The St. Mary’s School Feeding Program and the restoration of St. John’s Anglican Cathedral are two worthy causes which will be aided by some special music this week. The concerts will feature contemporary and classical Christian music by artists Rhonda Reid and Father James Hagan of New York City. Both have been involved in the […]
Whenever a Belizean artist produces a new CD or tape we usually like to give a listen and share the news with our viewers. Oftentimes the artist is new or obscure. Today’s group is anything but. “Bend Down and Wine,” is the fourth CD to be released by Santino’s Messengers. The band considers the album […]
The process of economically harvesting fish from the sea long ago made the transition from art to science. But this does not mean that we cannot gain vital knowledge by looking at the culture and traditions of our fishermen. This morning News Five’s Janelle Chanona met some people who plan to move science forward by […]
For four days Kevin Coye fought for his life but this morning, doctors in Guatemala City pronounced the twenty-four year old dead. Coye had sustained severe head and body injuries after colliding with the back of a truck while on his motorcycle on New Year’s Eve. He slipped into a coma shortly after being admitted […]
Tonight police are on the lookout for an alleged murderer. Twenty-nine year old Victor Galvez is wanted for a killing that took place at the Cabbage Ridge area near Bomba in the Belize District. According to police they believe that on December twenty-fifth around four in the evening, Galvez was with one Nehemia Peraza Lopez, […]
Was a thirteen-year-old student abducted and then raped by two men in Orange Walk? That’s what the police are trying to determine as their investigation into the case continues. According to the teenage student she left home shortly after seven on Sunday evening to go buy bread… and took sometime to get back home. It […]
A burglar in Benque Viejo got away with some major loot over the Christmas holidays but today the suspect is in custody. Twenty-eight year old Nelson Hernandez has been charged with burglary and handling stolen goods after police found seventy-eight thousand dollars worth of jewelry buried in the backyard of his home. The jewelry is […]
The Mennonite Community of Spanish Lookout has always been known as easy pickings for criminals due to the Mennonites’ tradition of non-violence. And while in recent years a good number of Spanish Lookout residents have quietly purchased a shotgun or two, a number of high profile violent crimes have continued to plague the prosperous settlement. […]
Belize will be represented at next week’s presidential inauguration in Guatemala City by none other than Prime Minister Said Musa. It is Musa’s second official trip to Guatemala since becoming Prime Minister and he will no doubt take the opportunity to strengthen ties with a new president who is reputed to be a hardliner on […]
The diplomatic mission to Guatemala comes at a time when border tensions between the two countries are running a bit higher than normal. Recently a Guatemalan army patrol was met by a Belize Defense Force patrol in the area of San Vicente, a tiny settlement in Toledo just south of the Columbia River Forest Reserve. […]
Despite the fact that there has been an ongoing campaign by the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute, dead manatees are still washing up on our shores: seventeen in 1999 alone. Of that number it is believed three may have died after the manatees were hit by a boat propeller or crushed by the hull […]
Everyone likes a raffle, especially one where you’re holding a pile of tickets. I must confess that more than a few of the stubs in today’s big draw carried my name… but alas, this isn’t a story about me. You had a one in three hundred thousand chance to hit the jackpot. That’s the number […]
On January tenth, when the students of Excelsior High School go back to classes, there’ll be one less staff member on campus. Math and Science teacher Brian Plummer has been told that effective immediately, his services will no longer be required at the school. Last year Plummer was a vocal supporter of the controversial government […]
When Florencio Marin announced his resignation from Cabinet last month to take over the chairmanship of the Corozal Free Zone it was a matter of some speculation as to who, if anyone, would succeed him. Today the mystery ended when government announced that veteran politician Valdemar Castillo would get a seat at the big table […]
On Friday we managed to get out a news report while the flames were still blazing… and in the cold light of New Year’s Day neighborhood residents saw just how lucky they were that more damage wasn’t done. Six houses were affected in the New Year’s Eve fire at the corner of Cemetery Road and […]
As the National Fire Service continued their investigation into the New Year’s Eve conflagration on West Street, the very next night they were once again called out, this time to the corner of King and Albert Streets. Shortly after seven, someone in the neighborhood observed smoke coming from the V.J. Max Store. Although the fire […]
A tourist from the United States has died while SCUBA diving off San Pedro. On the afternoon of January first, thirty-five year old Robert Marks of Westminster, Colorado was ascending from a depth of around eighty feet at the Amigos wreck site and signaled to divemaster Carlos Garbutt that all was well. But by the […]
At news time tonight, twenty-four year old Kevin Coye is still in critical condition after being involved in a traffic accident on New Year’s Eve. Coye was flown to a hospital in Guatemala City for medical treatment on Saturday afternoon and we are told his condition has improved but that doctors will be monitoring him […]
Around midnight on December thirty-first, expectant mothers throughout the world pushed a little harder and watched the clock carefully, hoping to cash in on the proceeds of having the first baby of the millennium. There were more contenders, and hype, in foreign hospitals, but that didn’t stop the K.H.M.H. from making sure Belize’s baby 2000 […]
When he wasn’t honoring the nation’s newborns Prime Minister Musa managed to find time to state his views to the Belizean people. In his eighteen minute Millennium Address the P.M. touched on a variety of issues, both foreign and domestic. He pledged to increasingly involve the NGO community in government’s work and promised to include […]
If you and your family flocked to the Memorial Park on New Year’s Eve expecting a fireworks extravaganza on the order of Sydney, Paris or Times Square, you were no doubt disappointed. And the fact is that even if you were not expecting a world class event, you still may have felt a bit let […]
It’s the biggest payoff this side of Lotto and by lunchtime on Tuesday we’ll all know who is fifty thousand dollars richer. That’s the jackpot in the final Millennium Mania Draw sponsored by Courts. The barrel spins at eleven a.m. at the downtown Belize City store so stand by. One especially nice feature of the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and on behalf of the entire staff of Sports Monday we want to wish you the very best in 2000. In the meantime we followed the match-up in week fifteen of the B.F.L. Regent’s Millennium Cup which swung through the festive season. The trail led us to beautiful Dangriga where […]
