While the election campaign continues to intensify, at least two of the major players on the government side will be taking a few days off from the mayhem to attend to affairs of state. Foreign Minister Dean Barrow left today and Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel will depart tomorrow for a summit of leaders from Central […]
It’s been a festering sore point in relations between the United States and Belize… that is, the perception that local law enforcement authorities were not as tough as they should be in the war against narcotics. But aside from criticism, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is also offering a helping hand. A two-day seminar on […]
In times of peace prepare for war. That’s what many primary school teachers are doing this summer. But this war, according to News Five’s Arreini Palacio, may be a beneficial one. Come this September, learning ABC’s and 123’s in Belize District primary schools will be a little bit more fun for students. Over one hundred […]
If you took a poll to name the most admired women in the Caribbean the name of Billie Miller of Barbados would likely be somewhere near the top of the list. And if you changed the word “women” to “people” the result just might be the same. Miller was in Belize today to lend support […]
We are not really sure when the 1998 election campaign actually started — indeed it may have begun on July first, 1993 — but at least we now know when it will end. Patrick Jones was on hand for the Prime Minister’s big announcement on Sunday and files the following report. Thousands of U.D.P. supporters […]
His opponents may have assembled thousands strong and much of their rhetoric was directed squarely against him, but today opposition leader Said Musa says that his party is ready to go toe to toe with the U.D.P. … and that includes a debate with Manuel Esquivel. Musa laid down that challenge, and a few others, […]
Along with the pitched battle going on in the political arena Said Musa and the P.U.P. have their hands full in another venue: the Supreme Court. There are several dozen libel suits against the party newspaper, The Belize Times, which may come up over the next few months and today the court of Justice Nathan […]
The announcement of the date for general elections has not only set numerous political wheels into motion but also has the news media reacting as well. Today Channel Five and Love FM announced plans to provide joint coverage on election day and night. According to station heads Stewart Krohn and Rene Villanueva, the live broadcast, […]
In crime news police have released the results of a postmortem conducted on the body of naturalized Belizean Rosanne Orrizzi. It shows that she died of gunshot wounds to the head. Orrizzi’s partially decomposed body was discovered last Thursday in the yard of her farm in upper Barton Creek in the Cayo District. Police have […]
In the Toledo District a farmer from San Antonio has died, apparently the result of an accident. Police report that on Saturday afternoon 44 year old Francisco Sho was repairing the roof of his house when he slipped and fell to the ground head first. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Punta Gorda Hospital.
In a death that appeared to be anything but accidental police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a body found floating in the Belize River. On Saturday morning authorities were called to the village of Flower’s Bank where they retrieved the decomposing corpse, which displayed a number of severe cut wounds. The body, […]
The countries at either end of the Caribbean may be several thousand miles apart but they all share the resources of a single body of water. This morning I sat in on a session intended to make the fishermen as multinational as the seafood they catch. For the first time fishing communities and organizations from […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to another great serving of Sports Monday. The B.F.L. three game championship series kicked off last Sunday with Juventus of Orange Walk handing Real Verdes a 2-1 punch at the People’s Stadium. Obviously, going into yesterday’s ball game Real Verdes needed at least a big “W” to force […]
A crime wave that seems to be sweeping the once peaceful rural areas of Belize has now engulfed the Cayo District. On Thursday evening police discovered the decomposing body of forty-four year old Rosanne Orizzi at her farm in upper Barton Creek. Orizzi, a U.S. born naturalized Belizean citizen, has lived on her own in […]
Intensive investigations are becoming commonplace these days as citizens throughout the country are beginning to wonder just what has gone wrong in the jewel. Three men are still being sought in Sunday’s murder of a tourist in Maya Beach, a gang of men who shot up a car carrying three Mennonite girls is still on […]
In related news the Belize Tourism Industry Association along with affiliated hotel, tour operator and ecotourism bodies, has issued a press release expressing outrage at what they call the recent crime wave against both citizens and visitors. To do something about it B.T.I.A. says that, with the support of the Tourist Board, it is exploring […]
If any viewers out there were hoping for a special surprise at today’s meeting of the House and Senate they were disappointed, as the legislature closed with something less than a bang. Patrick Jones spent most of the day on Independence Hill and brings us the following report. Other than a couple of bills for […]
The intention had been announced several months ago but yesterday it became official. As part of a global forgiving of debt owed by developing nations, the United Kingdom has announced that Belize will be exempted from repaying over three point seven million Belize dollars in loans that would otherwise have fallen due between April and […]
The long awaited official opening of the YWCA swimming pool took place this evening at the Y’s headquarters on St. Thomas Street. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand for the festivities and spoke to some of those behind the newly refurbished facility. Barbara Harris, Former President, YWCA “We have always, at the YWCA, looked […]
A new concept in regional broadcasting will be tested on Monday night as viewers in over sixteen Caribbean territories will tune in to “Talk Caribbean,” the Caribbean Broadcasting Union’s first attempt at live interactive television. In good news for Belizean viewers the show’s time has been pushed back to seven thirty, allowing our newscast to […]
He’s traveled the length and breadth of Belize in pursuit of his craft but this week News Five commentator G. Michael Reid reports from a place where he does not wish to linger. “This past Wednesday July 8th, I paid a visit to her majesty’s prison. No, it wasn’t the Family Court again thank God, […]
The first reports came in just as we were preparing to go on the air with last night’s newscast. But we managed to dispatch a crew to the International Airport just as night was falling and with a little bit of luck and a lot of ingenuity reporter Patrick Jones, cameraman Wilson Pat and driver […]
It comes four days after the outrageous hold up and murder at the Singing Sands Inn on the Placencia Peninsula, but police have announced a major breakthrough in their investigation. They have made a positive I.D. of at least two suspects and have released the photograph of a boat, believed to have been used as […]
As an expression of hope and faith it was an effort that should have earned SPEAR and the Chamber of Commerce a medal of honor. As a matter if realpolitik it turned out that the skeptics were right. After nine months of effort the two N.G.O.s will be throwing in the towel when it comes […]
Residents of King’s Park have passed by it daily for over eight years, a crumbling reminder that good intentions do not always produce the intended results. But Arreini Palacio tells us that the onetime eyesore of St. Thomas Street is about to become a magnet for residents of the recreation starved city. With the summer […]
