP politician, Wilfred Elrington, borrowed seven hundred and sixty three thousand dollars from the St. James National Building Society, and that loan formed part of the package of mortgages bundled for securitization by the DFC and guaranteed […]
And while the aggrieved attorney expressed his anger, he also had some interesting things to say when asked about his encounter with Glenn Godfrey. Stewart Krohn “Mr. Elrington, you say you spoke to Mr. Godfrey this morning; now you are a very privileged man because many people in the media have been trying to get […]
While GOB, SSB, DFC and a long list of other alphabetized agencies are having their share of financial woes, there is one woman from Santa Elena, Cayo, who tonight is counting her new found cash. Irene August held the winning ticket in Saturday’s sixty-seven thousand, five hundred dollar Lotto draw…and today she claimed her prize. […]
There was another Gold Rush at Courts this weekend, this time in Orange Walk. Ironically the lucky customer who got to spin the wheel just happened to hail from the Sugar City…and guess what: for Miguel Vargas, Saturday could not have been sweeter. Raphael Martinez, Gold Rush Host “Put your hands together for Miguel Vargas. […]
The Government of Belize today confirmed the visit of the president of Taiwan next month. According to a press release, President Chen Shui-Bian will arrive for a two day state visit on September second. He will be accompanied by a delegation of Taiwanese legislators, cabinet members, mayors, and businessmen. While the highlight of the visit […]
Former Chief Justice of Belize George Moe died this week in his native Barbados. Family members say the seventy-two year old jurist passed away on Monday night at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Moe, whose tenure on the Supreme Court bench in Belize spans the period 1982 to 1985, has served with distinction in various capacities […]
If you believe the pre-concert advertisements, you’d think the artist that arrived in Belize today was a combination of Tupac and Biggie with a little bit of Shyne thrown in. Viewers in Dangriga will be able to discover his abilities for themselves tonight…but in the meantime News 5’s Jacqueline Woods managed to catch him this […]
Word out of Athens today is that Belizean Marion Jones has been selected to run on the U.S. four by one hundred metre relay team. She will take the second leg of the relay behind Angela Williams and ahead of Lauryn Williams and LaTasha Colander. U.S. Women?s coach Sue Humphrey told the press that she […]
This morning during a brief ceremony at the Museum of Belize, the Belize Philatelic bureau launched its latest postage stamp issue. The stamp depicts the whale shark and it is the first time in more than a decade that the Belize Postal Service has featured anything from the sea. According to Philatelic Supervisor Emelia Cayetano, […]
The graduation season is over, but a group of special students who received their certificates this afternoon were no less proud of their achievement. Eighteen community workers today completed a six week intensive course and graduated as certified Home Health Care givers. Course participant Maria Ellis says the Red Cross training has equipped her and […]
It poses no immediate threat to Belize, but when it comes to hurricanes or tropical storms, we have seen too many times that forecasting is still a very inexact science. That is why meteorologists in Belize and the region are keeping a close eye on Charley, the season?s third named storm, which is tonight swimming […]
It took us a while to get hold of the video tape, but last Thursday night thousands of spectators gathered in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, for the selection of La Reina de la Costa Maya. Here?s how it went after the judges had handed in their ballots. Master of Ceremonies The second runner up…Miss Belize. […]
Every performer loves to play to a packed house and while the crowd assembled today on the football field at Hattieville Prison could only be called a captive audience, there is no denying that they got their money?s worth. Janelle Chanona, Reporting There are variety shows, and then there are variety shows. This latest version […]
If you?re sports inclined, under seventeen and in need of an outlet to express yourself, then we?ve got just the thing for you. The annual Curlin King children?s summer sports programme is officially kicking off next week. The three week event will instruct participants in athletics including for the first time, softball, with contributions from […]
If you are one of those parents who constantly fight with your child to put down the remote or the game boy and get involved in some sort of constructive activity, you might want to check out the latest spin on some traditional Belizean pastimes. News Five’s Patrick Jones has the details. Patrick Jones, Reporting […]
There are hundreds of Belizeans enlisted in armies around the globe who put their lives on the line everyday, determined to fulfil their duty and make their heritage proud. On Monday evening, one such solider returned home. There was no big welcoming committee to greet her, but for Private First Class, Lucy Lopez, to be […]
She says she has been an on and off lotto player for the last three years. But on Saturday night, fifty-three year old Sylvia Swift finally hit the jackpot. And while she couldn?t believe it when she heard that her numbers had won, she was prompt at the lotto office this afternoon to claim her […]
It happens each year around this time and seems to get better and better. Today the first contestants began to arrive for San Pedro?s Costa Maya pageant and as Patrick Jones reports, the level of competition is high. Patrick Jones, Reporting The Six contestants in this year?s Costa Maya pageant come with some impressive credentials. […]
He is a staple on the Belizean music scene who also has some pretty big shoes to fill. Ras Indio has a new CD coming on the market and he stopped by our studios to talk about it. David Obi 111 a.k.a. Ras Indio “Very hot CD “Free Up My Nation” was the first C.D. […]
The Courts Gold Rush came to B.T.L. Park in Belize City on Sunday and the change of venue proved very lucky for Martha Novelo of Yo Creek in the Orange Walk District as she took home the maximum possible prize. Rafael Martinez, Gold Rush Host ?Give it one big spin. Gold Rush lives your dream! […]
