In crime news of a more serious nature, this afternoon police were seeking to question a suspect in the rape of a Belize City high school girl. The rape allegedly occurred on Thursday morning on the campus of Anglican Cathedral College. The female student, age fourteen, has told police that she was sexually assaulted by […]
Belize currently holds the chairmanship of CARICOM and our officials have been busy preparing for that organisation’s upcoming events. Last weekend Foreign Minister Assad Shoman chaired a meeting of the Community Council, CARICOM’s second highest decision making body, to finalise agendas for the twenty-third Heads of Government Summit and a long awaited meeting of civil […]
Today marks the end of the programme for Drug Awareness Week and this morning students from each district participated in a drug education quiz. The subject matter is real and so is the competition. According to Belize District Co-ordinator Karen Bodden, the children prepare months in advance and are eager to put the information they […]
News of the less-than-impressive performance on this year’s P.S.E. has authorities searching hard for answers. One place they may find some comfort is in the continued improvement of standards on the first rung on Belize’s educational ladder–our pre-schools. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It’s not the first time that the pre-school unit […]
Last month we brought you news of a new airline, whose executives swooped into Belize and told anyone who would listen about their big plans to run regular charter service from Miami and soon thereafter to become Belize’s designated national carrier. The first flight of Bel-Air International was set to arrive on June eighth. That’s […]
When you look at a painting can you tell if it was done by a man or a woman? A new exhibition opening at the Image Factory may help answer that question. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Women are very much at the centre of the fine arts scene. That’s the message four female artists are sending […]
Over the last ten years News 5 has profiled enough newly released Belizean music to fill a library. Tonight, we have the pleasure of introducing you to a recording that’s a little bit different. It was created by a group of people from different parts of the world who have taken the fleeting sounds of […]
A Belizean pilot is lucky to be alive tonight after he made an emergency landing in a banana field. Tom Murphy was flying a Weatherly 620B crop duster belonging to the Banana Growers Association this morning in the vicinity of Cowpen when around 6:40 smoke began to enter the plane’s cockpit. According to the B.G.A., […]
While on the subject of bananas, there is good news and bad news to report from this major export industry. The good news is that following the devastation caused by Hurricane Iris last October, banana production is nearly back to pre-storm levels. According to the Banana Growers Association’s Zaid Flores, shipments, which were halted on […]
It’s not what you’d call hard news, but for many Belizeans, the combination of oppressive heat, no breeze and swarming insects has made life miserable from Santa Elena to Barranco. Today, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods found out that while you can’t change the weather, there is something you can do about the bugs. Jacqueline Woods, […]
The Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, celebrated its seventh anniversary today. To commemorate the occasion, PACT awarded scholarships to four Belizean students to pursue degrees in natural resources management and conservation. The recipients are Carren Williams, who will seek her Bachelor’s Degree in biology at the University of Belize, Percival Cho, who will study towards […]
Work on the installation of a modern synthetic track at the Marion Jones Sports Complex was supposed to begin last October, but like many commitments made in the heat of euphoria, the promise proved easier than the implementation. Our athletes may yet get to run on a decent surface, however, thanks to the generosity of […]
Prime Minister Musa today took time out to recognise ten years of steady development at the El Pilar Archaeological Reserve. In a ceremony in the village of Bullet Tree Falls, the P.M. pointed to the relationship between the ancient Maya and their environment as well as the role projects like El Pilar can play in […]
Beauty pageants are often a touchy subject for the people who put together this newscast, but when the contest in question is for a worthy cause, the consensus is that it’s worth a story. Today, Jacqueline Woods stopped by Gwen Liz High for a chat with some dedicated young ladies. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Since the […]
There are few Belizeans who have not heard of or visited the Belize Zoo, but not everyone may be aware that the zoo’s outreach and educational activities extend far beyond its compound on the Western Highway…today as far as Punta Gorda. News 5’s Janelle Chanona reports. Jacqueline Woods Eager to put their label of the […]
Belize is no stranger to tragedy, but the events which occurred Tuesday morning in the village of Paraiso near Corozal Town have devastated the community. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was in the area looking for answers in the wake of a freak occurrence that has left three men dead. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today, the […]
The badly decomposed body of an unidentified man was found this morning in the Belize River just upstream of the Haulover Bridge. The corpse, clad only in blue pants, was missing its head and one arm. A post-mortem conducted this afternoon found the cause of death to be drowning. Police believe the victim had been […]
With more high-powered guns than potholes on the streets of Belize, the Police Department is under pressure to get them out of the hands of the criminals. Over the last four days, they’ve rousted the usual suspects, spent hours manning roadblocks and linked up with the Ombudsman’s office; their efforts haven’t been in vain. Today, […]
Acting on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, police have arrested seventeen year old Kira Plunkett. Plunkett is the aunt of four-year-old Honey Flowers, who accidentally shot herself with a gun that Plunkett left in a bag on her bed. The case against Plunkett will question the level of responsibility gun owners must […]
In a follow-up to yesterday’s shooting of an armed robber by a Belize City shopkeeper, Ursilo Mendoza remains under guard in the K.H.M.H. as he tries to recover from a chest wound. Mendoza was shot by forty-nine year old Wai Tat-don after he allegedly tried to hold up Wai’s store on Baymen Avenue. Witnesses tell […]
A story we ran on yesterday’s newscast has elicited comment from the community. No, not the shooting of an armed robber or the latest talks with Guatemala. The story I’m referring to is the one on the frozen treat known as ideal, specifically how the flavoured ice got that particular name. At the end of […]
It has not been widely publicised, but earlier this week word reached News 5 of the death of a Belizean in the United States. Richard Burn, formerly of Belmopan, died of a heart attack on Monday in Mesa, Arizona. He was forty-seven years old. In 1994 we featured Burn as he, along with his wife […]
It happens every once in a while, probably not often enough. That is, when an armed robber gets a taste of his own medicine…when the hunter becomes the hunted. Jacqueline Woods reports on what was definitely not your usual Belize City shootout. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This afternoon security was tight in front of Tong’s Store […]
One aspect of the recent upsurge in violent crime is the proliferation of illegal firearms. Authorities have been targeting this problem and over the last week have produced some results. The most recent bust occurred Sunday in Belmopan when police searched a home in the Cohune Walk neighbourhood of the capital. There they found a […]
Unlicensed guns have also been confiscated in the Toledo District… in this case shotguns from a gang of illegal Guatemalan loggers. The four men: Landelino Lopez, Jeremias Garcia, Edwin Palacio and Samuel Garcia, were intercepted by police and forest officers as they were cutting mahogany trees in Belize’s southernmost protected area, the Temash-Sarstoon National Park. […]
