There’s an old saying that a thief can steal more money with a pen than he can with a gun. That may be true… but only if you don’t get caught. According to police, one Ermino Martin used his pen to write a string of cheques to local nightspots over the last month, all of […]
On Thursday’s newscast we reported that a student of Wesley college shot one Daniel Faber, near his home on Dickenson Street in Belize City. Although police have arrested seventeen year old Leslie Rogers Jr. and charged him with grievous harm and use of deadly means of harm, the matter apparently didn’t end there. Rogers’ friends […]
Those big numbers reported by the Tourism Board for the year 2000 were apparently no fluke. Airport arrival figures for the first month of this new year show a solid eight point five percent increase over a year ago. Just over twelve thousand bonafide tourists landed at the P.G.I.A. in January, more than any January […]
It was Hattieville’s turn to taste the flow from a brand new village water system. Doing the honours Thursday afternoon was area representative Ralph Fonseca. The hundred thousand gallon system serves over three thousand residents of Hattieville and surrounding areas and was built at a cost of five point six million dollars. Funds for the […]
The Michael Ashcroft Foundation continues to help schools nationwide upgrade their educational facilities. On Thursday, phase three of the programme was completed as five more schools were equipped with modern libraries. Richard Painter, CEO, Michael Ashcroft Foundation. “Michael Ashcroft is very keen that the young children in the primary schools has access to books. We’ve […]
The form of entertainment called karaoke has been around Belize for many years, but has never been as popular as today. Riding the crest of that wave is a new TV show. Hosted by veteran broadcaster William Neal, Channel 5’s “Karaoke TV” is looking for talent. Williams Neal, Host, Karaoke TV “Karaoke Television was really […]
The illegal settlers at Machaquila, Rio Blanco and Valentin Camp are not the only ones about to cross the border. An exhibition of Belizean art will also be migrating to Guatemala for the Sixth International Festival of Popular Art. The show, which opens February 15th in the colonial capital of Antigua, will feature ten Belizean […]
Most everyone has heard of heroes with the names of Superman, Batman and Spiderman, not to mention less well endowed characters like Archie and Jughead. While the comic books inhabited by these personalities have been staples for generations of adolescent readers, if one young man has his way they’re going to have to clear some […]
The news blackout is over and the newsmakers are back from Washington… and what they have to report should bring Belizeans at least some measure of relief. In a nutshell, the mapmakers commissioned by the OAS have determined that the three principal markers delineating the so-called adjacency line between Belize and Guatemala are almost exactly […]
A seventeen year-old student of Wesley College this afternoon opened fire on an eighteen year-old putting him in the hospital with a wounded leg. Police say the male student shot Daniel Faber of Fisher Waterside in the left thigh with a nine millimetre pistol around 3:30 this afternoon, just after leaving classes for the day. […]
A Haitian security guard was a little luckier last night when instead of being shot, he only suffered the indignity of having his shotgun stolen. Police say thirty-one year old Benjamin Ageymang, was on duty at Chon Saan Restaurant on Euphrates Avenue around 9:45, when three dark-complexioned men attacked him with knives and stole his […]
Belizeans and tourists alike who visit the nation’s highest peak will soon see some improvements to the area. This is thanks to a fifty thousand dollar grant from the Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, to the Belize Audubon Society. The money will be used to document the various species of plant and animal life in […]
Students at the institution formerly known as the Belize College of Agriculture are better known for raising crops rather than cain. But today they were out of class and on the march, saying that conditions at the school were more like a prison than a university. Jose Sanchez reports from Central Farm. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
They are a mode of transportation synonymous with life in the historic capital of Great Britain. But what’s a London bus doing in the historic old capital of Belize? This morning Ann-Marie Williams went to find out. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting “Six young people: three men and three women age twenty-three to twenty-nine, are on a […]
It may have lacked the drama of the gang truce proclaimed at Bird’s Isle in 1995, but today two well known warriors from the George Street and Ghost Town areas of Belize City got together to ask the public to renounce the violence that has already claimed too many young lives. News 5’s Stewart Krohn […]
It has descended like dusk in the rainforest. What I’m talking about is a news blackout now in effect over the talks with Guatemala being held in Washington. Both the Belizean and Guatemalan delegates, along with their OAS facilitators, have agreed not to release anything to the media until they have decided exactly what they […]
A six year-old student of Wesley Infant School is under observation at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was knocked down by a truck in Belize City. Police say Monday evening Elvis Anderson of Louise Bevans Street in Port Loyola, stepped off a Novelo’s bus on Central American Boulevard in the vicinity of Jane […]
In an effort to avoid more of those tragedies in the future, authorities in Belize City have turned their attention to the problem of two wheeled vehicles. Ann-Marie Williams has more. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting In wake of Steven Bent’s death, the Department of Traffic wasted no time to suddenly brakes all cyclists committing traffic offences. […]
It seems that every week we hear news of another remote rural community inaugurating a village water system. But not all the people needing water live far from the city. News 5’s Jose Sanchez found one suburb just now hooking up. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Children drinking pipe water is not an unusual sight, but this […]
While residents of Sandhill were taking pride in their water, many Belizeans have been fearful of WASA’s plans for privatisation. WASA’s chairman, Ray Lightburn, says that the country’s growth requires major private investment. Ray Lightburn, Chairman, WASA “Well, one of the reason for seeking a strategic partner in privatisation is to continue to expand. For […]
The Image Factory has never been shy about breaking new ground in the world of art…and that boldness also applies to names given to the gallery’s exhibitions. Yasser Musa, Director, Image Factory “It kind of a celebration of women art. Not because they are women artists, but we have to recognise the fact that like […]
Day two of the latest round of talks between Guatemala and Belize continued today at OAS headquarters in Washington. News 5 spoke to negotiators this afternoon who declined to discuss details until the meeting adjourned later tonight. Earlier news reports quoted chief negotiator Ambassador Assad Shoman as having little hope that a settlement of the […]
While the bulk of Belize’s diplomatic corps presents our case in Washington, Prime Minister Said Musa is engaging in a bit of diplomacy of his own in Haiti. The Prime Minister is in Port au Prince representing the CARICOM heads of government at the inauguration of President Jean Bertrand Aristide. Haiti is about to become […]
In crime news investigators continue to search for clues and suspects in the theft of high-powered weapons from the police and BDF arsenals. No arrests, however, are reported. In Belize City no charges have been filed against Oscar Orellano, the driver of the bus that killed bicyclist Steven Bent on Monday morning. Testimony obtained thus […]
If you think that it’s tough these days for prosecutors to put everyday criminals like robbers, rapists, drug dealers and murderers in jail, it’s even more difficult to punish people who violate the country’s environmental laws. Things may be changing, however, as News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams discovered this morning. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Law enforcement officers […]
