Good Samaritans come in all shapes, sizes and ages and are found in many different locales. Today, News Five’s Jose Sanchez found one on a busy Belize City intersection. Perhaps you have noticed a rather large trailer by the Pound Yard Bridge filled with clothing for sale. Its owner is a Belizean American who has […]
The National Center for Art Education located on the S.J.C. campus, was opened in May. The building, a project of the Michael Ashcroft Foundation and governments of Taiwan and Belize, was built to promote and advance the creative talents of Belizeans. And that’s exactly what it’s doing this week, as Jose Sanchez discovered. Art is […]
The carnage on Belize City’s streets continued today, as for the second time in two weeks criminals have woken up with the sun to do their violent work. Ann Marie was on the scene of the latest shooting this morning. Twenty-seven children are tonight without a father as thirty-four year old Winston Joseph James, better […]
Two people lost their lives in an early morning traffic accident on Sunday. They are twenty-seven year old Roberto Herrera and sixteen year old Jose Luis Flores, both of Trial Farm, Orange Walk. Two other passengers in the vehicle, Danny Ponce, eighteen and Ceasar Martinez, twenty, have been treated and released. Police say the car […]
Twenty-two year old Honduran Rene Montero, wasn’t as fortunate as the Alvarado family as he died of head and body injuries suffered when he collided with a truck while riding his bicycle. Police say around eight forty-five on Saturday morning, twenty-eight year old Edgar Ayala, was driving his truck through the intersection of Queen Victoria […]
The dead body of a Hispanic man was found floating in the Mopan river at Garbutt’s Falls near the Western Border on Saturday morning. Police are asking the public’s help to identify the corpse, which displays no signs of injuries. The man was barefooted, with a green T-shirt and brown trousers with dark blue belt. […]
Another apparent drowning occurred, this time the victim is a toddler. Foster mother Sandra Santos, of 2 1/2 miles Northern Highway, told police that Anthony Gentle, her three year old foster son went missing sometime around 4:00pm on Thursday. That night an intensive search of the area turned up Gentle’s body around 10:30 in the […]
More counterfeit blue notes surfaced over the weekend, primarily in the Western part of the country. While on patrol in San Ignacio on Saturday, police found a bogus bill in a man’s wallet and arrested him. Another turned up in Belmopan on the same day when a taxi driver took one as payment. A shopkeeper, […]
With enough negotiators to field a football team the Belize delegation has assembled in Washington, D.C. in advance of Tuesday’s meetings at the OAS. At newstime, a precise agenda had not yet been finalised, with both Belize and Guatemala putting forward their own proposals. Officials in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, prior to departing for […]
Months of waiting and wondering about his future ended today for Belizean basketball standout Milton Palacio, as he signed a two-year contract with the Boston Celtics. The terms? A cool seven million U.S. dollars. The third year point guard grew up in L.A., played college ball at Colorado State and broke into the NBA with […]
“Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’ve just boarded for another flight on Sports Monday. Ten months ago the Belize Football League kicked off its season with twelve teams and after stoppages the champion finally emerged Saturday night. Let’s head out to the Isidorio Beaton Stadium at Capital City for game two of the BFL […]
The report of the three man commission of inquiry into the transmission of HIV infected blood to three patients at the K.H.M.H. was made public today. At a hastily called press conference, Minister of Health Jose Coye, although not involved in the commission’s work, noted the transparency of the process which attempted to explain what […]
Famed American robber Willy Sutton, when asked by a journalist why he robbed banks, he replied “because that’s where the money is.” The same explanation would probably apply to the recent spate of hold-ups in Belize City and elsewhere, many of which have targeted company payrolls. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Yesterday the Belize Water Services was […]
Things were apparently no better out west as police report that on Thursday night the Texaco gas station in Benque Viejo was held up, with the robbers getting away with three hundred dollars in cash and around a thousand worth of jewelry. The unlucky attendant, sixty-five year old Thelma Guerra, said that two Hispanic men […]
No gun was used, but the Belmopan Comprehensive School was also relieved of money, specifically ten thousand dollars in cash and one thousand, five hundred in cheques. Acting principal Barrette Belisle told police that the money was in an iron safe which was stolen when the office was burglarised sometime between 11:00 p.m. on Wednesday […]
One man who never will get to tell his story to police is Erlin Budram. Budram, the twenty year old armed robber who attempted to stick up Sikaffy’s store on Tuesday morning, died Thursday evening around 5:30 at the K.H.M.H. Budram was one of two men shot by proprietor Sidney Sikaffy after they assaulted his […]
In the wake of the recent urban crime wave the police high command has decided to strengthen its ongoing law enforcement operation known as “Cancer.” Police are hoping to minimise the rising tide of violence in the city with two additional teams of B.D.F. soldiers and police. The teams, which began patrolling city streets this […]
The continuing debate over National Health Insurance may have been overshadowed this week by flying bullets, but as the southside pilot project prepares to get off the ground, many Belizeans are still waiting to be convinced that N.H.I. is the right medicine for Belize. This morning News 5’s Stewart Krohn asked Minister of Health Jose […]
While most Belizeans will be relaxing over the weekend, Prime Minister Said Musa and a high level delegation will be travelling on an official mission to Venezuela. The P.M., accompanied by Budget Minister Ralph Fonseca and Minister of Energy Max Samuels, will meet with their Venezuelan counterparts to discuss the implementation of an agreement made […]
With the facilitators about to make their recommendations on Tuesday in Washington D.C., Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo is weighing in with his own ideas for solution of the Guatemalan claim to Belize. Speaking to the Associated Press during an official visit to Washington D.C., last week, Portillo said that he has asked his Foreign Minister, […]
The Young Men Christian Association’s “Save the Last Dance” contest kicks off this weekend. It is a competition that requires an ear for music as well as talented feet. According to Carolyn Gentle, the YMCA’s Executive Director, proceeds from the event will help to develop programmes and facilities. Carolyn Gentle, Executive Director, YMCA “It’s save […]
When two armed robbers were stopped in their tracks Wednesday morning by a sharp-shooting downtown merchant it was felt that the widely applauded act might give prospective criminals a reason to cool off–at least for a while. But that proved to be wishful thinking as this afternoon’s heist at the water company was nothing less […]
The Taura virus, discovered last month at the Nova Shrimp Farm in Ladyville, has now spread to a second shrimp operation in Stann Creek. Barry Bowen, president of the Shrimp Grower’s Association, today confirmed to News 5 that the virus has been positively confirmed at the Paradise shrimp farm near Gales Point and there are […]
In more bad news from nature, the Mediterranean Fruit Fly has once again been detected in Belize. According to the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, quarantine check points have been established both in Placencia and at Savannah Forest station near Independence. Early detection and eradication of the medfly is important as widespread infestation can endanger acceptance […]
Three more contracts were signed this morning under the I.D.B. financed Hurricane Rehabilitation Project. They focus on the improvement of Belize City’s drainage and involve the construction of several new canals and improvement of others. Present for the signing were I.D.B. representative Hugo Souza, Ministry of Economic Development CEO Nancy Namis and Mayor David Fonseca. […]
