The results of a postmortem examination on the body of a woman who died several days after she was found in a swamp on the Northern Highway have been released. But instead of providing the conclusive answers the police were hoping for, it has raised even more questions. According to pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran, the […]
We felt their pain last month when we saw pictures of their two storey house which was reduced to a “bruk up” bungalow. Today one southside family is feeling a bit more optimistic. Patrick Jones reports. For over three weeks now, Maureen Smith and her son have been living in hope of one day lifting […]
We may not realize it but much of our time is spent in negotiation: not just formal business dealings across a conference table, but at home with our family, buying something at a store, or arranging anything from the chopping of a yard to the building of a house. Today I found out that the […]
They are just back from a U.S. tour and their latest CD has recently gone on sale. Things are looking up for the band known as “D-Revelation” and Patrick Jones found out why. The fourteen songs on the compact disc, all originals, continue in the well-known D-Revelation tradition. Public relations officer for the band, Paul […]
Most of them have already returned to the mean but prosperous streets of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, but News Five commentator G. Michael Reid says the Belize Americans are a valuable asset who should not be forgotten. “In recent years, the number of people returning to Belize for the September Celebrations had been […]
One of Belize’s most wanted criminals has today been scratched from the list. Victor Sanker an accused murderer who had escaped from Hattieville on August twenty-fifth, was killed in the village of San Antonio after a shootout with police. According to a police press release, officers from Corozal were called to San Antonio around two […]
While police may have one less accused murderer to deal with, tonight the pressure is building to clear up a major scandal within the Police Department itself. At the center of the mess is the Eastern Division office of C.I.B. where sources inform News Five that several high ranking cops are under investigation for the […]
In other crime news four Belize City men have been charged in connection with a drive by shooting. Eighteen year old Norris Leslie told police that around eleven thirty on the night of September twenty-first, while standing at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Mahogany Street, two shots were fired at him from a […]
Five days ago it was the northside… today it was the southside’s turn to feel the heat of a fire. And while this morning’s blaze was less costly than Saturday’s disaster, it still left two families without a place to call home. The fire started shortly before nine this morning and totally destroyed a two-storey […]
A familiar name has won the prestigious Belize Open Scholarship for 1998. Vonetta Hyde, a recent graduate of S.J.C. Junior College, received the highest ranking of any Belizean student on the University of Cambridge advanced level exam taken in June. As such she has been awarded by the government a full university scholarship covering all […]
When any new government comes to power one of the first things it typically does is announce plans to reform the civil service. Belize is no exception to this rule and today the minister responsible for public officers got together with his top employees to talk and to listen. News Five’s Patrick Jones was there. […]
It is not the best known volunteer organization in Belize, having lived for many years in the shadow of its larger American cousin, the Peace Corps. But Britain’s Voluntary Service Oversees, better known as V.S.O., has been quietly doing good deeds here for four decades. Today they paused to do a bit of celebrating. Since […]
(incomplete on yesterday’s newscast) He may be working himself out of a significant portion of his portfolio, but Minister of Tourism, Broadcasting and Information Mark Espat has reaffirmed his government’s manifesto pledge to divest itself of the Broadcasting Corporation of Belize. In a press release issued on Tuesday the ministry announced the appointment of a […]
Talking about ten thousand houses and fifteen thousand jobs is a lot easier than actually doing something to transform these campaign promises into reality. Today, at ceremonies marking the opening of classes at the Center for Employment Training in Belize City, officials made it clear that it’s their intention to form solid linkages between the […]
from monthly government subsidies while at the same time competing with private sector broadcasters, will simply be shut down and its assets sold. Of prime concern to government in carrying out this process is to help the over thirty B.C.B. employees to find new jobs and to ensure that existing operations will fill the vacuum […]
In other government news today’s weekly Cabinet briefing reported that a number of decisions were reached at Tuesday’s meeting of that body. Among them are plans to reopen the farmers and small business bank created late in the last P.U.P. administration, and the upgrading of the post of Chief of Staff at the Karl Heusner […]
A Belizean student from Toledo has won a four year undergraduate scholarship at Queen’s University in Canada. Celestino Oh, from San Pedro Columbia, was the fourth person from the Caribbean this year to receive the Scotiabank Merit Scholarship. A release from the bank says Oh was given the scholarship for his outstanding academic achievement, including […]
Two years after they were charged with stealing and conspiracy to steal close to seventy thousand dollars from the Water and Sewerage Authority, James Castillo, Paul Elliot, Clayton Arzu and Anette Gongora, all former employees of WASA, were today acquitted of all charges by Chief Magistrate, Herbert Lord. According to Lutchman Sooknandan, one of the […]
In other court news Justice George Meerabux has resigned from his recently awarded seat on the Belize Court of Appeal. Meerabux had been appointed on August twenty sixth as kind of an alternate judge of the court at the same time that Justice George Singh was appointed to the substantive post. The reason cited for […]
In the American media the damage has been overshadowed by its continuing threat to U.S. territories and mainland, but several islands of the Eastern Caribbean were severely battered by Hurricane Georges. The pictures on your screen are from Antigua, where the storm killed two people and severely injured five. Two thousand Antiguans are homeless, electricity […]
You’ve seen his work on this newscast before, but as I discovered this morning, artist Alex Sanker just keeps getting better and better. In the five years that Alex Sanker has been painting, there has been a tremendous improvement in this artist’s work. According to the artist, while he does not believe he has reached […]
September is the month in which Belizeans are asked to examine their attitude toward history… and for many that means deciding how close an ancestry to claim to those dashing figures known as the Baymen. But, as this next story demonstrates, not all the Baymen remained on this side of the Atlantic. Many — minus […]
While most of Belize City was sleeping off the effects of the first night of a long independence weekend, residents of Craig Street and Barrack Road were awakened to cries of “fire”. Quickly on the scene was News Five special assignment reporter William Neal who was soon joined by cameraman Wilson Pat. What they found […]
In related news, while the Airport Fire Service provided much needed help in fighting the blaze, it did not come without cost. A second truck, which was on its way to the scene in Belize City never made it, having run off the road around mile six on the Northern Highway. Reports are that the […]
It’s official: the three-week stalemate over a successor to Jose Coye as Mayor of Belize City is over. At a mid-afternoon meeting of the full council at City Hall today, Marshall Nuñez emerged with the majority vote to confirm him as the new Belize City Mayor and Steven Latchman as his Deputy. Information out of […]
