Did a police officer misuse his authority to rob a Belize City man? That’s the troubling question police internal affairs officers are trying to answer. According to Darlene Lewis, she sent her son in law, Daniel Zuniga, on an errand to pay her bill at Courts on the Northern Highway, but as he approached the […]
Statistics indicate that virtually every adult Belizean is acquainted with someone who carries H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. What makes it interesting is that you don’t know who they are. The question News 5’s Jacqueline Woods confronted this morning was: should it matter? Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Look at the faces of these men and […]
Tomorrow is March first, the day on which government’s new tax measures, delayed from a month earlier, will begin to take effect. The idea, negotiated between GOB and the nation’s unions, was that the period in between would be used to examine alternative sources of revenue along with spending cuts that would reduce the tax […]
He has been missing now for more forty-eight hours but tonight family and friends of four year old Oscar Velasquez are still clinging to the hope that the young boy is alive and well. News 5 Patrick Jones has the latest in this disturbing case. Patrick Jones, Reporting In desperate search for four year old […]
The Scouts Association of Belize today received formal approval from the Ministry of Education to pursue its volunteer programme into primary school system. A six point memorandum of understanding signed this afternoon in Belize City officially recognizes the principles of Scouting as a beneficial way of helping young people become positive contributors to their community. […]
Rotarians in Belize today joined their comrades around the world in celebrating one hundred years of volunteerism and service to their community. As part of events here, the Belize Rotary club this evening dedicated a monument at the entrance to Belize City near mile two on the Northern Highway. Centennial President, Alberto Young, says the […]
Not a week goes by that we do not receive a notice from the Police Department concerning a missing person. Usually the subject in question is a teenaged girl, either fed up with an abusive home or infatuated with Mr. Right. But sometimes the report does not fit the familiar pattern and that’s the disturbing […]
It’s a well established programme that has been around for some time, an honest attempt to implement the popular notion of community policing. But relations between the police and many Belize City neighbourhoods are not what they should be. Today Jacqueline Woods sat in on a training session that seeks to make one group of […]
We all know there is a lot of crime in Belize, but do we really understand the causes? Or why our young people join gangs, or engage in other criminal activity? Recently UNICEF and the Human Development Department’s Community Rehabilitation Department surveyed children and teens from all over Belize. What they found may, or may […]
Four days after the incident which drew public outrage, Police Commissioner Carmen Zetina today announced that he has ordered the interdiction of police constable Aldo Ayuso. Ayuso is the officer who fired the single gunshot to the forehead that fatally wounded twenty-one year old Leslie Rogers Junior. A release from the police department says Ayuso’s […]
We are happy to report that Hazel Morgan, the woman missing from her Sand Hill home since Saturday, has turned up alive and well in Corozal. Reports are that Morgan left following a domestic dispute and needed some space from a relationship that had gone seriously off the tracks.
The Kraal Road and Majestic Alley neighbourhoods are on edge tonight after law enforcement operations this afternoon left some residents questioning the behaviour of police. According to an area resident, she was startled by a gunshot near her house around four this afternoon as police apparently tried to capture a suspect they were chasing. Not […]
Tonight forty-year-old Hazel Elizabeth Morgan, co-owner of the Hanger Café at the municipal airstrip, remains missing after she disappeared from her home following an argument with her common-law-husband early Saturday morning. Today twenty-one year old Olivia Galvez told News 5 that she fears something bad has happened to her mother because otherwise she would have […]
It seems that every day the news is filled with reports of deadly violence, particularly involving young people. And while most of us can do little more than shake our heads and throw up our hands, one organisation continues to agitate for new attitudes by and toward our disaffected youths. Patrick Jones has more. Patrick […]
It is not a problem unique to Belize…but with what appears to be a growing epidemic of juvenile crime and violence, the way we care for our youngest citizens is more crucial than ever. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports on an initiative that seeks to provide help for kids at the most basic level of […]
It appears a settlement has finally been reached between the unions and the government of Belize putting an end to the strikes. It also appears the unions have gotten pretty much everything they were asking for in terms of raises, reforms and a review of the new taxes. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting After […]
This evening the Alliance Against Aids and the Women Issues Network of Belize invited high school students and other young people from across the country to share their concerns, opinions and make suggestions about HIV and AIDS. According to one of the coordinators, Martha Carrillo, the disease continues to affect the young population especially women. […]
And speaking of taking a long time to reach a conclusion, negotiators in the ongoing dispute between govenrment and unions are still at this hour in discussion. Twenty-four hours after they were expected to emerge with a final draft of an agreement that the member unions of the NTUCB would take to their rank and […]
And now to those other negotiations. Late word from the Central Bank is that representatives of Government and the NTUCB are on the verge of settling their differences, which now centre around a small core of tax issues. Sources indicate a spirit of compromise on both sides and expectations are that an agreement will be […]
On last night’s newscast we looked at how Belizean merchants are dealing with any prospective rise in taxes. Today I made the rounds with Belize City Police officers who are trying to make sure that those sometimes-obscure price control regulations are strictly enforced. Inspector Dennis Arnold, Price Checker ?Police will be going to business after […]
Rumours are that negotiators are getting closer to a settlement of the dispute between Belize’s unions and Government but tonight we cannot report a breakthrough in the talks. That leaves one more day before a union imposed deadline, after which the NTUCB says it will return to strike mode on Thursday and Friday. Negotiators met […]
And back to those negotiations. Just before newstime Patrick Jones reported that government and union negotiators, seen here entering the Central Bank shortly after one this afternoon, were still trying to hammer out the final wording of a nine-point agreement. According to a release yesterday from the NTUCB, despite his expressions of willingness to personally […]
If it is clarity you are seeking in tonight’s newscast please be forewarned; the situation is as confused as ever. The bottom line is that no agreement has been officially signed to end any industrial action by any of the nation’s labour unions and to our knowledge no new negotiations are scheduled. Add to the […]
With the militant core of the teachers union clearly out of sync with its leadership and the prospect of schools opening on Friday melting like an ideal dropped on a hot pavement, the stage was set this morning for union members and their supporters to take to the streets. Patrick Jones reports that the march […]
This morning, there appeared to be some light at the end of the tunnel for those hoping for a resolution to the nation’s ongoing labour and civic turmoil, but as the afternoon wore on clarity was in short supply. Here’s a running diary of the day’s events. Janelle Chanona, Reporting It was a fish bowl […]
