Thirty years ago, David Novelo Sr. began a brand new bus service in Belize. Over the years the company has grown and this weekend, his four sons and daughter were proud to carry on the tradition by introducing two luxury line Mercedes Benz buses. They will begin running along the nation’s highways in the next […]
This evening the residents of the Sister Cecilia Home for the Elderly received some help from abroad. The donation included wheel chairs, shower benches, crutches and a television set. The items were a gift from the Belizean Cultural Society of New York to the Ministry of Human Development. According to Helpage Belize they are grateful […]
While seniors at the Sister Cecilia Home will be benefiting from gifts sent by Belizeans abroad, some children on the other side of town now have somewhere to stay while their mothers go to work. News Five was there for the opening of a child care center at the corner of Gil and Sanker Streets. […]
Good evening sports fans and welcome to Sports Monday. I am Karl Tillett sitting in for the inimitable James Adderley once more. Cricket is a sport born in England and widely played with great passion in England and many of her former possessions. Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean have a […]
It may have taken a while, but police have got their men. Two Belizeans accused of a holdup on the Coastal Road in May have been brought back from Guatemala for trial. Since May 17th when the payroll for the Paradise Shrimp Farm was taken at gunpoint and several people in the vehicle fired upon, […]
Yesterday News Five brought you the story of a doctor who was suspended from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after two babies died in less than 24 hours. Today another baby died shortly after delivery, but Pediatrician Dr. Egbert Grinage says the seven-month baby was “severely premature” and the lungs were not properly formed. The […]
In 1998, one point seven million gallons of petrol moved through the Corozal Free Zone into the Mexican market. This constant traffic of highly combustible material has triggered the management of the free zone to train nine of its new employees in fire fighting skills to prevent any major explosion from taking place. The course, […]
The Commonwealth Development Corporation has completed its layout of Belize’s citrus processing industry with the purchase of Belize Foods Ltd. The British based company, which had previously purchased the Citrus Company of Belize, also owns Barton Creek Farms and a large citrus plantation near Big Falls, Toledo. In recent years the rapidly expanding citrus industry […]
With four children murdered in Belize City, two more in the northern districts and sex crimes against children rampant throughout the country, a number of agencies that deal with families and children are hoping to focus national attention on the problem. An ecumenical rally will be held at the Pound Yard in Belize City this […]
He’s perhaps best known for his sculptures, most recently his larger-than-life “Citrus Worker”. But Stephen Okeke is also fascinated by machines and his latest invention has the poetic name “Silent Thunder”. The recycling machine is used to grind discarded plastics into pellets or granules which then can be sold or exported to manufacturing companies to […]
New York radio DJ Chris Dubbmaster is in Belize for a performance tonight in Belize City. He says although people have been telling him since his arrival that September is the hottest time in Belize for music, he fully intends to give the crowd a great show tonight. Chris Dubbmaster, DJ “Basically tonight is going […]
It used to be that if you called for an ambulance it might never come because there was no driver or maybe even no gas. So people found it more expedient to just hail a taxi and take an injured person to the hospital themselves. The Belize Emergency Response Team, BERT, has been working for […]
Before he died in 1996 Don Elijio Panti, Belize’s most renowned traditional healer asked Dr. Rosita Arvigo, the head of Ixchel Farms, a research center in the Cayo District, to pass on what she learned from him to future generations. In keeping with her promise, Dr. Arvigo invites children to Ixchel Farm every summer to […]
The political chest beating over who controls a narrow strip of prime property near the BelChina Bridge continued today but the venue of the battle shifted from the dusty roadside to the cool air of the Supreme Court. Acting Chief Justice Troadio Gonzales granted the government an injunction which restrains the United Democratic Party or […]
You generally only hear about teachers mobilizing when there is a wage dispute, but today teachers and staff of the Belize Teachers’ Training College and members of the Belize National Teachers’ Union staged a protest against something of much greater concern: murder. News Five met the protesters on Princess Margaret Drive. Three Toledo teachers were […]
A week after the murder of taxi driver Mariano Gomez in San Ignacio, Cayo police have charged a Guatemalan with the killing. Gomez’s son told police a Hispanic man hired his father to take him to Branch Mouth on the night of August 5th. When Mariano Gomez failed to return, his son went looking for […]
A man who turned himself into police following the beating and subsequent death of Talbert Lamb earlier this week was charged with murder today. Virgil Batty went to police on Wednesday in the company of his lawyer Lutchman Sooknandan. Police are still seeking several other suspects in connection with the incident on the night of […]
A man carrying a computer was hit by a car this morning as he crossed Newtown Barracks in front of the Sandlighter’s Promenade. Francis Wagner of Independence was on his way to Business Computer Systems around 9:30 a.m. when a car driven by 18 year old Omar Venegas which was heading towards Princess Margaret Drive […]
In previous newscasts, we highlighted the problems Trinidad and Tobago has been having with sabotaged fiber optic cables. The cuts to the cable affected their airline computers, communication with the air traffic control tower, bank transactions and private phone lines. Could Belize’s fiber optic cables, B.T.L.’s main link to voice, data, television waves and other […]
Lack of resources is often blamed for the state of Belize’s health care system. But sometimes people die not because of a lack of equipment or staff, but because the medical team didn’t communicate with each other or even worse, simply didn’t care. Tonight News Five brings you a story of two women whose experiences, […]
If a face off between U.D.P. officials and the Ministry of Housing personnel flanked by B.D.F. soldiers and a press conference on Wednesday, were not enough, today there was a rally and peaceful protest at the U.D.P. headquarters. All the fuss at the foot of the BelChina Bridge is over who legally owns the property. […]
The body of a man identified as Luis Alberto Coh, a thirty year old laborer of the Louiville area of Corozal was found in the New River near Orange Walk Town on Tuesday. Police say there were no signs of violence on the body which was clad only in a pair of jeans. They are […]
A man has turned himself into police in connection with the beating death of Talbert Lamb, otherwise known as “Baby Brains”. Virgil Batty went to police on Wednesday accompanied by his lawyer Lutchman Sooknandan. Police are looking for three more suspects. Lamb was found at the corner of Pickstock Street and New Road on the […]
The Belize Tourism Board has a number of programs underway as part of the OAS funded Small Hotel Assistance Project and the Tourism, Attitudes and Awareness Project. Today during a ceremony at B.T.I.A., the Belize Hotel Association received computer equipment for a Technological Centre to provide Internet access to small hotel owners. Teresa Parkey, President, […]
B.T.L. will be using a new billing system beginning next month, but customers won’t see the new format until October. This morning the company presented the details of what they say will be easier for customers and the company at the Radisson Fort George Hotel. The new Account Billing System will have B.T.L. customers receiving […]
