Additional prizes for BECOL competition

In addition to the first and second prizes awarded yesterday by Belize Electric Company Limited to the winners of their Secondary School Science Competition, Programme for Belize has also awarded eight merit prizes. Three students from Excelsior College won a scholarship to participate in a two-week research project at inland and marine field stations this […]

Orange Walk farmer wins Courts drawing

All he wanted in October was the twenty-seven inch television from the Courts branch in Orange Walk, but this morning a cane farmer from the San Estevan Village in Orange Walk went to the Courts Belize City branch to claim his prize of twenty thousand dollars in the Courts Serious Cash drawing. Ricardo Vasquez, $20,000 […]

Barbados to provide computers to schools

While virtually every government on the planet pays lip service to bringing its educational system into the digital world of the new millennium, there’s one — right here in our region — that’s actually doing something about it. The Inter-American Development Bank today announced that it would be lending Barbados the unprecedented sum of eighty-five […]

San Pedro ready again for tourists

What a difference a few weeks can make! At the end of October San Pedranos were staring in shock at their damaged piers and beachfronts. But today, the islanders are once again welcoming visitors to La Isla Bonita. News Five, which showed you the damage right after Hurricane Mitch, was invited out to San Pedro […]

Man dies after reported fleeing police

Police are investigating the death of a man who was in police custody but reportedly jumped out of a moving vehicle. Orange Walk police say they went to Guinea Grass Village early Sunday morning and arrested twenty-three year old Ivan Cruz for violating a protection order issued on behalf of his wife Senaida from whom […]

Drowning may have been a hoax

It’s still a mystery: did someone drown after falling off a Belize City Bridge over the weekend? At the time the incident seemed real enough, but now police and the public aren’t so sure. Shortly after eight, Friday night, traffic on the Belchina Bridge came to an abrupt stop as motorists and pedestrians gathered in […]

Belmopan police use horses to fight crime

If you live in Belmopan, don’t be surprised if you hear the patter of hooves near your window. No, it’s not Santa’s reindeers come early, but the Belmopan police detachment’s new method of community policing. According to Belmopan police, hiring horses to patrol walkways and other difficult access areas of the capital is paying off. […]

Man files false missing person report

Police have arrested a man for making a false statement after he reported his common law wife missing. Police say Robert Patt Jr. told them his wife Mariella Cal had left home on December fourth and failed to return by the next day. Their investigation, however, revealed that Patt had actually driven his wife from […]

U.S. officials hold anti-drug trafficking seminar

The efforts of Belize’s law enforcement agencies to increase their ability to stop drug traffickers in their tracks continues over the next two weeks with a series of training courses for immigration, customs and police officials. News Five attended the opening this morning at the Fiesta Inn. Three senior U.S. customs officials are conducting a […]

British government to fund Southern Highway paving

The Prime Minister Said Musa this afternoon signed an agreement awarding a contract to pave a section of the Southern Highway to Meco and Santa Fe Limited. The almost twenty four million dollars for the upgrading of the approximately twenty-one mile strip from the Big Creek Port to the Bladden Bridge is being provided by […]

IDB provides loan to Honduras

A fifty million dollar soft loan has been approved for Honduras by the Inter-American Development Bank for relief, reconstruction and community development following hurricane Mitch. The IDB loan, which will have a forty-year repayment term, will have an interest rate of only one percent over the first ten years and two percent after that. The […]

S.J.C. student wins BECOL competition

The Belize Electricity Company Limited’s science competition really got students involved in hands-on research. The competition ended today with an awards ceremony at the Bliss, but if you are thinking, oh no, another display of exploding volcanoes and electric lightbulbs, you’ll be pleasantly surprised. The students were much more original doing everything from making paper […]

James Adderley has sports

Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s throwing down another version of Sports Monday. The B.F.L. schedule this weekend brought about a battle for supremacy in the standings when undefeated Juventus of Orange Walk hosted the only 3 and 0 ball club in the second round: Sagitun of Mango Creek. It’s the southern guys with […]

Diplomat attacked at Taiwanese Embassy

This week two Chinese merchants were assaulted by thieves at their shops, but today there was the most brazen and surprising attack of all. This time the incident was not a Chinese business, but the Taiwanese Embassy on Hutson and Eyre Street. A spokesperson for the embassy told News Five that around one p.m. a […]

B.D.F. soldiers home from Honduras

They’re home. The B.D.F. soldiers deployed to Honduras last month to distribute supplies and goods returned to Belize today. During their time away they learned a lot about conducting a humanitarian mission and how the efforts of even a small country like Belize can make a big difference. After spending thirty long hard days and […]

Cow causes fatal accident on highway

One man is dead after a traffic accident between mile thirty-five and thirty-six on the Northern Highway. At about six thirty yesterday evening thirty year old Bernadino Najarro was driving towards Corozal when a cow obstructed his path. Najarro hit the cow, killing it. The vehicle overturned and twenty-eight year old Alselmo Herrera seated in […]

Second bridge closure creates traffic jam

If you thought the traffic was bad during the Hurricane Mitch evacuation that was nothing compared to the traffic snarls and delays this afternoon. City residents have been patient enough with the closure of the Swing Bridge for months now but people appear to be reaching their limit as to what they can bear. This […]

Colombian Vice President visits Belize

This morning the Prime Minister Said Musa received a courtesy call from the Vice President of Colombia, Dr. Gustavo Bell Lemus. Lemus was accompanied by Vice Foreign Minister, Maria Fernanda Campos Savedra. The delegation then visited the Governor General Sir Colville Young.

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