Getting a job, particularly one you like, is not always an easy task. So why did one employee of the Port Authority allow himself to be fired, just because of his hairstyle? We’ll let him tell it. Frank Aviella, Terminated from Belize Ports Authority “It’s kind of bias you know. I say probably…I noh put […]
Once he boarded the U.S. government jet on April twenty-sixth– voluntarily or otherwise–Liston McCord’s fate was sealed. Today, not surprisingly, it was announced that the accused drug runner, along with three Mexican associates, has pleaded guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to a number of U.S. narcotics charges. The information comes via a release from the […]
Death by bus: a scenario that is no stranger to Belizeans. The latest incident took place on Saturday morning on the Northern Highway. According to police reports, around eight-thirty that day, a Novelo’s bus was travelling from Orange Walk to Belize City, but near mile nineteen, it collided with a cyclist. The victim was rushed […]
In other traffic news, the driver of a pickup truck that hit and killed a young student on the Hummingbird Highway on Friday evening has been charged. Charles Chevillon will answer to charges of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct and driving without due care and attention. Chevillon told police that Lorena Sandoval, […]
Tonight, a cop from Dangriga is behind bars, accused of forging government gas vouchers. Police reports are that Constable 730 Lino Herrera falsified some twenty-three fuel orders to obtain more than three hundred and sixty-five gallons of premium fuel. Investigations reveal that Herrera forged the signature of Inspector of Police Mark Steven and another man, […]
It is the blessing and curse of many tourism facilities scattered across the country…remote locations. But distance was not necessarily a factor in the destruction of a resort in the Stann Creek District early Monday evening. According to Gregorio Chun, Manager of Tu Tzil Nah Resort, located near Maya Centre Village at mile thirteen on […]
Meanwhile, Punta Gorda police and forensic experts spent the day in Tambran Village today conducting investigations surrounding the death of an eight-year-old girl. According to authorities, eight-year-old Amelia Yatz was reported missing on Friday June sixth by her mother Rosa Yatz. The woman says around noon that day she was getting off a bus in […]
It has always been a touchy subject, but if the city of Belize is ever going to clean up its act, the derelict buildings will have to go. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports on just what is involved in the process. Patrick Jones, Reporting According to the Belize City Council, the decision to put a […]
It’s the latest play to hit the Belizean entertainment scene. Dear Counsellor makes its local debut at the Princess Hotel on Saturday night. According to the female lead in the production, Stephanie Young, the story will make the audience laugh, cry and best of all… identify with the characters on stage. Stephanie Young, “Grace Brown” […]
It was a crime that shocked the nation…and today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods checked in on a pair of lucky Dangrigans for whom, miraculously, life goes on. Daniel Flores “Daddy, wake up.” Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twelve-year-old Daniel Flores urging his eighty-eight year old grandfather, Solomon Augustus Pike, to open his eyes and get well. One […]
A resident of Caye Caulker is dead tonight, and as a result police community relations, never too healthy in the best of times, are in need of life support. Reports from La Isla Carinosa are that on Saturday evening, a uniformed officer on duty at the village station, shot and killed a resident. The cop […]
Over the weekend the nation recorded its twenty-second murder for the year when on Sunday afternoon multiple gunshots rang out in the southside of Belize City. When the noise of exploding gunpowder subsided, it was quickly replaced by the screams of family members tending to the victim who lay bleeding on the sidewalk. As News […]
A young woman has lost her life after being hit by a pickup truck on the Hummingbird Highway. Lorena Sandoval, a student of Saint Margaret’s Village, was attempting to cross the highway between miles thirty-three and thirty-four around four Friday evening, when she was hit by a passing pickup. The truck’s driver, Charles Chevillon, reported […]
This afternoon hundreds of friends and family members of popular Kings Park businessman, Alvin Godfrey, gathered to mourn his passing. Services were held at St. Joseph’s Church with the internment following at Homeland Memorial Cemetery off the Western Highway. Godfrey died on Thursday morning from complications following gunshot wounds. The businessman was shot on April […]
The cars are at customs. That’s the story from Gian Ghandi, legal advisor to the Customs Department. According to Ghandi, the two luxury SUVs at the heart of a stolen car investigation have both been handed in to Belize authorities. The trucks in question, a 2003 Cadillac Escalade and a 2003 Hummer, are now parked […]
It’s the kind of loan that governments like: low interest, long term and gracious grace period. The one signed today, for almost ten million U.S. dollars from the Government of Kuwait, will help finance the construction of a road connecting the Southern Highway to the Guatemalan border. Signing for Belize was Prime Minister Said Musa, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this deal we call Sports Monday. We’ll quickly jump into the cricket scene as the Harrison Parks Competition kicked off its three game championship series for the 2003 national title on Saturday. So we head to beautiful Bermudian Landing where for the first time in its […]
Tonight police have arrested three men for the vicious beating of an elderly man and his grandson. Twenty-four year old Eldon Leslie, twenty-two year old Dennis Nunez and twenty-one year old Albert Castro, all from Dangriga, have all been charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of dangerous harm, one count of aggravated […]
The back and forth between the Government of Belize and the businessmen accused of buying stolen cars continued today with the Customs Department issuing an ultimatum: Bring in the trucks by Monday or else. According to legal advisor to the Belize Customs Department, Gian Ghandi, two letters were sent out today, one to Jose Shoman […]
They face the daily threat of SARS and AIDS, along with the ever-present emergencies of gunshot wounds, choppings and automobile accidents. But few Belizeans are aware that one of the most common reasons for admissions to our public health facilities is complications arising from illegal abortions. Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting It’s a […]
As we approach the end of the school year, for most students, the last thing on their minds are academic affairs. But not at Edward P. York High School, which today launched their first anthology of poems. According to the Head of the Humanities Department, Carmita Velasquez, while the book includes the “mandatory” love poems, […]
It is one of those organizations that ordinarily only make the headlines when we’ve got a Pink Mealy Bug crisis on our hands or Medflies have invaded fruit trees. But the Belize Agricultural Health Authority is always working behind the scenes to ensure that what you put into your mouth is safe. And as News […]
They have filled a week with events, encouraged and promoted community relations…and today, the Belize Police Department took their cause to the children. The forty-eight children who call the Dorothy Menzies Child Care Centre home were the guests of honour, but according to the officers the privilege was all theirs. Sgt. Ranalda Morgan, Eastern Division, […]
The eerie echo of a Howler Monkey’s cry can travel for miles, sometimes sending a chill down the spine, but always directing the eyes to the treetops, hoping for a glimpse of these magnificent creatures. It’s that kind of emotion that drives more than twenty thousand tourists a year to the Community Baboon Sanctuary in […]
For months now, businessman Jose Shoman has been prominently featured in several investigations involving stolen cars being imported to Belize. Today Shoman broke his silence over the issue, granting News 5 an off-camera interview to claim complete innocence to the accusation that his 2003 Hummer was stolen from the United States. This morning Shoman produced […]
