A search for drugs in Belize City has led to the discovery of an illegal substance far more deadly: guns. Early Friday morning police entered the home of twenty-four year old fish vendor Freddy Grant at forty East Collet Canal. In addition to finding three parcels of suspected marijuana they also recovered a nine millimeter […]
Another search for drugs, this time in the Orange Walk District, has netted authorities a much bigger haul of weed… but nothing in the way of suspects. On Monday morning police raided a plantation four miles southwest of San Felipe Village where they discovered two thousand, five hundred cannabis plants over six feet tall. All […]
A Belize City bicyclist was injured this afternoon when he was run over by a mini-bus. Reports are sketchy but the unidentified man apparently went down to the pavement after slipping on the deck of the Bel-China Bridge and the vehicle ran over his head. He is currently undergoing emergency treatment at the Karl Heusner […]
A Belizean delegation has returned from Washington where members attended the annual general meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The head of the group, budget and planning Minister Ralph Fonseca, told officials there of his government’s intention to get the nation’s economy moving in a way which would create jobs within an […]
Many of us can remember those days of the not-so-distant past, when the Haulover Creek was little more than an open sewer and the waters around Belize City were full of floating garbage. And while few would deny that the old capital has cleaned up its act, there’s still a long way to go. One […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and welcome to this Tuesday edition of Sports Monday. With its first win in the B.F.L. football season coming last weekend at the M.C.C. Grounds, the city based team Acros looked to make it two in a row at that same venue Sunday when they played host to the defending […]
One month after she was reported missing, the mystery over the disappearance of a thirteen year old girl has been solved… at least partially. The body of Sherilee Nicholas was found on Thursday afternoon on a feeder road, just off the Western Highway at mile thirteen. According to lead investigator Sergeant Francisco Patt, a man […]
We don’t know exactly how they knew where to look but police intelligence proved highly accurate Wednesday night, as it led to the discovery of a sizable collection of illegal guns and ammunition. The raid took place at the home of Edward and Lina Penner, Mennonites of Camalote Village. Police were led there by the […]
The Belize Times newspaper and its fiery editor, Amalia Mai, are no strangers to lawsuits, but this time around the Supreme Court complaint is no mere libel case filed by the P.U.P.’s political opponents; it is an allegation of recklessness brought by the judicial system itself. The man behind the move is Director of Public […]
While the D.P.P. was venting his anger at the Belize Times, the BAR Association was lending credibility to the newspaper’s charges of questionable behavior by the government. In a meeting Thursday night the lawyers’ organization passed a resolution stating that the three judicial appointments appeared to have been made without regard to constitutional procedures, specifically […]
A rather overjoyed Tirsa Quiroz, a housewife and mother of eight children, walked into the offices of Tropical Gaming Company this afternoon, not only to get a hug from the big bird, but to claim her prize of thirty five thousand dollars. Quiroz, who speaks only Spanish, was accompanied to Belize City by her son […]
If you were asked to name Belize’s greatest benefactor, the name Baron Bliss would certainly come to mind… or in the case of countries the United States, Great Britain or Mexico would probably top the list. But the correct answer most likely lies halfway around the globe… in the Republic of China on Taiwan. Over […]
Attention all visitors to the News 5 Website. Due to a malfunction by our main transmitter in Belize City Channel 5 has been off the air since Wednesday. Because we have no means of transmission, our newscast for Thursday, October 8th, has been cancelled. We hope to have the transmitter repaired by Friday, but if […]
It’s a post that doesn’t pay particularly well, involves six or seven day workweeks and makes far more enemies than friends. But the job of Director of Tourism is a crucial one in an industry that many see as Belize’s best hope for economic salvation. Today we are reliably informed that the person chosen as […]
In other government news the press briefing issued following yesterday’s Cabinet meeting reveals a number of proposals for future action. Chief among them was the formation of a committee to review the logging licenses granted to Malaysian companies in the Toledo District. The body will be comprised of one representative each from the Ministry of […]
In crime news, some highly creative accounting has landed a twenty-four year old San Pedro clerk in a whole heap of trouble. Police on the island are accusing Ruth Guerra of embezzling over fifty six thousand dollars from the Island Marketers Gas Station between August and September. Here is how it allegedly happened. Guerra, who […]
In Orange Walk, police have caught up with one of three men who held up a grocery shop last month. On September twenty-sixth, the trio, one armed with a knife and another with a gun, are reported to have entered Margarita Salazar’s grocery shop in Orange Walk Town and ordered soft drinks. One of the […]
They have taken their share of criticism over the years as well as experienced a few moments of glory. Today the National Fire Service got some recognition and a bit of needed assistance. The donation did not include any fire fighting equipment but according to fire chief, Henry Baizar, the gift, of a computer and […]
The epidemic known as crime does not seem to have any respect for our most revered institutions and traditions. This morning I visited a place where some heartless criminals are threatening to steal something so valuable that we had assumed it was thief-proof: an education. Since 1995, the students of All Saints School have been […]
It is a building that seemed cursed from the day the first pile was driven for its misplaced foundation. Almost two decades later the Belize City Centre still has its share of woes. Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones “From the outside, it looks like a pretty good facility. But appearances don’t always tell the […]
A two year old boy has received second degree burns after being left unattended in his home which caught fire. According to reports from Punta Gorda, the mother, Sandra Casimiro, had left her son, Colin Ordonez, sleeping in a bedroom while she went out around ten Monday morning. Inside the bedroom was a lighted kerosene […]
Yesterday we reported on two incidents involving the delivery of butane gas…and while nobody was seriously hurt such is not always the case. Last month three people died and more were injured when a poorly welded butane tank exploded while being filled in the Orange Walk District. News Five’s Patrick Jones took a closer look […]
In related news, we today received a call from the owner of Western Gas Company in Cayo. He took issue with our story yesterday which implied that the driving of a rapidly leaking gas truck through the streets of Santa Elena was a dangerous act. He stated that the route, which he claimed leads through […]
For the first time a Belizean will head the nation’s largest industrial corporation. Effective October 1st, Joey Montalvo has been appointed as Managing Director of Belize Sugar Industries Limited. He replaces John McFarlane, who has retired. The fifty year old Montalvo, formerly the company’s general manager, has worked for B.S.I., based at Tower Hill, for […]
