They finish a long day at work, then turn around and hit their school books. No, these aren’t early dropouts catching up on a high school diploma; they’re some of the country’s top executives in search of advanced skills. Marion Ali spoke to a few of them this afternoon. Marilyn Ordonez, Asst. Commissioner, Income Tax […]
It’s called the Technical Vocational Education Training Project–TVET for short–and while this aspect of our educational system doesn’t always grab the headlines, it is becoming a big part of life for a growing number of Belizeans. News 5’s Janelle Chanona has more. Janelle Chanona, Reporting For the past two days, more than sixty Belizean teachers […]
Two people are dead as poor weather conditions, heavy vehicles, and high beams proved to be the perfect combination for tragedy on the Western Highway. Sometime around 6:45 Wednesday evening, forty-two year old Daniel Archer was driving a Novelo’s bus from Belmopan to Belize City, when as he reached between miles thirty-three and thirty-four, heavy […]
Two months ago a twenty-one year old Belize City woman, Elizabeth Williams, was shot and killed as she sat watching television in her house on Freedom Street. Today, police have arrested a suspect in that crime. Twenty-five year old security guard, Gregory Smith, of Jane Usher Boulevard, was this morning charged with murder. He appeared […]
Police have also rounded up a suspect in another high profile homicide, this time in Dangriga. Twenty-one year old Darren Chiu of Oak Street in that southern town was arrested on Wednesday and charged with abetment to commit murder. Businessman Wen Dong Liu was shot to death during an attempted robbery on November ninth. Leslie […]
Meanwhile, police today formally charged twenty-five year old Kevin Gonzalez Junior, a chef of San Pedro Town, with murder. Gonzalez was initially charged with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit burglary. The new charge is in connection with the murder of sixty-three year old Justo Jairo Perez, who was bludgeoned to death at […]
The British High Commission in Belmopan has announced a number of small initiatives to aid a wide range of Belizean causes. In a ceremony this evening in Belmopan a cheque for four thousand, five hundred dollars was presented to the Belmopan chapter of the Belize Cancer Society. The funds, generated by a garden party hosted […]
The Thursday morning ritual of thumbing through the local papers was a little more interesting than usual today…given the dramatic headline of Millions from DFC for a favoured few in the Guardian newspaper. The front page article of the Opposition weekly lists several companies, who reportedly borrowed significant sums of money from the Development Finance […]
If our next story has a familiar ring to it, it’s because two weeks ago we went through a very similar exercise. The airline in question was U.S. Air; today it’s Air Jamaica inaugurating virtually identical four-times-a-week service between the U.S. and Belize via its Montego Bay hub. But while for many people one airline […]
The evidence points to murder, and cops are on the lookout tonight for the man they think did it. The body of nineteen year old Guatemalan, Hector Medrano, was found Monday morning at a house on Police Street in Belize City. A post-mortem exam has now concluded that Medrano had been strangled to death. The […]
A Belize City man is admitted to ward at the K.H.M.H. tonight, the victim of a late night shooting. According to police, around 10:30 on Monday night, twenty-seven year old Russell Hope claims he was walking near the intersection of Kraal Road and Kut Avenue when he was ambushed by a man with a gun. […]
In other police news, a bus driver has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal traffic accident last Friday. Fifty-seven year old Randolph Coleman will face charges of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention. Coleman was driving a bus on the Stann Creek Valley […]
Seven Cuban men, who illegally landed on the Belizean coast near San Pedro earlier this month, today did their best to avoid repatriation. The men: Jaime Sanchez, Enrique Camacho, Ramon Rivero, Alejandro Maury, Roberto Miranda, Armando Quintana, and Luis Maquedo, appeared before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. They all pleaded not guilty to the charge of failure […]
It’s parked properly; the problem is that there just isn’t much left of what was once presumably a car. Police tell News 5 that the vehicle burned to the ground over the weekend. While the cops and firemen arrived on the scene to put out the blaze, the owner, who was seen in the area, […]
Belize’s cable operators won a victory today in their efforts to keep the copyright dogs at bay; ironically the challenge came from one of their own. Ramon Reyes of Star Limited, a Caye Caulker cable company, claimed he owned Belizean rights to networks like MTV, Discovery Channel, ESPN, and Nickelodeon, and when his fellow operators […]
Their interests are the reef systems — how they function and react to disasters, both natural and manmade. Led by Monitoring Specialist, Doctor Patricia Almada, twenty-seven trainee biologists of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef Project’s Monitoring Programme visited the Belize barrier reef today for an inspection tour. With participants from Belize, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, Doctor […]
In related news, the Fisheries Department reminds members of the public that fishing for the Nassau Grouper is now closed on all traditional fishing banks except two: Maugre Caye at Turneffe and Northern Two Cayes at Lighthouse Reef. Those fishermen who want to work the two sites must first procure a special license from the […]
The stretch of seashore along the Newtown Barracks area of Belize City is getting a facelift, thanks to the new owner of some of the old capital’s most prime property. Bowen and Bowen Limited has purchased the two adjoining waterfront parcels of land lying between Marina Towers and the Fisheries Department, and the company is […]
Another two instalments on that commitment to give schools five thousand internet ready computers were made today in Belize City. But despite the programme’s progress, I found that there’s still a long way to go. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today, Intelco engineers and programmers were hard at work in the city, putting the finishing touches on […]
Over the weekend the night sky was filled with billowing smoke and a blaze of red as fire burned its way through two buildings in Belize City and threatened several others. News 5’s Rick Romero was on Gabourel Lane on Saturday night to capture the dramatic images, and today Marion Ali joined the fire fighters […]
Tonight a twelve year old boy is in guarded custody after being arrested and charged for sex crimes committed against his seven year old sister. According to police, the little girl reported that more than once during the month of September, her older brother had sexual intercourse with her. A medical officer has since examined […]
A traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway over the weekend has claimed the life of a Hope Creek villager. According to the cops, around 4:00 p.m. on Friday, twenty-nine year old Jose Amilcar Garcia was riding his bike near mile eight and a half when he was run over by a bus. The driver, fifty-seven […]
Meanwhile, police are investigating the death of a construction worker in Belize City. Reports are that around ten-thirty this morning the body of nineteen year old Hector Roberto Medrano was found inside a house at number sixty-six thirteen Police Street. Police sources tell News 5 that the cause of death is suspected as strangulation as […]
Hundreds of frustrated telephone customers suffered through most of the day as efforts to call Belmopan, Benque Viejo and all points in between proved fruitless. According to sales representatives of Belize Telecommunications Limited, sometime after eleven this morning, a fibre connecting Belize City and the west malfunctioned. Technicians were immediately dispatched to remedy the problem […]
In other news from the west, today, the border station in Benque Viejo got a much needed face-lift. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods and Rick Romero hit the highway this morning and filed this report. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Every day, authorities estimate approximately fifteen hundred people legally pass through the western border into Belize. So this […]
