A labourer on a San Pedro, Ambergris Caye work site is dead, presumably due to electrocution. Rufino Santos, a twenty year old Honduran, was employed on the construction of the new Belize Bank building on Barrier Reef Drive in the centre of town. On Monday at 5:15 in the evening the workmen were in the […]
The thirty-second General Assembly of the Organisation of American States is taking place in Barbados this week, and one result of the meeting has been a chance for Belize and Guatemala to hold bilateral discussions. According to an OAS release, Foreign Minister Assad Shoman has met with his Guatemalan counterpart, Gabriel Orellana, not to mention […]
The Belize Social Security Board is celebrating its twenty-first anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, S.S.B. is holding a week of activities across the country to sensitise the community about its work and the benefits afforded to the general public. Today officials invited both primary and secondary school students to an all day presentation at their […]
We’ve been hearing a lot lately about high tech additions to our schools and libraries in the form of internet connected computers. But there is more going on at the nation’s libraries than electronics. One old fashioned exhibition is reminding students that hurricanes are nothing to play with. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The exhibition is part […]
Elections are a regular part of life in democratic societies and in Belize they have become a particular form of social event, with their own etiquette, protocol and rules of engagement. Today, the Elections and Boundaries Commission held a seminar to help us understand more about this sometimes mysterious process. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams was […]
A few years back News 5’s Janelle Chanona unlocked the mystery of that favourite Belizean delicacy called the meat pie. Today, with temperatures hovering near a hundred, it was time to chill out with…what else? That aptly named frozen treat known as ideal. Janelle Chanona, Reporting With temperatures peaking at a hundred degrees lately, the […]
Tonight a Democracia family is mourning the loss of two family members: one to a fatal gunshot and the other to the law for having pulled the trigger. According to police, around midnight on Sunday, twenty-nine year old Terry Estrada and his nephew, twenty-nine year old Phillip Estrada, got into a fight which resulted in […]
Tonight a Placencia woman is recovering from multiple stab wounds dealt to her at the hands of an old boyfriend. According to police from the southern branch, around 7:00 on Thursday night, twenty-seven year old Jason Parchue went to the Rum Point Inn and demanded to see his ex-girlfriend, identified as twenty-four year old Marsha […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway on Friday night has left a woman dead and her daughter hospitalised. According to police, around 6:30 p.m., thirty-five year old Shu Chuan-huang and her daughter, fifteen year old Jenny Huang, were travelling by motorcycle from Orange Walk heading in the direction of Corozal. But between miles fifty-eight […]
A security guard shot for his gun more than a week ago has succumbed to his injuries. According to hospital officials, around 5:30 Sunday evening, thirty-six year old Peter Scott died from gunshot wounds. Scott, an employee of Triple A Security, was manning his post at the Bowen and Bowen compound on King Street on […]
Over the weekend, thieves hit a Belize City restaurant, making off with fifteen hundred dollars in cash and a handgun. Police reports are that around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, two men on bicycles, one armed with a point three-fifty-seven magnum, snuck up on the security guard posted outside the Chon Saan Restaurant on Euphrates Avenue. […]
It appears tonight that despite weekly cell sweeps at the Hattieville Prison, inmates still have access to weapons, and aren’t afraid to use them. Prison officials have reported that around 2:00 a.m. last Friday, thirty-two year Herbert Wiltshire was in his cell when two other prisoners walked into his room and attacked him with a […]
Not every incident involving guns this weekend ended in bloodshed, but that doesn’t mean the victims were any less traumatised. In the wee hours of Saturday, gunshots rained down on a parked car, leaving a King’s Park family with more questions than answers as to the motive. Ann-Marie Williams reports. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Atilio Ulloa […]
Three thieves remain on the run, but police have charged three others believed to be involved in separate robberies in the Cayo District last week. Police say thirty-one year old Ralston Wagner, a resident of Rose Lane in Belize City, was the getaway driver and one of the two men who robbed the joint offices […]
We hope the people at the Lotto office like signing those big cheques because they’ve been doing that a lot. Today, they wrote a cheque to Dorla Foreman of Belize City for fifty-seven thousand, five hundred dollars after she picked the lucky numbers in Saturday’s Lotto Draw. This afternoon, the excited mother of eight told […]
The message of staying drug free is one that should be re-enforced daily, especially since latest statistics reveal that children as young as age six are experimenting with addictive substances. Today, the National Drug Abuse Control Council hit the streets of Belize City once again to push the idea that we don’t need drugs to […]
By all accounts, one of the most popular events of the September celebrations is the carnival parade through the streets of Belize City. But this year, the annual march looked like it might have hit a dead end. Today, the die-hards intent on keeping the carnival spirit alive burst onto the public stage with enthusiasm […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re a welcomed part of this dish of Sports Monday. Making its third appearance in this year’s Capital Life Basketball competition, the defending champion San Cas U.B. hosted Orange Walk’s Music Centre Friday night at the Belize City Centre. With both teams going in with a record of one […]
