A young boy drowned over the weekend after a canoe ride turned tragic. On Saturday afternoon, 10-year-old Philip Liang was in a canoe with other children in a pond near mile fourteen and a half on the Western Highway when the canoe tipped over. Liang’s father, Rong Liang, says the other children escaped uninjured but […]
An autopsy on a teen who collapsed and died during football practice last week indicates that she had an undiagnosed heart condition which lead to her death. 15 year old Monique Castillo fainted on Thursday afternoon at Holy Ghost School and died on the way to the Southern Regional Hospital.
A family hunting trip in San Estevan has left one son dead after his father mistook him for a deer in the bushes. According to police, on Saturday night, 61 year old Wilfredo Pott Sr., his two sons and a grandson were hunting in the bush off the San Estevan Road. Wilfredo Pott Sr. says […]
Prime Minister Said Musa returned to Belize today after attending a summit in Guadalupe and opening “Belize Week” in the City of Merida. In Guadalupe, the PM and CARIforum heads of Government met with French President Jacques Chirac to discuss European Union/Caribbean relations and French bilateral programs for the Caribbean. The French President pledged support […]
Belize Defense Force soldiers and members of the Police Force are heading for Puerto Rico later this month to join in Exercise Tradewinds. The annual event involves security forces from Caricom countries, the United States and the United Kingdom. According to the BDF, the purpose is to promote regional security and disaster preparedness cooperation and […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re right on time for this most recent serving of Sports Monday. For sure folks us Belizean sports fans couldn’t be happy with the result from the heavy actions over the weekend. The worst disappointment came from the CONCACAF ballgame at Corozal as winless La Victoria hosted Olympia of […]
The media houses have gotten together to try and get the message out to kids and parents to “Watch Yu Back, Anybody Could Be Jack” and today when it was reported that a Belize City student had gone missing, people came forward with information. The 13-year-old’s schoolmates from St. Mary’s told their teacher the girl […]
19 year old Phillip Jones Tillett, who is considered armed and dangerous, remains at large after he escaped from police custody at the Queen Street Police Station. Tillett was serving a 20-year sentence for manslaughter after he was convicted of shooting Wei Tao Jhiang on Mahogany Street on November 6th, 1997. Tillett was being held […]
Early this morning, News Five got a press release from Police Press Relations Officer Christy Castillo regarding allegations that police acted inappropriately while at the scene where Betty Rudon had been beaten. Castillo says the internal investigation, includes statements from the eyewitness to the attack, Ilma McCann, as well as the two officers involved. Statements […]
A student of Holy Ghost School in Dangriga collapsed during football practice and died on the way to the Southern Regional hospital on Thursday. The teacher Howard Melendez reported that around 4:45, he was training both his male and female teams when 15 year old Monique Castillo fainted. A post mortem is scheduled for Saturday.
A Prison Officer and two inmates from the Department of Corrections have been charged with drug trafficking after an incident Thursday at the Youth Enhancement Academy. During an anti-drug operation at YEA, prison officials reported seeing the inmates, 28 year old Robert Liang and 40 year old Leonardo Caretello picking up a bag and taking […]
Red Tilapia fingerlings cultivated at the Fisheries Department hatchery was released on Thursday at the Beaver Dam Aquaculture Sweetwater Zone on the Western Highway. The fish were imported from Taiwan and are a sample of an expected 150,000 babies that will be purchased at the end of May for a three pond experiment. Project owner […]
In keeping with a city sister relationship, this week, Belize City is playing host to the Mayor of Evanston, Illinois. Lorraine Morton says her interest in Belize was stimulated by the Lighthouse Rotary Club in Evanston, which wished to help educate Belizeans about safer traffic guidelines. She formed a committee and unlike the “working committees” […]
We all want smoothly flowing traffic in the city, but then again, part of the excitement of Belize City life is having to deal with the street side vendors, cars and trucks that stop where ever they feel like it and bikes and pedestrians dodging in and out. For the past 20 years or so, […]
On Wednesday a group of Orange Walk students visited various media houses to protest changes occurring in the bus service to Belize City. Although the owner of Venus, which recently bought out Escalante and Urbina’s bus companies, Froylan Gilharry told News Five he could not afford to keep the rates these two were charging, the […]
It is not the first time they have been arrested, but with shark fins fetching up to $75.00 a pound on the Guatemalan market they must have felt it was worth the risk. But someone who was concerned enough about protecting the marine life at the Glover’s Reef Reserve called the Fisheries Department. Their team […]
Following the savage beating of a retired nurse on Monday evening, today, 30 year old Levi Jackson was charged with dangerous harm and harm. He was denied bail and remanded to the Hattieville Correctional facility. In an interview yesterday with News Five, 83 year old Ilma McCann recounted a horrific account of the attack, which […]
Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident, which took place between mile 62 and 63 on the Western Highway on Wednesday. Initial investigations reveal that around 5:00 yesterday afternoon, 27 year old Daniel Estelle, a mechanic of two and a half miles Northern Highway was driving his van from Corozal to Belize City. Near San […]
A man police describe as armed and dangerous escaped from their custody earlier today. 19 year old Phillip Jones Tillett, convicted of the murder of Wei Tao Jhiang a businessman in November of 1997, was being escorted to the bathroom at the Queen Street Police Station today when he managed to run away. Tillett is […]
As part of women’s week the Women’s Issues Network of Belize, WIN, is holding its second annual fair this Saturday. Women’s group from every district will participate. There will be displays, demonstrations, cultural and food sales. However, this year women are also being invited to check out loans available through a Micro Enterprise Credit Scheme […]
Tonight bruised muscles are still being massaged and many a back are still sore, the result of the strenuous strokes invested in the La Ruta Maya competition over the weekend. Sheer determination and mental and physical strength brought all the teams over the finish line. When the race left the Hawkesworth bridge, on March 3rd, […]
He brought our men home from Guatemala and today he’s paying the price. On Tuesday, Ambassador Salvador Figueroa, who had only just unpacked his bags, was expelled from Guatemala. His crime? Apparently the three Belizean soldiers and one policeman, who were released into his custody by a judge on Friday, were not supposed to leave […]
Three women were enjoying an evening chat on Monday night on Eve Street when suddenly the son of one of them burst down the door and in a violent frenzy attacked his mother’s companions. Elizabeth Rudon is still in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, but Ilma McCann tells News Five a harrowing […]
The Inter-American Development Bank in Belize has announced the winners of the Youth Summit Competition. They are Cardine Coleman and Arthur Usher who were selected by an international panel in Washington D.C. They will join youth leaders from 25 other countries at the IDB/IIC Youth Summit in News Orleans later this month. Coleman is a […]
With an estimated one thousand students and workers commuting from Orange Walk town to Belize City on a daily basis, the announcement early this week that Urbina’s and Escalante bus lines had been bought by the Venus bus line caused quite a commotion. Orangewalkenos didn’t take the situation lightly; especially when they found out it […]
