When you are inside your house after dark the last thing you expect to hear are gunshots. And you surely don’t expect a bullet to hit you. But that is exactly what happened to sixty five year old resident of one eighty nine West Canal, Barbara Savery. She was leaning on her window when one […]
It was pretty much your usual sitting of the House of Representatives today in Belmopan, despite promises of a mass protest by the United Democratic Party. In fact there were no U.D.P. supporters visible in the immediate vicinity of the National Assembly and the morning began with the usual presentation of papers and bills for […]
But while financial issues seemed to dominate today’s proceedings, with the Minister of Budget and Planning Ralph Fonseca introducing a number of bills designed to make Belize more attractive to foreign investors, retirees and offshore bankers, there was one piece of legislation presented for a first reading which dealt with a concern almost everyone can […]
Although they were not visible at the start of the House meeting this morning, a couple of hours later a group of United Democratic Party demonstrators did make their way to the market square. The main attraction of the procession was what Opposition Leader Dean Barrow called the “Economic train that is going backwards.” News […]
The Belize Defense Force will be having an all day fair tomorrow at Price Barracks in Ladyville. The force is celebrating its twenty first anniversary. One of the main attractions will be the T-L-7 Firefly Plane which is used in the force to screen potential pilots. There will also be an aerobatic display and the […]
The Human Rights Commission of Belize is holding a two-day educational workshop at the Belize City Center. The main purpose of the workshop is to discuss domestic violence, child abuse, police brutality, labor, missing children, abuse of power, child labor, discrimination and human rights. It ends tomorrow at four p.m.
Maybe you’ve seen them around. They are the twenty-two truant officers who are trying to get our children back in school. Their job is not an easy one since the children they encounter may be suffering from a lot of social and emotional problems. To help the officers get the children off the streets the […]
Belize’s schools find it hard enough to get the equipment they need, but their efforts to provide for the students are made even more difficult when school property is stolen. Today the Principal of St. Luke Methodist Primary School is appealing to the community to help them recover something stolen from the school yesterday. St. […]
If you use a computer then you may want to pay keen attention to G. Michael Reid’s Last Word tonight as he examines the real or imagined threat of a computer bug that could put your world in a tailspin. “Time marches along its ceaseless course, and considering the pace at which it is moving […]
A Chinese businessman is lucky to be alive tonight after a robber’s gun jammed. The incident at nine this morning at Wan Si Grocery Shop on Central American Boulevard is the latest in a string of attacks on small shops throughout the city over the past several weeks. News Five was on the scene just […]
A police dog is responsible for the arrest of a man on Hummingbird Street after the canine sniffed out a supply of marijuana in his vehicle. Police say on Tuesday morning the dog indicated there was a supply of controlled drugs concealed under the gearshift of Andrew Brown’s vehicle. Brown, better known as “Papa” was […]
Two police officers have been interdicted from duty after testing positive for drugs. The constables, Austin Tillett of Ladyville and Clifford Augustine from the Hattieville Police Station, were tested by the National Forensic Laboratory after complaints they had been associating with known drug users and that their performance was being affected. The Ministry says they […]
A fifteen year old girl has been sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty of manslaughter. Shernell Morris was fourteen when she stabbed sixteen year old Ashante Joseph to death in a fight over a magazine in August of 1997. Judge Troadio Gonzalez is reported to have told the court this morning […]
The Embassy of Columbia is asking Belizeans to help the people of Colombia recover from an earthquake two days ago. The Embassy says that a total of eight hundred people have been confirmed dead, while three thousand two hundred and eight are seriously injured. Charge D’ Affairs Pablo Rebolledo told News Five about the present […]
In related news, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement has launched an initial appeal of eleven million Swiss Francs or about sixteen point five million U.S. dollars to help earthquake victims in Colombia. However, all donations are being requested in cash since the items needed can be purchased locally. The International Red Cross […]
The Pan-American Health Organization is holding a seminar entitled, “Your Baby and AIDS” tonight. The objective is to enlighten young women who arepregnant or considering getting pregnant about the many risks of transmitting HIV to their child. Dr. Carmen Soler, PAHO “The idea of this seminar is that we came as consultants for PAHO office […]
Parents are being advised to check their children’s school bags before they go off to school. Not to see if they have done their homework, but to see whether they are carrying weapons. That’s right, police have discovered that some boys and girls are not only carrying books in their back packs but deadly items […]
A Budd’s bus travelling from Lord’s Bank filled with school children crashed into a lamp post about eight twenty this morning at mile three and a half on the Northern Highway. Fortunately only a few children received minor injuries and were treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital; the rest were taken to school by […]
A Nigerian has been arrested for allegedly smuggling and selling what police describe as a large amount of heroin. Police tell News Five John Amah entered the country through the northern border on Monday and was staying at a Belize City hotel. Yesterday morning an undercover police officer offered to purchase the drugs during a […]
As part of a clean-up campaign the Belize City Council in partnership with the Belize Electricity Limited officially handed over garbage bins to eight primary schools in Belize City this morning. Bins have also been given out to residents of the Albert Division and the City Council says high demand will lead them to distribute […]
For the first time in its one hundred and eleven year history St. John’s College will have a lay person as its president. In a short ceremony this morning the school’s Board of Trustees officially introduced former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Carlos Perdomo as the new president of S.J.C. Perdomo an […]
Even if you’re a city dweller, you’d know a toucan if you saw one, wouldn’t you? Well the Belize Audubon Society is betting that with a little help you could recognize over fifty birds of Belize. To prove it, Rudi Burgos and other members of the B.A.S. staff are giving an introduction to bird watching […]
In November the Honduran Embassy was the clearing house for relief supplies donated by Belizeans to victims of Hurricane Mitch. Today there was a different sort of storm brewing at the embassy as representatives of Belize’s Garinagu community expressed their disapproval of a proposal being considered by the Honduran government. News Five was there. There […]
The Fiesta Inn went into receivership just days before Christmas, and business has continued pretty much as usual. However, this week there appears to be a new wrinkle in the hotel’s story. Yesterday media houses received a press release which stated that Grupo Posadas of Mexico has decided to cancel the services it has been […]
Police are declining to comment on the status of their investigation into the murder of twenty-five year old taxi driver Frederick Neal and his brother twenty-six year old Vincent Jones this weekend. The two were shot to death in their taxi which was parked just off the Northern Highway between miles seven and eight. The […]
