Come tomorrow morning, the nation’s attention will focus on Belmopan as leader of the nation, Prime Minister Said Musa, climbs Independence Hill to present his fifth budget speech to the National Assembly. With elections right around the corner, tradition dictates that the incumbent government will paint a pretty picture of the state of the economy, […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway this evening has claimed the life of a Belize City man. Thirty-two year old John Miguel, a driver for the Amandala newspaper, was on his way into the city, when around mile eight and a half, the white Isuzu pickup he was driving collided with a dump truck. […]
Late this evening residents living behind Euphrates Avenue complained to police about a foul odour coming from the vicinity of Gilda’s Cool Spot Bar. When authorities went out to the location they found, inside an abandoned wooden building, the badly decomposed body of fifty-two year old Russel Linares. Family members at the scene would not […]
Shortly before three this evening, a lone gunman entered the offices of A.A.A. Security on North Front Street and held up its staff. According to an eyewitness who called in to report the incident to News 5, the security vehicle had just pulled up outside of the compound and the driver went inside the building. […]
It’s been promised more times than Marion Jones has Olympic medals, but this time it looks for real. Following the visit of the legal advisor for the Marion Jones Foundation, work appears ready to commence on a new synthetic track and other amenities for Belizean athletes. According to Sports Consultant in the Officer of the […]
Environmental awareness has come a long way from a generation ago when bush was only good for chopping and wild animals were shot with rifles instead of cameras. We may not be certain exactly why the public’s attitude has been altered, but one factor may be the steady stream of small grants, which have raised […]
He gave the majority of his life to the nation’s phone company, and on January first, after thirty years at B.T.L. and its predecessor B.T.A., Ediberto Tesucum stepped down as the company’s chief executive officer. This morning he told News 5 that he retires happily, with few regrets. Ediberto Tesucum, Retired C.E.O., B.T.L. “I would […]
The concept of health has changed in recent years from a narrowly defined absence of disease to a broad notion of physical, mental and environmental well being. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand as a pilot programme was launched to make Belize’s schools healthy places to learn. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Lack of parental […]
Their names are well known…but not necessarily in the positions of guard, forward and centre. But not to worry, the ragtag bunch of basketballers will be playing their hearts out at City Centre Friday night…all in the name of charity. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This Friday night, the Belize City Centre will hold court to an […]
In the midst of what is becoming the loudest and most expensive political campaign in Belizean history, it is sometimes difficult for the media to avoid getting caught up in the immediate frenzy of partisan rivalries. But for most Belizeans, life goes on amidst the cacophony, as News 5’s Jacqueline Woods found out right next […]
Tonight a Belize City man stands accused of attempted murder in connection with an incident that occurred last year. According to police, after two months of active searching, on Tuesday they finally caught up with twenty-seven year old Delroy Barrow, a resident of Haynes Street. Reports are that in November, Barrow and Kirk Gordon were […]
A Belize City family needs your help in locating a missing relative. Twenty-six year old Valerie Flores left her home on Pine Street on Sunday, January twelfth, and she has not been seen or heard from since. Valerie suffers from mental illness and has a speech impediment. When she left home she was wearing a […]
As Prime Minister he is charged with the task of leading the nation…and as head of the ruling political party, he is also expected to lead the partisan cavalry into its battle for re-election. In case you haven’t noticed, over the last three months Said Musa has been playing both roles in a constituency-by-constituency nationwide […]
While the politicians gear up for what is expected to be a general election in no less than seven weeks, we can only assume that the nation’s electoral apparatus is well geared and ready to go. Reports from registering officers nationwide indicate that the registration process is proceeding smoothly and fairly, but our efforts to […]
Today marked the end of Belize’s first Freshwater Summit. The session, attended by international experts and government officials, as well as interested students, aims at safeguarding our water resources. Freshwater Coordinator for the Fisheries Department, George Myvett, says there’s plenty of work ahead. George Myvett, Freshwater Coordinator, Fisheries Dept. “Obviously, one of the greatest challenges […]
And while we’re on the subject of fresh water, we should note that all the water dropped on Belize during hurricanes is also fresh. The eve of the dry season may not be the best time to discuss such storms, but the latest prediction from noted hurricane forecaster William Gray of Colorado State University calls […]
It has been a long, slow process, but an agreement has finally been signed to establish a commercial free zone at the Philip Goldson International Airport. Using an initial four and a half acres adjacent to the runway, Free Zone International Limited, headed by Arturo Lizarraga, plans to attract companies that will trade, process and […]
Long-time viewers of Belizean society may notice two seemingly irreconcilable demographic trends occurring simultaneously. On one hand more Belizeans than ever appear to be dying young–from natural causes as well as multiple gunshot wounds. But at the same time the number of Belizeans living over a century seems to be much greater than in the […]
Its initial appearance on the public scene a few years back was greeted with a mixture of scepticism, enthusiasm and curiosity. Thumbing its nose at traditional fundraising and flipping the bird to both political parties, the reform movement calling itself We the People, proclaimed that it could revolutionize the Belizean political scene from the ground […]
In related news, the proliferation of independent candidates appears to be extending to the March municipal elections. Today we received a release from a group call B-SAFE, the Belmopan Social Action for Fairness and Equality. On Wednesday afternoon B-SAFE will present its slate of four candidates for the seven-member Belmopan City Council. Those candidates include […]
It’s not exactly an unknown type of crime, but what was once a near nightly occurrence on the streets of Belize City has in recent months been reduced to a rarity. Jacqueline Woods reports from Mahogany Street. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The armed assault and burglary against Gabu Wu and his wife was the first incident […]
They celebrated New Year’s behind bars, but come next week the first set of illegal immigrants for 2003 will be sent home. The prisoners, who number around thirty, hail mainly from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. The Ministry of Home Affairs has submitted an order to vary their sentences, enabling the Minister of Immigration […]
Tonight, we regret to report that the search for three people missing at sea since December twenty-seventh has officially been called off. On Wednesday, a memorial service will be held for British national Ian Jackson, Charles Moody, and Moody’s eleven-year-old son, Shane. The two men were both working for contractor Johnston International. The trio left […]
On yesterday’s newscast B.T.B. director Tracy Taegar summarized the latest tourism figures, pointing to a whopping five fold increase in 2002 cruise arrivals, a respectable two percent rise in airport tourist landings, with a heavy eighteen percent jump in the most recent fourth quarter of the year. Today a closer look at figures provided by […]
Beginning on Monday a new chief, Nerie Sanz, will be taking over at the Belize Agricultural Health Authority. BAHA’s current Managing Director, Pamela Scott, is leaving for El Salvador where she will head a regional project under the Plan Puebla Panama. Scott says the focus of the undertaking is to integrate aspects of plant, food, […]
