Good evening. I’m James Adderley and this is another version of Sports Monday. The Santino’s Cycle Classic has become a mainstay on the September Celebrations calendar and yesterday’s big time card brought out the fans in joves. We join the action in the final opener with 4 laps to go as Camille Solis and Norma […]
The new session of parliament will convene in Belmopan next week, but if you thought it would be business as usual… think again. A release from the office of the Clerk of the National Assembly Jesus Ken, says that both the House and Senate will meet at nine o’clock on Saturday morning, September twelfth. But […]
While we are not sure how the Opposition will take to the new legislative arrangements, U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow has made it clear that he will be relying on the media to keep the nation informed regarding his party’s activities. He made his remarks on Thursday night’s “One On One” with Stuart Leslie. Dean Barrow, […]
On Thursday it was a journalist and a businessman, who were named to the Senate by the United Democratic Party. Today comes word that Wesley College Principal Brenda Armstrong is the Governor General’s choice for appointment to the Senate. She was slated to the post, after consultation with the Belize Advisory Council. Armstong has played […]
In crime news, Belize City police are on the lookout for “G.I. Joe,” a man wanted in connection with the armed hold up of two women in separate incidents overnight. According to police, the first robbery took place around eleven o’clock Thursday night on Central American Boulevard. Twenty seven year old Elena Pfeiffer says she […]
While police in the city chase down a suspected robber, in Belmopan, a twenty-five year old man has been made to answer for the illegal possession of artifacts. According to police, a search conducted on the person of Sergio Ramos Coronado on Thursday morning, resulted in the discovery of over thirty pieces of Mayan artifacts, […]
It’s like trying to take the sugar out of the cake, but a recently resurrected women’s organization is crusading to catapult the fairer sex into a more prominent role in the nation’s leadership. Former political activist for the People’s United Party Dorla Bowman is inviting women, irrespective of their party affiliation to join her in […]
It was first known as the Festival Grand Market and year after year, thousands of Belizeans flocked to the grounds of the Belize Technical College to check out what the business community had to offer. Three years ago, however, the show underwent a massive transformation, but the fundamental objectives remained the same. Jacqueline Woods reports. […]
One week after the United Democratic Party was unceremoniously swept out of office and back into civilian life, the massacre at the polls last Thursday continues to weigh heavily on the minds of most people. Not least among them is News Five’s commentator, G. Michael Reid. “It is said that power corrupts and that absolute […]
Leader of the Opposition, Dean Barrow, has been saying for days that for the two U.D.P. Senators, he would choose people who were young, dynamic and able to capture the attention of the Belizean public. Ultimately that public will decide whether Barrow made the right choice, but for today at least, the two appointees seemed […]
Public officers, those government employees who carry on the nation’s official business regardless of which party is in power, have been informed regarding the new allocation of departments to the various ministries created by the new government. While most of the assignments follow the traditions set over several decades of practice, a few departments were […]
In crime news, two female workers at Homer Dakers Grocery Shop in Buttonwood Bay received minor injuries during a robbery at the store around eight, Wednesday night. According to Irimay Curlin, the store’s manager, she was checking the night sales in a cash pan, when a short, dark skinned man, wearing blue jeans pants and […]
The Belize version of Lotto has seen some big jackpots and some that are not so big. While tonight’s winner definitely falls into the latter category, we’ll all agree that winning a couple grand is a lot more fun than going home empty handed. Cherry Galvez, $2,500 Bonus Draw Winner “Well, this morning, when I […]
If we watch the show “Cops” on television we know — or at least think we know — how law enforcement works in the U.S.A. But watching on TV wasn’t real enough for some members of the Belize Police Force, who recently got the chance to trade places with their colleagues from the great state […]
Call it a skirmish… call it a war… whatever you call it, Belize is celebrating the two hundredth anniversary the Battle of St. George’s Caye next Thursday. Activities for the bicentennial are in full swing and if your weekend calendar is not booked, there’s an event which should provide you with the opportunity to rub […]
In related news the government of Taiwan has stepped in to provide some fun on the eve of St. George’s Caye Day. At the request of the September Celebrations Committee the Chinese have donated twenty thousand U.S. dollars worth of fireworks which will be launched as part of this show the ninth night at the […]
From time to time we here at Channel Five are asked to intervene in a situation when official bodies, such as the police or Social Services, either cannot or will not get involved. Such was the case last month when several residents of Bermudian Landing in the Belize District asked me to look into a […]
They’re being described as “bad-eggs,” a duo of young men who had the entire village of Red Bank in the Stann Creek District living in fear. Today, twenty one year old Estevan Sho and twenty year old Allan Cal had one more commendation added to their resume… murder. Police are accusing the two men of […]
In other crime news, Belmopan police have arrested and charged four men in connection with a multiple chopping incident on Monday night which sent five people to the hospital. The injured are identified as Carlos, David and Steve Baizar, Seferino Sutz and Adolf Cruz. According to police the five had a misunderstanding with Russell, Clifford […]
Yesterday it was the sixteen members of the Cabinet who crammed into the Governor General’s Belmopan headquarters to take their oaths of office. Today there was a lot more room to move at Belize House as just one man: Leader of the Opposition Dean Barrow, took his oath of allegiance. No date has yet been […]
It sent flames roaring into the afternoon sky and turned human bodies into living torches. And if you’ve always been afraid around tanks of butane gas you’ll now know why. This morning I visited Orange Walk and heard a story that still has me frightened. Twenty-four hours after the devastating explosion in San Jose Palmar […]
The recently sworn in ministers of government may have been busy this week moving into their Belmopan offices… but they were not the only ones getting used to new desks. This morning Patrick Jones counted himself among the thousands of Belizean students starting a new term at school. It’s a prayer that both teachers and […]
Sixteen ministers of government were sworn in this morning by the Governor General in a formal ceremony in Belmopan. Only four of them had held full ministries in the previous P.U.P. administration while two had served as ministers of state. That left ten rookies to form the majority on a team that is young by […]
In related news, two other appointments were announced today. For the first time in history, Belize will have a woman Speaker of the House, as Dangriga’s Sylvia Flores has been selected to preside over that body. As for the Senate, another woman from the south has been put in charge. She is Elizabeth Zabaneh, better […]
While team sixteen were being sworn in at the Governor General’s office, not far away another group of politically motivated visitors were just… swearing. These protestors, however, were not rabid U.D.P.s; they were blue to the bone… and in no mood for compromise. The mid-morning heat and humidity were not the only things on the […]
