One of the favourite activities of News 5 reporters over the years has been to introduce our viewers to new and exciting places. Some, like the recently opened Museum of Belize, are readily accessible to all. Others, like the magnificent waterfall featured in our next story, require a certain level of physical fitness along with […]
Crime is one of those unique evils that everybody deplores, but no two people seem to agree on its solution. That dilemma was apparent today as a hastily organised protest by the Chamber of Commerce proved enormously successful. Shops were shuttered nationwide and earnest citizens of all ages and economic status stood together to voice […]
As if to add a note of drama to this morning’s activities in Battlefield Park, word came from the rostrum of a fatal shooting which had just occurred on Mahogany Street. Police are not speculating publicly on why twenty-six year old William Mark Osmond was shot and killed, but revenge is widely believed to be […]
A part of the crime problem articulated by a number of speakers at this morning’s rally, was that there seems to be two standards of justice in Belize: one if you’re poor and quite another if you’re not. That thesis was strongly supported today by statements from the Customs Department. A release yesterday from the […]
A delegation has returned from Merida where members represented Belize at Yucatan’s Ki-huic Tourist Market. All five Mundo Maya countries exhibited at the market, putting forward examples of their music, dance and cuisine. Among the standouts at the festivities was the Belize Dance Company, which, according to a press release, brought down the house in […]
The first show in the 2002 season of Karaoke Television got underway last night at the Princess Hotel’s Club Calypso. While the venue may have been new, the competition was vintage KTV: excruciatingly close, with just one point separating the top two contestants. In the end, it was left to host William Neal to announce […]
As a man whose name is synonymous with the mean streets of the Belize City ghetto, you would think that Leroy Young, better known as Grandmaster, would speak with a voice of compassion for those around him who happen to be sitting on death row. Perhaps, but this morning at Battlefield Park, the Grandmaster sounded […]
How much is not exactly clear, but a significant portion of Belize’s business community will close down on Wednesday to demonstrate their exasperation at a crime situation that is widely perceived to be out of control. The dominant feeling among merchants was summed up by Albert Street’s Beulah Sikaffy, herself a victim of a violent […]
While the business community tries to rally the public against crime, members of the criminal class are reminding us that not all law breakers sport bandannas and pants that sag. Janelle Chanona, Reporting With three charges pending for incidents in September 2001 and four other court cases that were either struck out or dismissed, twenty-one […]
Another Belize City resident is counting herself lucky tonight after a stray gunshot threatened the life of herself and her children. According to Cafara Bennett of number six Mayflower Street, around 4:30 this morning, a bullet slammed through the back wall of her home, bounced off a bedroom wall, went through to the bathroom, broke […]
Not all recent efforts by police have been in vain. The department reports that in Orange Walk two men, one of them a fifteen-year-old, have been arrested and charged with robbery and grievous harm. Twenty-year-old Daniel Cowo and the minor are accused of being among a gang that attacked a twenty-three year old on a […]
Acting with a patience that bordered on inaction, the Customs Department finally called it a day for Stann Creek businessman John Zabaneh–or at least his fleet of uncustomed vehicles. The ten late model SUV’s and pickups, seized at Zabaneh’s Mayan King farm in November, were forfeited when Zabaneh could not produce evidence of good title. […]
While her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second will get no closer to Belize this year than her current trip to Jamaica, we will be included on the royal itinerary of her son Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. The now divorced Prince, perhaps best known for his tempestuous marriage to Sarah Ferguson, will visit Belize […]
You won’t always see her marching on the picket lines or starring on the talk show circuit, but for nearly twenty years Therese Bowman Rath has laboured diligently on the front lines of the environmental movement. On Saturday, her efforts were officially recognised when she was honoured with the James A. Waight Conservation Award. The […]
It was last year’s surprise hit, capturing the attention of a viewing public hungry for local entertainment. And with the peculiar institution known as karaoke still as popular as ever, Karaoke Television is back for an encore. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Tonight, KTV 2002 starts on Channel 5. Over the next thirteen weeks, sixty contestants will […]
On Monday nights, our newscast usually opens with the worst of the weekend crime. But lately the situation has gotten so bad, every night is beginning to feel like a Monday. So today, we’re starting out with how one sector of the community is expressing its frustration. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
But as the business community gears up for a shut down, one of their own is still trying to ascertain the damage to their pockets. Romac’s supermarket on Albert Street was closed for a short time this morning after an overnight burglary left the store in disarray. Up to newstime tonight, the store’s management say […]
In other crime news, a Belize City man is recovering from gunshot wounds tonight after he was shot over the weekend. According to police, around 3:30 on Sunday afternoon, police were alerted to the K.H.M.H. where they found Kenneth Flowers, also known as Big Tom, suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. Big Tom […]
Prison officials need your help tonight in locating two escaped convicts still on the loose. The department has joined forces with police and launched an all out manhunt for twenty-three year old Peter Augustine, a convicted rapist with two aggravated burglary charges, and twenty-seven year old Ernesto Cervera, who was serving five years for robbery. […]
Police are also investigating two robbery reports in Belize City. According to thirty-two year old teacher Diedre Faux, around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, she was near the Queen Square Market when two young men on bicycles rode up to her. Faux says one of the men put a gun to her head and demanded her […]
After all those crime stories, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the business community aren’t the only ones frustrated with the situation. And while the move of a nation-wide shutdown of businesses isn’t political, it’s certainly designed to get the attention of government. At a recent school opening, the Prime Minister took the opportunity to address […]
But while the P.M. is angry and businesses are frustrated, the police are working overtime to crack cases. Tonight, we can report that they have made arrests in two murders. According to police, twenty-one year old Clifford Hyde and a sixteen-year-old minor have been charged with the murder of Derry Bennett. Hyde also faces charges […]
A traffic accident on the Southern Highway has claimed the life of a teenager. According to police, twenty-two year old Bruce Martinez was driving his Honda Civic near the intersection at the Southern Highway and the Stann Creek Valley Road when he lost control of the vehicle and ended up in a ditch. Martinez and […]
A U.B. student is the youngest Belizean ever to win the lotto jackpot. On Saturday night, twenty year old Susan Ferguson was the lucky person with the right combination to claim a sixty-seven thousand dollar cash prize. An elated Ferguson told News 5 this afternoon that she never dreamed that one of the two tickets […]
With the wave of violence plaguing city streets, several organisations are trying to come up with ideas to get the Belizean youths to do something constructive. This week, the Scout Association of Belize, is inviting young persons to join their movement and become part of the solution. The action is just one of many planned […]
