In other news involving the nation’s largest municipality we were told today by Minister of Industry and Commerce Jose Coye that he has not yet resigned as Mayor of Belize City. Under the law, he explained, he can serve in both positions, and while he has prepared his resignation he has not yet tendered it. […]
While many people spent the long holiday weekend jumping up, one Belize City family had anything but celebration on its mind. According to June Gabourel, when her thirteen year old daughter, Sherilee Nicholas, left for school on Tuesday of last week, it was the last time that the standard four student was seen by anyone […]
Carnival ’98 moved off as scheduled on Friday morning and while the temperature was blistering the enthusiasm of the participants was no less heated. When the road march and judging were over, Jump Street Posse took Junior Band of the Year honors while in the senior category C-Jamm Mas Band made it a three-peat. News […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s another serving of Sports Monday. The mighty Mr. Belize Body Building Contest produced a massive display of wall to wall muscle which brought the very best athletes to Parish Hall Saturday night. But first here’s a look at the finalists in the junior division class of this body […]
Less than two weeks into its new term of office the government of Prime Minister Said Musa is slowly getting its house in order. Making good on its pre-election promise to brief the press following each session of Cabinet, that body’s secretary this morning met with journalists in Belmopan to discuss a number of new […]
While the government was busy announcing its new appointments, the Opposition had some announcements of it’s own. Appearing at a Belize City press conference this morning U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow told journalists that the three opposition House members and two senators would not be taking part in Saturday’s outdoor ceremonial opening of the National Assembly […]
In other political news, there’s deadlock at City Hall and the result is a Council without a clear leader. Former Mayor Jose Coye had to give up the post when he was elected to the House of Representatives and subsequently named as a minister of government. At a meeting convened last night to elect a […]
In crime news, the police are no closer to laying hands on accused murderer Ovidio Godoy, but they at least think they know where he’s headed. The twenty-eight year old man is accused of chopping to death his live-in girlfriend, twenty-three year old Ciriarca Varela, early Monday morning. The two had apparently been drinking with […]
Shortly before five this evening, a motorcyclist was seriously injured in a traffic accident that occurred at the corner of Southside Canal and South Street in Belize City. According to eyewitnesses, the young man, who was seen with a beer bottle in hand, was travelling at high speed and as he drove past a stop […]
On last night’s newscast I did a tour of the northside mass camps as they prepared for Friday’s carnival. Tonight we’ll take a look at two junior bands from the southside and one senior band that’s getting ready to rock. There are twelve carnival bands taking part in the 1998 road march. This year’s carnival, […]
On Saturday morning history will be made when for the first time a woman will be chosen to preside over this nation’s most important legislative body, the House of Representatives. But to focus on Sylvia Flores merely as the first woman Speaker, is to do her and all women a disservice… because beyond any considerations […]
The Leader of the Opposition named his appointees last Thursday, the Governor General announced his nominee on Friday… and today it was the Prime Minister’s turn to reveal his choices for the Senate. Dickie Bradley, who took a Cabinet post, was by necessity named earlier, and joining him on the P.U.P. side of the Senate […]
A sharp eyed employee at Atlantic Bank has exposed what looks like a major scam by a couple of European tourists. Italian Karlheinz Gatscher and his Spanish traveling partner Maria Elena Sanz Rodriguez were attempting to cash some Visa and American Express travelers checks at the bank’s main office on Freetown Road on Monday afternoon, […]
It’s a long way to go but six Belizean athletes and three officials departed the country this afternoon en route to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The occasion is the sixteenth hosting of the Commonwealth Games. The athletes, all female, are sprinters Tricia Flores, Jackieva Castillo and heptathalon specialist Candace Blades, while Quinton Hamilton, Ernest Meighan and […]
Payday for most people may still be over a week away, but it didn’t stop one employee of the Fiesta Inn from collecting her check this morning. Twenty-nine year old Carla McSweany’s short cab ride from work to the North Front Street offices of Courts Belize was to pick up her prize as the final […]
For the first time the entire family will be able to enjoy an evening of jump up and fireworks on the night of September ninth. According to the September Celebrations Committee, because previous activities bringing in the Tenth catered only to the adult population, they are hoping that Wednesday night’s event at the National Stadium […]
Her first exhibition is being opened literally as I speak, but, judging from the quality of her work, artist Jeanie Shaw will become a regular on the Belizean art scene. Patrick Jones paid her a visit as she put the finishing touches on her show at the Fiesta. Attitude! Innocence! Meditation! These are just some […]
If you live in a neighborhood which is supporting a carnival band, by this time you probably know them better than you’d like. But the rest of us, who will be watching Friday’s road march in person or right here on Channel Five, are anxious to get behind the scenes of the big event. Last […]
A domestic dispute in the wee hours of this morning has left a Honduran woman dead and the police in hot pursuit of her live-in boyfriend. According to the head of C.I.B. in Belize City Eli Salazar, the police were called out to mile six and a half on the Northern Highway shortly after two […]
While police chase down a suspected murderer, they have moved quickly to apprehend another machete wielding spouse. According to police, thirty-six year old Abraham Daniels attacked his ex-common law wife, forty-nine year old Concepcion Myers at Myer’s home in Card’s Alley in Belize City. Myer’s twenty-three year old daughter Cecilia told police that she was […]
It was supposed to provide a remedy for the almost routine prison breaks that used to occur at the old Belize City prison back-a-Baptist. But the three years since the Department of Corrections moved to Hattieville, have been anything but escape proof. Seventeen year old Efrain Tut has become the latest inmate to give authorities […]
The long arm of the law has reached out and touched “G.I. Joe,” the Belize City man accused of jacking two Belize City women last week. Less than twenty-four hours after the incidents on Thursday night, police arrested and charged Cecil Gill with two counts of robbery. The charges are the result of reports made […]
The sign over the door says: “Home is where there is a heart that loves,” but the person or persons who went into the Belize City offices of the Family Services Division over the weekend must have left his at home. According to the Coordinator of Human Development, Brenda Stuart, thieves broke into the King […]
Carnival fever may have been delayed due to election fever but the temperature is rising fast. On Saturday night thirteen juniors and four seniors competed for the respective titles of Carnival King and Queen at the National Stadium. News Five’s camera was there to record the pageantry. (MUSICAL MONTAGE) The senior competition was marred by […]
A year ago we first brought you their story, a group of energetic young Belizeans who are out to burn their names into the music industry circuit both at home and abroad. Twelve months after the release of their first album, “Midnight Run,” the Wood Dwellas are back. With fourteen new songs added to their […]
