The new government of Prime Minister Said Musa has moved swiftly to name a Cabinet. After meeting in Belmopan this morning with his twenty-five fellow P.U.P. representatives, the Prime Minister announced the names of fifteen men and one woman who will chart the course of the new administration. News Five’s Stewart Krohn has the details. […]
While the P.U.P. representatives were forming a Cabinet in Belmopan, what was left of the Opposition gathered at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize City to make some news of their own. After twenty-five years as a founding member, chairman and finally leader of the United Democratic Party, former Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel called it quits. […]
In crime news police have still not cracked last week’s brutal murder of a British volunteer in the Toledo District. The body of twenty-seven year old Anna Lightfoot, a project leader for Raleigh International, was discovered Thursday near San Pablo Village with stab wounds to her chest, neck, arm, back and thighs. The location of […]
It’s been a while since we’ve had the displeasure of reporting the discovery of dead manatees on Belize’s coastline; but it doesn’t mean that the poachers have given up their habit. News has been received of the death of not one, but at least three of the aquatic mammals in southern Belize, and at least […]
A household in Belize City can be considered lucky even though tonight they are sleeping much closer to the ground than they’d prefer. The Smith family of number seventeen Kut Avenue in Belize City is literally trying to pick up the pieces after their formerly two-storey house was transformed into a broken bungalow. The crash, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is the post-election serving of Sports Monday. The cycling community continues to prepare itself for the Santino’s Cycling Classic set for 6th September with weekly outings on the Princess Margaret Drive in Belize City. Yesterday’s card was a monster. We pick up the action in the ladies 8 […]
Almost a quarter century after he made his first foray into electoral politics, Said Musa has become only the third man to hold the title of Prime Minister of Belize. And he did it in convincing fashion, his People’s United Party winning twenty-six out of twenty-nine seats in the House of Representatives and amassing a […]
And while the “que vivas” were flowing on Queen Street, around the corner the mood on Daly Street was considerably less upbeat. Still, the defeated U.D.P. leader, in reading a prepared statement, made it clear that retirement is not a likely option. Manuel Esquivel, Leader, U.D.P. “This is a statement coming from myself and the […]
To anyone who was involved in Thursday’s election or followed the action on Television or radio, it was apparent early on that a drama of major proportions was being played out on the national stage. News Five’s Patrick Jones had a front and center seat for the performance. When the polls opened at seven o’clock […]
In crime news, three days after she was reported missing, the body Raleigh International venturer Anna Lightfoot was discovered late Thursday evening. The twenty-seven year old British woman had apparently been stabbed to death not far from the Raleigh base camp in San Pablo Village in the Stann Creek District. Although details of a postmortem […]
It is with great regret that we report the death of another woman, not as young as Anna Lightfoot, but young in spirit. Helen Craig, subject of a number of News Five stories, passed away early this morning in Belize City. Miss Craig enjoyed a successful musical career both in Belize and abroad. She was […]
For those viewers who may have followed Thursday night’s results but were too elated or dejected to record the numbers we’ll run through them one time for the record. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods will do the honors for the two major parties. The twenty-six constituencies won by the P.U.P. went as follows: Caribbean Shores: Jose […]
It may be election eve but as usual in Belize, life goes on… and so does death. Five maximum-security prisoners attempted to escape from the Hattieville Prison Tuesday evening, and one did not live to tell the tale. According to prison officials at around five o’clock the men, all of whom were residents of cell […]
In the south of the country hundreds of volunteers and security personnel are combing the area around Red Bank Village in search of a British woman missing since Monday. Twenty-seven year old Anna Lightfoot is a volunteer with the British based charitable organization Raleigh International, who was working on the construction of a new school. […]
Last week at his press conference Attorney General Dean Barrow announced some late term judicial appointments… and today so said, so done. In a ceremony in Belmopan Justice Manuel Sosa was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Governor General Sir Colville Young. Sosa succeeds former Chief Justice George Singh who was […]
Earlier this week we reported on the death of Escandar Bedran of Cayo. Yesterday Bedran was laid to rest and the Catholic Bishop of Belize used the occasion of his funeral to reflect on recent political developments and their implications for Belize’s future. He spoke to News Five this afternoon in Belize City. O.P. Martin, […]
Not everyone today was caught up in the last minute rush of electoral politics. Arreini Palacio found some relief… in the judicial system. “Women expressing themselves through art,” is the theme under which BOWAND is holding the Women in Art exhibition. The display, which runs from August twenty-six through to September third, was opened in […]
Barring some unlikely but interesting political possibilities, come Friday morning the Prime Minister of Belize will be named either Manuel Esquivel or Said Musa. News Five’s Patrick Jones takes a quick look at the two men who are asking us for our support. The next Prime Minister of Belize will be one of these gentlemen. […]
Some candidates have been preparing for tomorrow’s election for over five years… while others have had less than five months. But however long they have been preparing, the eighty-two candidates running for the House of Representatives were all busy today trying to win over that one last voter. I caught up with a few of […]
After several months of waiting for each side to deliver a surprise knockout blow in the form of imagined scandal or unsubstantiated accusation, it appears tonight that both major political parties have hunkered down to spend the final thirty six hours in determined house to house campaigning accompanied by massive salvos of television and radio […]
To test some of Palacio’s theories and see just what Belizeans are thinking, this morning I hit the scorching streets of Belize City. With less than two days to go before elections, many of Belize’s voters have still not made up their minds. But the law of certainty over a candidate doesn’t mean they don’t […]
He may be in the middle of the biggest race in his political career, but until the results are announced on Thursday night, Jose Coye is still the Mayor of Belize City. And on the eve of the election, the council is headed for another showdown with Central Government. In a letter dated August seventeenth […]
In other political news, as the twenty-nine races go down to the wire some candidates are turning to increasingly imaginative tactics. On Sunday evening, U.D.P. Fort George standard bearer Derek Aikman hired a plane to drop leaflets in the area of his campaign rally. While some of the papers, which contained negative propaganda about his […]
While on the subject of political tactics we are taking the opportunity, at the behest of the Elections and Boundaries Commission, to inform all agents working for the various political parties and candidates that on election day absolutely no electronic communication device, bottles, glass containers or weapons of any type shall be allowed into the […]
And in one more reminder, we’d like to alert viewers and those outside of Belize who catch this newscast on the Internet, that our live coverage on election night, in conjunction with Love FM, will also be available on the worldwide web. Just tell your friends to go to Channel5Belize.com and click on the link […]
