It was created with a dramatic fanfare that promised more than it could ever hope to deliver. But after three and a half sometimes controversial years, the organization which was born at the Bird’s Isle gang truce has evolved into an institution, earning high marks in the process. It has been one of the rare […]
He was apprehended Wednesday morning in Cotton Tree and today former fugitive Douglas Williams was held accountable for a pair of crimes allegedly committed while he was on the run. The thirty three-year-old native of Roaring Creek has been charged with murder in the October 1997 killing of retired public officer Joseph Bulwer at Bulwer’s […]
The Police investigation of Monday’s major marijuana bust at the Belize City Port seems to be stuck in first gear. Truck owner Ernesto Castillo and driver Arthur Tillett were released from police detention Wednesday night after questioning. According to Superintendent Gerald Westby, the investigation is being focussed in the north, supposedly where the rented container […]
Meanwhile charges have been brought against three Belize City youths in connection with last Saturday’s burglary of the Brodies Warehouse in downtown Belize City. Nineteen year old Troy Card, twenty four year old Tyrone Augustine and twenty five year old Kelvin Francis were today charged with a total of twenty six counts of possession of […]
In political news the United Democratic Party has announced a change in its Orange Walk electoral lineup. In a move which is designed to enhance the party’s chances in the Orange Walk South division Dr. Luis Carillo has stepped down as standard bearer, in favor of a candidate to be chosen in an upcoming convention. […]
The People’s United Party has officially declared its opposition to the new business tax proposed by the government. Calling the new measure unfair, inflationary and detrimental to the nation’s economic health, a P.U.P. release says that the accompanying cut in personal income tax is merely a shameless and irresponsible attempt to buy votes and that […]
Two people who may not be worrying about taxes right now are Carlos Mendez of Belize City and Javier Itza of San Jose Succotz. Their names were picked in a drawing held June first and they, along with earlier winner Juanito Cocom, have won an all expense paid trip to the World Cup in France […]
Viewers who are today old enough to be starting families may remember growing up with Radio Belize and the Colgate Cavity Fighters Club. Today, twenty years later, that company is still fighting cavities, albeit on a larger scale. Over the past several years the Colgate – Palmolive company has consistently aided Caribbean countries in dental […]
If you own a vehicle and work downtown you know that the daily search for a parking space can mean drama. But if you think things are tight now, just wait. In 1990, after the water tank on the property was dismantled, the Belize City Council got permission from the Ministry of Lands to use […]
There may be viewers who are tired of police press conferences but even those weary souls will have to admit that today’s presentation by Commissioner Ornel Brooks, ably assisted by Minister Dean Barrow and Permanent Secretary Carlos Perdomo, was a command performance… and what it may have occasionally lacked in detail it made up in […]
Commissioner of Police Ornel Brooks was obviously on a roll this morning as he turned his attention to the weekend robbery of guns and ammunition from the Brodies Warehouse in Belize City. Brooks said diligent police work over the last four days has resulted in the recovery of all the stolen ammunition and almost all […]
The next item on the Commissioner’s short but power-packed agenda was the container full of weed that was found at the Port Authority on Monday. After the cache was unloaded, Brooks said the eighty four parcels of compressed marijuana tipped the scale at one thousand, three hundred and sixty four kilos, which translates to a […]
It was left off the Commissioner’s initial running order for this morning’s press conference. And the news that the long arm of the law had finally caught up with fugitive Douglas Williams — itself a headline story — was almost lost in the barrage of information the police were throwing at the media. Ornel Brooks, […]
The Orange Walk Rotary Club and Life Enhancement Association for people, LEAP, will be offering Belizeans, especially children, the opportunity to have corrective surgery on facial deformities free of cost this weekend. The LEAP team, of nineteen people, including two surgeons, will be arriving for their annual visit to Orange Walk on Thursday, where they […]
The Ambergris Historical Society will be receiving a grant of seven thousand U.S. dollars courtesy of the Inter-American Development Bank. The funds given through the I.D.B.’s Cultural Center in Washington D.C., are provided annually to cultural associations or societies that are in need of financial help. According to Peter Laws, a V.S.O. professional volunteering as […]
They’ve been a part of the Belizean landscape for the past thirty-six years and their presence will continue to be felt as twenty-four new U.S. Peace Corps volunteers arrive on our shores on Monday June eighth. These volunteers will undergo eight weeks of training living with host families in seven rural villages: Hattieville, Burrell Boom, […]
The golden stars of the Belize District Children’s Festival of Arts will be giving an encore presentation of their award winning performances this week. There were over one hundred and twenty golden certificates awarded during this year’s two-week festival, with performances taking place both day and night at the Bliss Institute. Walking away with top […]
It may be too early to know if Belize has produced another Marion Jones, but even if she never sets a world record, there’s a young lady from Ladyville who has made us proud. Arreini Palacio reports. These may look like medals accumulate by a seasoned athlete but they belong to thirteen year old Tracy […]
It is only fitting to end this elongated newscast by turning from the beauty to … the beast. Residents of King’s Park and Caribbean Shores may want to keep an extra sharp eye out tonight as this afternoon several residents, including News Five’s driver Stephen Ferguson, reported seeing a crocodile measuring around ten feet in […]
With so much cocaine coming in and out of Belize it was beginning to look like the whole of the country was one big flourmill. The result was that the homegrown marijuana industry, once renowned worldwide for “Belize Breeze,” had almost been overlooked. No longer… thanks to a massive bust this morning in Belize City. […]
It may not have been as audacious as the Brodies theft, but when it comes to guns, a political candidate in Cayo has reported a robbery of epic proportions. Fifty-year-old San Ignacio businessman Ainsley Leslie, who is also the P.U.P. candidate in Cayo North, told police that on the afternoon of May thirty first his […]
There were no guns evident in Belmopan today but close to forty people showed up to take aim at the new business tax proposed by the Esquivel administration. The occasion was a public hearing on the legislation before the House Ways and Means Committee. The committee, chaired by Melvin Hulse and including Dito Juan, Salvador […]
Reports from the north indicate that one of the area’s major Maya sites has been excavated…not by archaeologists, but by a public works crew building cane feeder roads. A report on LOVE FM indicated that tour operator Tom Greenwood, who visited the site this morning, found that half of one mound at the site, which […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported on a new court being laid down at City Centre just in time for the CARICOM Basketball Championships. Today the B.N.B.A. called journalists together for an update on the big event. The competition, which starts on June eighteenth at the Belize City Centre, features six female and male teams from […]
The first time we saw Stephen Okeke, it was to admire his life-size sculptures of famous figures from Belize’s past. We next found him turning commonplace items like coconut shells and cohune leaves into arts and crafts. Today News Five’s Patrick Jones found him working with a new medium. The flashy pieces of wood sculptures […]
