While much of the news media was hot on the trail of disasters, both physical and political, I had the more pleasant task of meeting with a group of young Belizeans whom I suspect will be bringing joy to our ears for many years to come. Since Monday, the group of twenty students has been […]
As I speak hope appears to be fading in the search for any survivors in a plane crash that was first reported to our newsroom only twenty five minutes ago. Air traffic controllers at Philip Goldson International have just told News Five that a foreign registered twin engine Beechcraft fifty-eight with four people aboard took […]
It’s a slow news day so we’re forced to lead tonight’s broadcast with the type of story that, mercifully, only seems to pop up during election campaigns. Appearing this morning on radio station FM Two Thousand’s “Breakfast Show,” U.D.P. Mesopotamia representative Michael Finnegan showed why he has been properly placed as Minister of Mobilization. While […]
Three Caye Caulker fishermen set out on a fishing trip to Turneffe three days ago, but what they hauled in was not what they expected. It was big, blue and had two three hundred fifty horse power diesel engines. According to B.D.F. Maritime Wing officials, they suspect that the boat, which was towed into Belize […]
Since their arrival in Belize in the fifties, the Mennonites have over the years kept a low profile. But in the last couple of months, they’ve exploded onto the news scene in dramatic fashion, being implicated in everything from drug busts to phony gun licenses. Today’s news, however, is more tragic. Orange Walk police say […]
Members of the press are speaking out in protest over what they perceive to be ill treatment by the organizers of the upcoming prime ministerial debate. At an organizational meeting held Tuesday night journalists seeking to rekindle a press association took issue with statements allegedly made by SPEAR and the Chamber of Commerce to the […]
She carries a name which is synonymous with music in Belize, but it was not her name which earned Natasha Young a place in one of the world’s finest music schools; it was her talent. Arreini Palacio reports. Natasha Young, Musician “you can really like put your soul and mind to it and express yourself […]
While a story earlier in this newscast may indicate otherwise, there is much more going on in Belizean waters than the transshipment of drugs. Tonight, in the second part of our story on the conservation of marine resources, we’ll see what steps fishermen are taking to insure the survival of their industry. Alan Burn, Chairman, […]
No arrests have yet been made but police tonight are a little bit closer to discovering the identities of three men who murdered a U.S. tourist Sunday night in Maya Beach. Interviews with robbery victims and investigations in the villages of Seine Bight and Placencia have led police to conclude that the three assailants were […]
In a follow-up to another major crime, this one just across the Guatemalan border, authorities in Melchor say wounded police chief Carlos Sanchez remains hospitalized but his condition has been upgraded to stable. The wounded driver of his patrol car, however, is listed in critical condition. Both men were injured when two teenagers went on […]
A thirteen-year-old Belize City girl was wounded on Saturday by a bullet that was meant for someone else. According to police, the girl, who they declined to identify, was sitting on her fence on Central American Boulevard, when her father, twenty-seven year old Windell Neal came running into the yard. Following close behind was twenty-five […]
As part of its efforts to encourage and promote the protection, conservation and enhancement of Belize’s natural resources, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, has awarded one hundred thousand dollars to four different Conservation organizations from across the country. Green Reef, Belize Enterprise for Sustainable Technology, Caye Caulker B.T.I.A. and the Conservation Division of the […]
Fifteen young Belizeans will this summer be the lucky recipients of scholarships to learn SCUBA diving. The program, offered by Coral Cay Conservation and U.C.B., with assistance from the Fisheries Department and Belize Texaco Limited, is the fourth of its kind to take place in Belize City. The program is divided into two sessions and […]
The third winner in the Courts Serious Cash Two draw today traveled to Belize City from Orange Walk, but it wasn’t for shopping. Instead, Jose Baeza had an appointment with Courts Advertising and Promotions Executive Anamarie Bennett to pick up his five thousand dollar check. According to Baeza he bought a queen-size bed from the […]
When we use the word “regional” at Channel Five it usually refers to the Caribbean, especially in the wake of our recent CARICOM Basketball Championship. But regional also means Central American and this week Belize’s librarians are hosting their colleagues from the Spanish speaking mainland. Arreini Palacio reports. It’s hard to imagine libraries without thinking […]
Connoisseurs of fine cuisine will have to forgive us, but we somehow allowed a very important date on the calendar to pass unnoticed. That date was the fifteenth of June and the event it marked was the official opening of lobster season. But while fishermen and food lovers are now busy catching and eating, the […]
It is the type of crime we like to say doesn’t happen in Belize…. But on Sunday night in the usually peaceful resort community of Maya Beach it happened with a vengeance. Shortly after nine three men entered the bar at Singing Sands, a popular resort in a fast growing area of the Placencia Peninsula […]
A night out in the Orange Walk District has ended in tragedy for a twenty-three year old laborer of August Pine Ridge Village. According to police reports Omar Ku was riding his bike towards his village in the Orange Walk District shortly after one Saturday morning, when upon reaching the village entrance, a pickup truck […]
San Pedro police have arrested two Honduran nationals in connection with a stabbing incident that took place on the island last Thursday. Police say that shortly after two Thursday morning, thirty nine year old Eulogio Nuñez, was driving a taxi down Coconut Drive when he was attacked by two passengers who stabbed him several times, […]
Justice was swift today for Luis Westby, a Guatemalan from Belmopan, as he was sentenced to five years in prison. His crime: the rape and robbery of a seventeen-year-old woman. According to police the young resident of the nation’s capital was walking from work along the middle walkway shortly after nine Saturday night. When she […]
It’s technically part of Guatemala but the area just over the border in Melchor de Mencos is pretty loose as far as official formalities go. It also seems pretty loose when it comes to observance of the law, and there are three dead bodies at the morgue to prove it. Patrick Jones is just back […]
There was actually some weekend activity around Belize other than crime. The political action focussed in the Corozal District as the People’s United Party continued to campaign as if the election could be called any day. The motorcade wound its way through the villages of the north before winding up in Libertad and the convening […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. While the World congregates at France trying to determine who’s number one in football here in the “Jewel” in Central America the B.F.L. tries to answer that very same question in its Knock-Out Football Tournament. At center stage it’s Nelson Moss of Real Verdes greeting […]
A Dangriga youth was killed Thursday evening when he grabbed a high voltage electrical wire. Fourteen year old Michael MacKenzie was playing with his two cousins on the third story rooftop veranda of his grandfather’s house on St. Vincent Street around five when the accident occurred. He was apparently walking on a concrete railing when […]
While the owner of the Punta Rebels, plans to take the matter to court, the entire episode has once again sparked the copyright debate. Two of the members of the band we spoke with say that without the appropriate laws to protect them, local artists will forever be taken advantage of by unscrupulous individuals. Supa […]
