Not content to merely hang out a shingle and wait for customers, a number of Belize’s furniture manufacturers teamed up this weekend to show off their creations. The air at the Fiesta Inn was thick with the smell of sawdust and varnish… and News Five’s Patrick Jones was one of many on hand to take […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this CARICOM serving of Sports Monday. The fourteenth CARICOM Basketball Championships gets off at the City Centre on Friday night June nineteenth with six Caribbean nations participating. Here at the sports desk we felt there were a number of questions that needed answered before opening night so […]
He is the Minister of Finance but until today Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel had kept a low public profile on the new tax that he plans to impose on business people. But in a marathon meeting held this morning at the Biltmore, the P.M. broke his silence and stood toe to toe with some of […]
The Western Highway was a deadly place for road users this week. Fifty-two year old Orlando Sosa of Belmopan is the third victim of a traffic fatality on that road in as many days. According to police, Sosa was attempting to cross the highway in Roaring Creek Village around seven thirty Thursday night when he […]
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 […]
Football fans who want to follow their favorite teams this weekend will have no shortage of action as the closet thing to local favorites — Mexico and Jamaica — will be playing their inaugural matches. On Saturday morning our northern neighbor takes on South Korea at nine thirty while Sunday afternoon at one the Reggae […]
We’ve been wondering when News Five commentator G. Michael Reid would take a break from the City Centre and basketball to cast his watchful eye on the state of the treasury. Tonight he has the last word on a familiar topic: taxes. “There is an old adage, which suggest that nothing in this world is […]
The ongoing battle between the Belize City Council and Central Government may have been off the front pages for a few weeks but it doesn’t mean that the two have buried the hatchet. The latest dispute centers around the payment of VAT. A number of CITCO’s creditors have discovered that bills paid by City Hall […]
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 […]
In crime news, police have moved quickly to bring drug trafficking charges against four people who were busted in an anti-drug operation on Tuesday. Adolfo Zetina, Ernesto Acosta, Aldo Trejo and Alvaro Trejo are jointly charged with the offenses of supplying controlled drugs and conspiracy to commit drug trafficking. Additionally, Ernesto Acosta and a fifth […]
While police successful apprehended a group of alleged drug traffickers in the north, in Cayo a pair of cops almost got run over in their attempt to apprehend two suspects. A police patrol on the Western Highway in Santa Elena Town early Wednesday morning spotted a parked vehicle belonging to Charles Trapp. The police say […]
The Mennonite farmer whose vehicle knocked down and killed an eight year old girl in Blackman Eddy Village on Tuesday evening has been charged with a number of traffic related offenses. Forty- seven year old Otto Reimer now faces charges of driving without due care and attention, manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless […]
Regional police prosecutors will be sharpening their court room skills this weekend. The Drug Control Legal Training Program, to be held June twelfth to the fifteenth at the Fiesta Inn, will have the participation of forty-one prosecutors from Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Cayman and Belize. The program, which is funded by the United […]
Medical authorities say that while there may not be a large-scale outbreak of cholera in the Cayo District, they have confirmed one case involving a seventeen-year-old young man from Benque Viejo del Carmen. It is believed the man may have fell ill after he came in contact with food from across the Guatemalan border. One […]
This year the accounting firm of Pannel Kerr Forster is celebrating it’s golden anniversary and as a part of the festivities they have given something back to the community. The firm sponsored a walk-a-thon from Ladyville to Belize City on April twenty-fifth, which brought in over eleven thousand dollars. This money was handed over to […]
It was a quick pick ticket that won Saturday night’s lotto draw. Corozal Town’s Maria Oliva bought her numbers last week Friday, as she normally does, but this time the result was slightly out of the ordinary as the ticket was worth sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. After giving Government its fifteen percent share of […]
Members of Belize’s business community will be hoping for similar luck tomorrow morning as they meet with Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel to discuss the heavily debated new tax bill. The meeting, scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Biltmore, will be the first time the P.M. has discussed the matter in a public forum and may […]
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 […]
Just because you live in a concrete house it doesn’t mean you’re safe from the peril of fire. One Belize City family discovered that fact the hard way this afternoon around three thirty. By the time the fire service arrived on the scene, the upstairs of the four bedroom concrete house was already in full […]
A Belize City man was killed this afternoon when the vehicle he had hitched a ride in, overturned on the Western Highway. Tony Enriquez was riding in the back of this pickup truck that was heading west towards Belmopan when he was apparently flung to his death. Lawrence Cayetano, driver of the vehicle, told police […]
An eight-year-old girl suffered the same fate on Tuesday evening further up the same highway. Forty seven year old Otto Reimer of Spanish Lookout told police he was driving his pickup truck through Unitedville Village around four fifteen Tuesday evening, when one of two children on bicycles, rode across the highway in front of him. […]
It was significantly less than the dramatic bust at the Port late last month; nonetheless, the cops have chalked up another victory in the war on narcotics. Four people were detained on Tuesday as a result of an anti-drug operation in the Corozal District. Police say they intercepted a blue pickup truck on the outskirts […]
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 […]
Viewers who are familiar with News Five’s Website on the Internet will now find that doing research has become much easier. A new feature of the site now allows visitors to do a keyword search of every story broadcast since January thirteenth. The search can be done by topics, names or places. If you wanted […]
If you’ve ever tried to have furniture made around Christmas time you know that, because of the huge demand, you’ll be lucky to get it by Easter. But now, with the sun shining hot and the sawmills spitting out lumber by the truckload, Belize’s furniture makers are in a mood to show off what they’ve […]
