A Cayo man is in prison tonight, charged with the rape of a ten-year-old girl. The child’s mother told police that on Saturday, seventeen year old Antonio Zetina of Santa Elena, a labourer hired to do yard work, entered the house and had intercourse with her daughter. A subsequent medical examination confirmed that the child […]
Police have made arrests in two recent armed robberies. In Orange Walk, twenty-eighth year old Javier Salazar has been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery for his role in Saturday morning’s hold up. Salazar is accused of being one of three heavily armed men who jacked Jaime Bustillo as he walked down the street. Police […]
In other police news Albert Haylock has been slapped with multiple charges arising from Saturday’s hit and run death in San Ignacio. In addition to manslaughter by negligence and related traffic offences, Haylock has also been charged with drunk driving. Forty-seven year old Leslie Guy was killed when Haylock ran into him at around eleven […]
As part of our continuing coverage of National AIDS Week, tonight we look at the campaign to curb the global epidemic here in Belize. The population group most affected by the deadly disease is young people. With that in mind, today representatives of the National AIDS Commission took to the classroom. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Having […]
Tourism officials and industry representatives from Central America are meeting in Belize this week as part of the regional meeting for the International Year of Eco-tourism, which has been slated for 2002. The delegates will be discussing a wide range of topics that include eco-tourism planning in protected areas and community involvement in eco-tourism ventures. […]
One of Belize’s pioneers in the eco-tourism business has been recognised internationally for its work in that field. The Lodge at Chaa Creek was presented with the 2001 ASTA Environmental Award from the American Society of Travel Agents at their World Travel Congress in New York earlier this month. The award recognises the resort’s environmental […]
Food was very much on the minds of journalists today as the Ministry of Agriculture invited the press corps to the Cayo District for a look at what local producers are putting on the market. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It’s that time of the year when we will be scouting the supermarkets to […]
Eco-tourism is booming and birdwatchers in particular are flocking to Belize in record numbers. But the nation’s birdlife is not confined to the bush, as News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams found out. Rudi Burgos, Birdwatcher “Pigeons are from a fairly big group of birds that are distantly related to chickens, turkeys. In Belize we have several […]
Tension is still high along the Belize Guatemala border after three Guatemalan farmers were killed by a joint BDF/Police patrol on Thursday near San Vicente in the Toledo District. Late tonight we were informed by Ambassador James Murphy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the Belize Government has extended an invitation to the government […]
Today, one Belizean was infected by HIV. Was it you? Do you care? That is the startling new reality in our country and even more shocking is that most infected persons don’t know about their status until it’s too late. It is within that context that the theme for National AIDS Week is “I care…do […]
If you travelled the nation’s highways this weekend and made it home safely, consider yourself one of the lucky ones. The Northern, Western and Southern Highways were the scenes of no less than five traffic accidents, in which six lives were lost. We begin in the north. According to police reports, around 7:30 on Sunday […]
Also in crime news, the bad guys might have used some big guns but they made off with petty cash. According to thirty year old Jaime Bustillo, he was on Guadelupe Street in Orange Walk Town at about 1:00 a.m. when he was approached by three persons in a blue car. Bustillo says two dark […]
When authorities discovered shelves stocked with expired goods and a serious rodent problem at Xtra House last week, the Public Health Bureau promptly shut down the popular supermarket. Eager to get back in business, today, the store’s owners, flanked by self-proclaimed faithful customers protested the decision to delay the store’s re-opening until later this week. […]
James Adderley Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The AIDS day Alpheus Williams Cycle Classic from Belmopan to the Marion Jones Sporting Complex here in Belize City continues to attract the heaviest of competition and yesterday’s presentation certainly is proof positive. We pick up […]
Late this evening, the Belizean and Guatemalan governments have agreed to have the Organization of American States conduct an investigation into the deaths of three Guatemalans killed on Thursday by a joint BDF/Police patrol. According to the Belize Government, the men, who have been identified as sixty-one year old Jesus Ramirez Senior and his sons, […]
News 5 also spoke with Prime Minister Said Musa this afternoon regarding this latest border incident. The P.M. says he hopes this isolated incident is treated as such and does not affect the bilateral relationship between Belize and Guatemala. Prime Minister Said Musa “There has been an ongoing problem in the area, a land dispute […]
Three Haitian boys who stowed away on a freighter that landed in Belize on Thursday are back aboard and headed home. The ship left the Belize City Port sometime today after the two fourteen year olds and one twelve year old were carried back to the vessel. They had attempted to come ashore by hiding […]
Ten late model vehicles seized by police from a Stann Creek warehouse remain impounded in Belmopan, while authorities try to sort out whether or not they entered the country legally. Today, News 5 spoke to the vehicles’ owner, John Zabaneh, who told us that the whole case is a matter of miscommunication. Janelle Chanona “The […]
The Police Department has suspended one constable and fired another after they were found negligent in carrying out their duties as investigators in the murder of David Reyes. On November Fourth, Reyes’ decapitated body was found in the Haulover Creek. PCs Kareem Fuller and Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez were assigned to the case, but after three […]
The police are investigating to see whether officers were justified in firing shots in a residential neighbourhood on Thursday night. The incident took place in the St. Martin De Porres area of Belize City following a chase between authorities and a car thief. Earlier that afternoon the suspect brazenly stole a late model Mitsubishi Montero […]
Shortly before 4:00 on Thursday evening, residents of Princess Margaret Drive heard a loud noise and then the screeching of tires. By the time they looked outside, they discovered an overturned Nissan Xterra lying in the middle of the road. The vehicle, driven by Doctor Morali Rudraja, went out of control and flipped several times […]
This report just arrived by fax and I will read it verbatim. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that three of four Guatemalan Nationals who attacked a Belize Defence Force patrol near San Vicente Village in the Toledo District today were shot. There are two possible fatalities as a result. Belize’s Ambassador to the Republic […]
Desperate circumstances sometimes drive people to take desperate action, and this afternoon officials at the Belize City Port saw first hand what has become routine in places like South Florida and the Bahamas. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports on the incredible journey of three young boys who spent four days at sea, without food or […]
Police have impounded ten late model vehicles found in a Stann Creek warehouse on the suspicion that they were stolen and illegally imported. The vehicles: four Toyota Hi-Lux pickups, two Toyota Prados, two Four Runners, one Nissan Patrol and two Dodge Caravans were seized from a building at John Zabaneh’s Mayan King Farm at the […]
In more crime news from the south, a Dangriga bar owner lies in serious condition after he was shot last night in a robbery attempt. Police report that thirty-six year old Desidora Maldonado was shot in the left side of his chest around 10:30 after he failed to comply with an armed assailant’s demand for […]
