The impending privatisation of the management of the Philip Goldson International Airport has received some recent media attention, but less obvious on the radar screen has been an ongoing negotiation for the establishment of a free zone on lands surrounding the airport. Today News 5’s Janelle Chanona travelled to the Ladyville site to find out […]
The hard curves and hurried driving on the Northern Highway between the airport and Haulover Bridge have claimed yet another victim. He is forty-two year old Alfonso Singh of Ladyville. Around 3:30 p.m., Singh, a resident of Vista del Mar, was on his way home when he lost control of his Ford Ranger pickup truck. […]
Meanwhile, another man who also tried to rob a Belize City business but paid dearly for his efforts has been formally charged. Twenty-one year old Ursillo Mendoza, of Morning Glory Street faces years behind bars if convicted of the crimes of attempted robbery, two counts of aggravated assault and one count of keeping an unlicensed […]
Two brothers operating separate businesses on Freetown Road were both robbed over the weekend by the same man. According to police, around 7:30 on Sunday night, a patron walked into Yin Kee restaurant on Freetown Road and ordered a beer. But when it was time to pay, the man pulled out a handgun and ordered […]
Corozal police have come up cold in their investigation into last week’s shooting death of Susanna Petkau and rape of a young woman from Orange Walk. Police say that they have yet to detain any of the four men involved in the crimes although they believe they know several likely suspects. Photos of these men […]
The Belize Supreme Court is hearing an unprecedented case, that of Patrick Reyes, a man spared from death row by the Privy Council. Reyes shot and killed husband and wife Wayne and Evelyn Garbutt on April sixteenth, 1997, over a land dispute in Teakettle Village. He was convicted on two counts of murder and sentenced […]
And in a case of much swifter justice, twenty-three year old Wilhelm Kelly, the man accused of robbing the offices of Cayo’s Big H juice company on Thursday, has been sentenced to seven years in prison. While the Magistrate was at it, he also sentenced Kelly to an additional five years on a previous charge […]
It’s very much a part of the new youth initiative and in the not-too-distant future Belize’s YMCA will have more room to expand its activities. We caught up with the organisation’s director at the work site on Faber’s Road. Carolyn Gentle Genitty, Executive Director, YMCA “If people are aware of where we are at number […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley with your latest version of Sports Monday. League leading B.T.L. Nets took its undefeated record in the Capital Life Tournament Friday night at the City Centre against Orange Walk’s Music Centre, a team that had lost three straight going in. Maybe this is probably why the visitors had travelled to […]
If the wave of violent crime that has washed over Belize during the last decade has one mitigating quality, it is that much of the violence takes place between people who know each other: that is rival gangs or warring families. On Thursday, however, that pattern was broken as a horde of hardened criminals went […]
In additional crime news, yet another Belize City security guard has had his gun stolen. At 4:00 this morning, thirty-year-old Artilles Orellano, a guard at the Northern Fishermen’s Co-op on North Front Street, was surprised by three men who beat him with a stick and relieved him of his thirty-eight-calibre revolver. This is the sixth […]
The Chalillo dam came one step closer to reality today as an action in the Supreme Court brought by environmentalists was dismissed. BACONGO, the Belize Alliance of Conservation NGOs, sought judicial review of several decisions made by the Public Utilities Commission. These were the approval in January of a revised power purchase agreement between Belize […]
Last Week a cane farmer died in San Lazaro Village in the Orange Walk District after he was attacked in a field by a swarm of Africanised bees. This afternoon in Belize City, three hundred and sixty-four students of St. Mary’s Primary School remained behind closed doors as another swarm of killer bees flew into […]
The explosion in Belizean arts continues tonight with the opening of an unusual show at the Image Factory. Janelle Chanona stopped by for a preview. Janelle Chanona, Reporting These ceramic pieces vary drastically from one to other but all of them represent a year of hard work by thirty students at the Belize Centre for […]
Since it opened in February, over seven thousand visitors–six thousand of them Belizeans–have visited the Museum of Belize in Belize City. But quantity does not necessarily equal quality and it was always the intent of the museum’s creators that it would fail in its mission if it did not attract young people from every corner […]
Ever since we can remember, the holiday has taken a back seat to its more celebrated counterpart for females…but in case you’ve forgotten, this Sunday is Father’s Day. And while real Dads in Belize often seem like an endangered species, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods discovered that when it comes to parenting…all you need is love. […]
Tonight cops in the Cayo District are patting themselves on the back for catching a man who held-up a San Ignacio business this morning. Details of the incident are sketchy but News 5 understands that just after 8:00 this morning two armed bandits walked in to the headquarters of juice maker Big H and demanded […]
An early morning raid by Belmopan police has netted them two men wanted for robberies in three districts. According to Officer in Charge of the Belmopan station, Edward Broaster, just after 1:00 this morning a joint team from the capital and Dangriga ambushed a home in the southern town where they believed two fugitives were […]
With the public perceiving a severe increase in violent crime, the security business may be one of the nation’s fastest growing industries. But you’d never know it by talking to the owners or employees of the city’s half dozen or so security companies. Despite the attention being focussed by the public and police on what […]
We don’t usually report weed busts on this newscast, unless that is, they tip the scales in tons rather than pounds. And while recent seizures by police have been at the lower range of weight, what makes them noteworthy is the pedigree of the pot. It seems that a significant cross-border trade in marijuana has […]
This weekend the Public Service Union will be holding its annual general meeting. The gathering of the eighty-year old organisation will be held under the theme “Committed to Providing Quality Public Services” and will feature a keynote address by the President of the Caribbean Congress of Labour, Lincoln Lewis. According to P.S.U. President, Margaret Ventura, […]
This week many young people are celebrating the end of the school year. And while they may not be dancing in the streets, a number of couples are practising their moves daily for what has become an important competition. Melonie Popper, Programme Director, YMCA “First of all, it’s an annual fundraiser for the YWCA and […]
Having waxed poetic over meat pies and been inspired by ideals, News 5’s Janelle Chanona is as close as we could find to a food reporter. This morning her beat took her to the Radisson where a group of aspiring chefs is receiving professional training in the culinary arts. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Dr. Patricia Wilson […]
With the recent arrest of a high school guidance counsellor on charges of raping a fourteen year old female student, the public has been forced to face questions that in the past have often remained hidden; issues like sex between students and teachers, teenaged prostitution and the under-reporting of rape and child molestation. From numerous […]
Yet another Belize City security guard has been robbed of his weapon during a hold-up. According to police, around 9:00 Tuesday night a masked man armed with a handgun walked into Ying Ying Store on Mahogany Street Extension and demanded money. He ordered the people inside, namely the store attendant and security guard, to lie […]
