Eight Girl Guides and their leaders have returned home after attending an international workshop in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The gathering included guides from the U.S., Canada, Netherlands Antilles, Argentina, Japan, Poland and Mexico. We met with a few of the delegates this morning at the Guides Hut in Belize City. Veronica Jones, Guides Leader “We learned […]
It ended off with a bang when the Raiders’ Keith Acosta sank the final shot of the 1999 semi pro basketball season. Until now the 2000 season has been a bust, however, as fielding a team has been as difficult as a mid-court shot at half time. After much haul and pull, the Belize Basketball […]
If you’ve traveled the Western Highway between Belize City and Belmopan, you can’t help but notice the neat rows of earthmoving equipment lined up as if they were used cars on sale. Over the next several years those bulldozers, graders, excavators and dump trucks will shape the gently rolling landscape into a place where one […]
After nearly a week of drinking well water Dangrigans are once again enjoying the taste of the North Stann Creek. Tests by WASA on Tuesday confirmed that the contamination caused by an overflow of citrus waste ponds upstream had dissipated and the water was now safe for public consumption. WASA Public Relations Officer Harry Bennett […]
With the usually peaceful town of San Ignacio still reeling from Monday evening’s execution style murder, word has reached News Five of another crime in the area. Police have confirmed that on Friday night a twenty-two year old woman from the United States reported that she was raped. The university student, who is attending a […]
As bad as the crime reports have been, the news from the tourism industry has been just the opposite. The latest positive development for Belize City tourism is the announcement that a new cruise line–the world’s largest–will begin regular service to Belize early next year. According to a BTB release, Florida based Carnival Cruise Line […]
Guardian Life, one of the Caribbean’s largest life insurance companies, last night formally inaugurated its operations in Belize. While the Trinidad based company begins its involvement here after purchasing the portfolio of Mutual Life, a Jamaican insurer which became insolvent, its executives explained that it will quickly seek to expand the company’s operations. At a […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported on the intention of Jamaica’s bar association to oppose any plans its government may have to join the proposed Caribbean Court of Justice. But while the Jamaicans are having problems with the court, Attorneys General in the Eastern Caribbean are praising it. At a press conference held in Barbados, the […]
Usually by this time of the year the semi pro basketball season would be heading toward a climax and Friday night would find the City Centre rocking. Not so in the new millennium as the Belize Basketball Association has had its share of troubles getting the thrice postponed season off the bench. Today News Five […]
It’s getting very close to that time of year when for apparently no special reason, hundreds, if not thousands of normally staid Belizeans dress up in skimpy costumes and dance their way over several miles of uneven pavement under the mercilessly scorching sun. It’s called carnival and tonight News Five’s Faralee Gabourel previews an event […]
The mood in Cayo this afternoon was one of anger mixed with disbelief. But as night falls on the twin towns there is a whiff of fear in the usually tranquil area as two cold blooded killers are on the loose and a well liked young man lies in the San Ignacio morgue. The Mas […]
Less than six hours after Geoffrey Mas lost his life in Cayo, a similarly cold-blooded execution was carried out Monday night in Belize City. According to police reports, twenty-one year old Orvin White was sitting with his seventeen year old girlfriend, Juanita Hines in front of her house on Iguana Street when three men approached. […]
A Belize City man has apparently taken his own life. Carmen Hernandez, a thirty-eight year old naturalized Belizean, originally from El Salvador, was found hanging from a rope at a warehouse at mile three on the Northern Highway. Hernandez was employed at the warehouse as a watchman and also did work as a mason. On […]
Police are asking the public for help in locating a man who has been missing for ten days. Donald Roland Sutherland, better known as “Roli” was last seen drinking a beer on New Road on July fourteenth. He was reported missing on July twenty-first by his mother, Valencia Sutherland. Sutherland lives at seventeen Pickstock Street […]
Arriving in Belize today was British Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, John Battle. Battle, whose responsibilities include trade with Latin America, is slated to hold talks with Prime Minister Said Musa and cabinet colleagues Johnny Briceno, Ralph Fonseca and Jorge Espat. Battle will also meet with Police Commissioner Hughington Williams to […]
Belize will be working more closely with the other nations of Central America to promote the region’s tourism. That’s the message that emerged from meetings held today between officials of various local tourism industry groups and representatives from regional tourism bodies. Members from the Belize Tourism Industry Association, Tour Guide Association, Tour Operators Association and […]
Usually, parents would turn to a book in preparation for the naming of a newborn child. But what would you do if you had to name one hundred and one babies? That’s not exactly the problem faced by the Belize City Council, but it did have the task of naming one hundred and one of […]
The body of water known as North Creek would never be found on any postcard… unless it was part of a series on urban squalor. But while the Belize City neighbourhood may be down, it may yet find a way out. Dickie Bradley, Minister of Housing “Well one look at this you must know that […]
Today a new building was dedicated in Belmopan that both the donor and recipient hope will help curb crime. The Joint Intelligence Coordinating Centre will be the place where police focus their intelligence gathering efforts, aiming specifically at drug and arms trafficking, alien smuggling and other activities of particular interest to the United States of […]
Those violent forces referred to by Espat were hard at work, both before and after his speech in Belmopan. Details are still sketchy, but it appears that the Maya site of Cahal Pech was the scene of a particularly brutal murder this afternoon. Between 4:00 and 4:30, two men, apparently with black paint on their […]
A young man who was found early Sunday morning bleeding from several stab wounds to the body died shortly after he was rushed to the Belmopan Hospital. Police say at about 7:45 that morning they were called out to an area between Maya Mopan and Salvapan Villages behind Belmopan. There they found nineteen year old […]
An altercation involving two men and a woman in the Stann Creek District has left both guys wounded and arrested. According to police reports, on Friday afternoon twenty-year old Honduran Lazaro Salinas of Mayan King Village went looking for his former common law wife, Noelia Diaz. Reports are that he tracked her down at the […]
A fire in Lord’s Bank, near Ladyville, has destroyed a wooden house. At 9:30 Saturday morning a neighbour saw smoke coming from the roof of the building, which at the time was unoccupied. While fire and police personnel were called to the scene and the flames extinguished, the house and contents, valued at twenty-five thousand […]
It’s official. Belize is no longer on that select list of nations that are without a single movie theatre. To the delight of Belizean film fans, the first movie projector to roll in nearly eight years went into operation on Friday night at the Princess Hotel in Belize City. The opening night VIP crowd watched […]
They have been among Belize’s most durable, not to mention endearing musical performers. Over the weekend Mr. Peters and the Boom ‘n Chime Band returned from ambassadorial duties in Mexico where they participated in the annual Patriotic Humanitarian Festival in Campeche. The band played for three days in both formal and recreational venues including the […]
