News Five viewers usually end their week with the Last Word commentary by G. Michael Reid. But this week one of News Five’s own reporters asked to do the honors because she strongly opposed some of the views he expressed on March 12th. And she wasn’t alone. “Normally News Five Viewers don’t see me in […]
Just two days after a Chinese woman was fatally injured by a robber’s bullet, a seventy-one year old shopkeeper was tied up and beaten to death with a blunt instrument. According to police after a report from an area resident shortly before eleven p.m. last night they dispatched a team to number ten Barnett Street […]
Belize City was shocked at the daytime shooting of Yang Lee Chan as she stood behind the counter of De He Li Grocery Shop on Tuesday. But today residents of a well-known hot spot are furious at the way police have been conducting the search for the weapon used in the crime. What News Five […]
An environmental assessment and feasibility study is being carried out for the proposed construction of a holding reservoir for the Macal River Hydro-Electric Project. According to the Macal River Chalillo Project under the Ministry of Budget Planning and Management, B.E.L. has entered into an agreement with Agri C.I. Power of Canada to carry out the […]
New Mayors and deputy Mayors have been chosen in major towns across the country. Today the Ministry of Local Government announced the results. In San Pedro, Ambergris Caye the Mayor is Alberto Nuñez Sr., deputy Alfredo Salazar Jr. In Corozal the Mayor is Herman Ramirez, deputy Rolando Alcoser and in Orange Walk Reynaldo Burgos is […]
Normally the Triple J dock at the Court House Wharf is full of people waiting to go to the cayes aboard a water taxi. But today News Five met two visitors who brought their own transportation. And if you thought the vessels used in La Ruta Maya River Challenge were small, try traveling the world […]
Tonight in the series, “Inside the B.B.A.” Alex king profiles a team that is believed to be one of the major contenders in this year’s semi-pro series: the Kremandala Raiders. Love them or hate them, one thing is for sure, the road to the semi-pro championship has always gone through the Raider’s camp. But time […]
A Belize City woman who should have been able to concentrate on burying her mother has instead spent the last two days dealing with this tragedy and the vandalism of her home. Jean Williams told News Five today that while she was tending to funeral arrangements police officers ransacked her home on Racecourse Street looking […]
She clung to life for twenty-four hours, but today Yang Lee Chan died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital from the gunshot wound inflicted by a cold-blooded killer. Lee Chan was shot in the forehead during a robbery at her family’s shop on Freetown Road just before noon yesterday. Area residents say they only heard […]
Charges have been dismissed against a man whose stepdaughter reported he tried to have sex with her. News Five was told yesterday by the Criminal Investigations Branch that thirty-four year old Jose Martin Flores, had been charged in connection with the incident on March 19th. However, in Magistrate’s Court yesterday Magistrate Herbert Lord dismissed the […]
A well-known Mennonite businessman from Belmopan Meno Penner, seen here in last year’s Ruta Maya canoe race, has been reported missing. News Five was unable to get confirmation from police, but Penner’s wife told us this evening that her husband failed to return home yesterday evening. She says that the family is very concerned because […]
Earlier this month two Guatemalans were deported after illegally cultivating land in the Chiquibul National Park. This week the Ministry of National Security has announced another incident of cultivation on Belizean territory, this time near the Sarstoon River. The Ministry says on March ninth a B.D.F. patrol discovered two plantations of beans and corn, which […]
The Belize Arts Council will offer music classes to the general public starting April tenth to June twenty-sixth. We visited the Arts Council this afternoon and found out more about the classes. Luis Chan, Belize Arts Council “The music classes are free first of all. And it’s an invitation to all ages and for beginners; […]
He addressed a packed Bliss Institute on Monday and today anthropologist, literary critic and linguist Dr. Ivan Van Sertima spoke to enthralled U.C.B. students in his final presentation in Belize. The professor from Rutgers University has lectured at more than one hundred universities in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, South America and Europe. He […]
The volunteers were only in their village for a month, but what they leave behind will last for many years. Today News Five went to Rancho Dolores which is not only looking to enhance tourism, but to preserve its past in a new information center. Today, boys and girls of Rancho Dolores Primary School and […]
Promising to take the brakes off the economic train and get it moving again in a direction that will benefit all segments of the economy, today the Prime Minister presented the new budget to the House of Representatives. The budget strives for a balance between necessary belt tightening measures and tax breaks and public spending […]
There are three products which will be taxed at twelve percent. These are petroleum products, alcohol and tobacco. News Five asked the Prime Minister how the consumer will be able to determine if he is being charged a fair amount for products under the new tax since it is being charged at the point of […]
As was expected the Leader of the Opposition, Dean Barrow was not pleased at the removal of the VAT nor was he impressed by the new sales tax which he says is more of a duty than a tax. He told News Five that today’s announcement is not the fulfillment of a campaign promise, but […]
While most of the housewives on Freetown Road were preparing their midday meal, two women in a shop were about to be terrorized and injured by a young man armed with a gun. The incident has left one woman in critical condition. Neighbors say they don’t recall hearing any gunshot but they’ll never forget a […]
Her mother wouldn’t listen to her, so she went straight to police to report her stepfather. Yesterday Jose Martin Flores, was arrested and charged for attempting to have sexual intercourse with his eleven year old stepdaughter. The girl told police her stepfather had tried to molest her on March fourth, but when she told her […]
Information reaching News Five today is that employees of the Belize Telecommunications Limited Corozal branch are being questioned after a recent audit revealed that over eleven thousand dollars is missing from the company funds. News Five contacted B.T.L. office this afternoon and it was confirmed that indeed there are missing funds from the Corozal branch […]
In Channel Five’s continuing week-long series titled “Inside the B.B.A.,” James Adderley takes a look at the team called Travellers Pirates. As our pre-season feature of the semi-pro basketball teams continues we checked in at big Bird’s Isle last night to view the training session of the Travellers Pirates team and for sure we were […]
A man was found hanging from the ceiling of his home early Saturday morning. According to police reports, they received a call around seven thirty and immediately went to number twenty-nine Banak Street where they found the lifeless body of thirty-five year old Francis Dougall hanging from a rope. Police say Dougall’s common-law wife Irma […]
A young man was shot at while taking a bath at his home on Neal Pen Road over the weekend. Twenty-four year old Cecil Gill who resides at sixty-one Neal Pen Road told police that he was in his bathroom around seven thirty Saturday night when a man entered his yard and fired three shots […]
A full fledged strike at the Belize Sugar Industries was averted this weekend when B.S.I. and the Belize Workers Union came to an agreement over disciplinary action taken against one of the workers. Vice Chairman of the Union, Thomas Chan had been put on a one-day suspension following a clash with management when Chan was […]
