While commuters and other bus riders across the country shelled out more today to get around, the Ministry of Transport has called for a review of the price hikes. According to a press release issued late this evening, a review of the rates is taking place as apparently the new prices violate the terms and […]
If you woke up Saturday morning to the sounds of blowing horns and an occasional burst of song, you might have been just a little surprised to see a bunch of men parading through the streets of Belize City. The event was called the Hundreds Men March, organised to highlight the need for a renewal […]
For the past five years, Ambergris Caye has been home to the St. Matthew’s Medical University, but at the end of this month, the institution will relocate to another part of the Caribbean. While they had announced their departure date, an incident over the weekend had teachers and students leaving a little earlier than planned. […]
They announced an impending rise in bus fares on Wednesday…but declined to detail the specific prices until today. As News 5’s Janelle Chanona discovered, for passengers, the news wasn’t pretty. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning twelve of the country’s bus operators presented the new fares that will come into effect on Monday, April fifteenth. From […]
Bus commuters across Belize are bracing themselves tonight after the country’s main transportation providers announced that because of current world fuel prices, starting next Monday, a new, higher rate structure will be introduced. Efforts to elicit comment from the management of Novelos Bus Company, Belize’s largest, were unsuccessful as owners say they will be holding […]
Exactly one week ago, Fisheries officials busted a fisherman from Isabella Bank with several out of season hicatees. Well today, the News 5 crew was back at the Newtown Barracks after the officers caught a fisherman with the hicatee’s equally illegal seagoing cousin. Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon, officers from the Conservation […]
It’s the language used daily by a majority of Belizeans, but most speakers of Bileez Kriol cannot read or write it. In an effort to make people more proficient in their lingua franca, the Bileez Kriol Projek is on Saturday organising an “orthography revision workshop” at the Bishop Sylvestre Memorial Centre in Belize City at […]
The hurricane season might be months away, but Belizean authorities are already getting ready for what is expected be a busy season. As part of the preparation process, today, representatives from the National Emergency Management Organisation, the National Meteorological Service, and officials from similar organisations in the region met in Belize City to discuss ways […]
Since we don’t have a million people, let alone a million men, the Assemblies of God churches in Belize have decided to call it the “Hundreds Men March”. Patterned after the Million Man March concept pioneered by Louis Farrakhan in the U.S., the event is the first of its kind for Belize. It is designed […]
It’s an art that dates back to ancient times…and in Belize it’s being resurrected, not in the museum or house of culture…but behind bars. Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Young offenders from the Youth Enhancement Academy, based in Hattieville, weren’t breaking rocks in the hot sun…but they were breaking tiles. It’s a highly technical, […]
If you were depressed by the sight of police officers having to fight off angry footballers, then this next story will not make you any happier. Janelle Chanona, Reporting In the heat of this afternoon, the quiet of Mayflower Street was shattered by gunfire. When we arrived on the scene, heavily armed police officers were […]
As a matter of policy, we don’t report bomb threats on this newscast, on the theory that such publicity only encourages the perpetrators. Such incidents are more common than you might think and lately the U.B. campus at West Landivar has been the favourite target of bomb hoaxes–believed to be called in by students seeking […]
If you have driven into Belmopan lately, you might have noticed some activity at the Hector Silva airstrip. The work is part of an expansion project being completed by the British Army and as News 5’s Jacqueline Woods and George Tillett found out today, the additional tarmac will serve the country in several ways. Jacqueline […]
Four men lost their lives while swimming in a lagoon in the Corozal District as family members watched helplessly. According to police reports, thirty-five year old Anastacio Uck was with friends and family members cooling off in the waters of the Four Mile Lagoon just outside Corozal Town on Saturday afternoon. Uck began having trouble […]
In midst of all the recounts of tragedies involving water, there is at least one happy ending from a swimming session that almost went wrong over the weekend. According to P.C. Michael Roches, on Sunday he was bathing in the Moho River near Boom Creek Village in the Toledo District when he had to rescue […]
If you took a road trip over the weekend, you might have noticed you had to put out a little bit more for gas. That’s right, there’s been another price hike in fuel prices. News 5’s Ann-Marie has been visiting the gas stations around Belize City today and here’s what she found at the pumps. […]
Due to the Easter holidays, there will be no newscast until April 2nd, 2002.
Yesterday we reported on the happy ending to the harrowing ordeal of two men from Dangriga who spent four days lost at sea. Tonight we have news of another missing seaman–but the circumstances leave much less room for optimism. Forty-four year old U.S. National Robert O’Neil left Hopkins Village on March sixth in his thirty-five […]
The new owners of the Water and Sewerage Authority, renamed Belize Water Services Limited, have been alternately hailed as farsighted strategic investors and vilified as rapacious international scavengers. Today those extreme descriptions were set aside as B.W.S. and government put their differences behind them and looked toward a better future. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon, […]
The sweet water may have been flowing this afternoon at Double Run, but two men lost at sea since Friday night would have given almost anything for a single gallon. Gerald Thomas Junior and his cousin Gregory Martinez were found safe and sound Tuesday evening in the Gulf of Honduras. The pair, who departed Glover’s […]
The O.A.S. sponsored effort to resolve the Guatemalan claim to Belize continues to move toward what is hoped will be a successful conclusion. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today announced that on April twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth the two facilitators in the process will make their proposals to representatives of both nations in Washington D.C. Those […]
Two young men from Dangriga tonight remain missing at sea. On Friday afternoon twenty-six year old Gerald Thomas Junior and his cousin, thirty-six year old Gregory Martinez, also known as Gregory Flores, were hired to transport several tourists from Dangriga to a resort on North East Caye in the remote Glover’s Reef Atoll. The group […]
When a tanker ship bringing petroleum products to Belize fails to make port in time, the resulting fuel shortage creates panic at the pumps. But what would happen if the trucks that carry the gasoline and diesel from the port to the pumps fail to arrive? That’s just the prospect that faced the management of […]
Local attorney Kirk Anderson has been appointed as Belize’s new Director of Public Prosecutions. Anderson will assume the high-pressure post come May first. In a brief telephone interview with News 5, the attorney says as soon as he takes over, he will be meeting with the staff to outline his plans for the department. He […]
The amazing length people will go to in order to call Belize City home is something that we’ve profiled several times on this newscast. The image of plywood shacks sitting in dirty water connected by rotting, leaning London bridges is a reality several hundred people go home to everyday. This morning, residents of Antelope Street […]
