In other crime news, a lottery vendor from Calcutta Village in the Corozal District has reported to police that he was robbed. Forty-eight year old Mario Moo was riding his bicycle from Libertad Village on Saturday evening. When he reached the junction at the Northern Highway three masked men armed with sticks jumped out of […]
Domestic disputes and the resulting fall out are nothing new to this newscast, but the alleged action of one man in the wee hours of Monday morning appears to be in a class by itself. As News Five’s Patrick Jones reports, a disgruntled boyfriend may have taken justice into his own hands and in the […]
The Caribbean Association of Life Underwriters today wrapped its Annual General Meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in Belize City. During the three days of deliberations, the two hundred delegates from eleven countries, discussed several topics, among them, the development of a five year plan to further enhance the role of the organization in the region. […]
It may only be May but the September Celebrations Committee is getting a jump on this year’s St. George’s Caye Day festivities. Opening over the weekend was an exhibition that takes us back well before the much debated skirmish in 1798. Old pictures, old documents, old photographs make up a pictorial exhibit of the history […]
Good evening. I’m James Adderley and welcome to this Tuesday serving of Sports Monday. Let’s start off with the B.F.L. Football Knock-Out Tournament at M.C.C. Grounds where Acros and the Yabra Sporting Club are locked in a 2-2 draw going into game 2 of this home and away series. In this ball game the winner […]
The House of Representatives today provided spectators and those listening by radio with a healthy dose of humor, rhetoric and drama. It was after all, one half of the legislature at work conducting the people’s business. But perhaps the most outstanding feature of this morning’s proceedings was the Prime Minister’s introduction of a bill to […]
The Opposition People’s United Party today ended a four-month boycott of the House of Representatives. But as News Five’s Patrick Jones reports, it wasn’t a particularly joyous home-coming for the P.U.P. Vildo Marin, P.U.P. Member, Corozal Bay “Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is…” B. Q. Pitts, Speaker, House of Representatives “There’s no fact […]
Another issue that was a hot topic of discussion at today’s House meeting was the Labor Day weekend armed robbery and murder near Roaring River on the Hummingbird Highway. Attorney General Dean Barrow stuck by the controversial decision of the police to arrest and charge Alfonso Teul and Eluterio Vasquez in connection with the May […]
A traffic accident in the south on Thursday night has left one man dead. The accident happened between miles six and seven on the Stann Creek Valley Road near the Shibel Gas Station around ten forty five last night. It involved a car and a motor cycle. The police say that Sherane Jex, who lives […]
Police have arrested and charged two Belmopan residents in connection with a robbery on Sunday. They have been identified in a police report as twenty one year old Raymond Flowers and seventeen year old Anthony Williams. Their arrest is the result of a report made to police by Anthony Barnett that his point twenty two […]
After nearly ten years of faithfully serving the United Democratic Party, the president of the party’s youth movement is throwing in the towel. Ernest Smith handed in his resignation on Thursday saying he just doesn’t see where the party is headed. Smith also accused the U.D.P. of being deficient on plans to give young people […]
If you’re between the ages of thirteen and twenty and have not yet made plans for the weekend, here’s an activity you might be interested in. The Peer Education Association of Belize is sponsoring a “lock-in” for young people on Saturday. It’s the second of its kind and organizers say the one-day workshop will focus […]
The police have been in the news a lot over the last couple of weeks, and by our estimation we haven’t seen or heard the last of the men and women sworn to protect the citizens of this jewel. Tonight News Five’s commentator G. Michael Reid joins the growing list of people who have an […]
Reports reaching News Five today indicate that the police are making good on their promise to investigate charges that the firm of H.T.A. Bowman Limited, situated at mile thirteen and a half on the Stann Creek Valley Road, violated the law by hiring illegal immigrants. According to reports we received this afternoon, a summons was […]
Belize City firemen were among the busiest people in town today, with chores that included hosing down a sporting complex and fighting a disaster on the south side. For the second time this week, a Belize City family is left to pick up the pieces as fire turns their home into rubble. News Five’s Arreini […]
In crime news, Corozal police are investigating the execution style murder of a man from Concepcion Village. The decomposed body of thirty one year old Hever Atanadel Lopez was discovered on a dirt road near Trial Farm Village. A police report says Lopez’ body was found near his truck with both hands and feet tied. […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed the life of a thirty eight year old man. Police say that around two o’clock this morning they found an overturned red Toyota pickup truck between miles forty four and forty five on the Western Highway. The body of Lui Ming Yu, apparently the driver and […]
When the House of Representatives meets on Friday morning in Belmopan, there will be no empty chairs on the opposition side. Leader of the People’s United Party Said Musa says his party will end its four month boycott of House proceedings tomorrow. The P.U.P. walked out of the House in January in protest over what […]
Over the last year, News Five has brought you no less than a dozen stories documenting the plight of residents of the small Caribbean island of Montserrat who found themselves at the mercy of a pesky volcano. While life on the island appears to have returned to normal, another volcano, this one closer to home […]
With the arrival of a brand new court for the Belize City Centre, preparations for hosting the upcoming CARICOM games have moved into maximum over drive. As News Five’s Arreini Palacio reports, organizers today turned up the pressure on the venue for the games. The Belize City Centre compound was overcome by fire trucks this […]
Over the past several weeks we have carried a number of stories which question what appears to be institutionalized harassment of Hispanic immigrants by authorities. Today we turn our camera to racism of another type: employment discrimination against Afro-Belizeans in favor of Hispanic workers from beyond our borders. Patrick Jones reports. They are not a […]
More people have today come forward to protest the continued incarceration of Alfonso Teul and Eluterio Vasquez, two farm workers who have been charged with murder and robbery in the May second mass holdup on the Hummingbird Highway. News Five’s Patrick Jones has just returned from the citrus orchards of the Stann Creek Valley and […]
The People’s United Party has decided to end its boycott of the National Assembly and will return to the House of Representatives for this Friday’s sitting. The return, which had been rumored for several weeks, was confirmed by P.U.P. Secretary General Godfrey Smith in an interview this morning on F.M. Two Thousand’s “Breakfast Show”. While […]
For a while last year they were among Belize’s most wanted, but today the Leiva brothers, Javier and Othon, are free men. According to Director of Public Prosecutions, Adolph Lucas, there was a lack of sufficient evidence to convict them of the murder of twenty four year old Corozal farmer Luciano Basto, and therefore he […]
According to B.E.L. the cycle of blackouts that has been plaguing the Cayo, Stann Creek and Belize Districts is over. A company press release issued today says the grid is back to full power, following the installation of two imported portable generating units at the Ladyville Plant. Three weeks ago the company’s generating capacity was […]
