He had 5 pounds and he got 8 years. Phillip Menzies, an American arrested in February for trafficking cocaine, pleaded guilty in Corozal’s Magistrate Court yesterday and was sentenced to 4 years in prison and fined $25,000. Menzies was unable to pay the fine and had an extra 4 years added to his stay at […]
Around this time every year, the staff of Continental Airlines puts together an event for Belize City children. In the past, they’ve done Easter egg hunts but today at the House of Culture, while there wasn’t an egg in sight, there was a fair share of excitement. The deserving children were selected by the principals […]
In the past we have brought his story to the screen but transistors and electrons cannot replace the real sights, sounds and smells of Henry Fairweather’s mahogany plantation. Today some lucky school children and adults made the pilgrimage…and News Five’s Janelle Chanona joined them for a tour. Janelle Chanona, Reporting In early February, News Five […]
You’ve heard their music, often recorded and popularised by other artists. This weekend, if you’ve got 30 bucks to spare, you can appreciate them in the flesh. Square One arrived in Belize today and if the hype is to be believed, the country–musically speaking anyway–will never be the same. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Square One, one […]
The buzz among people in the tourism industry was that Belize was having a pretty good season, and if you’ve tried lately to buy a ticket on a flight to the States you know that somebody is filling all those airplane seats. Today the Belize Tourism Board confirmed that intuition and announced an unprecedented increase […]
With more people traveling through the International Airport it means that the Belize Airports Authority will be reaping a bonanza in departure taxes. And it looks like they’re going to need every penny. In a decision handed down on Friday the BAA has been ordered to pay almost a million dollars to the operators of […]
We are happy to report that 5-year-old Juanita Elmira Manzanero, who we reported missing in yesterday’s newscast, never did leave school and is today back with her family. News Five had received a phone call from the police late Monday evening informing us that when the child’s father had gone to the school at 3:30 […]
In light of the increased number of sexual crimes against children and the probability of a serial killer lurking in our midst, the Belizean community is struggling to come to grips with new realities. Unfortunately, it’s been the Belizean norm to sweep such occurrences under the rug. The social work programme of the University College […]
Nurses in Trinidad are still on the march in the second day of their walkout against government hospitals. The medical facilities are attempting to get by with a small number of non-striking nurses who are working multiple shifts. At press time tonight, there was still no news of a settlement. Nurses are demanding a 50% […]
In the waters off Belize City today there was good news and bad news. The good news is that a group of fourteen students from Belize Elementary, winners of a contest, were taken on a trip to see Belize’s manatees in the wild. The bad news is that the boat carrying six of the students–and […]
Today was the day of reckoning for an unhappy national football selection and a highly criticized Belize National Football Association. In the end while all was not necessarily peace and love, it appears that at least some common sense prevailed. Janelle Chanona, Reporting After missing three practice sessions, Belize’s national selection football team was back […]
It was supposed to be a state of the art facility designed to give Belizeans the quality of hospital care that had been sorely lacking at the old dilapidated Belize City Hospital on the seafront. But the new Belize City Hospital, named after one of the nation’s pioneer physicians, never did live up to its […]
A gas station in Dangriga was targeted by an armed robber over the weekend. Police report that on Saturday night around 8:00 a masked man entered the Shell station at the town’s entrance pointed a gun at attendant Niecy Brown and demanded money. She promptly handed over her waist bag which contained $680 as well […]
Investigations continue into last week’s assault on a Chinese shopkeeper in King’s Park. According to police an I.D. parade was held in which one P.C. Moore was positively identified as one of those present Thursday night when grocer Tam Kin Chan was beaten across the face with a Belikin bottle. Moore was not, however, identified […]
A teenage boy has drowned in the Cayo District. On Sunday afternoon, 15 year old Vitalino Mendez of Selena Village was swimming in the Belize River near Spanish Lookout when, according to his father, he suddenly went under the water and never came up. After over an hour of searching, his lifeless body was discovered […]
It may be just a routine failure of communication but tonight police are taking seriously a missing persons report involving a young child. 5-year-old Juanita Elmira Manzanero of mile twelve and a half on the Western Highway is a student at St. Mary’s Primary in Belize City. When her father arrived at school at 3:30 […]
In news just in from Corozal word has been received that Robert Hill has been sentenced to hang. Hill, tried by Supreme Court Justice Troadio Gonzales, was convicted of murdering Becky Gilharry in February of 1999. He was prosecuted by Special Counsel Simeon Sampson and defended by Yakub Gaznabbi.
His name is Erh-huang Tsai but the new Taiwanese Ambassador to Belize says you can call him Charles. The representative of the nation which gives Belize more financial assistance than any other today presented his credentials to the Governor General in Belmopan and also paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minster. Tsai is the […]
In other news from Belmopan there has been a shuffle in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. This afternoon Minister Dan Silva announced that Beverly Wade has been appointed as interim Fisheries Administrator while her predecessor, George Myvette, will take up a new post in the nation’s capital as Coordinator for Fisheries Policy and Legislation. […]
We usually associate things Garifuna with the month of November, but currently in Dangriga a conference is underway that is taking a closer look at the people who form vibrant communities over much of Central America’s Caribbean coast, not to mention the USA. The sponsoring body is called the World Garifuna Organization. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re strapped in for another ride on Sports Monday. After four straight wins in the current BFL playoffs undefeated Grigamandala took its unblemished record into the Norman Broaster Stadium against a re-surging Real Verdes, knowing full well it wasn’t going to be an easy task to pick up the […]
There were no guns involved and no money was stolen but today, yet another Chinese shop keeper is recovering from a brutal attack, this one allegedly at the hands of an off duty police officer. Eyewitnesses to the incident tell News Five that around 7:30 last night, three men and two women walked into Zhong […]
Prime Minister Said Musa, only recently back from a summit in Costa Rica, continued to broaden Belize’s international contacts, although this time on his home turf. This morning he traveled to San Pedro to address a meeting of the Caribbean Leadership Group, a gathering of young leaders from around the region who meet annually to […]
The natural wonder that we know as the Belize Barrier Reef also forms part of related reef structure in the larger Gulf of Honduras. In the spirit of international cooperation, Belize has joined forces with three of our regional neighbors in an effort to keep that marine environment healthy. On Wednesday Minister of Agriculture and […]
If you are a person who likes to take pictures then there may be some good news in your future. The Belize Photography Club has announced a national photography contest. There are a number of categories for both amateurs and professionals with a top prize of $500 and many others of cash and merchandise. Deadline […]
