Despite allegations from area residents that George Murphy was unarmed and severely beaten by police on Sunday night in King’s Park, today he was taken across to Magistrate’s Court to face charges. Murphy, a recent deportee from the United States, was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest and harm of a police officer after two […]
Police have yet to make any arrests for the murder of a teacher from the Toledo District and the wounding of his companion earlier this month, but Pio Coc’s colleagues from the Belize Teachers’ Training College and the Belize National Teachers’ Union will protest his death later this week. The B.N.T.U. says the suggestion was […]
An 18 year old from Teakettle Village in the Cayo District has been arrested for the indecent assault of a 12 year old. The girl’s mother told police she had sent her two daughters to wash some clothes by the river on August eighth. A short while later the younger girl aged four came running […]
Hurricane shelter upgrading was discussed in today’s Cabinet meeting in Belmopan. The retrofitting of the shelters is being financed by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank. It was agreed that a new building will be built to serve as both shelter and offices for NEMO headquarters and Ministry of Health. A new […]
This evening ceremonies officially rededicating the Lutjanus, a fifty-two foot vessel, to the Fisheries Department marine fleet, took place at the compound. The boat was refurbished through a grant from the United States government. The Lutjanus, valued at four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, will be used in a number of operations conducted by the […]
On August 7th the United Democratic Party headquarters was the scene of a confrontation between party members and representatives of the Ministry of Housing who arrived to unload construction materials. The U.D.P. was informed that houses will be built on the land surrounding the Headquarters. Today the United Democratic Party held a press conference to […]
It’s not proclaiming itself as the pageant of distinction, but the Cultural Heritage Carnival Band is looking for one woman to best represent Belizean culture. The contestants will present themselves to the public on Thursday August 12th at the City Centre. Today, there was a motorcade through the streets of Belize City to advertise their […]
In other pageant news, although the Costa Maya Festival does not officially begin until next week in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, on Monday the contestants for the festival’s pageant were introduced at the Radisson Fort George Hotel in Belize City. Janelle Chanona was there. It has opened the International Costa Maya Festival for the past […]
It sounds like a case of self-defense. An officer and his partner approach a suspect, he flees, they chase him. He turns around wielding a knife, and injures one of the officers. The officers fire a warning shot and are then forced to shoot the suspect to bring him down. But while this is the […]
A man who was found beaten in Belize City on August 4th died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital this morning. Talbert Lamb, also known as “Baby Brains” or “Tall Boy” was found by a police patrol at the corner of Pickstock Street and New Road with a swollen head. He was incoherent and slipped […]
If you passed by the BelChina Bridge on Saturday you couldn’t help but notice the crowd gathered near the United Democratic Party Headquarters. The onlookers weren’t there for a political rally, but to watch a confrontation between members of the U.D.P. including former Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel and Rufus X, housing consultant from the government. […]
For too long, art classes for kids have been Friday afternoon affairs at school when children got out the crayons and doodled until the bell rang. But now the House of Culture is saying, “No more free period”. Thanks to some local artists like Pamela Bruan and Charles Chavannes, Belizean children are getting a more […]
It is estimated that three point three million people worldwide have HIV or AIDS. In Belize the disease has become one of the fastest growing health issues. According to statistics from the Pan American Health Organization and the Ministry of Health between seven to nine thousand people in Belize are infected or have full-blown AIDS. […]
Good evening sports fans and welcome to Sports Monday for August 9th, 1999. I am Karl Tillett sitting in for James Adderley once again. Football action was to headline this edition of the show but it was a case of “suppose they had a game” and only one team showed up – ergo no game. […]
Another Belizean taxi driver has been taken down a fatal road. On Thursday August 5th, around 9:30 p.m., 46 year old Mariano Gomez agreed to take a Hispanic male to Branch Mouth, San Ignacio. When the taxi man failed to return home, his son, Denfield Gomez, also a taxi driver, decided to go look for […]
Late last month when the former S.J.C. teacher Carlos Milan, accused of the attempted rape and indecent assault of his seven year old step-daughter reappeared in Magistrate’s Court, his common-law wife filed an affidavit to drop all charges. As a result, the case could not proceed that day but rather was adjourned until October and […]
Some residents of the Otro Benque Area of Orange Walk are circulating a petition asking the police and Minister of National Security Jorge Espat to take action against two men they allege have been arrested for molesting a child and continue to harass female children in the area. The complaints seem to have begun in […]
Skimpy and expensive costumes keeping you away from carnival? Belize’s newest carnival band, TELEJAMMERS, the T-shirt carnival band, might be the solution to your problem. Organizers Sherilyn Waight and Philippa Duncan stopped by News Five to fill us in on why T-shirts might just be your ticket to kicking up in the streets without showing […]
It began with a candlelight vigil to try and mobilize the community against the murders and abuse of Belize City children. Now the effort continues with a National Ecumenical Rally to highlight the fact that child abuse is a countrywide concern. On August 15th churches from all denominations, from every corner of Belize are invited […]
If you didn’t know it before, some of those luscious lobsters we see on television commercials might just be from Belize. That’s right, about 95% of the lobsters caught in Belize end up in a Red Lobster Restaurant. Today the president and some of the top executives of the Red Lobster chain were in Belize […]
No one likes to be reminded about the panic last October when Belize City residents headed inland, or crowded city shelters to avoid Hurricane Mitch. But the experience taught us a great deal about disaster preparedness, or rather our lack of preparedness. To see where we are today and what needs to be done, a […]
A late evening walk on West Canal turned deadly last night. Husband and wife, Carlos and Albina Jackson and Carlos’ nephew, Pio Coc all from San Pedro Colombia, Toledo had been shopping for materials for their courses at the Belize Teacher’s Training College and decided to stay downtown for dinner. The trio were laughing and […]
While it is not known at this time if the West Canal shooting is an isolated incident, it bears a frightening resemblance to two hold-ups earlier this week on the other side of town. On Wednesday afternoon two men on bicycles put a gun to a German tourist’s head and took his gold chain on […]
While police have yet to determine whether robbery was also the motive for another incident last night, the victim is in a coma at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Officers from the Belize City Police Department reported that while they were on patrol around 10 on Wednesday night, August 4th they found a man lying […]
Tourist arrivals at the Philip S.W. Goldson International Airport were up nine percent in July compared to last year. The Immigration Department reports there were nine thousand one hundred and thirteen visitors last month compared to eight thousand three hundred and seventy-one in July of 1998. Cruise ship arrivals are also being tracked with over […]
