There are open days and then there are open days. Today News Five visited Wesley College to sample what the students have been up to. Not only did we find the usual display booths, but the Spanish class displayed its initiative with a unique demonstration. Whatever the nature of their open day project, the students […]
Can you spell “ricochet”? Well, one young lady from San Pedro showed she can spell it, plus a whole lot of other words and walked away this year’s Coca-Cola Spelling Bee champ. And if you weren’t able to be at the City Center this morning for the big event, don’t worry Channel Five will be […]
Soap opera lovers and sports fans take note: G. Michael Reid says the copyright law will affect you and it may not help local artists as much as they hope. With the Last Word here is G. Michael Reid. “As we zip through the month of April and hasten toward our rendezvous with the mystical […]
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Nineteen year old Niguel Card is in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he took a big chance and reportedly tried to steel a game machine at Huang’s Vista Mart Grocery Shop in Ladyville. Owner Cuoiui Huang told News Five Card has been hanging around the shop quite sometime before he made his bold attempt […]
Well-known businessman from Orange Walk Armando Warren Gomez has died from injuries sustained during a shooting a week ago. According to reliable reports he died at six o’clock this morning in the Orange Walk Hospital. He had been taken to Chetumal but doctors apparently felt there was nothing to be done. Gomez was reportedly shot […]
You would think Corozal Police would have had Rocky William Matura under heavy guard knowing he had only recently escaped from Hattieville Prison, but on Tuesday night Matura broke out of jail again. This time in Corozal he was accompanied by fellow inmate Corozaleño Ernesto Cervera. Matura escaped from Hattieville on March 30 in the […]
Earth Day activities kicked off yesterday with an exhibition at the Bliss Institute organized by the Belize Audubon Society. Today the children of Crooked Tree and neighboring villages celebrated Earth Day their own way. News Five was there. Patricia Crawford “We celebrate Earth Day because it is like an example to children to show them […]
Despite the fact that it was a move which affects thousands of children and their parents, the statutory instrument mandating an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew was signed two weeks ago on April ninth with no warning and no public education campaign. Most people believed the curfew took effect that same day, or would […]
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In recent years, prison breaks have become almost as common as Chinese shop jackings. Most of the time the prisoners are caught hours later and hustled back to their cells. But dangerous criminals have gone on to murder innocent people — people who would be alive today if security had been better. No one will […]
While our news team was at the Hattieville Prison this morning they were stopped by an inmate of the maximum security section, Edwardo Martinez. Martinez has been accused of killing sixty-two year old businessman Fredrick Hopkins. Hopkins’ decomposed body was found last Thursday after his vehicle was discovered on April first. Martinez claims he is […]
The police, who are at times somewhat reluctant to release information to the media, today sent out a special bulletin devoted entirely to charges being filed against U.D.P. Senator Audrey Matura Tillett. Matura is being charged in causing a three-vehicle accident at the foot of the BelChina Bridge on April 13 as well as harm […]
The Mexican government will be assisting Belize with even more educational and cultural programs as well as expanding its cooperation in the areas of human development, the environment, agriculture and fisheries. Today meetings were held in Belmopan between Ambassador Jorge Alberto Lozoya of the Mexican Institute for International Cooperation, Ambassador Marco Antonio Alcazar of the […]
In an effort to help Belize’s young people find constructive activities, the Belize Chess Federation is reinvigorating its Chess in the Schools Program. The International Federation, FIDE, has given Belize one hundred chess sets and boards. Thirty of these will be used for Belize Chess Federation activities and the rest will be distributed to schools […]
Belize’s many environmental organizations work hard all year round to help people understand the issues that affect us. But a special joint effort is underway at the Bliss Institute as part of Earth Day, which is tomorrow April twenty second. The exhibition, sponsored by the Belize Audubon Society, seeks to create an awareness of the […]
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Most of us take taxi drivers for granted; you call them, they come and pick you up. It is this very responsiveness that makes them vulnerable to criminal attacks. Tonight police are warning taxi drivers to be careful after two recent incidents in which drivers were abducted and robbed. On Monday night, police say that […]
While taxi drivers are the latest targets of criminals, police have picked up the former driver of one of the Government Ministers: Dickie Bradley. Clay Monsanto has been arrested for aggravated assault. On Sunday night Monsanto reportedly fired shots at a house on Euphrates Avenue while looking for Darrel Jones. Monsanto then is reported to […]
On Monday, TACA suspended its flights to Miami. Today the government announced it will be looking to other airlines to fill the void. It was agreed during Cabinet’s meeting in Belmopan that the Ministries of Tourism and Transport would continue negotiations with other carriers to accommodate these passengers. The Ministry of Tourism will also be […]
The Political Reform Commission will be coming out of the conference room and hitting the airwaves to get your suggestions. The show, “Rock di system” will air on two stations KREM and LOVE FM on Sundays and Thursdays beginning this weekend. The hosts for this Sunday’s program at 11 a.m. on KREM are commission chairman […]
Justice George Meerabux has agreed to allow another Justice to hear Rhett Fuller’s application to the Supreme Court. Justice Meerabux conveyed his decision to “recuse” himself from the case today to defense attorney Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay but said he will give his reasons in writing at a later date. Another Justice has not yet […]
Yesterday you met Murphy McLaren who will be challenging Norman “Papi Pote” Orosco in this weekend’s fight at Birds Isle. Today it is Orosco’s turn to tell you what you can expect from the match. Although it is just an exhibition match, as you will notice, Orosco and his trainer are not planning to pull […]
Even his own employees were surprised by the size of the donation Larry Addington of Caye Chapel decided to make to the Police Department. And today not five, not ten but sixteen pickups were handed over to Minister Jorge Espat. And four more trucks are on the way. The gift, worth one point two million […]
On February 19th, nineteen year old Luke Smith went out to San Pedro, Ambergris Caye to clean up the island’s beach. As he was searching for trash he came upon a small gun lodged in the roots of the mangroves. Unwisely he picked up the weapon and began to play with it. It went off […]
