It’s getting on toward that part of the school year when a young student’s thoughts turn toward anything but schoolwork. And as News Five’s Arreini Palacio discovered, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. A normal day at St. Mary’s Primary School would include reading, writing and arithmetic but today the students decided to add a […]
While students at St. Mary’s were displaying the many cultures of Belize, some visitors from across the Gulf of Mexico are in town with some culture of their own. Anthony Williams, Assistant Professor of Music, Dillard University “One of the things our president wants us to do is to have cultural exchanges and to have […]
Belize is no stranger to eccentric artists, so a professor currently visiting from Louisiana’s Dillard University should feel right at home. From as far back as he can remember, Dr. Willie F. Hooker has been doing what he loves best: bringing to life ethnic images on canvass. Hooker, who is an Associate Professor of Art […]
The May second holdup of over a hundred people on the Hummingbird Highway and the accompanying cold-blooded murder of a B.D.F. volunteer has dominated the headlines and shaken the confidence of an entire nation. But in recent days the controversy has shifted away from the horror of the crime to the tactics used by authorities […]
While the merits or demerits of the police case against Eluterio Vasquez and Alfonso Teul continue to be played out in the court of public opinion, the real test of the evidence against the accused will come at their Supreme Court trial. While that may take upwards of a year to happen, today we sought […]
A Belize City family was left without a roof over their heads and little else to call their own as fire swept through their Cemetery Road home this morning. News Five’s Patrick Jones reports. Fire fighters were on the scene shortly after the fire started around nine this morning. But Fire Chief Henry Baizar says […]
Anglican Bishops from throughout the region are meeting in Belize to discuss a number of issues affecting their church and society. Today, as the bishops met for their first day of discussions, we caught up with the Most Reverend Orland Lindsay, Archbishop of the West Indies and the Right Reverend Sylvestre Romero-Palma, the Anglican Bishop […]
If it seems that this station spends a lot of time dealing with a Minister of Government named Hubert Elrington, we must plead guilty as charged… and we offer as a defense the fact that Mr. Elrington is so active in the carrying out of his duties. Today the Minister is back in the news […]
It’s an event that has come to be as predictable as the rising and setting of the sun. But every year thousands of people still go, hoping against hope that the agricultural fair will not be hot, will not be dusty and will actually serve beer that is cold. Patrick Jones spent last weekend in […]
The National Agriculture and Trade Show may have been hot and dusty, but it also proved lucky for one resident of Belize City. The people at Courts used the fair to hold their second Serious Cash II draw this weekend. The five thousand dollar winning ticket belonged to twenty-one year old Neri Felix of Belize […]
Courts is not the only company in a generous mood. Earlier this month Pebco Belize Limited announced the first winner in its Carib World Cup promotion. Juanito Cocom, a police officer of Benque Viejo, has won a round trip plane ticket to France, seven nights accommodation, tickets to see Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz play Argentina and […]
And in one final bit of good news the residents of the Sister Cecilia Home for the elderly will survive the sweltering days of summer a bit more comfortably thanks to a much needed gift. The Sangam Indian Ladies Group has given the home two high velocity fans valued at around six hundred dollars… and […]
It was announced with all the fanfare and drama the press and public have come to expect every time the police want to make a point. Reeling from charges of ineptitude and brutality on the part of law enforcement authorities, the Minister of National Security and his Commissioner of Police on Friday assured the nation […]
While Trujillo, Davis and West have no doubt as to the innocence of Teul and Vasquez, police Commissioner Ornel Brooks remained defiantly unconvinced. At a press briefing this afternoon in Belmopan, he called into question the motive behind the weekend’s stunning eyewitness testimonies. Brooks told reporters that when officers went to H.T.A. Bowman Limited situated […]
As crimes go it may not compare to the mayhem on the Hummingbird, but by Belize City standards it was a major stickup. Shortly after one this morning, twenty five year old Santiago Zaiden, security guard at the Fiesta Inn reported that he went to investigate a noise coming from the south part of the […]
In news of a more upbeat nature Governor General Sir Colville Young was busy today pushing his pet project of making Belize more musically literate. This morning he presented an assortment of bugles, drums and cymbals to Holy Redeemer Upper School and then traveled across town to Queen’s Square Anglican where he made a similar […]
In economic news, while the United States is working to kill the Caribbean banana industry it is at the same time providing price supports for the region’s sugar producers. A release from the U.S. embassy has announced a second increase in Belize’s sugar quota. The additional two thousand, two hundred and thirty four metric tons […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s a fresh serving of Sports Monday. If you’ve been waiting for your dose of professional football play then yesterday was payday as the B.F.L. opened its 1998 knockout football competition with five ball games nationwide. We caught up with the action at M.C.C. Grounds and the Acros team […]
Having reached rock bottom with the disastrous failure to intercept a band of foreign murderers and prevent them from leaving the country, the roller coaster known as police public relations took a turn upward today as authorities announced a major break in the case that stands as perhaps the most brazen crime ever committed on […]
In political news Minister of Housing, Local Government and Broadcasting, Hubert Elrington, has continued to air his views in the wake of a clash with the Belize City Council. Last night on Channel Five’s “One On One with Dickie Bradley” Elrington held forth on a wide range of topics, including one very dear to his […]
If there is nothing on your social calendar for this weekend, we may just have the event you’ve been looking for. The Belize Arts council invites you to an evening of inspirational piano music and an art exhibition beginning at eight, tonight at the Bliss Institute. The concert, which will be performed by five members […]
If you had to cope with the added burden of having your children at home today, try not to feel too bad: your loss was the teachers’ gain. This morning Jacqueline Woods joined them for a day away from the classroom. Despite the scorching heat of the day, teachers, principals and school managers from primary […]
Who among us does not fondly remember at least one of our many school teachers? Maybe it was the patient soul who taught us to read, tie our shoes or help us understand the beauty of math, history or science. Well, even if you have forgotten, News Five commentator G. Michael Reid has not. “This […]
Almost as quickly as it came before the court of public opinion, the battle between Minister of Local Government Hubert Elrington and the City Council appears to be over. Mayor Jose Coye says the May subvention, which was being held up by Elrington, was released today… but not without some strings attached. Jose Coye, Belize […]
A post mortem examination has suggested that the death of an inmate at Hattieville Prison was the result of natural causes and not foul play. According to police pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran, his autopsy conducted this afternoon on the body of nineteen year old Mike Fabro, revealed that the young prisoner died of suffocation brought […]
