The Belize Social Security Board has announced the most sweeping reforms since the Social Security system was inaugurated in 1981. The changes, to be implemented on the first of January, involve a significant increase in the size and scope of benefits for insured workers. At the same time those workers and their employers will be […]
Police Detective Mark August is at the KHMH tonight, recuperating from what police say is an accidental gunshot wound in the leg he received while on duty Friday night. According to Assistant Police Commissioner Hugh Cain, a police mobile unit responded to an incident on Mopan Street in Belize City, in which two men were […]
One man is fifteen thousand dollars short while the other is on the run. Police are asking you to assist them in finding twenty-seven year old Melvin Sebastian Nunez, better known as “Sabe” of Lovely Lane in Belize City, in connection with a robbery on Friday in the city. Blue Creek businessman David Weiber told […]
Police have arrested and charged three Belizean labourers jointly with four counts of aggravated assault, burglary and robbery in connection with the jacking of a Belmopan businessman on December twelfth. They are eighteen-year old John Franklin of Plues Street and twenty-year old Frank Elijio of University Drive, both of Belize City, and Shawn Hertular, eighteen, […]
The body found floating near Fort Point on Friday has been identified, but police are still not certain of the details surrounding the drowning victim’s death. Twenty-year old Christopher Lawrence was last seen by his wife Lisa the night of Wednesday, December thirteenth. She had two days earlier given birth to their daughter and moved […]
Police and fire officials are still trying to find out what caused the Star Guest House in the area of “The Split” on Caye Caulker to burn down. According to the hotel’s owner, Ramon Reyes Jr., the two-storey wooden building, which was destroyed by fire shortly after midnight on Monday, was vacant, as it was […]
Rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Keith may be well underway, but some residents of the Belama Phase III area are complaining that they are still suffering. Part of their street has been largely under water for over three years and neither the City Council or the Ministry of Works have responded to their complaints. Today News […]
La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge has in just a few years grown into one of the nation’s premier sporting events. This year’s race, aside from its usual complement of young and strong paddlers, will also feature some new technology: a canoe built with a unique blend of multicultural skills. Jose Sanchez reports from the […]
It is Belize’s most widely played and watched sport…and also its most lucrative. But football in Belize, beset by humiliating losses at the international level and almost constant conflict locally, is on the brink of crisis. News 5’s James Adderley sat down with officials on both sides of the issue to see what the future […]
The Interamerican Development Bank is taking an increasingly high profile in Belize as it moves beyond its traditional role as financier of big infrastructural projects. While the IDB has been the major player in Belize’s multi-million dollar hurricane rehabilitation programme, it took time today to announce the awarding of a far smaller grant in the […]
We’re not sure whether it’s increased attention from the media or a genuine increase in society’s concern for the elderly, but it seems that our seniors are being feted like never before. On Sunday another major Christmas bashment was held, this time courtesy of Rotary. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Spreading Christmas cheer at this time of […]
While the elderly were being wined and dine for the holidays, the Social Security Board was taking steps to ensure that life would be easier for seniors all year round. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Retirement is supposed to be the time of golden years. Well, the Belize Social Security Board is hoping that its gold colored […]
Christmas came five days early for some residents of the Port Loyola Division. Through a working partnership with the Belize Port Authority, Area Representative Dolores Balderamos Garcia handed over three houses on Neal Penn Road to Cherrie Beaton, Arthur Arnold and Desiree Sutherland. News Five was on hand for the occasion. Cherrie Beaton, Homeowner “Well […]
As curious diners at the Radisson watched through the glass, a dead body slowly floated along the seawall off Fort Point. By one o’clock it had been recovered from the water by police, who are still trying to determine its identity. Abner Rodriguez, Security Officer, Radisson “I was eating at my lunch break right here […]
An Orange Walk educator has been charged with indecent assault. Ricardo Castillo, Vice Principal of Louisiana Government School, was charged today based on the statement of a five-year-old female student. Castillo had been detained since Wednesday evening and on Thursday a crowd of angry citizens staged a protest demanding swift punishment. Largely for his own […]
Four men were tied up and robbed inside a grocery store in the nation’s capital. Around 9:30 Tuesday night, Chinese businessman Hui Hung Chu and three friends were inside Chu’s grocery store on Garza Avenue when four men entered the store, attacked and tied them up. One of the men searched Chu and took away […]
Homemakers who just yesterday were making emergency plans to cope with a strike by butane suppliers are tonight preparing hams, turkeys and fruitcakes for the oven. Although we have not been able to discover all the details, gas was back on sale today with dealers accepting, for the time being, an immediate four-dollar price increase. […]
The House of Representatives last met in July, so when that body convened in Belmopan this morning there was no shortage of legislation to be moved along. Ann-Marie reports from Independence Hill. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting House Speaker Silvia Flores called the Lower House to order at 10:10 this morning with the National Prayer. That gave […]
Belize has become a regional trailblazer in the compilation of environmental statistical data. The Central Statistical Office has released its second “Compendium 2000”, publication as a guide for local green policy-makers. Statistician Edgar Eck says the manual can be considered an environmental watchdog. Edgar Eck, Statistician, CSO “This new publication has been designed in a […]
The trade show, highlighting the products of Belizean manufacturers, had to be postponed due to Hurricane Keith, but it resurfaced this morning in Belize City with a strong measure of local pride. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The first day of BELPRO CONEX 2000 got off to a slow start, but organizers of the Belizean Producers Convention […]
It’s the season when it seems that every charitable organisation in Belize throws a Christmas dinner for those who may not otherwise have one. Today the SJC Gym was the only venue big enough to hold what must be the biggest meal of the year. Jose Sanchez, Reporting While some enjoyed a good workout, hundreds […]
Double check the padlock on your gas tank tonight because suddenly butane is a very scarce commodity. The problem is prices, but don’t tell that to angry consumers who fear a Christmas of cold turkey and half baked fruitcake. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Phones were ringing off the hook today at Belize City gas companies. In […]
An official conclusion has been reached in the death of a tourist last week in Placencia. According to Police Pathologist Dr. Mario Estradabran, thirty-one year old Christian McCathern died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Although early speculation focused on decompression sickness from SCUBA diving or a possible drug overdose, Estradabran has ruled out both scenarios. He […]
There were reports of commotion in Orange Walk today as citizens were being encouraged by a local radio station to march on the police station. The trouble centred around the police detention of an educator accused of molesting a child at a government school. While some citizens were losing their cool, the police were apparently […]
If you would like to treat your family to an entertaining and wholesome show this weekend, then “The Glory of Christmas” is for you. The concert, which is raising funds for the repair of St. John’s Cathedral, features Christmas music sung by the United Christian Chorale, along with dance and drama performances by the Vista […]
