A series of muggings on Friday night in Belize City has apparently been solved and the suspected perpetrators arrested and charged. Between the hours of eight and nine p.m. a group of four men carrying at least one gun managed to rob two tourists walking on the Newtown Barracks, a bicyclist at Lopez Mateo’s Park […]
Police put another suspected criminal behind bars this weekend, this time for attempting to export drugs. Twenty-year old Moradeke Andanike Olateju a British National residing in Nigeria, was stopped by security personnel on Saturday at the Philip Goldson International Airport as she was about to board a Continental Airlines flight for Houston. A search revealed […]
On Friday we ran a story about the need for consumers to take care when working around high voltage transmission lines; today we regret to report that for the second time in a week a man has been the victim of an electrocution accident; this time it proved fatal. The latest incident took place Saturday […]
Almost one month after fifteen-year old Delene Loria was allegedly abducted, this afternoon she presented herself to Corozal Police. Loria’s family had reported to authorities that the young girl was kidnapped by eighteen-year old Jacobo Correa as she and a relative walked to a store on Sarstoon Street in Belize City. While the girl’s family […]
Close to two hundred graduates of Zamorano, the highly acclaimed agricultural college located in Honduras, are guests of the Zamorano Alumni Association of Belize. The delegates are in the country for their convention, which takes place every two years. The meeting will feature a number of activities, including technical presentations and field trips. The convention, […]
They are fields of employment usually associated with men: carpenters, masons, mechanics. But like many things in Belize, sexual and economic roles are changing. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Under the banner, “Empowering Women For A Better Life,” a three-year programme offering non-traditional skills training for women was launched today by the Centre For Employment Training. A […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this just happens to be another serving of Sports Monday. Fresh off their success at the Central American Volleyball Championships at El Salvador the volleyball council got back to business as usual Saturday night at the City Centre. We caught up with the male division clash between Acros Scorpions […]
The festering wound that is the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has apparently burst its stitches. In a press release issued today, the chairman of the hospital’s interim board, Karl H. Menzies, announced that he has submitted his resignation. While the release did not go into detail, it indicated that the primary reason for the resignation […]
There’s a new Belizean twist on the old adage that the only inevitable occurrences are death and taxes. We’d like to add to the list: the nightly robbery of a Chinese grocery and the pollution of the North Stann Creek after a rainstorm. The shopkeeper of choice on Thursday night was thirty-four year old Zhao […]
There are robberies that occur outside of Belize City and sometimes the perpetrators are actually caught. That’s what happened in Orange Walk in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Sixty-year old Thomas Arzu told police that he was walking down Staine’s Alley around 4:25 when he was grabbed and choked by twenty-four year old Deon […]
Two Belize City men detained on Wednesday and one picked up on Thursday for weapons violations have been charged. Twenty-three year old William Usher, twenty-year old Roque Rosado and twenty-five year old Errol Leslie were charged with the keeping of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition. A loaded thirty-eight revolver was found after a search of […]
The body of a forty-four year old Guatemalan missing from his home in Belize since Wednesday, has been found by Guatemalan authorities in the Mopan River. Jose Cristobal Arias was last seen by a friend around 1:00 p.m. heading to Melchor via a “back door” route across the border to avoid detection. When he was […]
If all goes according to plan the next time you eat escabeche those onions will have been grown in Belize. The Ministry of Agriculture has announced local onion production will be expanding drastically this year, up from 8.5 acres to a prospective one hundred and forty. The up and coming industry is centered in the […]
It has not been a good week to show off the attributes of sea, sand and sun, but the five young ladies competing for the title of Miss Costa Maya International have been lighting up the town of San Pedro on their own. News Five’s camera caught up with them as they rehearsed for next […]
While San Pedro has earned a reputation as a happy go lucky tourist destination where fun is the order of the day, it is also a community that must cope with all the normal problems of urban life. On September first the town will inaugurate a curfew for young people and area representative Patty Arceo […]
Tragedies are never pleasant to report but the folks at BEL are hoping that the reporting of one recent incident will shock the public into being more careful in how they put up buildings. Jose Sanchez has more. Jose Sanchez, Reporting A week ago, a sixteen-year old boy was seriously injured when he accidentally touched […]
The weather may have kept most of us indoors this week, but with the promise of sun over the weekend, a family trip may be just what the doctor ordered. As part of our efforts to help people see Belize first, tonight we’ll revisit an attraction centrally located on the Hummingbird Highway. But you better […]
The nation’s violent crime wave may be centred in Belize City, but now and then the districts get to make the news as well. Today the police spotlight shone on Punta Gorda, as shortly after midnight a mobile patrol spotted a solitary figure inside the local branch of the Belize Bank. When the man spotted […]
She is no stranger to Belize’s legal system and now the outspoken journalist-turned-politician has decided to embark on a new career as a lawyer. A release from the United Democratic Party has announced that Audrey Matura Tillett, UDP Senator and editor of the party’s newspaper, The Guardian, will shortly be leaving Belize to study law. […]
Audrey Matura may be departing as editor of the Guardian, but her final days on the job have not been timid. The headline in today’s issue dropped the bombshell that the man recently hired to supervise the maximum-security section of Hattieville Prison is himself a former inmate of a U.S. prison. This afternoon News Five […]
Another citrus waste contamination of the North Stann Creek River has occurred today, as the result of heavy rains in the Stann Creek Valley for the second day in a row. This makes four times in less than two months that the Del Oro company’s ponds have flooded. At 3:10 this afternoon, WASA was once […]
Fresh on the heels of impressive statistics on tourist arrivals, Minister of Tourism Mark Espat today signed an agreement to access loan funds for improvements in tourism related infrastructure. The project documents signed by Espat and Inter-American Development Bank President Enrique Iglesias, provide for an eleven million U.S. dollar loan and seven hundred thousand dollar […]
“It Ain’t Easy” is the name of the new album that’s about to be released by The Heavenlies Gospel Band. Some of the tunes share the vibes of popular Caribbean music and the songs may be just what church leaders have been hoping for to pull young people back into the fold. The clean, inspirational […]
The rains were back in Belize City today and while the flooding was not as bad as on Tuesday, News Five’s Jose Sanchez discovered that it’s not just the precipitation that makes the streets hold water. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Its, not black gold. And the petroleum magnates have not come to Belize City to drill […]
It’s an island nicknamed La Isla Bonita, but the fact is that if a fire started downtown on a windy day, San Pedro could quickly become La Isla Quemada. Tonight, however, San Pedranos have reason to sleep a little bit sounder. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Last December a fire on San Pedro, Ambergris Caye destroyed two […]
