While the bells may be ringing for Christmas the drums are beating even louder for Garifuna Settlement Day. For those who want to brush up on their basic knowledge of Garifuna life, culture and history a useful book has been updated and re-released just in time for the holiday. Sebastian Cayetano, Author “We really need […]
There have been many words written, many pictures taken and many reports issued… but the only way to get a true picture of life at Hattieville Prison is to visit there yourself. News Five commentator G. Michael Reid did… and while he had the freedom to depart at will, his thoughts tonight turn to those […]
Today police say they are closer in bringing to justice the person they believe murdered fifteen year old Samantha Gordon on the weekend of November sixth. According to Inspector Simeon Alvarez, the Head of C.I.B., the department has been receiving a number of calls from people who have been providing them with information which has […]
Ever so often we hear reports of missing teenagers. More often than not they turn up safe and sound, perhaps having left home for a few days because of an argument with their parents, or because they have been urged by a group of friends to join them for a few days of unsupervised fun. […]
In economic news today was the day that economy Czar Ralph Fonseca, also known as Minister of Budget Planning and Management, Economic Development, Investment and Trade, got a chance to take his message of growth economics directly to the people who are supposed to do the growing. Speaking at a midday luncheon of the Belize […]
Today, shortly before lunchtime a couple of construction workers at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Iguana Street narrowly escaped serious injuries after a part of the house they were working on suddenly collapsed. According to Leroy Flowers, who was just next door, when he heard the loud noise, he first thought it was […]
The National Women’s Commission held a consultation this morning and will be inducting new members tonight. The meeting, hosted by Minister of Human Development, Women and Youth Dolores Balderamos Garcia, focused on strategies for the involvement of women in all sectors of national life. It was attended by nineteen men and women from the National […]
The newly formed National Drug Abuse Control Council held its first meeting today in Belize City. Chairman Jules Vasquez tells News Five that the sixteen member body’s first step will be creating a framework for a comprehensive plan to combat both drug trafficking and substance abuse. Jules Vasquez, Chairman, N.D.A.C.C. “The first thing we dealing […]
The St. John’s College Gym always seems to be transforming into something new, one night it is a dance hall filled with balloons, the next week it is a sea of proud graduates, who are quickly replaced by booths featuring the products of various businesses. But this week, the S.J.C. Gym has being turned into […]
Police are on the lookout for a man who shot and killed twenty-two year old Emort Jefferson Michael sometime between nine and ten Tuesday night. Police say Michael, who lived on the third flat of a three storey wooden building at the corner of Cleghorn and Mapp Streets, had just returned home and was about […]
Medical authorities still don’t know how a young woman whose body was found on Sunday died and there do not appear to be any leads in the case which appears to be a murder in Ladyville. She has, however, been positively identified as Samantha Gordon of Belize City. Today News Five spoke with Samantha’s mother […]
In hurricane relief news, the Banana Growers Association of Big Creek announced today that it has sent twenty-five thousand dollars in food and medicines to the Honduran Embassy to be dispatched to Hurricane Victims. Belize Sugar Industries Limited has also donated a total of ten thousand dollars to the relief effort. B.S.I. has given seven […]
The Governor General of Belize Sir Colville Young donated cricket gears today to Nazarene High School as well as Gwen Lizaraga High School. Other high schools countrywide will soon be getting their own cricket gear to bring back the sport which used to be the second most popular in Belize.
There are big changes ahead for several government departments which had formed the Ministry of Culture. The Department of Museums, the Department of Archaeology, the Belize Archives Department, the National Arts Council and the Belize Library Service will become divisions of the National Institute of Culture and History. Also included will be a new body […]
While humans were busy moving to higher ground during the Mitch threat, one dog was refusing to budge. She waited patiently at the Boom cutoff standing guard over a bag of baby clothes that may have been dropped by her owners. After the storm, when it was noticed that she was still there waiting for […]
At this time last year, before the month of November became the time to remember Mitch, Belizeans were collectively looking forward to Garifuna Settlement Day on the nineteenth. This year, the event hasn’t been getting its usual, or well deserved coverage and News Five would like to do something about that. So, tonight we invite […]
A Corozal man has been brutally murdered at a ranch off the Santa Elena Road. Rafael Velasquez told police he dropped off his employee Seguro Galdamez Ayala around three thirty Monday afternoon but when he returned the man was dead. Police say there were two large chop wounds to Galdamez Ayala’s head and both hands […]
An arrest has been made in a fatal traffic accident over the weekend which killed a man on a bicycle and injured his companion. Police have charged a mechanic William Usher from San Antonio Road, Punta Gorda with manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct. Usher’s white van reportedly knocked down Juan Choc […]
San Pedro and Caye Caulker were two parts of Belize which received the greatest damage from Hurricane Mitch… but it appears that a different kind of storm is brewing over just what the newly restored beachfront of the islands will look like. A majority of piers in front of the communities were destroyed and the […]
But while San Pedranos may be dealing with their own construction and repair projects, the employees of Belize Telecommunications Limited are looking to Central America. Today the staff donated fifteen thousand dollars worth of food, medical supplies and water to help our neighbors in their time of despair. Hyacinth Latchman reports. The goods were handed […]
To celebrate the University of the West Indies fiftieth anniversary and create awareness of their outreach and other programs, the Chancellor is hosting a series of lectures. This Wednesday Dr. Peggy Antrobus, Head of the Women and Development unit in Barbados will speak about women’s impact on U.W.I. Dr. Peggy Antrobus, U.W.I. Guest Lecturer “But […]
If you are sixteen years old and know how to swim, then you may just be the person the YWCA is looking for. This weekend, the Young Women’s Christian Association will be holding a lifeguard training course to equip swimmers with the necessary skills needed to save someone’s life. Jane Hannon, a volunteer with the […]
If you thought after October thirty first that you would hear nothing at all when you tuned your radio dial to 88.9 or 91.1, you may be wondering why there is still music on Radio Belize and Friends FM. Today News Five spoke with the B.C.B.’s Acting Programming Director Adrian Harris who says that it […]
The latest winner in the Courts Belize Serious Cash draw received his check this morning at Courts main office in Belize City. Jason Henry a resident of Ladyville and an employee of Belize Brewing Company Limited says he put thirty tickets in the barrel after purchasing a sofa set in August but never really thought […]
It is not the first time that representatives from government or N.G.O.s have sat down to formulate plans to tackle the problem of domestic violence. Although to date there are no statistics available on the abuse of women, the Department of Women’s Affairs believes that the crime is on the rise, despite the fact that […]
