It was not witnessed by the global audience which tuned in to the Tyson-Holyfield fight, but an incident between a Belizean diplomat and a British national ended in much the same way. That is…with one man losing a piece of his ear. The bizarre episode unfolded on the night of Saturday, June sixteenth at the […]
A cargo ship lies aground at the entrance to the Belize City Harbour and at newstime efforts to free it have proven unsuccessful. The Atlantis, a ship belonging to the Hybur Line out of Miami, ran up on the shallows off English Caye at around four Monday morning. The captain reported a steering malfunction as […]
While there is little that Belize can do at this point to stop the Southern Pine Bark Beetle from destroying the once majestic Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, we can at least take some comfort in the fact that we are not alone in our misery. Word from Canada is that the province of British […]
Belize City residents endured the better part of another day without water as rationing continued due to transmission problems at the plant near Double Run. With problems expected to continue intermittently for at least the next few months, News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams delved deeper into the situation at Belize Water Services. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Ever […]
The crime was a familiar one, but the reaction of the victim was not. Around 6:30 this morning taxi driver George Haylock was on duty at the stand near the Belcan Bridge when a young man hired him for a short trip. A half hour later the fifty-seven year old Haylock was lying in K.H.M.H. […]
A bicyclist was knocked down by a pickup truck and killed as he pedalled down the Northern Highway on Sunday night. Fifty-six year old Mariano Herrera, a Mexican residing in San Jose Village, was struck down around 6:30 p.m. between miles sixty-three and sixty-four. He was hit from behind by a green pickup truck driven […]
On the counterfeit currency trail…four more bogus hundred dollar bills were reported to police over the weekend. Venues included bars in Punta Gorda and Orange Walk and a gas station and bank in Belmopan. Among the serial numbers were the familiar AC613475 and a newcomer, AC618169. While police have questioned those found holding counterfeit notes, […]
An agreement was signed today to fund a study on the rehabilitation of the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve. The trees in the protected area have been largely destroyed by an infestation by the Southern Pine Beetle. The one hundred and fifty thousand U.S. dollars provided by the Government of Norway through the I.D.B. will […]
Water was very much on the minds of Belize City residents this weekend…or rather the lack of it. The shortage played havoc with washing, housework and bathing, as frustrated consumers turned on their faucets only to find warm air. Today News 5 travelled up to the water treatment plant at Double Run to find out […]
If your children are out of school and have nothing to do, then listen closely because the House of Culture in Belize City is hosting a summer camp for one hundred and fifty youths ranging in age from eight to eighteen. According to Jason Guerrero, assistant co-ordinator for the House of Culture, the fun and […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we certainly want to thank you for joining us for this fresh dish of Sports Monday. We take you immediately to La Democracia at mile thirty-one on the Western Highway for the start of the 2001 Placencia Mountain Bike Classic on Saturday. Unfortunately folks, this is not a meeting […]
For Belize’s taxi drivers the date of Thursday, June twenty-first is one they’d like to forget. In the space of six hours on Thursday, two drivers in Belize City and one in Belmopan were the victim of violent robberies and kidnappings. The most frightening incident involved Paul Fakayode, a thirty-three year old Nigerian taximan. He […]
Their ranks may have been decimated by three violent assaults in one day, but the nation’s corps of taxidrivers is not necessarily reacting to the incidents with one voice. Ann-Marie made the rounds of Belize City’s cab stands to get the view from behind the wheel. Taxidriver #1 “Some day I could get caught, but […]
These days it seems that as sure as the sun rises, a counterfeit hundred dollar bill will turn up in somebody’s cash register. The latest sighting of bogus bank notes took place on Thursday night with a Peppers delivery man taking one as payment for a pizza and a San Ignacio bank teller having one […]
Ever since it purchased the assets of the Belize Water and Sewerage Authority, Belize Water Services Limited has promised to make the water company more productive. Though it plans to invest fifteen million dollars for the expansion of the Double Run Treatment Plant and pipeline to Belize City, being efficient also means getting more from […]
A six member team left the country this afternoon for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS which opens on Monday in New York. The delegation is being lead by Rodel Beltran Perera, Executive Director of the Alliance Against AIDS. Perera says that they are attending the meeting to raise awareness as well […]
When a fire wakes you up from a deep sleep, the last thing you’d expect is some clearheaded thinking. But fortunately it was just such coolness under pressure that allowed one Belize City woman to escape the flames and bring a friend to safety as well. Timmary Requena, Fire Victim “He couldn’t help himself at […]
They keep popping up like mushrooms in a cow pasture after a rainstorm. That’s counterfeit hundred dollar bills, and in their latest appearance the funny money turned up, not in a dimly lit bar or busy gas station, but in the cash drawer of the nation’s biggest financial institution. A teller at the Orange Walk […]
These are not the best of times for Belize Water Services Limited. Since purchasing the assets of the Water and Sewerage Authority several months ago, the company has had to explain frequent water shortages in Belize City as well as make major repairs to the dangerously neglected sewer system in Belmopan. The latest calamity is […]
There is nothing new about people going to the United States for medical treatment, except that a recent excursion has revealed the possibility of a new and potentially fatal type of substance abuse in Belize. Mercury, also known as quicksilver, is an element usually used in thermometers, but a Belizean admitted to Cook County Hospital […]
It was a low key ceremony held under a tent on the beach, but the project being inaugurated was radical in concept and bold in scope. Janelle Chanona reports from San Pedro. Janelle Chanona, Reporting The official launching of the Meso-American Barrier Reef System Project in San Pedro on Wednesday brought together environmental ministers from […]
It was the first time a formal ceremony of recognition has been held to honour the nation’s highest young achievers. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams was on hand this morning at Parish Hall to join in the congratulations. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting It was on May seventeenth that the top high school scorers in Belize were presented […]
She was returning from school with two fellow students when a car came hurtling off the road in their direction. While her friends managed to run, thirteen year old Maria del Carmen Sosa, frozen with fright, could not. The Ladyville resident was struck down and later died at the K.H.M.H. The driver of the car, […]
It’s been almost five months since the armoury at the Police Training School in Belmopan was hit by thieves who went off with eleven high powered weapons. Today, two men who police believe were involved in the heist were finally arrested and charged. Twenty-five year old James Hyde and eighteen year old Ruben Oliva, both […]
More counterfeit money continues to show up in cash registers across the country. The latest discovery occurred in Punta Gorda where Felix Flores, the proprietor of a local sports bar, went to make a bank deposit only to be informed that one of his hundred dollar bills was a phoney. Flores reported to police that […]
