Well she must have gone through her purse and found her winning ticket, because this morning Elma Ramclam, a teacher in Punta Gorda, claimed her Lotto jackpot of forty-two thousand five hundred dollars, which was drawn on March 20th. Ramclam will take home thirty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars after taxes. Isabel Perez of […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re into a fresh slice of Sports Monday. The long awaited championship series of B.F.L. football finally got off the ground yesterday at the People’s Stadium in Orange Walk where 3-time defending champion Juventus played host to former champ La Victoria of Corozal. Needless to say the large crowd […]
Reactions of kids Student #1, Holy Redeemer School “My parents told me not to go in their cars if they tell me they want to go drive, that they will go and pick you up.” Student #2, Holy Redeemer School “They tell me not to take things from other people. Just wait until somebody comes […]
A little girl, who should have spent this afternoon doing her homework and talking to her friends, was instead eulogized at the church across the street from her school. Jackie Fern Malic’s murder, so similar to the October slaying of Sherilee Nicholas, who would have been celebrating her 13th birthday next week, has sparked feelings […]
For their part, despite intense pressure to find the killer, two days after the gruesome discovery of Jackie Fern Malic’s body police say they do not yet know for certain who killed the young girl, or why. According to A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez, Head of the Criminal Investigations Branch, they have detained two men for questioning. […]
Yesterday police urged parents and teachers to work together to protect the children and monitor their behavior. Today News Five spoke with some teachers, all of whom reacted strongly to the brutal murder of this young St. Ignatius Student who is so much like the students they work with everyday. Lavern Andrewin, Teacher, St. Luke’s […]
Some shoppers had just stopped in to pick up a few items before heading home, but they and the staff of Extra House on Church Street were held up and robbed at gun point on Thursday evening around 6:15. The five men, masked and armed with handguns and shotguns, then fled the scene with the […]
One license is still in effect but the other must be renegotiated. These were the findings of a committee appointed to review logging practices in the Columbia Forest Reserve. The committee report found that the felling being carried out by the Toledo Atlantic International Limited was having a negative impact on various rural communities. It […]
No doubt you’ve seen an attractive new building by the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Well tonight, the Social Security Board is inaugurating its new Belize City facility at the corner of Princess Margaret Drive and St. Joseph Streets. The ten thousand five hundred foot structure was designed by Mitchell-Moody Associates with work carried out by […]
The winner of this week’s Lotto draw claimed his prize this afternoon. Isabel Perez of Guinea Grass Village, Orange Walk took home twenty one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars of the twenty-five thousand dollar prize after taxes. Perez won the Lotto after choosing the correct numbers: 9, 11, 19, 28 and 31. According to […]
Tonight G. Michael Reid comments on the comments made last week by News Five’s own Hyacinth Latchman when she responded to one of G. Michael Reid’s Last Words. Space does not permit a recap of both their viewpoints, but suffice it to say, there’s definitely a gender gap “I missed my seventy five dollars last […]
The new budget was the subject of debate today in the House of Representatives. And if the spotlight was on the Prime Minister last week when he first presented the budget, today the Opposition took the floor, and held on to it for hours. U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow characterized the budget, which boasts an operating […]
Area Representative for the Mesopotamia Division Michael Finnegan, whose humorous asides played off against Barrow as the straight man, then launched into his own lengthy criticism of the budget, stressing that crucial areas such as health and education were not being sufficiently financed. But the area that drew the most fire from Finnegan was the […]
Minister of Budget Planning Ralph Fonseca dismissed the Opposition’s criticism as baseless and said the U.D.P. was still licking its wounds after their resounding defeat. He commented on the Gaming Act, which is still in the initial stages, with all aspects and possible ramifications for the Belizean public being examined. He said gambling is already […]
The Prime Minister Said Musa defended the 83 point 3 million dollar new budget which he says, given the mess the government inherited from the U.D.P., is a combination of belt tightening and measures designed to spur investment and growth. He also addressed the issue of the 100 million dollar Loan from Taiwan which the […]
It sent shockwaves through the city when the sad news was reported yesterday that twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic’s body had been found off a feeder road by mile eight on the Western Highway. Malic was reported missing on Monday after failing to show up for class or report home that night. The results […]
The grisly murders of young girls, particularly the cases of Sherilee Nicholas and Jackie Malic have parents all over Belize wondering what they can do to protect their children and how they should explain such inexplicable events. The nation’s leader is also grappling with these issues as well as how the society can put an […]
“Strengthening Alternatives to Custody in Belize” was the topic of a one-day conference held today at the Fiesta Inn. The seminar, which is hosted by the Ministry of Human Development, Women and Youth and supported by V.S.O. – Belize, looked at the progress of the present alternatives to custody and in what ways they can […]
The Ecumenical Drama Club of Dangriga will be performing their first major production this weekend at the Bliss. The group held a dress rehearsal today. The plays, “Sin” and “Sly Fox” are adaptations of the works of U.S. writers Joseph Keenan and Larry Gelbart. The plays are about avarice and just how far a person […]
It’s happened again, another schoolgirl has been found murdered. The news that the body of St. Ignatius student, missing since Monday, had been found this morning on the Western Highway shocked and outraged the nation. It is the fourth death of a young girl in a few months. A terrible pattern seems to be emerging […]
The National Organization for the Prevention of Child Abuse views the murder of twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic as a cold and despicable act of violence that terrorizes our children and society on a whole. In a statement issued this evening, NOPCA says that these acts of terror, which began with Sherilee Nicholas, must […]
In Belmopan a seventeen year old has been arrested and charged in connection with a stabbing death in Salvapan early Sunday morning. Guatemalan Manulo Gomez appeared in Belmopan Magistrate’s Court yesterday where he was formally charged with the murder of Freddie Marroquin. Witnesses told police that twenty year old Niglas Montejo and seventeen year old […]
As part of Tourism Week, the Belize Hotel Association will be holding a quarterly general meeting. One workshop at the meeting deals with Sales Tax and how it impacts the tourism industry. President Teresa Parkey told us how she believes the tax will affect B.H.A. members. Teresa Parkey, President, Belize Hotel Association “We’ve been fortunate […]
Last Week News Five reported on two separate incidents in which police forced their way into Belize City residences, ransacked the premises and then left. In one case, seven small homes were searched by nine officers who claimed they were looking for drugs. Residents claimed that not only did the police turn their homes upside […]
Everyone was alarmed when it was discovered that two convicted criminals Earl Ramos and Lucius Myers had escaped from Hattieville Prison last night. C.I.B. officials say prison officer Sebastian Wewe reported a female officer had seen two men running from the boot camp around 9:45. Wewe says he discovered the padlock of the booth camp […]
