One suspect has been arrested and the charge will likely be murder… as the man he allegedly attacked has died in a Chetumal hospital. According to Orange Walk police one of a group of men who allegedly raped a twenty-one year old woman and killed her eighteen year old friend, Salvadoran Roberto Herbert, was arrested […]
Two of five inmates who escaped from the Belize Prison Authority’s Youth Enhancement Academy last Thursday night, have been recaptured. Eighteen year old Stuart Jones was brought in to the Academy in Ladyville on Saturday and twenty-year-old Fransico Vasquez was recaptured today. The three still at large are: twenty-three year old Glenford Baptist who is […]
A Belize City man was killed on Monday afternoon on the Coastal Road when the truck he was driving overturned. According to police, twenty three year old Alfonso Avila was transporting diesel to the Citrus Company of Belize around three thirty yesterday afternoon, when upon reaching a curve at mile thirty on the Coastal Road, […]
A sixty-four year old man from St. Paul’s Bank was crushed to death in an accident on Saturday morning. A police report says Basil Thompson was about to clear a knot in the rope that was being used to move a wooden house, when the loader pulling the house rolled forward and pinned him against […]
Closing arguments in Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel’s libel suit against former San Ignacio Town Mayor Marconi Matus and People’s United Party Chairman Jorge Espat ended late this evening in the Supreme Court. The trial, which opened on Monday, heard testimony from eight witnesses, including the Prime Minister and two of his bodyguards. Today, defense attorney […]
In other political news, both the People’s United Party and the United Democratic Party have postponed upcoming public gatherings due to inclement weather. The U.D.P.’s “Double Victory Celebration” scheduled for tonight will now be amalgamated into the party’s July twelfth special national conference at Bird’s Isle, while the P.U.P.’s “Five Years is Five Years” mass […]
The nineteenth CARICOM Summit opened this evening in St. Lucia. Among the Heads of Government slated to be on hand was Belize’s Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel, although in pictures down linked via satellite this evening the Belize P.M. was nowhere to be found. The meeting is expected to further the integration process and take concrete […]
Summertime can mean both joy and boredom for many Belizean children. Some are fortunate to go away for their vacation, while thousands of others are left behind, often with little to do. Thanks to St. Mary’s Church, however, for the past eight years Belize City kids have been engaging in organized activities and touring some […]
Belize is no stranger to missionaries as they’ve been coming and going to and from these shores for just about as long as their more famous contemporaries, the pirates. But arriving today at the Philip Goldson International Airport was not your usual band of bible toting strangers. These ladies, as their name suggests, are coming […]
He’s one of the hottest performers on the punta rock scene but many Belizeans know more about the music than the man. News Five’s Arreini Palacio caught up with Aziatic last week as he recorded his latest CD in Belize City. Aziatic, Musician “I constantly try to get stuff out, you know. That is what […]
The drought that once plagued Belize’s quest for regional recognition in the world of sports is officially over. At least for basketball as the national male team proved to thousands who crammed the City Centre on Friday night that they are for real. As James Adderley tells us in tonight’s Shell CARICOM Report, not since […]
In crime news, police have reported the brutal attack of a young couple in the wee hours of Sunday morning in Orange Walk. A twenty one year old woman told police that she and eighteen year old Roberto Herbert were accosted as they drove along Price Avenue in Orange Walk Town by five men armed […]
Two people lost their lives in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Friday night police say they found the body of Windel Middleton in a ditch just off Constitution Drive in Belmopan. According to the police, Middleton was in control of a car that was being towed, when another vehicle traveling in the opposite […]
Opening arguments were heard this morning in the Prime Minister’s libel suit against P.U.P. councilor in the San Ignacio Town Board, Marconi Matus. At a press conference in Belize City last February, Matus alleged that the P.M. knew of and supported attempts to bribe him to cross the floor. Matus also claims that he met […]
When he left the witness stand shortly before midday, the Prime Minister was off to the International Airport, headed for Castries, St. Lucia. There Esquivel will join other regional leaders for the nineteenth CARICOM Heads of Government Conference which opens on Tuesday. The week long meeting, which coincides with the Caribbean Community’s twenty fifth anniversary, […]
While the Prime Minister will take a break from domestic affairs and local politics for a few days, the country will at best have to wait for his return to find out the date for general elections. Constitutionally, the life of the current National Assembly expires on July fifteenth, but before he left for the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. Saturday at the M.C.C. Grounds saw the National Cricket Competition try to reach its natural conclusion. It’s Brilliant of Crooked Tree in action against Tropical Disturbance in a rubber-match and indeed it seems this series may never finish. The defending champion Brilliant […]
If Thursday night’s semi-final round of the CARICOM Basketball Tournament was the refiners fire for the Belize National Male Team, then tonight’s championship match should add even more luster to those gold medals that the team’s eyes are fixed on. But the Belizeans know that as in any sports, it’s never wise to count the […]
The Society for the Promotion of Education and Research, SPEAR, and Assad Shoman have won a libel suit against the Banana Growers Association. The suit was brought against the B.G.A. in connection with allegations made by members of the Association during a strike in 1995 that SPEAR and Shoman had instigated violence, which resulted in […]
In news from the political arena, the application for judicial review of the appointment of the latest commission of inquiry probing P.U.P. leader Said Musa’s handling of the Economic Citizenship Programme, hit a snag in the Supreme Court this morning. Lawyers representing Musa came to the courthouse expecting a ruling on their application filed against […]
Since its establishment in the early sixties, the Development Finance Corporation has grown to become an important part of the Belizean landscape. Its presence has been felt in virtually every aspect of the country’s economic development including agriculture and housing. Today the corporation had its services on display and News Five’s Arreini Palacio was among […]
The final days of the school year are usually a time for reflection by both students and teachers on the successes and failures of the previous nine months. It is also a time to make plans for the long summer holiday. And while we regularly focus on the children from mainstream educational institutions, yesterday News […]
Belize may be in the middle of a heated general election campaign, but for the last week and a half, this popular pastime has taken a back seat to basketball. And while the CARICOM Tournament ends tonight, the stellar performance of the Belize male team will no doubt be a hot topic of conversation for […]
It is a story that has the basic elements to fit neatly into a made for television movie of the week. But instead of a Hollywood production studio, the sickening scene was played out in a Belize City hotel room and the principal actors are as Belizean as rice and beans. Nineteen year old Jose […]
In other crime news Belize City police had a surprise on Wednesday for a young man wanted in connection with the theft of guns and ammunition from the Brodies Warehouse last month. According to police sixteen year old Aaron Mariano was a happy spectator at a basketball game at the Yabra Court when they drove […]
