Guatemalan woman murdered on Northern Highway

In crime news, Belize City police are trying to piece together the circumstances surrounding what appears to be the murder of a Guatemalan woman. Although it was only reported on Monday, thirty six year old Dalila Martinez was admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital around eleven twenty last Thursday night. According to police, she […]

Two boys killed in Cayo hit and run

A traffic accident on Sunday night in Cristo Rey Village, Cayo, has left two boys dead. According to police reports, eleven year old Eduardo Montalvan and fourteen year old Jose Arnoldo Leonardo were riding a bicycle on the Cristo Rey/San Antonio Road when they were knocked down by a vehicle driven by twenty-three year old […]

P.M. delivers first Independence Day address

It was a stifling ninety-six degrees in the shade on Monday, but it wasn’t enough to keep thousands of Belizeans from turning out for the annual Independence Day celebrations. The festivities commemorating the seventeenth anniversary of independence began on Sunday night with the flag raising ceremony behind the Supreme Court. Official ceremonies on the twenty […]

French Ambassador mugged in Belize City

While the Prime Minister’s speech was well received by Belizeans and visitors alike, there was one foreign diplomat who never made it to the park. On Saturday morning the French Ambassador to Belize, having traveled here for the occasion from her base in El Salvador, was beaten and robbed as she walked down the street […]

Three cash in on Lotto

The long holiday weekend marked seventeen years of independence… but there were several Belizeans who had special reason to celebrate. Saturday’s Lotto draw produced, not one, but three winners. Manager of Tropical Gaming Carol Young explains. Carol Young, Manager, Tropical Gaming Company “We wind up with three winners, this time because the main jackpot was […]

One winner comes in to collect

While Young and her staff prepare for the future, one of the winners of the forty-two thousand, five hundred dollar regular jackpot, Roy Sutherland, wasted no time in collecting his half of the prize. Sutherland says he plays the Lotto “every now and then” and that it is the first time he has won. The […]

Sports with James Adderley

Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this fresh portion of Sports Monday. Sunday, the day before Independence Day brought B.F.L. soccer to the M.C.C. Grounds as city based Acros played host to Sagitun Football Club of Mango Creek. In the opening minutes it’s Acros on the attack but what looks like a breakaway […]

Mayoral candidate says let the law decide deadlock

The deadlock continues at City Hall as the two front runners for the Mayorship are still without the single crucial vote needed to assume office. In yesterday’s newscast we reported that a meeting was scheduled for this morning at City Hall where another attempt to resolve the impasse would have been made, but when we […]

Defunct newspaper owes $40,000 in VAT

It had been rumored for several weeks, reported in the Belize Times and headlined in the Amandala. Today News Five has confirmed that it’s true. The Pulse newspaper, which published its last issue yesterday, does in fact owe in the vicinity of forty thousand dollars in VAT. The revelation that the U.D.P.’s official organ was […]

Prime Minister focuses on economy

While the leader of the Opposition was discovering that VAT was indeed, a killa, the Prime Minister appeared on television to explain how he was going to make good on his campaign promise to abolish the infamous tax. Appearing Thursday night on Channel Five’s “One On One with Stuart Leslie” Said Musa focussed on his […]

Belize City pool hall robbed

In crime news, an armed robbery overnight in Belize City has left one establishment considerably poorer and the police in hot pursuit of four alleged robbers. According to the officer commanding C.I.B. in Belize City, Eli Salazar, around ten thirty last night, four armed men walked into M.J.’s Pool and Bar on West Collet Canal […]

Mugger arrested by police

While police search for the guys who jacked the pool hall, their quick work has landed a teenage boy behind bars, charged with robbery. On Thursday, twenty-one year old student Orlando Novelo reported to police that he was the victim of a robbery that occurred around two o’clock on Thursday morning. Novelo told police that […]

Cattle rustlers arrested in Orange Walk

While in Belize City it was tennis shoes and jewelry, thieves in Orange Walk preferred livestock. Three people have been arrested on charges of cattle theft. They are thirty-two year old Vicente Monroy, thirty-seven year old Edwardo Aguilar and thirty-nine year old Jose Santana. Their arrest is the result of a report made by fifty […]

European tourists charged with forgery, theft

One week after they were busted as they tried to cash some stolen Traveler’s Checks, a battery of charges has been laid against two foreign visitors. Thirty-nine year old Italian Karlheinz Gatsher and his thirty-six year old companion Maria Elena Sanz Rodriguez of Spain, have been charged with forgery, uttering a forged document, going equipped […]

Ten prisoners paroled under new program

It was an innovation implemented in the closing months of the U.D.P. administration and one that the new government has taken to heart. Today the first inmates released under the new parole program were let out of Hattieville to serve the rest of their sentences — provided they stay out of trouble — as free […]

New CD released by Punta Rock star

He’s made it to the “Most Wanted” list, but no, punta rocker Aziatic is not being sought by the police. Instead the Los Angeles based artist is preparing to unleash his latest concoction of punta rock rhythms. The fifteen song collection is being promoted as the Punta Rock album of the year and Aziatic says […]

Children meet new minister at Independence rally

It has become a regular feature of the September Celebrations and one that seems to get better with every passing year. This morning I had the pleasure to bang hooky along with a whole lot of happy kids. Thousands of primary school students from Belize City and Ladyville jammed the bleachers inside the Belize City […]

G. Michael Reid on Belize-Americans

We know them by their stylishly baggy shorts, new tennis and strange accents. News Five commentator G. Michael Reid, himself a former Belize-American, demonstrates that it takes one to know one. “This year’s celebration has seen by far, the largest return of ex-patriots to the homeland in a long time and for some, it is […]

Monday is holiday, next newscast night of Tues. Sept. 22nd

Mayoral deadlock may be broken, says Solicitor General

A new Mayor for Belize City might be in place by the end of the holiday weekend. Reports reaching News Five late this evening indicate that an official legal opinion on whether or not to allow absent Councilor Eric Kirkwood to vote by proxy was sought by the council and that a verdict has been […]

Government again denies any ties to use mortgage company

For a month or so before the elections it was a hot item on the Internet. That is a claim by a U.S. company that it had signed a deal with the Esquivel administration to provide government guaranteed mortgage financing to build thousands of Belizean homes. Authorities at the time denied such reports and issued […]

Shooting suspect detained by police

In a follow up to a story in yesterday’s newscast, it turns out that at the very moment we were reporting that Denvor Willoughby was yet to turn himself in, he was in fact languishing behind bars on Queen Street. Police picked up the twenty-two year old, who was wanted for questioning in connection with […]

Bradley gets prison portfolio

In related news, anyone who has ever spent the night in the Queen Street lockup or its big brother up the road in Hattieville, knows that conditions there are not terribly different from the dungeons of the Middle Ages. And if there is one person who has consistently spoken out against the state of the […]

Man killed in Western Highway knockdown

A traffic accident on the Western Highway on Wednesday night has claimed the life of a Belize City man. Forty six year old Bruce Shaw was knocked down and killed as he walked on the road between miles seven and eight, shortly after seven o’clock last night. According to police, the driver of the truck, […]

People’s Pulse publishes final issue

In political news, today’s issue of the “People’s Pulse” can be considered a collector’s item. No, not because it won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism… rather because after this week the official newspaper of the United Democratic Party, like its predecessor the “Beacon,” will be no more. In a press release issued today the U.D.P. […]