Thirty-one year old Clint Geban died around 6:00 this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Geban was hospitalised on Tuesday after he received a gunshot wound to the right side of his abdomen. According to police, when they visited Geban in the hospital he told them that around noon on Tuesday he was standing […]
A full time bilingual labour officer has been assigned to the banana industry. Jesus Yam was installed on Tuesday in a short ceremony held in Independence Village. Labour Minister Valdemar Castillo addressed guests who included members of the Trade Union Congress, Banana Growers and government officials. Castillo used the occasion to call for co-operation instead […]
The chairman of the National Football Selection Committee, Daniel Fabro, has resigned. Fabro called a press conference this morning, not only to announce his displeasure with the leadership of the present association, headed by president Dr. Bertie Chimilio, but to make his own bid for presidency of the B.N.F.A. Daniel Fabro, Former Chairman, B.N.F.S. “I […]
Feria de la Amistad: A friendship fair between Mexico and Belize, opens tonight at the Memorial Park in Belize City. According to Mexican Ambassador to Belize Arturo Trejo, the four-day event is an opportunity for both countries to strengthen the friendly relations that have existed for years. Arturo Trejo, Mexican Ambassador to Belize “We want […]
Last night we played some highlights of carnival and the Tenth of September ceremonies, but neglected to mention what was probably the most successful of the holiday weekend’s events. On Saturday night Christian dancehall superstar Papa San drew a large crowd to Belize City Centre. And while some may speculate on whether the former rude […]
His sculpting achievements range from the towering citrus man in the Stann Creek Valley to the commemorative plaques of George Price, Father of the Nation. Today, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods dropped in on artist Stephen Okeke, a man who never seems to run out of interesting ideas. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The new pieces, which represent […]
If the scenario that unfolded today in the United States of America was part of a script for a proposed movie, it would be rejected as being too farfetched. But the hijacking of four large U.S. airliners and the subsequent crashing of three of them into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and […]
Belizeans in the United States were not our only citizens effected by the disaster. Because of the closure of U.S. airspace, all flights in and out of that country were cancelled, including those to and from Belize. This meant that Belizeans and visitors wanting to travel today were forced to make other plans. News 5’s […]
Another facility in Belize, which felt the impact of terrorist attacks on the United States, was that country’s embassy here. The embassy, located in Belize City, was closed sometime this morning. Officials there reached by News 5 declined to comment, saying that they would be issuing a press release later in the day. That release […]
Four men wrongly expelled from Belize on Thursday morning were welcomed back by their families over the weekend in Dangriga. The boat, dispatched by Prime Minister Said Musa when he rescinded the expulsion order on Thursday evening, picked the men up in Puerto Cortez, Honduras. Two of the men, Oscar Maradiaga and Rigoberto Maldanado, were […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial is the only public hospital in Belize City that provides a twenty-four hour accident and emergency care. However, it has become increasingly dangerous for those who must provide treatment to the injured, especially over a long holiday weekend. Shortly after three on Sunday morning, two men, Keon Williams and Hugh Thomas, […]
A pair of traffic accidents over the holiday weekend has left two men dead. Police say that around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday Nick Chan, nineteen, of Palmetto Street in Orange Walk, was driving his car on the Northern Highway when he collided into the rear of a parked bus on the side of the road […]
A San Ignacio resident was sleeping when he was woken up just in time to be robbed at gunpoint. Reports are that on Saturday, thirty-six year old Sunil Sukhlani of Church Street, woke at around 1:30 a.m. only to find two dark-complexioned men, one with a thirty-eight calibre revolver and the other with a knife, […]
Over the weekend, police destroyed almost all of the two thousand, three hundred and eleven pounds of cocaine seized last week in the nation’s fourth biggest drug bust. The coke–minus a small amount retained as legal evidence–was burned in the incinerator at New River Enterprises in Orange Walk. One suspect was captured in the bust, […]
He lives in New York, but the tragedy which befell Belize’s former Ambassador to the United States and United Nations took place right here in Belize. Edward Laing, home on holiday, died this morning on the island of Caye Caulker. Reports are that the fifty-nine year old Laing was snorkelling when his tour guide noticed […]
Belize marked the two hundred and third anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye on Monday with ceremonies held at the Memorial Park in Belize City. Both Human Development Minister Dolores Balderamos Garcia and Mayor David Fonseca addressed the gathering, saying the Battle of St. George’s Caye helped to shape our country. David Fonseca, […]
It may have been one of the smallest carnival road marches in recent years, but the scaled down parade did attract large numbers of spectators in Belize City on Saturday. Winner of the senior band competition was Cultural Heritage. Winner in the junior category was the group Legacy, which is affiliated with senior champion Cultural […]
If today’s events in New York and Washington have you keyed up, a good place to calm your nerves may be the House of Culture where a new photographic exhibition is on. Jacqueline Woods reports. Noel Escalante, Photographer “It’s relaxing because you can see nature, you can actually see God’s creations in just about everything […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this September serving of Sports Monday. The criterium ride has become an annual fixture on the celebration calendar. But one would not have known this year from the number of riders who showed up for this twenty-five lap event on the Central American Boulevard yesterday. […]
Heavy criticism continues to rain down on Immigration Minister Max Samuels in the wake of his apparently illegal expulsion of five banana workers, two of whom were naturalised Belizean citizens. Those orders were subsequently rescinded on order of Prime Minister Said Musa, but not before four of the men had already been sent on a […]
Tonight the company that carts away the city’s garbage has had something of its own carted away. Twenty thousand dollars to be exact. According to the owner of Belize Waste Control, Tony Griffith Sr., he got a call from his manager about 12:20 this morning telling him the business had been burglarised. Griffith says when […]
At the same time that thieves in Belize City were backing away Mr. Griffith’s safe, their cousins in the nation’s capital were terrorising a pair of Chinese residents. Li Fu Sheng and his wife Qiong Zhen were attacked by two armed masked men as they arrived at their home in the Cohune Walk neighbourhood of […]
A set of commemorative stamps to mark the twentieth anniversary of Belize’s independence is now on sale. Released by the general post office, the stamps depict the country’s progress made in education, aquaculture and tourism since attaining independence in 1981. The twenty-five cent stamp depicts students in a classroom using a computer, emphasising government’s commitment […]
It has been a long time coming, but Benque Viejo del Carmen has finally got a House of Culture to call its own. Ceremonies were held Thursday evening to inaugurate the new centre, located on St. Joseph Street, which was formerly home to the town’s police station. Among the speakers were the project co-ordinator David […]
His big show opens tonight, but that did not stop Leon Coldero from giving Belize City school children a free preview this afternoon. News 5 was there. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The children came from Belize City primary schools to the City Centre to watch Leon Coldero and band, Code 868 perform. The concert was free […]
