The Loria Family of Santa Clara village in the Corozal district needs your help in trying to find fifteen year old Delene Loria who was allegedly abducted on Sunday morning as she walked to a store on Sarstoon Street. On Monday evening, when we spoke with Patrick Jones, a family member, he told News Five […]
With prices depressed for Belize’s traditional citrus products it has long been advocated that the industry diversify its offerings. Today that effort took a small but important step forward with the certification of Belize’s first organic citrus grove. Maya Ranch in Cayo, operated by the Janus Foundation, received the European Union organic certification after testing […]
It’s a story that–pardon the expression–refuses to die. Once again a handful of people marched around the Yabra Cemetery, protesting the ongoing construction of a community project in the area. The protestors say they have no problem with the construction of houses in the Albert Division but they do not believe any buildings should be […]
If you don’t have any special plans for this weekend, permit us to suggest something a little bit different on Friday night. While it may not put happy hour out of business, the Belize Arts Council in conjunction with the National Theatre Company will be putting on a production that you may want to check […]
When News Five got word this morning of a dead body found off the Western Highway outside of Belize City, we immediately feared that another young girl had been murdered. That was not the case, however, as the corpse turned out to be a man. Sometime after 11:00 this morning, the police were called out […]
Seven days after twenty-six year old Dean Bowden dodged a bullet that was apparently intended for him, the young man’s luck ran out. Bowden lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot in the neck around 1:15, Saturday morning. Police say Bowden was riding his bicycle toward the Belcan Roundabout when three […]
A man missing since July eleventh, who was last seen carrying a container of poison, has been found dead. The decomposed body of John Mess was found Saturday four miles from Frank’s Eddy Village by his brother Hilario. A quart of Tamaron insecticide was found by the dead man’s side. No post mortem was conducted […]
Police say they do not believe that a fifteen-year old girl who is being reported in the media as kidnapped was forcibly taken against her will. Instead police say their investigation has revealed that the girl knows the eighteen-year old Jacoba Correa, the man whom the family is alleging abducted the minor. Initial reports are […]
The weekend was also a dangerous one for people on the road as two men were killed in separate traffic accidents. On Friday Reagan Montero died in a traffic accident on mile four on the Southern Highway. According to police, Montero was a passenger in a Toyota Pickup driven by Deon Dawson. The two were […]
The news reached us late, but the message is no less important. Last week citizens of Punta Gorda held a protest march through the streets of that southernmost town. What they were protesting, according to members of the Toledo Civil Society organisation, was the alarming growth of crime in P.G. and the inability of the […]
Somebody must be doing something right because for the ninth consecutive month a record number of tourists have arrived at Belize’s main port of entry, the Philip Goldson International Airport. Figures for June record 10,681 bona fide tourist arrivals for the month compared to 8,202 during the same period last year, an impressive increase of […]
Insurance regulators from offshore jurisdictions around the globe are meeting this week in Belize. The Offshore Group of Insurance Supervisors is being hosted by Belize’s office of the Supervisor of Insurance. The three days of discussions at the conference centre of Cayo’s Chaa Creek Resort feature speakers from the United States, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and […]
Young athletes, wannabe athletes and just spectators yearning to be in the game, as long as you are between the ages of eight and thirteen there may be a solution to the summertime blues. This morning the National Sports Council started it’s second annual sports camp and News Five’s Arreini Palacio was there. Arreini Palacio, […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and I’d like to welcome you to this edition of Sports Monday. The Belize District Basketball Association championship series moved into game two Friday night at the City Centre with Kulture Reggae boasting a 1-zip lead. For G.A. Roe Gap a win would push them into a decisive game three […]
For the last few weeks life has been nothing if not exciting for convicted burglar John Bartley. On July fourth he was severely wounded in the head when three attackers entered his jail cell at Hattieville Prison. His roommate, Glenford Gillett, was killed in the assault and Bartley’s status as the only witness to the […]
Sixteen-year old Keon Joseph has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and dangerous harm. The young man on Tuesday evening allegedly stabbed his co-worker, twenty-seven year old Arton Bowen on Cleghorn Street. The two apparently had an ongoing personal feud, which resulted in Joseph stabbing Bowen in his arm, shoulder and upper chest. Bowen […]
A fire in Corozal has caused extensive damage to a popular nightspot. The Capri Club, had already closed for the night when the Fire Department was called out to the location at 12:30 early this morning. A fire was raging in the upper flat of the building and was threatening to burn down the entire […]
Four days after six-year old Myrna Susan Rivera apparently fell into the North Stann Creek River and disappeared underwater, the young girl’s lifeless body was found floating near her family’s house near mile seven on the Stann Creek Valley Road. According to the young girl’s mother, Lourdes Rivera, on Sunday her daughter had gone to […]
Operators of internet gambling operations based in Belize and other offshore jurisdictions are closely watching events in Washington. Today’s New York Times reports that the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to pass–perhaps as early as next week–a bill to prohibit Americans from using the internet to gamble. According to the article there are over […]
In late May we brought viewers’ attention to the case of a little boy named Andrew who had been found on the street with nothing but a few pesos in his pocket. His parents and even his nationality were unknown. And not only was he an orphan, but he was diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome and […]
With Semi-Pro Football a fading memory and CARICOM Basketball a wound not yet healed, we decided to lower our sights a little bit and look at the sports scene from a vantage point much closer to the ground. News Five’s Faralee Gabourel found such a view on the Southside of Belize City. Faralee Gabourel, Reporting […]
A camp for young footballers is not the only specialized recreation for youths this summer. While some of the kids were kicking ball at St. Martin’s, others were beating out up the road. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It was the students’ last day at the third annual Summer Music Camp held at Trinidad Farm. The fifteen […]
Belize finally has an ambassador to Guatemala. On Wednesday Moises Cal presented his credentials to Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo in a ceremony at the presidential palace. Cal, who formerly served as the programme officer for the United Nations Development Programme in Belize, succeeds Ambassador Mike Mena, who passed away on May second. In a reciprocal […]
Police have made an arrest in Monday’s stabbing death of Richard Cattouse on Kelly Street. Twenty-five year old Steven Anthony Smith was picked up by police on Wednesday in the same Belize City neighbourhood where the crime was committed. Smith has been charged with murder.
He was one of the prisoners apparently victimized on July fourth when three inmates entered cell number forty-one at Hattieville Prison. Glenford Gillett was killed in that attack, while cellmate John Bartley received a large cut wound to his forehead. Bartley was treated at the KHMH and sent back to Hattieville, but is in the […]
