With only minutes to go until tonight’s opening tip-off all eyes are now turned to center court. This morning News Five’s James Adderley took a run over to Belize City Centre for a peek at last minute preparations. We’ll join him inside for tonight’s Shell CARICOM Report. Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to […]
He is a man of many parts and in tonight’s commentary News Five’s G. Michael Reid holds forth on several of his favorite topics including taxes, family court and the basketball court. “In last week’s commentary I erroneously credited the ignoble “only the poor pay taxes” quote to Imelda Marcos. As it was pointed out […]
Belize may be in the final stretch of a crucial election campaign, the National Assembly is poised to pass a radical new tax bill and at least one — and perhaps two — gangs of heavily armed killers are roaming the countryside. But all those events, normally the bread and butter of broadcast news, have […]
There is very little in the way of new information to report tonight on Monday’s shooting in Spanish Lookout. Police continue to comb the hills out west for a group of gunmen who terrorized three Mennonite girls and left one wounded. According to the officer in charge of the San Ignacio police station, three people […]
In political news, the House of Representatives meets tomorrow in Belmopan, and while the government will no doubt push through its new tax proposals, the opposition People’s United Party will not be a part of the debate. Instead the P.U.P. will hold a press conference Friday morning in Belize City at which leader Said Musa […]
Politicians may be slugging it out in the war of words, but others are fighting for real. Not all the action will be on the basketball court, fists and feet will be flying at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall, as Belizean karate students, some as young as five years old, will be battling against the […]
While things appear to be going well for the Belize Team on the court, the overall organization of the CARICOM Basketball Championships reminds us that… well… this is the Caribbean. Case in point: the Jamaican National Teams. Both the men’s and women’s squads are defending champions but thus far they’ve been defending no-shows. Scheduled to […]
When we received word on Tuesday that a group of men had shot and wounded a twenty three year old Mennonite woman as she drove through Spanish Lookout on Monday night, we were immediately reminded of the brutal May second murder and mass robbery on the Hummingbird Highway. Today News Five’s Patrick Jones traveled to […]
Another baby has died under tragic but all too familiar circumstances in Belize City. Police report that at around five Tuesday evening twenty four year old Ivoney Copius of Queen Charlotte Street was informed by her neighbor, Denise Underwood, that Ivoney’s son, fifteen month old Richard Gentle, had fallen into a bucket of water at […]
The body of a missing man has been discovered in Cayo, apparently the victim of a suicide. On Tuesday afternoon San Ignacio police were called to the Gallo Blanco area where they found the badly decomposed body of Mainor Shershante hanging by a rope from a tree. It awaits a post mortem at the San […]
In another case in which the post mortem has been completed, it has been determined that Rafael Aquino, whose body was found Monday in Dangriga, died of a blood clot on his brain.
Until now Belize’s National Basketball team has been the only game in town. No longer. The first of their five CARICOM opponents arrived this morning, equipped with both first division college and semi pro experience. The eleven member male team from the Bahamas has been working out for the past two weeks and News Five’s […]
Managers of drug prevention and mental health programs from thirteen Caribbean countries are taking part in two training workshops in Belize. The first of these sessions started today at the Radisson Fort George Hotel. The four-day workshop, which is being hosted by the National Drug Abuse Control Council, is part of an education program for […]
We’re all familiar with the saying, “Empty crocus sack kyaahn stand up.” That proverb’s equivalent wisdom in the world of education is that “a starving student can’t learn.” This morning I found one Belize City school that’s taken on the task of filling that empty crocus sack with some healthy food. There was good reason […]
The details are sketchy, as the tightly knit community of Spanish Lookout is not known for aggressively telling its stories, but News Five has confirmed that an attack was carried out last night on a Mennonite woman by a gang of armed men. At around eight o’clock Monday night twenty four-year-old Nellie Plett was driving […]
A major disaster was narrowly averted in Belize City this morning as a crane collapsed at the site of the Swing Bridge renovation. Around eleven thirty one of two cranes currently working on the project, buckled under the weight of a thirteen hundred pound wrecking ball that was being used to break up the bridge’s […]
A one-month-old baby has died in Belize City. Twenty one year old Denise Flowers of North Creek reported to police that on Saturday night she fed her daughter Neicha and put her to sleep around eleven thirty. When she next saw the infant at six thirty Sunday morning she was not moving. Neicha was rushed […]
A Dangriga man has also been found dead, under even more mysterious circumstances. Forty two year old Rafael Aquino was discovered by police at five forty-five Monday morning lying in a hammock under his house on Vincent Street. A cut wound had been inflicted on his right ear. After being taken to Dangriga Hospital he […]
Training for police prosecutors form around the Caribbean continued yesterday at the Fiesta Inn, with the instruction moving out of the classroom and into the courtroom. A total of forty-one regional police prosecutors took part in the mock trial that involved the fictitious case of Sarah Cummings and Marcia Henry. The two women were caught […]
After several weeks of secrecy the Belize men’s selection for the upcoming CARICOM basketball championships was unveiled late this afternoon at City Centre. News Five was on hand for the event and our reporters have just returned from the gym. A dozen giants descended on the Belize Civic Center this afternoon to play ball. The […]
While the players are eager to start the action, the coaches and administrators are also looking forward to hosting Belize’s first major regional sporting event. Patrick Jones, checked to see if they’re ready. When the tournament tips off on Friday night, organizers say the team carrying the blue, red and white will represent the best […]
If history is any indication, third parties in Belizean politics are about as welcome as a case of pink eye. But that hasn’t stopped prospective candidates in the past and likely won’t deter them in the future. As for the present, the People’s Democratic Party invited the press to see what it has to offer […]
This weekend the Western Highway continued to uphold its reputation for traffic fatalities as a hit and run has left one man dead. Forty five year old Lincoln Hyde of Cotton Tree Village was pronounced dead on arrival at San Ignacio Hospital after he was knocked down sometime after midnight on Saturday morning near mile […]
An apparent suicide has taken the life of a watchman at Long Caye. On Saturday morning a fisherman and his son arrived at the thinly populated island, located between St. George’s and Caye Chapel, where they discovered the body of forty one year old Frank Young. It was hanging with a rope around the neck […]
A third case of cholera has been reported in the Cayo District. According to Luis Godoy, the Public Health Officer for the Cayo District, on Saturday a thirty-three year old woman from Succotz Village was confirmed with the disease. The latest incident follows the first cholera case, which was reported last week Thursday, after a […]
