The Belizean entertainment scene has always included an eclectic range of musical genres, with everything from heavy metal to punta rock jamming the airwaves. One of the latest types of music determined to make its presence felt in Belize is jazz. One artist has decided to create a Latin jazz fusion by marrying the music […]
There is never a shortage of pageants in Belize and tonight Ann-Marie has a preview of the latest young ladies to compete for a crown. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Miss Teen Belize takes centre stage at the Belize City Centre on Saturday when eight contestants from seven different high schools vie for the title. Karen Vernon […]
The twenty-third Summit of the CARICOM Heads of Government opened this afternoon in Georgetown, Guyana. Featured speaker at the annual event was Belize’s Prime Minister Said Musa, who as outgoing chairman of the organisation was called upon to gave an account of his stewardship. Through the co-operation of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, Caribbean Media Corporation […]
Tonight a husband is behind bars after he viciously stabbed his wife in front of several eyewitnesses and then left her to die on the floor. The couple, both employees of the Belize Defence Force, were known to have a stormy relationship, but many had hoped the marriage would not end in violence. News 5’s […]
An intensive manhunt is underway tonight as officials search for an escaped convict on the run. Details of how the prisoner managed to escape the confines of his cell in the maximum-security section of the facility are being withheld. But News 5 understands that sometime during bed check at approximately 9:30 on Saturday night and […]
A Belize City taxidriver is without his car tonight after armed bandits held him up on Monday night. According to police, around 9:00 p.m. on Monday, taxidriver Eston Young was driving on Vernon Street when two men flagged him down and asked to be taken to an address near Gwen Lizarraga High School. One man […]
The trial involving the Corozal bakery at odds with one of its neighbours continued this morning in the Supreme Court with a doctor presenting medical evidence. This morning, attorneys for the Ek family called Dr. Cardo Martinez to the stand to testify as to the health problems affecting the family, conditions the family alleges were […]
A teenager attacked by three men armed with a metal bat is at home tonight recuperating from head trauma and not a fractured skull as originally reported by police. Family members declined to be interviewed by News 5 today about the incident involving thirteen year old Jose Ayala, fearing retaliation. However, we understand that the […]
Traffic on the Northern Highway came to a standstill this afternoon after an accident near the Haulover Bridge blocked the road for approximately an hour. Details are still sketchy as to how the vehicles collided, but reports are that around 2:30 p.m., a crane and this small car crashed on the bridge. According to police, […]
A woman from the Cayo District is dead tonight as a result of a boating accident on the Mopan River. According to Edward Tut, a businessman from Cristo Rey, around three on Monday afternoon, he, his girlfriend, thirty-seven year Lisa Hopkin, and a friend, Amy Pierre had decided it would be fun to kayak down […]
Meanwhile, the search for a man missing since last week Friday in the waters off the Glover’s Reef Atoll continued today, but without success. According to police, around 10:00 a.m. on Friday, June twenty-eight, Rene Barahona and Hakeem Flores, both caretakers working on the southwest Caye of the atoll, went fishing in a canoe. When […]
Given the fact that most teachers spend approximately eight hours, five days a week in a classroom managing as many as forty children for about nine months out of the year, we thought that the educators would avoid the classroom every chance they get. But as News 5’s Ann Marie Williams found out today, some […]
Farmers and fruit vendors operating in and around the Punta Gorda town limits are under quarantine tonight after inspections by officials from the Ministry of Agriculture done over the weekend turned up female Mediterranean fruit flies. According to the Belize Agriculture Health Authority’s Director of Quarantine, Delilah Cabb, on Thursday, two specimens of the Medfly […]
Two people, one of them a young boy, are dead tonight as a result of an accident in the Mountain Pine Ridge on Sunday. According to police, around 4:40 p.m., a Toyota pickup being driven by Riaan Webb of San Ignacio overturned near the D’Silva Forest Station. There were other people in the truck, and […]
A Belmopan man is recovering from multiple stab wounds, a consequence of helping a woman being attacked. According to officers from the capital city, around 2:30 Sunday morning, Clifford Matute of Roaring Creek was at a dance at Chun’s Bar in the village when he saw a couple get into a fight. Matute told the […]
Tonight, Belize City teenagers have been charged with murder in connection with the death of an elderly man. Last week Wednesday, sixty-four year old Cleophas Burgess succumbed to injuries he received after he was hit in the head with a blunt instrument. This afternoon, two of the accused, fifteen year old Lionel Sampson and eighteen […]
As the Burgess family mourns the loss of a loved one, another Belize City family is keeping a bedside vigil at the K.H.M.H. after their teenaged son was also hit in the head with a bat. According to police, thirteen-year-old Jose Ayala was standing at the corner of Freedom Street and Unity Boulevard when three […]
A Sunday night fight over borrowed money has left one man suffering from chop wounds to the head. According to fisherman Anibal Chuc, just before 9:00 on Sunday night, he met a man he knew as “Spanish” in the Conch Shell Bay Area in Belize City. Chuc says he asked Spanish for the fifty dollars […]
The trial of the baker versus his neighbour began in the Supreme Court today, the climax to a situation that has divided residents of Corozal town. Sixty-two year old Eugene Eck is suing seventy-three year old Rafael Velasquez for more than twenty thousand dollars in damages to his health and property, caused by the smoke […]
According to Belize City police, on average, everyday three burglaries are reported. But authorities believed many other break-ins go undocumented as homeowners simply double up on security and hope it doesn’t happen again. Over the weekend, one of the latest victims was a priest living in Ladyville. Around six-thirty Saturday evening, Father Oliver Smalls was […]
While the list of weekend crime might seem disheartening, tonight there is good news to report in the fight to bring the situation under control. On Friday, forty-two Belizeans were officially inducted as members of the Police Department as the seventy-sixth squad to join the force. During the official graduation ceremony, the recruits showed off […]
Prime Minister Said Musa left Belize today for Guyana to meet with Caribbean leaders as part of the twenty-third regular meeting of the conference of Heads of Government. While in Guyana, Musa will discuss the regional strategic tourism plan, the task force on crime security and the Caribbean approach to achieve and maintain access to […]
This month the Department of Women’s Affairs has organized a number of activities to promote a healthy lifestyle. During Health and Nutrition Month, sessions will be held focusing on diseases such as cancer, diabetes and various heart conditions. The talks are scheduled to take place at health centers in the city, and according to D.W.A. […]
With the kids on holiday and the heat in the nineties almost every day, Belizeans are cooling off in any body of clean water they can find. For city residents, one of those options are swimming pools. But as the children enjoy the cool water, there are dangers to look out for. According to YWCA […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and allow me to welcome you to this brand new version of Sports Monday. After a year in the semi-pro ranks, Sir George and the Brown Bombers find themselves locked in a quadrangular tournament fighting for survival at the highest level of Belizean football play. That campaign began yesterday at […]
