It was one of the ugliest sights in the history of Belizean sports. Video shot after the football match on Sunday between the Kulture Yabra football club and Fabro’s Juventus Stars showed images of the game’s head referee getting hit twice and a police officer wrestling with a player for his baton. After a closed […]
If you were depressed by the sight of police officers having to fight off angry footballers, then this next story will not make you any happier. Janelle Chanona, Reporting In the heat of this afternoon, the quiet of Mayflower Street was shattered by gunfire. When we arrived on the scene, heavily armed police officers were […]
In a more successful operation, police have detained two men in the shooting death of twenty-eight year old Denver Hamilton of Pelican Street Extension in Belize City. Hamilton was shot twice in the temple around 8:30 on Sunday night while working under the hood of his car at the corner of Iguana Street and Central […]
Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord on Monday ruled that Belizean businessman Kevin Morris should be extradited to the United States to answer charges of conspiracy to traffic cocaine. Morris, who only recently was granted bail, had been imprisoned for fourteen months while the extradition proceedings played out in court. Today, News 5 spoke with Morris who […]
As a matter of policy, we don’t report bomb threats on this newscast, on the theory that such publicity only encourages the perpetrators. Such incidents are more common than you might think and lately the U.B. campus at West Landivar has been the favourite target of bomb hoaxes–believed to be called in by students seeking […]
The skills involved in this next story may not be called upon to save lives, but they certainly make life richer. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It stands eight feet tall and is the biggest sculpture ever created by Curl Gordon. The piece represents family unity and is chiselled entirely from part of a mahogany that was […]
They come from as far away as Taiwan, Korea and the People’s Republic of China and as near El Salvador, Panama and Cuba. These foreign students, along with their Belizean counterparts, all attend the U.B.’s Regional Language Centre in Belmopan. Jacqueline Woods visited the campus this morning to get a taste of the different countries. […]
In sheer numbers, the death toll does not begin to approach the level of bloodshed now taking place in the so-called Holy Land. But while Israelis and Palestinians can at least say they are killing and dying for a cause, the young men of Belize City can make no such claim. Over the weekend, three […]
Sports is usually the domain of James Adderley and his weekly Sports Monday segment. But sometimes activities on the field of play are more closely related to items coming from the police department than the sports desk. Such was the case following the dramatic finish of a semi-pro football match over the weekend. News 5’s […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Obviously you’ve seen Janelle Chanona’s news report on the melee at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday. Kulture Yabra fans erupted after the referee awarded a game winning penalty to the visiting Fabro’s Juventus Stars in week 5 of the Regent’s Cup playoffs. Before all this happened […]
A mid-day shooting has left two Belize City young men injured. According to police reports, just after noon today officers responded to a call reporting the sound of gunshots in the area of Vernon Street. When the cops arrived at the corner of Vernon and Lakeview streets they found twenty-four year old Kendale Robinson suffering […]
Another man is also recovering from gunshot wounds tonight, but this time the gunman is a police officer. According to Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, P.C. Felix Garcia, currently stationed at the Hattieville branch, spotted twenty-six year old Glenroy Clarke, a man with a warrant against him for theft and wanted for questioning for […]
A Belize City businessman is tonight reunited with his family after he had been reported missing since Tuesday. But rather than being a missing persons case, it turns out that the husband and father of four had been stabbed, robbed and only with the help of good samaritans, taken to the K.H.M.H. for treatment. For […]
After being hit by a plague of daring hold-ups, Southern Choice Gas Station on the Stann Creek Valley Road is now the victim of what appears to be an inside job. According to police, tonight they are looking for office supervisor of the company, Alexi Rodriguez, in connection with a report of theft. Southern Choice’s […]
Despite the strong presence of police, B.D.F. and tourism officers patrolling the streets of Belize City, it seems walking on one of the busiest streets, even in the middle of the morning, is not safe anymore. A young student from the Orange Walk District has reported being robbed while on Vernon Street at 10:00 a.m.; […]
If you happened to be in the area of King Street and East Canal this morning, you would have seen a very strange sight. Apparently, this Toyota Four Runner and taxi collided at the busy junction just before 9:00 today. Reports are that the three passengers in the cab at the time sustained minor injuries. […]
The government and people of the Republic of China on Taiwan have contributed more than four hundred thousand dollars towards Belize’s Language Centre. In a presentation this morning, Ambassador Charles Tsai handed over a cheque for four hundred and sixty thousand Belize dollars to Prime Minister Said Musa as part of a grant for the […]
It’s now official. For only the second time in twenty years, the Roman Catholic Church in Belize has ordained a local as Bishop. During ceremonies held on Thursday afternoon, Monsignor Dorrick Wright was ordained as a Bishop. The principal consecrator in the event was the Most Reverend Osmond Peter Martin, while the co-consecrators were the […]
Starting today, several Belize City young people began a job-training programme designed to help them get better jobs. Through the Organisation of American States, for the past three years, the Young Men Christian Association of Belize has been offering entry-level job skills training to the unemployed. This year, the Workplace Preparedness Training Course will run […]
Today, a series of events focussing on health practices and the diseases affecting us as a people were held at hospitals and health centres countrywide. And while we couldn’t attend all the activities, this morning News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams went to check out what was happening at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting […]
Over the years, the artists who have displayed their work at the Image Factory have ranged from the haunting portraits of Jeannie Shaw to the heart-wrenching snapshots of the victims of Hurricane Iris taken by Norris Hall and Richard Holder. The photographs currently being exhibited at the gallery may be different in style, but as […]
For most Belizeans, if you say the word “Hicatee”, immediately images of the tasty turtle meat simmering in plenty of gravy on top a bed of hot white rice spring to mind. But before you get your taste buds going, remember that while the season is now open, if you’re caught with undersized specimens of […]
A Belize City businessman is recovering from stab wounds tonight after he was robbed on Wednesday. According to twenty-seven year old Waiki Cheng, he was riding his chrome bicycle on North Front Street around 7:00 that night when a stranger walked up to him and pushed him off the bike. Cheng says the man then […]
Police are also investigating a drive by hold-up reported in Belize City. According to thirty-one year old William James, around 6:30 Wednesday morning, he was walking on Vernon Street when a car with darkly tinted windows drove up alongside him. James says as he turned to look at the car, the driver’s window rolled down […]
The wheels of justice turn slowly in Belize, due in part, to the backlog of cases before any one of the country’s courts. But the case we’re going to tell you about tonight is unprecedented because it spans ten years, involves three deaths and today, is finally over. Way back in 1991, a fire on […]
