It’s certainly not the arrest we were expecting…after all we had been led to believe that a big fish would be the first charged in what has been dubbed “the immigration scandal”. But an arrest is an arrest and today, forty-seven year old Therese Cabral of number fifty-six Vernon Street in Belize City was escorted […]
They were given a one-way ride back to Havana on Thursday, but a group of Cubans who entered Belize illegally did not go without putting up a fight…even in the air. Reports to News 5 are that one of the deportees somehow managed to loosen his handcuffs and caused quite a commotion on the plane, […]
Occasionally we receive comments from civil libertarians complaining that the practice of showing accused criminals on television is a violation of their constitutional right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. The question is a legitimate one…but there is another side of the story. On Monday we ran footage of a man accused of a […]
Two young men of St. Matthew’s Village on the Western Highway have been arrested and charged with aggravated assault and burglary. Police say that seventeen year old Rudolph Young and nineteen year old Richard Trapp are the men who earlier this month entered the home of nineteen year old Bing Chen and robbed the occupants […]
This Sunday the Pallotti Music School invites you to two hours of relaxation at the Belize Biltmore Hotel. Former students will be playing several classical favourites while at the same time raise some much-needed cash for the music school. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods caught up with two of the guest performers as they were busy […]
The case against the Chalillo project has finally reached the Privy Council in London. On Wednesday a three judge panel heard arguments on whether to grant the environmental group BACONGO an injunction against further construction on the dam until such time as the substantive case can be heard on its merits. In addition to British […]
It may not be the biggest of Belize’s many summer programmes for kids, but the children who assembled this week at the M.C.C. Grounds were not short-changed on fun. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting They may aspire to become star players like Vallan Symms, Charlie Slusher or Norman “Tilliman” Nunez, but for the moment these children between […]
You see them everywhere on the streets of Belize City: young men with big guns. No, not gang boys; we’re talking about the B.D.F…and the concept of soldiers as policemen. Janelle Chanona, Reporting It is perhaps the most visual reminder of the crime situation in Belize…armed police officers flanked by M-16 carrying members of the […]
It was a key plank in the P.U.P.’s successful electoral platform…and while the reality may have fallen slightly short of the campaign promise, today’s delivery of pension cheques marked one of the first concrete fulfilments of the ruling party’s manifesto. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Since it was announced that women sixty-five […]
Fifteen Cubans who had fled their country in boats and washed up in Belize were today deported to Havana. The illegal immigrants, who had been cooling their heels in Hattieville prison, sought political asylum here, but under long standing agreements between Belize and Cuba, they were sent home. This morning the handcuffed deportees were placed […]
With Belize’s Prime Minister Said Musa currently sitting as President of the Central American Integration System, his ministers are now assuming their roles as heads of SICA’s subsidiary bodies. On Tuesday, Minister Mark Espat took over leadership of the Tourism Council, and as of today Minister of Health, Jose Coye, is in charge of COMISCA, […]
Plans to construct a new four-lane bridge at the Northern border with Mexico are to be finalized in early August, with construction to start next year. According to press reports from Chetumal, the new bridge will be built less than a half-mile up river from the existing span over the Rio Hondo at Santa Elena. […]
After nearly two years of protests and court cases it finally seems that the question of B.T.L. rates is about to get down to the nitty gritty: that is dollars and cents. According to consumer rights activist, Lascelle Arnold, more than twenty-one days have elapsed since the Supreme Court of Belize ruled that the price […]
Its budget has been slashed and structure radically altered…but faculty and staff at the University of Belize will not be short-changed on pay increases. A release from U.B. today confirmed that its employees, like public officers working directly for government, will be granted the same five and eight percent pay raises for senior and junior […]
They are not expected to bring back the gold…or any silver and bronze for that matter, but seven athletes left Belize today to represent the nation in the Pan American Games being held in the Dominican Republic. The team consists of Michael Aguilar, Leonard Arnold, Orson Elrington, Patrick Fuller, Jayson Jones, David Sanchez and Tricia […]
On June tenth 2002, twenty-five year old Douglas Hyde, then a counsellor and teacher at Anglican Cathedral College, made news after a student accused him of rape. The fourteen year old told police that she and another female student went to see Hyde on school business and it was after the other young lady left […]
Their names are not exactly unfamiliar and tonight three young guys from Ladyville are spending the first of what might be many nights in Hattieville. Sixteen year old Shane Bahadur, twenty year old Levi Bahadur and twenty-seven year old Michael Arnold were today arrested and charged with the murder of shopkeeper Kong Yi. The twenty-eight […]
He may be eighty-one years old, but it seems his lungs are in pretty good shape. They’d have to be… because when San Ignacio police busted Archibald Walford with sixteen and a half pounds of marijuana he told the cops that the massive haul was his personal stash. Needless to say, what amounted to more […]
Today, Belize officially assumed the presidency of the Central American Tourism Council, with Minister Mark Espat accepting his new role during brief ceremonies this afternoon in Belize City. Espat says chairing the subsidiary body of the Central American Integration System, SICA, will give Belize the opportunity to drive our local agenda, but in such a […]
The Oddfellows are back in Belize. No, they are not a bunch of men doing strange things, but that is how they got their name…as in the 1820s back in England, men doing charity work was a little odd. From branches around the globe, the Oddfellows have done everything from building orphanages, homeless shelters to […]
This afternoon, if you happened to pass by the Sister Cecilia Home for the Elderly, you could not help but hear sweet sounds coming from inside the building. The residents were celebrating the latest donation made to them by Belize Water Services Limited. For some time the staff and residents have been without a fully […]
Since arriving in Belize eight years ago from Nigeria, Stephen Okeke has achieved notoriety as a sculptor, inventor and businessman. His latest venture casts him in the role of author…with a plain speaking self-help book that tells it straight to prospective Belizean entrepreneurs. “The Psychology of the Belizean Marketplace” may not become a bestseller, but […]
On the surface, Belize’s system of plentiful protected areas looks like a model of farsighted planning and efficiency. But underneath all those lush rainforests and spectacular coral reefs, there may not be as much coordination as meets the eye. Jacqueline Woods reports from Belmopan. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting While almost fifty percent of the country’s territory […]
If you’ve ever wondered why insurance companies don’t like to write policies on thatched roofed buildings, tonight’s lead story should provide convincing proof. The fire at the Cahal Pech Entertainment Centre overlooking the twin towns of Cayo was nothing short of spectacular. Patrick Jones reports from the scene. Patrick Jones, Reporting The building erupted in […]
A Belize City man, accused of travelling seventy-two miles to rob a jewellery store, today found himself in silver bangles in front of a San Ignacio Magistrate. Twenty-five year old Frank Flowers is accused of robbing J & J Jewellery Shop at the Plaza Del Rio Mall on June twentieth. He and another man are […]
