Barranco Village in the Toledo district has an unexpected first-time visitor last week when a whale surfaced offshore. The mammal estimated to be about fifty feet long lingered near Barranco for four days. The Toledo Institute for Development, TIDE and the Belize Marine Mammal Stranding Network dispatched a team to the area over the weekend […]
The government is forging ahead with its plans for a university of Belize, which will incorporate several tertiary level institutions. But while plans may look good on paper, carrying them out is an entirely different matter. The proposed deadline is just over a year away in August of 2000. Today the Belize School of Nursing […]
“Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this serving of Sports Monday. Lady Rebels consolidated its grip on first place in the Rogers Stadium softball season by sweeping a pair of ballgames from a struggling JL’s team. We pick up the action in the top of the 2nd inning with Delvorine […]
He is a man who is no stranger to controversy, and whether the story plays out in the media of London, New York or Belize City it usually revolves around the relationship between money and power. The man of course is Michael Ashcroft and while this alleged billionaire whether in Belize dollars, U.S. dollars or […]
Yet another farmer has lost his life during a tractor accident. According to report, around 2:30 yesterday afternoon sixty-nine year old farmer John Loewen left his farm in Spanish Lookout on his tractor. A short while later, his son David discovered his father’s body with cut wounds to the arm and neck. The body was […]
A chopping incident on Thursday night has left two men in the Belmopan hospital. According to Sebastian Moralez, he and Eckert Gutierrez were playing dominoes on Caracol Street in Belmopan when John Ical pulled a machete and chopped Moralez on his leg and Gutierrez on his right hand. The victims claim the attack was without […]
Belizeans have long complained of inadequate health care, but there may finally be some major improvements in the pipeline. The Minister of Economic Development Ralph Fonseca and Health Minister Servulo Baeza had final discussions today with representatives from the Caribbean Development Bank and the Inter American Bank about funding for the Health Reform Program. If […]
Jamaica gets a lot of bad press for its crime, but it has always gotten rave music revues. Today News Five had a visitor straight from Kingston whom has a musical message for Belizeans. Reggae artist Buru Banton, arrived on Thursday with Massive B sound’s Jaba and Bobby Konders to give a one-night show tonight […]
Over forty educators from the United States are in Belize City this week as part of the sixth annual International Congress on Challenges to Education. Two Belizean participants have joined the teachers in discussion of the theme “Balancing Unity and Diversity in a Changing World.” So why did the American educators choose to bring their […]
Since the National Bus Owners Organization was formed in 1971, it has been a bumpy ride for those in the industry. While the bigger bus lines have managed to forge ahead, the small operators say unfair competition and favoritism from the Ministry of Transport are squeezing them out. On Thursday evening a group of small […]
All too often we hear of shops being robbed, but schools? On Wednesday Nazarene high school employees were robbed at gunpoint and almost four thousand dollars taken. According to the school’s office manager Gilroy Audinett and secretary Gayle Gordon, a masked, barefoot man entered the main building around three forty-five in the afternoon through an […]
While there is still no official word about kidnapped Mennonite Menno Penner, another member of the Mennonite community and his family were threatened with bodily harm on Wednesday. Police arrested a Guatemalan Umberto Arevalo Hernandez and Belize David Landero of Billy White Village in the Cayo District after they allegedly took a letter, written in […]
One week ago, senior police constable Aloysius Guzman committed suicide by shooting himself in the temple in front of his wife. Today we learned that another police officer tried to end his life on Wednesday night. Reports are that the sergeant who resides in Ladyville and is attached to the patrol branch in Belize City […]
Two men from the Stann Creek district have been charged with having sex with minors, and one of the girls was only eleven years old. On Tuesday a woman in red bank village took her eleven-year-old daughter to a medical officer after she saw vamp marks on the child’s neck. He confirmed she had been […]
Several years ago Belize hospitals embarked on a Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative. But the ten-step plan to strengthen relationships between nurses and expectant mothers and promote breastfeeding in our maternity wards has been difficult to complete. Rural and public health nurses and midwives met today to discuss how they can ensure that by the end […]
For the past two weeks the old floor boards at the Belize Government house have felt young bones walk across it. In a workshop sponsored by the House of Culture, thirty-two children, ages eight to fifteen, have been refining their artistic skills under the direction of Pamela Bruan. Aimee Flores, Art Student “I needed something […]
Every fisherman on the planet has a story about the big one that got away. Well tonight on news five we’ve got a story about some big ones that didn’t get away. In fact, as Stewart Krohn reports from Placencia, they keep on coming back. With longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere and three […]
While the Prime Minister may just have returned from Trinidad and Mexico, today he saw one of his pet projects from his Cuba visit earlier this year swing into action. Prime Minister Musa had his first glimpse of the Cuban house factory leased from President Fidel Castro, which has been set up in Ladyville. While […]
There was much pomp and circumstance at the police station on Raccoon street as the Minister of National Security and Immigration, Jorge Espat officially handed over thirteen new vehicles to law enforcement agencies. Espat in his address said the vehicles are examples of the governments’ commitment to renew and transform Belize’s law enforcement agencies. Six […]
Following the handing over ceremony, News Five asked Minister of National Security Jorge Espat about the removal of A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez as the officer in charge of the Criminal Investigation Branch at Eastern Division. Espat said the decision to reassign Alvarez was based on a report into the theft of seven guns from the evidence […]
A twenty-seven year a businessman from Belmopan is lucky to be alive after an accident this morning between miles three and four on the Western Highway. News five arrived at the scene moments after the accident. Liji Sen was travelling up to Belmopan when he lost control of the small Toyota car. The car, which […]
Their product is in every government office whether it is the forms you fill out or the gazette and other publications, but now the Printing department is no longer limited to black and white productions. The department has acquired a device for color separation and printing. The first newspaper to hire their services is the […]
New magistrates, a temporary magistrate and two new crown counsels have been appointed to help speed up things in the judiciary. Complaints from the public about slow child maintenance payments have led the Attorney General to provide the Family Court with two new magistrates, Merlene Moody and Alberta Perez. They will help with the backlog […]
Eleven months after the General Elections, the United Democratic Party launched its new Party Constitution Tuesday night. Members at a special conference ratified the document at Birds Isle late last month and according to the UDP it represents a more participatory approach. Aside from the general aims and goals of the party and requirements for […]
If you’re one of those people who have travelled to Belmopan to fill out all the forms for getting a piece of land and were assured that everything was in order only to return the next week and have to repeat the whole process again, don’t lose heart. According to the Minister of Natural Resources […]
