Civilization, in the form of roads, drains, electricity and water, is slowly coming to the wet and wild areas of Lake Independence. The problem, as we found out this morning, is that sometimes there’s a house in the way. It all began Tuesday morning when Shawn Lemmott woke up to the sounds of someone chopping […]
Teachers and students at the nation’s primary schools may be preparing for exams and looking forward to a summer of academic freedom, but today in Belize City one school got a late semester gift that promises to make life better for future graduates. The staff and students of Holy Redeemer Upper School took a break […]
It had all the elements of a comic crime caper worthy of such esteemed novelists as Elmore Leonard or Donald Westlake. But this wasn’t fiction and tonight four men are facing the hard reality of prison life, having been accused of involvement in a scheme to send three thousand pounds of weed to Miami in […]
There may not be a crime involved but tonight the family of fifteen year old Joyce Hemmans is in need of your help. According to Hemmans’ mother, Emily Bethram, her daughter, who lives on Faber’s Road Extension with her grandmother, was sent about two blocks away to get some water shortly after eight on Thursday […]
Middle managers from the public and private sectors in the Caribbean and Canada are meeting in Belize this week to try and figure out how both groups can work more closely. Over forty top-level officials including permanent secretaries from Belize are attending the three-day conference, which opened today at the Radisson Hotel. Organizers say the […]
Hundreds of primary school children, teachers and residents of the Stann Creek and Toledo Districts are the latest beneficiaries of infrastructural assistance from the Social Investment Fund. Three new projects funded by SIF were handed over on Monday. They include the rehabilitation of the Holy Angels Primary School and principal’s office in Pomona Village, Stann […]
The Belize Tourist Board is happily reporting a healthy increase in tourist arrivals. They quote airport statistics showing that the number of tourists arriving during the first three months of the year — the heart of the season — increased by ten point six five percent over the similar period in 1997 to thirty one […]
Football fans who are not sure where to find their favorite World Cup team will get a little break these next few weeks, courtesy of Channel Five and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union. As was the case with the Atlanta Olympics, the broadcast rights to the competition are owned by the C.B.U., but other broadcasters and […]
With Belizean women being visible everywhere from the bases to the boardrooms we are no longer surprised when we see a female in what was once considered an exclusively male occupation. But one profession has managed to resist feminine integration — until now that is. Since the birth of Tropic Air in 1979, the San […]
Belize’s streets and highways were once again the scene of death and destruction over the weekend as two were killed and several injured in road accidents. On Sunday night a collision between a motorcycle and a bicycle at the Cinderella Plaza junction claimed the life of a thirty year old woman. According to police at […]
Another motorcycle accident, this time on the Western Highway just outside Benque Viejo, has left a Cayo man hospitalized. Twenty year old Marlon Tillett was reportedly driving his motorcycle towards San Ignacio when he collided with a cow between miles seventy one and seventy two. When police arrived on the scene around one fifteen Sunday […]
Corozal police meanwhile are investigating the death of a four-year-old girl in Progresso Village on Saturday. Thirty year old Herman Villas told police he was driving through the village around four o’ clock, Saturday afternoon when he accidentally ran over Cruzita Guerra. The little girl was dead on arrival at the Corozal hospital. Villas has […]
In other crime news, eight Belize City men ranging in ages from eighteen to twenty nine, were marched to Magistrates court this afternoon to answer to a book of charges in connection with the theft of firearms and ammunition from the Brodies warehouse. Jiovanni Lauriano, Byron Gillett, Deon Burns, Jason King, Leslie Williams, Herman Flowers, […]
A Belize City man accused of bribing the police has been acquitted. Twenty one year old Lionel Castillo appeared in Magistrate’s Court this morning charged with two counts of corruption, but it wasn’t long after the session started that Magistrate Dorothy Flowers threw out the case for lack of evidence. According to police, Castillo acted […]
A new temporary Justice of the Supreme Court was sworn in this morning by Governor General Sir Colville Young, and by afternoon he was scheduled to begin hearing cases. The appointment of Justice Howard Nathan was made possible by the Australian Legal Resources International in conjunction with the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation. It is […]
On Friday night the P.U.P.’s People’s Assembly wheeled into Punta Gorda and opposition leader Said Musa used the opportunity to outline his party’s policies on land use and home ownership. For the southernmost district Musa promised the creation of a Toledo Development Corporation to implement a master development plan for the area. With regard to […]
In other news from the south a man who dedicated much of his life to the improvement of the Toledo District, not to mention the rest of Belize, has died. Charles Wright passed away on Saturday in Punta Gorda only a few days short of his eighty-third birthday. Wright first came to Belize in 1952 […]
In diplomatic news the new Guatemalan ambassador to Belize this morning presented his credentials to Governor General Sir Colville Young. He is Rafael Salazar. Salazar replaces Antonio Castellanos who has been reassigned as his nation’s top envoy to Israel. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel is heading a three-member delegation to a meeting of the Caribbean […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re inside Sports Monday. The Yabra Sporting Club of Belize City went inside M.C.C. Grounds yesterday with its back against the wall, needing a win desperately against Juventud Benquena to move on to the semi-final round of the Belize Football League Knock-Out Tournament. Last week it was Juventud with […]
It was conducted with all the seriousness of a general election. And while these ballots took a little longer to count, the results of last Thursday’s UNICEF sponsored voting on children’s rights were no less important. Patrick Jones was on hand at the Radisson for the announcement. Marleni Cuellar, UNICEF Children’s Advisory Committee “We the […]
The Archaeology Department will begin salvage excavations next week on the ancient Maya mound at Nohmul, which was bulldozed last weekend. Archaeology Commissioner John Morris told News Five that his staff will first seek to determine the extent of the damage at the site, located in the Orange Walk District, and will then proceed to […]
In crime news closer to home — much closer actually — several members of News Five’s staff were on the scene last night as three gunshots went off across the street from our studios. The next thing we knew a man with a gun appeared and asked us if we could please call the police. […]
It’s been a long while since the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives has gotten such a workout, but then again it’s not every day that the government proposes to overhaul the tax system. The National Assembly has announced that a further committee meeting will be held in Belmopan on June seventeenth […]
And while we all know that government must indeed get its share, accountant, Cedric Flowers took issue with the perceived slur on his profession’s reputation. Cedric Flowers, Accountant “Stuart, I must let the commissioner know that I strongly object to this notion of creative accountants and creativity. There’s nothing wrong with accountants being creative, it’s […]
The subject of basketball is never far from the heart of News Five commentator G. Michael Reid and with the NBA finals on the tube and the CARICOM Championships around the corner he’s ready to take another shot. “I was on foot this past Monday morning and just happen to be passing the Civic Center. […]
