At newstime, residents of San Pedro were still without water after that town’s sole supplier of the precious commodity detected traces of an oil like substance in the water supply and shut down its operations to investigate. The cut off came Monday morning at around eight and since that time officials of Belize Water Limited–not […]
What do you say to a six-year-old girl who, through no fault of her own, has been infected with HIV? News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spent some time this week with a young lady we’ll call “Maria.” While she has been forced to deal with things that at this point she cannot understand, there are other […]
A week after the confrontation between rock throwing protesters and armed security forces at Tower Hill Bridge, the Belize Defence Force has cleared Captain John Borland of any wrongdoing. The investigation, conducted last week by a panel of B.D.F. officers, was presented last week to the Ministry of National Security. While the text has not […]
While no minister of government saw fit to speak to News 5 today with regard to Monday’s riot at the Tower Hill Bridge, Henry Canton, Minister of Works and Transport, appeared on last night’s “One on One with Dickie Bradley.” Canton vigorously denied charges that his ministry awards bus permits based on political considerations. Henry […]
On yesterday’s newscast, Belmopan Mayor Anthony Chanona talked about the future of the capital city. Today, courtesy of the Government Press Office, we’ll hear from the man who is well qualified to recount its past. At tree ceremonies Senior Minister George Price recalled the days in 1970, when he was Premier…and Belmopan became home. George […]
While the UDP looks at what may have been the political roots of the Tower Hill riot, a commission of inquiry will soon be taking a look of its own into Monday’s violent events in which two rioters were injured by gunshots, presumably fired by security forces. Those two forces, the police and B.D.F., are […]
It may have passed without much fanfare, but Wednesday was observed as Belmopan Day. Never one to pass up a hot story, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spent the day in the nation’s capital and came home with the following report. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting In 1961, Hurricane Hattie devastated the colony’s capital Belize City. As a […]
Two days after armed security forces confronted rock throwing protestors, there is still little consensus on the who, what and why of the events that transpired at the Tower Hill Bridge. On Tuesday we heard from Police Commissioner Hughington Williams as he both defended the conduct of his men and explained the pressures and constraints […]
In related news, we must make a serious correction to something we reported in our extended newscast last night. During the live narration of a videotape of Monday’s rioting on the Tower Hill Bridge we identified a man in civilian clothing firing a handgun in the air as a policeman named Magdaleno. This was an […]
For those who didn’t see last night’s newscast we will replay the short clip which shows the first gunshots recorded by our camera on Monday. These are not those well documented M-16 rounds fired by Captain Borland from the bridge, but those which came from a number of different sources, all apparently handguns being fired […]
A day after police, B.D.F. soldiers and a group of protesters battled for control of the Tower Hill Bridge, Prime Minister Said Musa has appointed a Commission of Inquiry. That commission is chaired by Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh and includes former police commissioner Sherman Zuniga and Father Lazarus Augustine of the Catholic Church. According to […]
While in Belmopan we also dropped in on Commissioner of Transport Glen Arthurs. The man at the centre of Monday’s storm–and object of much public criticism–says that the piece of paper he eventually signed was of no real consequence. Glen Arthurs, Commissioner of Transport “It was expired on the twenty-sixth of July 2001, and yesterday […]
Stewart Krohn “Ann-Marie has moved from the anchor’s seat to join the other members of the News 5 team who made yesterday’s coverage possible. They are cameraman Brent Toombs and summer intern Isani Cayetano. Isani, a sixth form graduate, is studying broadcast journalism at Columbia College in Chicago. What we’re going to be doing tonight […]
Covering pitched battles between police and protestors is fortunately not a story we have to do very often. But today at the Tower Hill Bridge a controversy over bus transport erupted into violent confrontation, the likes of which has not been seen in twenty years. Ann-Marie Williams and Brent Toombs were on hand and have […]
It’s one of the best tasting fish in the sea and that, unfortunately, has been its undoing. Jacqueline Woods reports on efforts to preserve our once plentiful supply of grouper. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting In the early ’70s there was no shortage of the Nassau Grouper even though the fish was one of the most commercially […]
Since the neon green traffic signs were erected along the Northern Highway in early June, the Traffic Department has been out conducting sporadic road checks and issuing warning tickets to drivers who have not been adhering to the speed limits. Motorists who use the stretch of highway from the entrance of the city to Haulover […]
Last November when Hurricane Keith hit Belize it not only destroyed many homes on the island of Caye Caulker, but ruined most of cayes’ greenery including many coconut trees. To help restore the scenic beauty of the island, Agriculture Minister Daniel Silva this week donated five hundred coconut seedlings to the Caye Caulker Village Council. […]
Belizeans can take a look at the economic conditions of the country and how it affects citizen security through the publication: Democratic Governance and Citizen Security in Central America: The Case of Belize. The book contains three research papers by locals Minelva Johnson, Dylan Vernon and Shaun Finnetty. Finnetty, SPEAR’s chairperson, says the new release […]
Think pageant and more than likely the word beauty comes to mind. Not this time though, as Public Service Union women test their knowledge of the public service at Miss P.S.U. One of the organisers, Diane Parks, says six contestants will vie for the coveted title on Friday at 7:00 p.m. at the Holy Redeemer […]
With the public perception that violent crime is out of control it was only a matter of time until government officially reacted. At its Tuesday session of Cabinet the nation’s leadership approved a set of strict measures that they hope will arrest and reverse the climate of fear felt in many quarters of the country. […]
In a move that has put Belize at the forefront of the region’s legal systems, all nine volumes of Belize’s substantive laws are now available on CD ROM. At this morning’s media launch, Attorney General Godfrey Smith told reporters that the new electronic copy contains all the laws of Belize updated through December thirty-first, 2000. […]
It’s that time of year again, when the island of Ambergris Caye comes alive with the sights and sounds of our neighbours on the American mainland. The tenth annual Costa Maya Festival kicks off on August sixteenth and runs through the nineteenth. One highlight of the event is the Reina de la Costa Maya Pageant […]
“There is no need for the public to be afraid of the police.” That was the response made by Senior Superintendent of Police Crispin Jeffries when asked by News Five about recent accusations of the use of unnecessary force. Jeffries says the incidents in which the police have used their weapons are being thoroughly investigated […]
The United Nations Development Programme has release its annual “Human Development Report.” That study, presented yesterday to the Prime Minister, ranks 162 countries according to a set of criteria, which includes standard of living, life expectancy and education. Belize, ranked at number 54, is slowly moving up in the world as last year we came […]
On hand to open the expo was Prime Minister Said Musa. Only recently returned from an important trip to Venezuela, the P.M. was asked about the results of that journey as well as the latest developments in the Guatemalan claim. Said Musa, Prime Minister “The talks did not break down, the parties agreed for the […]
