Three Honduran fishermen remain behind bars at Hattieville prison after they were caught illegally fishing in a marine reserve. On Thursday, rangers employed by Friends of Nature, a non-profit organization that works along with the Fisheries Department, encountered the men and their vessel fishing near Gladden Spit some twenty miles east of Placencia. The reserve […]
He is a man of many parts and many passions, that stretch from the world of business to the realm of religion. But above all, Stephen Okeke is a sculptor and today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods paid a visit to his studio. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Stephen Okeke calls his latest work of art “Standing Beauty”. […]
The total number of people killed in Monday morning’s collision on the Western Highway has now reached six. Just after seven this morning Melvin Rodriguez, who had been on life support for the last three days, succumbed to his massive injuries. Rodriguez, an employee of a Belmopan construction firm, had been riding in the passenger […]
It is a familiar type of crime that–for some unknown reason–has not been seen very often in 2003. But Wednesday evening the staccato sound of rapid gunfire once again echoed across a Belize City neighbourhood. When the commotion ceased, three people lay wounded, one seriously. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Nikita Smith, shooting victim “The […]
Less than twenty-four hours later, another bullet put a man in the K.H.M.H. This time, however, the motive appears to be more straightforward. Jacqueline Woods reports from the scene. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting An empty cash pan on Wayne Tucker’s office desk suggests that his shooting may be the result of a robbery. Shortly after 2:00 […]
In other crime news, a Corozal marijuana farmer watched a big payday go up in smoke Wednesday when police raided his plantation on the eve of harvest. Forty-three year old Errol Acosta has been arrested and charged with cultivation of a controlled substance. That substance consisted of two thousand, five hundred mature cannabis trees ranging […]
If you are anything like me, before Christmas you took that trusty old blanket out of mothballs…and guess what…a month later it’s still keeping you warm. With today’s weather forecast predicting yet another norther for the weekend, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods headed up to Ladyville to ask: is it my imagination, or is Belize getting […]
Since the mid 1980’s it was home to a state of the art radio transmission facility used by the Voice of America to beam the U.S. worldview to a turbulent Central America. But when the Belize government declined to allow its conversion into a propaganda platform aimed at Cuba, the lease was cancelled and the […]
BELTRAIDE is also looking for Belizean business people to take advantage of a European Union initiative that provides funding for product development. The Cariforum Agricultural Research and Training Fund (CARTF) offers grants ranging from five thousand to fifty thousand U.S. dollars to cover up to seventy-five percent of the costs of research and training for […]
Rotarians from North and Central America are currently in Belize to attend their annual project fair, which opens tonight at the Princess Hotel. Belize City Rotary Club President, Kay Menzies, says the event aims to identify local projects for funding by the visiting clubs. Kay Menzies, Belize City Rotary Club “The Belize City Club is […]
His team, the Cleveland Cavaliers may be languishing in the division cellar with the worst record in the N.B.A. but just as Milton Palacio never forgets his roots in Belize, we in the jewel cannot fail to keep up with his career. While Milt has hardly reached anything approaching stardom, the point guard is averaging […]
A childcare centre in Belmopan is tonight the grateful recipient of a monetary donation, courtesy of the Government of Belize. According to a release issued today by the Ministry of Human Development, SAVES-Marla’s House of Hope accepted a cheque for ten thousand dollars. According to SAVES–the Sexual Abuse Victims Education and Support Program–the money will […]
Several months ago U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow said that if he becomes the next Prime Minister he will not hold a specific portfolio. Since Manuel Esquivel cannot constitutionally–even as a Senator–be appointed as Minister of Finance, the most likely candidate for the post has become Freetown standard-bearer Douglas Singh. That speculation ended on Friday when […]
A fifth victim in Monday’s horrific traffic accident has died. Twenty-year-old Kareem Griffith, the driver of the Kia truck, succumbed to his injuries just after nine this morning at the K.H.M.H. According to hospital authorities, Griffith not only fractured two of his legs, but sustained severe head trauma, chest injuries and a ruptured spleen. Griffith, […]
He is not only Commissioner of Police, but by coincidence he was also among those people who found themselves stranded at mile twenty-eight by Monday morning’s highway tragedy. This afternoon I sat down with Commissioner Carmen Zetina to see what role the police have to play in making Belize a safer place for motorists and […]
A two-year-old child is dead after she suddenly collapsed at her home in Spanish Lookout on Tuesday. The toddler, Ismelda Salazar, had reportedly been left in the care of her twelve-year-old sister since early morning by their mother, thirty-year-old Diviljilia Salazar, who had gone to work. The twelve year old told her mother that she […]
The body of a Punta Gorda man missing at sea since Saturday has been found. Twenty-two year old Alford Smith was one of three men who went out fishing on Saturday, only to have their dory capsize. Enfield Arzu swam to shore but Smith and Carl Ramclam did not make it. Ramclam’s body was found […]
In news just in, a Belize City man has been seriously wounded in a ride-by shooting on Antelope Street. Sources tell News 5 that around 6:00 this evening Roland Small was shot in the head and back and has been admitted to the K.H.M.H. in critical condition. A young woman was also hit in the […]
A major figure in Belize’s early anti-colonial struggle has died. Seventy-nine year old Nicholas Pollard Senior succumbed to a heart attack at his Belize City home on Tuesday afternoon. Pollard was a union leader and political activist closely involved in the founding of the People’s United Party, although he later broke with the P.U.P. Pollard […]
This morning, for Belizean bus companies, it was business as usual at the Mexican border. This follows a Tuesday evening meeting in Chetumal in which the Mexicans agreed to a sixty-day moratorium on enforcement of new regulations, which would have had the effect of banning Belizean commercial vehicles from Mexico. According to Belize’s Ambassador to […]
Two more educational institutions today received computer donations through the G.O.B. Intelco schools computer programme. P.U.P. Freetown standard-bearer, Francis Fonseca, handed over eighteen internet ready machines to Saint Joseph’s Primary and fourteen to the YWCA, both located in his division. Aside from the computers, Fonseca also handed over two printers to the Y, and said […]
Meanwhile, in similar, though less partisan fashion, the Japan International Cooperation Agency today presented three Pentium powered computers and a LaserJet printer to the Ministry of Human Development. Coordinator of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers Programme, Mizutani Kyohei, handed over the equipment to Acting Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry, Anita Zetina. The donation will […]
It may have been for charity, but the players gave it all they had–and so did the fans. The numbers are in and Friday’s celebrity basketball games raised a total of one thousand, three hundred and fifty-four dollars. Those funds will be used to purchase fifty-one basketballs, enough to equip all of the Belize District […]
One sporting organization that does not operate on the principles of charity is the semi-pro Belize Premier Football League. But that hasn’t stopped one of its teams in Belize City from giving something back. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The Edward P. Yorke High School Football Club has been around for a […]
Odinga Lumumba, born Wilhelm Buller in 1942, earned a place in Belizean history when he spearheaded the organised rioting against the Heads of Agreement in March of 1981. Lumumba hung around for a few years after independence before returning to the continent of Africa, a place where he had worked extensively during the 1970’s. In […]
