When Philadelphia schoolteacher Anna M. Jarvis had the first Mother’s Day named in her honour over a century ago, who would have thought that the celebration would have caught on in such a big way? However, it’s easy to see why. Everyone has a mother and today the senior moms of Helpage Belize had their […]
Viewers who follow our weekly karaoke competition may have noticed that he is a regular member of the Tuesday night audience at Club Calypso. But Gilbert Wellington Ramsey, better known as just Ramsey, has a musical history that predates karaoke by at least a generation. Immortalised in song by Wilfred Peters, Ramsey was the last […]
Two men from Corozal are dead, believed to have been killed by a man who chartered their boat for a trip to San Pedro. Twenty-seven year old tour operator Jose Majil and his brother in law, Alejandro Arevalo, left Corozal around midday Monday in a white skiff named “Baby Girl”. The man who chartered the […]
An eight-year-old child, injured after a police vehicle ran him over, has been told by the cops to pay for the damages to the car. That’s the story being told tonight by a Belize City family living off Wagner’s Lane. Rahem Arnold was riding his bike home from his aunt’s house when he was knocked […]
We don’t usually run stories about routine marijuana busts, but the latest weed case certainly fits in the category of man bites dog or perhaps bringing coals to Newcastle. It seems that employees at the parcel post were inspecting an express mail package sent to a Belize address from Las Vegas, U.S.A. Inside the parcel […]
Exactly seven months ago today, the nation of Belize woke up the devastation of Hurricane Iris. But even more disturbing than any economic loss, was the sorrow experienced by twenty families who learned that their loved ones had perished in the storm. Eighteen tourists from the U.S. state of Virginia and two Belizean crew members […]
Mother’s Day is May twelfth and if you’re still looking for that special gift for mom, why not give her a “Certificate of Motherhood”. The anthology of twenty-one poems, which speaks about a single mother’s love, that of a married mother, and the love of a dying mother, is written by Belizean teacher/poet Norman Rodriguez. […]
As the global pandemic of AIDS becomes entrenched in nations large and small, we are gradually learning that the disease has institutional implications that go far beyond the field of public health. Today the educational community got together to see how they are affected and what role they can play in the anti-AIDS effort. Jacqueline […]
It’s now down to four. That’s the number of contestants who will compete in next week’s Karaoke Television final. The two latest finalists were chosen last night before a packed house at Club Calypso. Here’s how it went. William Neal, KTV Host “And the winners are…contestant number four Joseph Carr and contestant number five Vanya […]
The desire to attract the best possible primary graduates to local high schools is not just a Belize City phenomenon. Yesterday News 5’s Janelle Chanona travelled north to see what the growing number of prospective secondary students can expect this September. Janelle Chanona, Reporting On Tuesday, the students and teachers of Orange Walk Technical High […]
With two hundred and forty-two million dollars in revenues representing eighteen percent of the nation’s gross domestic product spread over all six districts, the tourism industry can make a credible claim to being Belize’s single most important economic activity. Today the people who co-ordinate efforts to attract visitors to our shores and keep them happy […]
We don’t know if San Ignacio police used their newly donated motorcycle to respond so quickly to a call last night, but around 10:45 they managed to arrive at the scene of a burglary just as two suspects were fleeing. According to police, they caught up with one of them, eighteen year old Anwar Awe, […]
By now the sight of a nervous customer in a jump suit trying to grab some fast flying dollars is nothing new to Belizean television viewers. But today, as part of her coverage of the latest Courts promotion, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods herself ventured into the hot seat. Here’s what it looked like. Jacqueline Woods, […]
Over the last decade News 5’s reporters and camera crews have ventured deep beneath the surface of the Belizean countryside to explore spectacular subterranean caverns at the Vaca Plateau, Mountain Pine Ridge and Caves Branch. Tonight we take you on another adventure to a place that offers the most stunning evidence yet of how the […]
As the oppressive heat of the dry season bakes the Belizean countryside, more people try to cool off with a dip in the nation’s rivers, lagoons and sea…and invariably some of those people become drowning victims. That’s what happened to a fourteen-year-old Belize City girl Sunday afternoon. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from the scene […]
Another accident, this time in the Orange Walk District, has claimed the life of a sixty-year-old man. Police say that Santos Dominguez, a farmer from the village of San Felipe, was killed on Sunday night after he fell out of a pickup truck. Dominguez’s nineteen year old daughter, Marienela, told authorities that she was driving […]
Crime is a nationwide problem, but individual communities are taking local action to assist police in their work. On Friday the Rotary Club of San Ignacio and Santa Elena presented a motor scooter to the twin towns’ Police Department. The vehicle will help officers shorten the response time to reports of criminal activity. The scooter […]
Back in the days before independence, it was known as the Anglo-Guatemalan dispute, a difference of opinion in which Belize was vitally interested, but officially a bystander. All that changed with Independence in 1981, and with it went Great Britain’s role as a major protagonist in the drama. But as the curtain is about to […]
The first try was in 1977 with Belize Airways Ltd., and while that effort provided some of the best in-flight service in the world, the laws of economics eventually prevailed. Since that time a number of local operators have tried and failed to find a niche in the finicky market…and to be fair, the list […]
It’s an annual event that showcases the talents of the Belize District’s most creative students. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has a preview. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The eleventh Belize District Schools Festival of Arts will see two hundred and fifty entries. Beverly Smith-Lopez, Director, Belize Arts Council “I’ll tell you something, the two hundred and fifty […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The Belize Basketball Association proudly opened its annual semi-pro season Friday night at the City Centre and we join B.B.A. Commissioner Troy Gabb as he thanks his sponsors in his remarks. Troy Gabb, Commissioner, B.B.A. “I would like to thank […]
This morning in Belize City a man accused of purchasing two adolescent girls as sex slaves and the mother who allegedly sold them were both arraigned in Magistrate’s Court. Seventy-four year old retired businessman John Majarrez was charged with one count of carnal knowledge, one count of indecent assault and two counts of common assault. […]
A week after he was found on the beach in Placencia, a man claiming amnesia has been identified. News 5 understands that the man we interviewed on Tuesday is Gary Jenssen, a U.S. citizen with a last known address of Woodland Park, Colorado. Apparently Jenssen came to Belize in late February of this year and […]
Just when you thought the sad saga of the uncustomed vehicles found on a farm in the Stann Creek District was over, tonight they’re back in the news. A press release from the Ministry of Home Affairs announced today that government’s investigation into the dramatic find is over and the late model trucks are to […]
It’s getting closer to crunch time in efforts to settle the Guatemalan claim to Belize, and one sure sign is that the British are finally getting involved. According to a release from the British High Commission, Under-secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Denis MacShane, will arrive in the region Sunday to hold […]
