If you haven’t started stretching for those punta moves you’ll be pulling this weekend, we suggest you start. This afternoon, Belize City school children got a head start with a children’s rally at the House of Culture. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods took a walk up the street to get some pointers on her dance steps. […]
The Garifuna culture might have centre stage this weekend, but today is an important date for Muslims throughout the world. When dawn broke this morning, it marked the start of Ramadan, a time when Muslims pay homage to God through special prayers and abstinence. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams went to the mosque on Central American […]
In this next story, we thought it pertinent to remind you of a series of events that should never be forgotten. As Child Abuse Awareness Week comes to an end today, perhaps the greatest crime against Belizean children remains unsolved, that of the murder of four innocent young girls. In 1999, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods […]
It was once famous as the highway that wound its way across narrow bridges and through lush fields of citrus…but in recent months the Stann Creek Valley Road could better be described as crime alley. Last night a well known businessman lost his life in the latest attack on public decency. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-nine […]
In other crimes news Canadian Gary Daniel Hortch, the man accused of trying to knock off San Pedro’s Atlantic Bank, has been charged with the crime of attempted robbery. Armed only with a disguise and paper bag containing a flashlight, Hortch unsuccessfully sought to convince the bank’s manager to part with forty thousand U.S. dollars.
Tonight there’s a glimmer of hope for hard pressed consumers saddled with BTL’s punitive new rate structure. When interviewed over the phone on Wednesday, Public Utilities Commission Chairman Gilly Canton told News 5 that the P.U.C. had its hands tied by the terms of BTL’s 1988 monopoly license and could not intervene to stop the […]
In related news…last night’s story on BTL’s new rate structure inadvertently omitted some information that may be of interest to viewers residing outside of Belize City. That is, beginning December first, local calls placed from district exchanges will now be metered and billed the same way as city calls. That is, instead of paying a […]
In keeping with the spirit of the upcoming November nineteenth celebrations, University of Belize students usually mount a cultural display of Garifuna food, dance and music. This year, however, the students added the Creole, Maya, Asian and East Indian cultures to the event. Delanei Thurton, U.B. Student “We have two types of bread, the Paratha […]
It’s that time of the week when Belizeans take to thumbing through the two party newspapers. We’re sure that like us, more than a few viewers were pleasantly surprised to see that in between the political propaganda and crime news, there’s evidence of creativity…at least in the advertising. It began last week with the San […]
This morning Dangriga’s Alejo Beni Park was the venue for a very special event: the presentation of UNESCO’s proclamation designating the Garifuna culture as a “masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.” News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting In the ceremony marking the occasion, Prime Minister Said Musa presented UNESCO’s award […]
They have been talking about it for months, but today Belize Telecommunications Limited finally lowered the boom on Belizean consumers. Disguised as a tariff rebalancing, BTL today announced a new rate structure, which will drastically raise the cost of living for both residential and business customers. What the monopoly telecom has done is to essentially […]
The United Democratic Party called a press conference this morning to expose what it claims is a major scandal in the Housing Department. Citing a leaked document from the Auditor General, area representatives Dean Barrow and Michael Finnegan alleged that L and J Trade and Management Company, appointed to collect loan payments on behalf of […]
Forty-three year old Gary Daniel Hart, a Canadian national, remains in police custody in San Pedro after he tried to hold-up the town’s branch of the Atlantic Bank. On Tuesday the police told News 5 that they were called by the bank manager and told that a hold-up was in progress. The police ostensibly arrived […]
It may be a sign of the number of guns on the streets or the ever increasing boldness of Christmas crazed criminals, but robberies at gunpoint are these days as regular as rice and beans. On Tuesday in Dangriga, Tackle Gas station attendant Albert Nunez reported to police that a dark male walked onto the […]
Today is World Diabetes Day and with perhaps as many as twenty percent of the population affected by the disease, Belizeans would do well to take notice. This afternoon a new diabetes centre was opened in Belize City and News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was there. Beth McBride, President, B.D.A. “To have a building we can […]
Belize Electricity Limited has announced that just over a month after Hurricane Iris tore through Stann Creek and Toledo, they have completed their restoration efforts in the south. According to the company, more than two thousand, six hundred customers on the Placencia Peninsula, in Independence and rural communities in Toledo were left in the dark […]
In other hurricane news, On Saturday, members of the Belize Chinese community held a benefit fair for the victims of the disaster. The community sold food and crafts at the Taiwanese Embassy on North Park Street and sales totaled eight thousand dollars. Two thousand will be donated to the police trust fund, while the remainder […]
In news from Cabinet, we are informed that government will enact legislation to conform with recommendations made by the UN to combat terrorism. Among the measures are beefed up efforts to prevent money laundering and make it easier to quickly freeze the assets of suspected terrorists. Notably missing from the proposed action is a decision […]
A university is supposed to provoke critical thought and that’s just what U.B. was doing today at a public forum held in Belize City. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Over fifty students from the University of Belize enrolled in the public administration and policy class participated in their class forum titled: “In the Eye […]
Given the serious economic impacts September eleventh will pose for Belize, right now increased trade and investment might seem like an uphill struggle. Within that context, the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service, BELTRAIDE, is conducting a series of workshops in every district to advise the public of its role as well as present investment […]
On yesterday’s newscast B.E.L.’s CEO Lynn Young offered his company’s opinion on the decision to green light B.E.L.’s Chalillo hydroelectric project. Today News 5’s Janelle Chanona travelled west where she spoke to NEAC chairman Ismael Fabro in Belmopan and BACONGO’s Sharon Matola at the Belize Zoo. Ismael Fabro, Chief Environmental Officer “We did not get […]
Chalillo will be built. That’s the word from the National Environmental Appraisal Committee, NEAC, which has given clearance for the project to proceed. According to the committee, the advantages of the hydroelectric facility, which would dam the upper Macal River, outweigh any environmental costs and that even the most drastic side effects can be managed […]
In what amounts to one of the more bizarre crimes in the colourful history of Ambergris Caye, this afternoon, San Pedro police successfully foiled a hold-up attempt at the Atlantic Bank. Around 1:30, officers were informed by the bank manager that they were being robbed. The police quickly dispatched a team to the bank where […]
It may not be of Olympic grandeur, but that doesn’t mean the Central American Games torch is any less important. This afternoon, Mayor David Fonseca, flanked by several Belize City school children, today handed over the torch to gold medallist Rushiel Bevans who will relay it to Panama. The torch arrived in Belize on Monday […]
The world is still reeling from the social and economic ramifications of the September eleventh attacks, and like many other countries, Belize has been negatively impacted in the areas of tourism and investment. In that context, the University of Belize is holding a public forum called “In the eye of Turbulence” to discuss the current […]
