While one house was destroyed by fire this morning, some homeowners in the Faber’s Road extension area got some welcome news this afternoon. Port Loyola standard bearer for the U.D.P., Boots Martinez presided over a brief ceremony where roughly sixty families were informed that the mortgages on their homes have been reduced, in some cases […]
Belize Electricity Limited today inaugurated a new dispatch center which the company says will improve the way it distributes energy to consumers countrywide. The new facility, located at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway, will be the hub of B.E.L.’s power supply system. It houses a high-tech computer system that will incorporate […]
Politics usually produces more heat than light, but once in a while the last minute activities of candidates and their supporters actually benefit the people they seek to represent. Arreini Palacio discovered one such positive development on southside Belize City. There are many smiles, and it is not because school re-opens in a couple weeks. […]
With virtually the entire nation focussed on August twenty seventh the interest that would traditionally be building about now for September celebrations is hard to find. But that didn’t stop the people in charge of this year’s bash from calling in the press to unveil exactly what we can look forward to once the political […]
The whole of Belize City was without water today and even as I speak there are many households which still have nothing but humid air flowing through the pipes. The cause of the problem was a break in the high-pressure water pipe which runs down the Northern Highway from the water treatment plant near Sandhill. […]
While politicians argue exactly how good or how bad things are in Belize, other segments of society are taking a more analytical approach, in the hope that solutions are best achieved after first ascertaining the facts. Today one such group unveiled a study that seeks to measure just how we’re doing as a nation of […]
Those rains forecast by the weatherman may be wreaking havoc with people’s outdoor recreation, but they’re good news for B.E.L. and BECOL, operator of the Mollejon Hydro Plant. Although July was a drier month than normal, recent rains in the south of the country have increased the flow in the Macal River. That has resulted […]
It is part of a nationwide series of workshops to let Belizeans know just how new legislation will effect the country’s families. This morning I dropped in on a seminar at the Radisson to see how things have changed and why. Four years ago, the National Committee for Families and Children was formed to advise […]
If you watch the American cop shows on television you know all about the system called parole. That’s when a convicted criminal who has behaved well in prison is released early under strict orders to stay out of trouble. Well it’s taken a while but parole, as I found out this morning, is about to […]
It seems to be our pet peeve here at Channel Five and if we stand accused we’ll happily plead guilty. But don’t blame us when someone dies as a result of an ignorant driver ignoring our infamous traffic lights. This morning I was back on Freetown Road. Twenty four hours after the new two phase […]
Anyone who drove through Cinderella Plaza over the weekend now knows the true meaning of the word “confusion”. Things may be getting a bit more organized, however, as I found out this afternoon. After being out of commission for over a month, the lights at Freetown Road intersection are finally up and running. The new […]
If you took a poll to name the most admired women in the Caribbean the name of Billie Miller of Barbados would likely be somewhere near the top of the list. And if you changed the word “women” to “people” the result just might be the same. Miller was in Belize today to lend support […]
This is the one time every five years that Belizeans should have no trouble securing land. Indeed, some politicians are handing out house lots like they were ideals on a hot summer day. But a lot is not a house… and to help bridge that gap a well known organization is about to set up […]
The International Red Cross today released its 1998 world disaster report… and one highlight of the document is something that those of us who watch and deliver the news know all too well: automobile accidents are killing more and more people each year. According to the report, the trend is so pronounced that by the […]
If you’ve watched this newscast over any length of time you’ve noticed that one of our pet peeves has to do with the installation of traffic lights; lights that never seem to work, are often disobeyed and whose violators forever go unpunished. Tonight we revisit a favorite disaster area on the north side of Belize […]
Yesterday we reported on the erection of new traffic lights in two places along Central American Boulevard. Today we noticed that some of those lights are now functioning… and found that the intersection at Mahogany Street is one big accident waiting to happen. Standing at the busy intersection at the corner of Central American Boulevard […]
Another potential embarrassment is now in the making on Central American Boulevard, where motorists are being treated to the installation of two new sets of traffic lights. The new computerized signals, going up at the junctions of the Boulevard and Mahogany Street and Vernon Street have been purchased from a Dutch Company, which is supervising […]
If there is one issue in Belize that is sure to ignite the passion of citizens it is the question of land. And as we found yesterday on a trip to Dangriga, there are some passionate citizens who have very definite concepts of what belongs to whom. Patrick Jones reports. As she walks along an […]
In an update to a story we ran on last night’s newscast, we are happy to report that a fifteen-year-old girl who was reported missing has been found. According to police, Joyce Hemmans was located in San Ignacio and safely returned to her family in Belize City today. Police say Hemmans told them that she […]
Civilization, in the form of roads, drains, electricity and water, is slowly coming to the wet and wild areas of Lake Independence. The problem, as we found out this morning, is that sometimes there’s a house in the way. It all began Tuesday morning when Shawn Lemmott woke up to the sounds of someone chopping […]
Hundreds of primary school children, teachers and residents of the Stann Creek and Toledo Districts are the latest beneficiaries of infrastructural assistance from the Social Investment Fund. Three new projects funded by SIF were handed over on Monday. They include the rehabilitation of the Holy Angels Primary School and principal’s office in Pomona Village, Stann […]
It was conducted with all the seriousness of a general election. And while these ballots took a little longer to count, the results of last Thursday’s UNICEF sponsored voting on children’s rights were no less important. Patrick Jones was on hand at the Radisson for the announcement. Marleni Cuellar, UNICEF Children’s Advisory Committee “We the […]
It was created with a dramatic fanfare that promised more than it could ever hope to deliver. But after three and a half sometimes controversial years, the organization which was born at the Bird’s Isle gang truce has evolved into an institution, earning high marks in the process. It has been one of the rare […]
If you own a vehicle and work downtown you know that the daily search for a parking space can mean drama. But if you think things are tight now, just wait. In 1990, after the water tank on the property was dismantled, the Belize City Council got permission from the Ministry of Lands to use […]
It is only fitting to end this elongated newscast by turning from the beauty to … the beast. Residents of King’s Park and Caribbean Shores may want to keep an extra sharp eye out tonight as this afternoon several residents, including News Five’s driver Stephen Ferguson, reported seeing a crocodile measuring around ten feet in […]
