Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into another serving of Sports Monday. The eagerly awaited B.F.L. football championship series kicked off yesterday at the M.C.C. Grounds, with Kulture Yabra of Belize City playing host to Builders Hardware Bandits of Belmopan. We start with the image of the new ragamuffin bleachers, which shows maximum […]
He no longer has an office there, but today Roger Dinger returned to the Bellevue. News 5 caught up with the veteran innkeeper as he waited outside the padlocked hotel to meet Social Security Board chairman Beto Mai. The purpose of the meeting, according to Dinger, was to find some way to keep the hotel […]
Another suspect has been arrested in the big San Ignacio Bank job. Twenty-eight year old Paul Francisco Garcia of Orange Walk was charged on Thursday with burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary. Garcia is the sixth man charged in connection with the crime and police say there is only one more suspect to round up […]
A popular Belize City supermarket has been targeted by robbers. Around 4:30 on Thursday afternoon two men with rags tied around their faces, one of whom held a pistol, entered Malic’s store on Mahogany Street. They attacked the security guard, David Okomeah, and proceeded to hold up the cashier. The gunman escaped with six hundred […]
It seems that things never stay quiet for long at the prison. Whether it’s a breakout, stabbing, riot, drug bust or new attempt at rehabilitation, Hattieville is anything but dull. The latest fuss involves the relocation of some inmates that has left some of them less than satisfied. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting There’s been a residential […]
So far this week we’ve look at one summer camp for budding artists and another that emphasises conservation. Tonight, thanks to a generous contribution by B.E.L., we can report on an effort that focuses on football. The Berger 404/B.E.L. football camp will service one hundred and thirty children age eight to seventeen. B.E.L.’s corporate communications […]
They may not be household names, but two local artists are staging an exhibit at El Café on Eve Street in Belize City. Raymond Gomez and Shelton Arana highlight their Garifuna heritage by painting scenes of life in Dangriga and Punta Gorda. News 5’s Jose Sanchez caught up with Gomez who spoke of his love […]
The saga of domestic animals on Belizean dinner plates this week moved from urban legend to real life health concern. News 5’s Jose Sanchez reports on the latest developments from Cayo. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Ever since the cat was let out of the bag, it has caused a lot of heartburn for Li Chun Hua. […]
Former employees of the Bellevue are still without paycheques in the wake of the hotel’s forced closure on Wednesday. A number of the hotel’s approximately thirty employees have visited the Labour Department but that agency explained to News 5 that while it is investigating the matter there is very little it can do immediately to […]
Police have arrested a suspect in Tuesday night’s shooting death of Denton Young in Belize City. twenty-nine year old Kenrick Reynolds has been charged with manslaughter in the incident, in which Reynolds, the deceased and another friend were together in Young’s house when a gun went off, fatally wounding Young in the abdomen. Police have […]
Carjacking is an urban affliction that, until now, has not been much of a factor in Belize’s crime statistics. That a carjacking apparently occurred Wednesday night is unusual but even more so that it took place in Belmopan, the capital city better known for its laid back lifestyle than violent criminal activity. At around 9:00, […]
A Hattieville preacher is in trouble tonight, accused by the crown of violating the eighth commandment. Sixty-four year old Joseph Smith has been charged with theft and handling stolen goods in connection with the disappearance of over forty thousand dollars worth of building materials from the site of the new satellite town at La Democracia.
Football may be entering its final playoff and basketball is in the midst of a heated semipro competition, but for three nights this weekend it is volleyball which will take centre stage in Belizean sports. Jose Sanchez has details. Jose Sanchez, Reporting This morning team captains and coaches from El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica and […]
Yesterday we highlighted the House of Culture and Young Artist Association Summer camp which gives children a chance to have fun and explore their artistic talents. While that activity is already underway, the Belize Zoo is gearing up for its eighth annual conservation camp to be held at the Tropical Education Centre. According to the […]
As promotions go, it’s about as slick as they come: a combination of luck, skill and drama that the folks at Courts believe will keep customers coming back for more. Today, however, as Jack Flash reports, it was all about money. Jack Flash, Catch the Cash Emcee “Hi everybody, Jack Flash here, we’re here in […]
Its dimly lit tavern has been the venue of choice for three generations of courting Belizeans and more recently the newly opened King Street Station was home to Karaoke TV. But as of today neither the bar, the restaurant nor any other part of the Bellevue Hotel was open for business. A Supreme Court order […]
A Belize City man is dead after being shot in his own home. Details are sketchy but it appears that thirty year old Denton Young, a side man for Bowen and Bowen, returned to his house at 7023 Iguana Street accompanied by two friends around 9:30 Tuesday night. Young’s common-law wife, Michelle Neal, greeted the […]
There’s a large quantity of building materials missing from the new satellite town at La Democracia. A security guard at the site told police that on Friday evening someone entered the storeroom and stole fifty-one five gallon buckets of paint. It has now been discovered, however, that the haul also included plumbing and electrical supplies […]
A family outing on the banks of the Mopan River in Bullet Tree turned tragic as a five year old boy drowned. Around 3:30 Tuesday evening, forty-one year old retired teacher, Jose Romero took his children Saul and Joanna to bathe in the river. While in the water Romero shifted his attention to his daughter […]
Reaction to the startling story of a Cayo Chinese restaurant found to have freshly skinned cat in the kitchen has been fast and furious. Anecdotal reports from around Belize City indicate that last night business dropped off sharply at Chinese food emporiums as local consumers abandoned chowmein and fried rice for more readily identifiable fare. […]
It took a few days for the winner of Saturday’s sixty-five thousand dollar lotto jackpot to come forward, but today she showed up to claim her cheque. Twenty-six year old Erlinda Lovelock, a mother of three and resident of East Collet Canal in Belize City, did not find out until Monday that she won the […]
The United Democratic Party continued to present candidates seeking to be standard bearers in the next general elections. This morning, at a press conference at party headquarters, Glen Leslie was unveiled as a UDP aspirant in the Lake Independence division. Leslie, a businessman and lecturer in U.B.’s engineering department, is a newcomer to politics. If […]
We’ve heard a lot of announcements from organisations putting on summer camps to help kids avoid boredom during their vacation from school. Today News 5 visited one such effort at the House of Culture and found that even on a rainy day, there are plenty of fun things to do. Jose Sanchez Because of bad […]
You have heard the rumours for years, but not until today has such conclusive evidence been presented that domestic animals are being prepared for eating in Belizean restaurants. If you are fond of cats you may want to leave the room because the pictures we are about to show are not pretty. Just before two […]
A series of weekend robberies in the Cayo District have left gun toting robbers over two thousand, four hundred dollars richer. On Saturday, three men in camouflage uniforms and armed with a rifle and handgun stopped thirty-seven year old Alejandro Chan of Paslow Falls along with his wife and four children, en route to Santa […]
