Shortly after two this afternoon, a tour bus and a car, travelling in opposite directions, collided around mile twenty on the Western Highway. Modesto Lizarraga, the driver of the Novelos bus, says he was transporting a number of tourists to Belize City, but as he reached a curve he saw a car heading towards him. […]
The mystery over the discovery of a woman’s body in a Belize City hotel room is much closer to being solved tonight. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-seven year old Joanna Josephine Arana may have died under suspicious circumstances, but her friends strongly suspect that is was a series of medical conditions that […]
While the public war of words focuses on the Chalillo hydro project, Belize Electricity Limited is quietly going ahead with plans to construct an additional generating facility outside of Belize City. A B.E.L. release reports that the Public Utilities Commission has approved their application for a twenty-five megawatt gas turbine facility to be built near […]
The Belize Police Department may be pursuing a criminal investigation and the Prime Minister is said to be considering his political options, but events continue to unfold that give the immigration scandal a life of its own. News 5 has confirmed that arriving at the Philip Goldson International Airport this morning via El Salvador was […]
Is it murder? Suicide? A drug overdose? Or simply a death by natural causes? That’s what police are trying to figure out following the discovery of a body in a Belize City hotel room. According to police, forty-seven year old Joanna Josephine Aranda, a resident of Dangriga’s back-a-town area, was discovered naked in one of […]
Tonight Belize City police are looking for two suspects in separate robberies: one of them a brazen gunman, the other a smooth talker. According to the cops, back in early May, Dorothy Gideon-Castillo of Belize City bought eighteen hundred dollars worth of goods from businesswoman Marie Fuller, on the premise that the bill would be […]
A search party continues to look for the body of a man believed to have drowned in the Rio Hondo over the weekend. According to police, Felipe Rodriguez, a Mexican from the village of Obregon in Quintana Roo and B.D.F. soldier Orlando Navarette of Douglas Village, were swimming across the river when Rodriguez went under […]
His name is synonymous with the media, and tonight veteran broadcaster Brian Mossiah has a new job; head of the government Press Office. Forty-one year old Mossiah was picked for the job after a five month stint at Love Productions and a longer four year run as the creator and manager of the Opposition’s Wave […]
Determined to change its reputation in the eyes of the public, the Police Department has been actively working with the community to prevent and solve crimes. One part of that effort is the Zone Beat Liaison Officer programme, an initiative that today received a helping hand from two local businessmen. This morning Tony Leslie of […]
While at Racoon Street this morning, News 5 took the opportunity to speak to the department’s public relations officer, G. Michael Reid, about concerns that the police officers charged with investigating the latest immigration scandal might be influenced by the fact that the subjects of the inquiry may include their bosses and colleagues. G. Michael […]
Last month it was a sister city mission; this time it will be a trade mission that hopes to foster friendlier ties between Belize and Guatemala. A release from BELTRAIDE today announced that a delegation of government officials and business people will travel to Guatemala City from the twenty-seventh to thirty-first of August to promote […]
There is no shortage of stories on this newscast that cover the activities of various service and charitable organisations. Many times the coverage seems trite or needless, as it usually consists of some trivial donation for some meaningless purpose. But the family profiled in this next story will tell you that the help they received […]
It was fun while it lasted–that is, almost a full week without a single murder, traffic fatality or even an accidental death. That short-lived period of relative peace ended over the weekend, with the latest brutal murder taking place this morning in Belize City at the height of the rush hour. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods […]
Police are having no better luck in finding a suspect in connection with the shooting death of a man in Belize City Friday night. Sometime after 7:00, twenty-two year old Jose Chavarria was riding his bike on West Canal between Prince and King streets, when he was gunned down. According to authorities, their investigation reveals […]
Another weekend shooting victim was luckier than Chavarria and Gongora. Twenty-four year old Kernel Gibson was shot in the neck, shoulder and leg, but lived to tell the tale. Gibson told police he was riding his bike down Vernon Street at 5:00 Sunday morning when a grey four door Oldsmobile Cutlass pulled up next to […]
We don’t usually report gun seizures, but police were unusually busy and successful over the weekend. On Friday evening they searched a Belize City hotel room and found three nine millimetre pistols, two Colts and one Smith and Wesson along with fifteen rounds of ammo. The residents of the room, described only as foreigners, have […]
In other weekend crime, the Ministry of Agriculture in Belmopan has become the latest victim of burglary. The thief or thieves broke into the West Block building and ransacked the offices of Minister Dan Silva and C.E.O. Sergio Garcia. A full inventory of missing items has not been completed, but initial reports list several digital […]
A traffic accident on the Stann Creek Valley Road has left a B.D.F. soldier dead and three others injured. Thirty-nine year old Donald Flowers died after the Ford pickup he was riding in crashed into another vehicle and overturned Saturday near mile three and a half. Fellow occupants Arthur Hill, Melvin Smith and Charles Serrano […]
A Guatemalan resident of Roaring Creek drowned Sunday in the Belize River. Twenty-eight year old Marcelino Mejia went swimming around 1:00 in the afternoon in the company of a nine year old boy. According to the boy, Mejia went under the water and did not come back up. The body was retrieved and Mejia was […]
One week from today Belize will host a top-level delegation from the Republic of China on Taiwan. Leading the thirty-eight-member group, which includes four Cabinet ministers, is Premier Yu Shyi-kun. The visit, which will take place on August twelfth and thirteenth, is the last stop on Yu’s official tour of Central America. The fifty-four year […]
The United Democratic Party today followed the lead of several independent media houses in calling for the resignation of Minister of Home Affair Maxwell Samuels. In a release today the opposition party stated that whether Samuels was involved in the illegal sale of Belizean nationality or simply incompetent in allowing it to happen, he deserved […]
According to the latest figures, the most dangerous job in Belize is to work on a construction site, with employment in the sugar industry a close second. Occupational hazards are not unique to Belize and in an initiative spearheaded by the United States Department of Labour, this week, labour ministers from Central America, the Dominican […]
Goff’s Caye is one of the most beautiful of Belize’s barrier reef islands, but because it’s so close to Belize City it takes a beating from the large number of visitors. That impact should be minimised by a recent gift. The Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute has received a grant of twenty-five thousand U.S. […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this super dish of Sports Monday. The Capital Life five-game basketball championship series kicked off at the City Centre Friday night, bringing with it an attendance of hope, a large amount of ambition and of course a whole lot of predictions. Let’s start with […]
The entry-level position for those involved in the current immigration scandal appears to be that of Justice of the Peace. With one J.P. already admitting to bearing false witness and a number of others running scared, News 5’s Stewart Krohn took the opportunity to ask Attorney General Godfrey Smith what his ministry plans to do […]
