A Canadian missionary working in Orange Walk drowned over the weekend at Goff’s Caye. Police reports indicate that sixty-four year old Evelyn Campbell was enjoying an outing with a group of friends at the caye on Friday, but around 10:00 that morning someone noticed she was missing. A search party was organized and around three […]
A series of unrelated attacks on Sunday has left three men recovering from gunshot wounds. According to police, around 1:00 a.m., twenty-three year old Norris Leslie and thirty-nine year old Mark McKoy were socializing in a yard on Casuarina Street in Belize City, when a car drove up and someone inside started shooting. When it […]
There’s an unsolved crime in Belmopan in which police are taking a special interest. It seems that sometime Sunday night or early Monday morning a thief of thieves broke into their Criminal Investigation Branch office in the nation’s capital and made off with at least two firearms, among them an Uzi automatic and a nine […]
The Mennonites have earned a reputation in Belize and elsewhere as people who follow the biblical advice to “turn the other cheek”. That may be true, but according to police, one resident of Spanish Lookout backed up his faith in the Lord with a loaded revolver. Forty-four year old Ben Wolfe pled guilty this morning […]
It was one of the first major projects announced by the P.U.P. government after the 1998 elections. And after a few delays, on Saturday the new city at mile thirty-one finally showed itself off to the public. Not only were there dozens of new houses, but also a new name. Carolyn Trench Sandiford, Consultant, Mahogany […]
Worldwide petroleum prices continue to climb, but for the moment at least, consumers in Belize will be insulated from the financial shock. A release today from the Ministry of Finance indicates that while the landed cost of the latest fuel shipment rose an average of ten cents per gallon, government has reduced its rate of […]
Under the new budget women over sixty-five will soon receive full coverage by the Social Security scheme. Today the attention for older Belizeans continued with the appointment of a National Council on Ageing. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting Once they leave the work force, Belize’s elderly are often ignored by the rest […]
With one of the highest per capita consumptions of sugar in the world, Belize has got to be an uphill struggle for dentists. All the more need for any help we can get. Marion Ali has more on one programme that has saved more teeth than we can count. Marion Ali, Reporting Project Smile started […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re strapped in for another ride on what we call Sports Monday. With the Builder’s Hardware Bandits already waiting in the wing, the battle to become the other finalist in B.P.F.L. football championship was fought at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday as Kulture Yabra hosted Sagitun of Independence in a […]
About the only comfort Said Musa and the P.U.P. could take from today’s press conference by Dean Barrow was that it took place on Friday, a day when many Belizeans are more interested in happy hour than the evening news. And speaking of happy hour, that’s not a bad way to describe the mood of […]
Police have charged two Belize City men in connection with a jacking last month. Seventeen year-old Raymond Heusner and twenty-two year old Elliot Heusner, both of Tigris Street, are charged with the robbery of seventeen-year-old Jevon McKenzie. McKenzie told police that around eight on the night of Friday, January seventeenth, he was about to enter […]
Two children are safe tonight after they narrowly escaped possible injury and at the very least a good dunking in the Collet Canal. Reports are that the boys were playing inside a Nissan pick-up, whose pan was filled with oranges. The vehicle, which was parked facing the canal, suddenly nudged forward and plunged into the […]
It may have fit conveniently into the government’s campaign for re-election, but politics aside, residents of one Belize City neighbourhood may sleep better tonight thanks to an increased police presence. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting If you’ve travelled Faber’s Road Extension, then you cannot miss the bright yellow and green bungalow. The […]
In different circumstances it’s a story that would have been headline news. But with the nation in the middle of a rough and tumble election campaign, and hopes for a quick settlement of the Guatemalan claim only a distant memory, bulletins from the Foreign Ministry no longer receive top billing. Perhaps, however, they should…as today […]
It didn’t take long for News 5’s generous viewers to respond to a mother in need. Following last night’s story on Larna Flowers and her twenty-two pounds of joy, the phone immediately began to ring. The result was a substantial amount of supplies that will help the newborn twins get off to what we hope […]
She sang her heart out last night…and with good reason. Belizean Lisa Tucker was competing for a hundred thousand dollar prize in the finals of the CBS programme Star Search. But as beautifully as Lisa sang, her opponent Tiffany Evans delivered an unbelievably inspired performance that earned her a perfect score and a victory from […]
It’s the rematch of a race fought in 1998. At that time the People’s United Party managed to take back a seat that had once been thought completely safe for the U.D.P.. What happens in Port Loyola this time around is being closely watched by observers on all sides… including News 5’s Jacqueline Woods. Jacqueline […]
It’s a controversy that threatens to be the spanner in the works of the People’s United Party’s high powered political campaign. Yesterday, the United Democratic Party emerged with allegations that government had granted a fifteen-year monopoly license on all major routes in the country to the Novelo’s bus company. The Prime Minister publicly denied the […]
It was the biggest maritime disaster in the history of Belize. Twenty people lost their lives when the motor vessel Wave Dancer capsized after it broke loose from its mooring in Big Creek at the height of Hurricane Iris. This week the families of those victims, eighteen U.S. citizens and two Belizeans, experienced at least […]
Police have charged one man and are looking for two others in connection with last week’s hold-up of a Chinese grocery in Belize City. Twenty-year-old Kendale Robinson of Ebony Street, Belize City, is charged with the robbery of twenty-four year old shopkeeper Jian Feng Liu of Antelope Street. The incident occurred shortly before eleven last […]
The reform movement calling itself “We the People”, is careful to say that it is not a political party… but that did not stop it from today announcing a federation of independent candidates for the upcoming general elections. Numbering eleven and counting, the new politicians–all men–range in geography from north to south. They are Roy […]
It took three hours of exchange between Belize’s only telecommunications company, its union and the Ministry of Labour. But by the end of the discussion, agreement was reached on a way forward for B.T.L. and its workers. Among the points settled are: A meeting will be held on Friday, February seventh between the management of […]
While Belize’s medical capabilities have grown tremendously in both size and sophistication, there are still a large number of procedures that cannot be handled locally. Today, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods looked in on one patient who needs your help to receive care abroad. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Three months ago, one-year-old Lashawn Gladden was drinking her […]
It’s not what you’d call hot news, but we will pause with many Belizeans to honour one of the fallen heroes of our region and indeed the world. In case you didn’t know, February sixth is Bob Marley’s birthday. The musical genius died in 1981 at the age of thirty-six, and his music shows absolutely […]
And on this date, we also choose to pay tribute to another giant of the entertainment world, this time, closer to home. Today is the anniversary of the day on which Edison “Seferino” Coleman passed away. Sefe stands out as perhaps Belize’s greatest broadcasting personality, despite having worked in an era when government control of […]
