One month after a man drowned in the sea off the Yarborough area, an investigation is being launched into his death. Refusing to back down from his insistence on transparency, today Ombudsman Paul Rodriguez announced that he has begun to look into the death of 24 year old Kelvin “Brambles” Barrow. On February 24th, Barrow […]
In Dangriga, Police are investigating the shooting death of 24 year old Jonathan Hines, a labourer of Belize City. According to Elroy Dougal, also of Belize City, sometime around 7:20 last night, he was at his mother’s house in the Rivas Estate area of Dangriga. He said he saw Hines pull out a small brown […]
Concern that there may be too many timber licenses and not enough trees for everyone to cut, led 75 members of the industry and personnel from the Forest Department to meet in Belmopan this week. While it is true that 79% of Belize is under some form of forest cover, 40% of this falls under […]
Creating a sustainable industry was also part of a workshop in fly fishing techniques in Rancho Dolores and St. Paul’s Bank in the Belize River Valley last week. The training is to help those communities take advantage of opportunities in the tourism industry. It included sessions on techniques as well as guiding skills and was […]
If you’re a fan of jazz, you’re in for a rare treat this Friday Night. The House of Culture is inviting you to a night of Jazz featuring the musical talents of six artists, Frank Rhys on keyboard and tenor sax, Luciano Rosado on trumpet, Carlos Perrote on Drums and Keyboard, Mark Phillips on guitar […]
The Alliance against Aids has launched an urgent appeal for supplies for those living with HIV/AIDS. The Alliance says more and more clients are coming into their center, Common Ground in Belize City, needing basic items such as toiletries, warm clothes, canned and easily prepared food, vitamins and tonic. According to their figures, one person […]
They do various projects all over Belize, but the Rockview Psychiatric Facility has a special place in their hearts. Today the Belize Hospital Auxilliary unveiled their latest project. News Five was there. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Improving the physical layout of the Rockview Hospital has been a goal set by the hospital administration for some time. […]
With an increasing number of reports of abuse and neglect, people’s first reaction is often to say, “remove the child from the home!” And while this is usually the Department of Human Development’s last resort, it does happen. What becomes of the children who have to be taken away from their family, or whose family […]
Police have arrested and charged three Jamaicans of Freetown Sibun Village for Weed cultivation. Horace Francis, Delroy Mullin and Peter Myers have all been arrested and charged for the Cultivation and Possession of Controlled Drugs. Yesterday around 6:00am, Police conducted the Anti-Drug Operation in Freetown Sibun Village, where they discovered 3,000 mature marijuana plants and […]
The man police believe tried to kidnap and rape a 15-year-old earlier this month, is today out on bail. Yesterday Magistrate Dorothy Flowers granted Errol Bishop, also known as Adel Mohammed Abdulla, bail in the amount of $5,000 with one surety of the same amount, which he met. When Bishop appeared in court on March […]
Meanwhile a bus driver from Orange Walk has been arrested and charged with the rape of a teenager. 31 year old Javier Villanueva was charged with rape yesterday after a 19-year-old female worker of the Free Zone reported to police that late Saturday night, Villanueva raped her. According to the young woman, just before 1:00 […]
Today there was territorial dispute. But this time it wasn’t at the border…it was in Belama. Just after 8:00 this morning two Novelo’s buses blocked another company’s bus from going anywhere for almost an hour. The Novelo’s drivers say they did it to help the Police and Transport Department do their job. The other bus […]
One in four people in Belize have jobs that are affected by tourism, that’s according to the Belize Tourism Board anyway, and they want to increase that percentage even more. This morning, as part of Tourism Awareness Week, the BTB gave its report to the industry, outlining its accomplishments this past year and its plans […]
Cabinet had some tourism news of its own this week. According to the Cabinet briefing, the government has given the Belize Tourism Board the green light to proceed with plans for the Tourism Village in the Fort Point area of Belize City. The Village will be developed and operated by a private sector entity, but […]
The Belize Council for the Visually Impaired has acquired a relatively recent computer program that helps blind students become computer literate. They don’t have to see the screen because a voice reads everything out loud for them, including all the computer’s own commands. The Belize Bank has provided a new computer for the program and […]
Every year students “bust their brains” trying to come up with an impressive presentation that’s sure to blow away the judges of that annual environmental science fair at the Belize Zoo. Competition was friendly but fierce between schools from all over the country last week. This year themes ranged from the traditional “save the rainforest” […]
A child injured over the weekend at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend has still not fully regained consciousness and remains at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Hospital officials tell News Five, 2-year-old Adrian Smith was able to sit up today and is showing signs of further improvement, but is not completely normal. Perhaps more […]
The Regional Language Center was inaugurated on Monday at the UCB Belmopan campus. The idea for the center was first suggested by Prime Minister Said Musa in the early 1990’s when he attended a regional meeting in Honduras as Belize’s Foreign Minister. He revived the concept at the beginning of his current term. The Prime […]
This week is being celebrated as Tourism Awareness Week. Opening remarks were given by Minister of Tourism Mark Espat on Sunday. On Monday members of the BTB were featured on Love FM‘s Morning Show and held a Tourism Appreciation Day at various venues including the International Airport. Today, they were on Krem‘s Morning Show and […]
The Deputy Head of the German Embassy in Jamaica met with Ministry of Housing personnel this week, to discuss plans for the satellite city at mile 31 on the Western Highway and other projects in Belize. Dr. Bernard von Muenchow-Pohl met with project coordinator Carolyn Trench Sandiford and representatives of Adolp Lupp, a German company […]
The Belize Women’s Political Caucus (BWPC) will be holding its annual convention on Saturday. The convention begins at 1:00pm at the Belize-Mexico Institute of Co-operation and Culture in Belize City. Guest speakers include Professor Judith Aguilar, President of the Women’s Movement, State of Quintana, Roo, Senator Audrey Matura and Chairperson of the Belize Tourism Board […]
He’s not the first and sadly, he won’t be the last teenager who’s had to be airlifted out of the country for medical attention. News Five was at the intersection of St. Thomas Street and Princess Margaret Drive on the night of October 27th when a car, carrying 16 year old Duane Cano and his […]
While public attention has recently been captured by cases of runaway girls falsely claiming they were kidnapped, one year ago this week on March 22nd, 1999 a little girl did go missing, for real. And like Sherilee Nicholas, Jay Blades, Erica Wills, and Noemi Hernandez, this little girl never came home. Tonight, News Five remembers […]
This week, the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will meet in New Orleans to analyze the financial situations of Latin America and the Caribbean. According to an IDB press release, reducing poverty, income distribution and capital flows in the region are some of the topics that will be discussed. One seminar […]
This weekend had more than its share of violence and death on the roads. Tonight, Police are still trying to establish a 16 year old’s motive in the murder of a man from San Lazaro Village in the Orange Walk District. Police report that on Saturday night the Blanco family was having a party when […]
