While the marksmanship of the prison guard may have been deadly accurate, in the Stann Creek District the discharge of a police officer’s weapon had a less final result. A pre-dawn search about eight miles north of Trio Village, brought police officers face to face with twenty-eight year old Antonio Lopez, who is accused of […]
It is believed to be more common than most Belizeans would care to admit, but the crime of incest is seldom reported to authorities. Tonight, however, police are citing two separate incidents, both occurring on Tuesday involving nine year old girls. In Belmopan the victim, accompanied by her mother, told police that during 2002 her […]
The fire this morning on the outskirts of Belize City wasn’t a big blaze, but it was enough to put one budding entrepreneur at least temporarily out of business. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is still not known if this pot of water left to boil on the stove is responsible for […]
And in an update to a story we reported on earlier this week relating to the passport scandal, this afternoon attorney Michel Chebat informed us that his client, businessman Gabby Affif, is on vacation and does not consider himself to be a fugitive from the law. While Chebat declined to indicate Affif’s whereabouts or projected […]
This afternoon, fifteen students from primary schools across the country were awarded four-year scholarships to attend the high school of their choice. The assistance is part of B.T.L.’s high school scholarship programme and covers tuition, fees and books, as well as any guidance and tutoring that may be required. Recipients were chosen based on financial […]
If you’ve been to any of Belize’s tourism hotspots this summer, you would have noticed that what was once considered the slow season has turned into a very busy time of year. And today we have the statistics to prove it. The latest tourism arrival figures for July at the international airport show a massive […]
One aspect of the tourism boom that Belize City residents may have noticed is the proliferation of motor scooters driven by some of those hundreds of thousands of cruise ship visitors. When two scooter rental businesses opened earlier this year near the Tourism Village, it was predicted that mishaps would follow. Patrick Jones reports that […]
If you haven’t seen Prime Minister Said Musa on this newscast for a few days it’s because he’s leading a top-level delegation to Taiwan. Musa, in his role as President of the Central American Integration System, SICA, is leading the group of regional heads of government in their fourth summit with the Republic of China. […]
Traffic: the seriousness of the problem is exceeded only by the number of times authorities announce measures to solve it. Here we go again. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is not the first time that the police traffic branch and the Departments of Traffic and Transport have coordinated their efforts, but it will be the first […]
The old adage is that no news is good news, but for the Perera family, each passing day without word from Astrid, only deepens their agony. Perera went missing exactly one month ago today and the family’s efforts to locate the thirty-eight year old business executive are intensifying. An advertisement in today’s Amandala announces a […]
Prison officials say they have still not been able to capture inmate Roberto Yatxol, who escaped in late June while on a work programme near Flower’s Bank in the Belize District. Yatxol, who was serving a twenty-five year to life sentence for manslaughter, is believed to still be hiding out in the nearby village of […]
They are a familiar fixture of the Belizean legal system, and although there are currently over fifteen hundred Justices of the Peace in the country, at times it still seems that you can’t find one when you need one. But the Association of JPs and Commissioners of the Supreme Court is looking to change all […]
In police news of a positive nature, the Belize Chinese Association has presented a fully loaded computer and accessories to the newly appointed Officer in Charge of the Eastern Division, Maureen Leslie. According to B.C.A. President, Lee Mark Chang, the donation is part of the Chinese community’s continuing effort to assist the department. Lee Mark […]
There are many Belizeans who have been writing songs for years…but those tunes have traditionally been confined to humming in the shower. But as technology makes recording and production cheap and easy, much of that previously hidden talent is going public, like this latest effort in gospel music. Wallace Coleman Jr., Artist “A lot of […]
Prolonged strikes by workers, or lockouts by management are not everyday occurrences in Belize, but when they do take place they have the power to wreak havoc on our tiny economy. That’s why efforts are being made to find new ways to deal with the problems between employees and employers. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports. […]
Earlier in this newscast we referred to the donation of a computer to the head of the Eastern Division of the Police Department, Assistant Commissioner Maureen Leslie. While that piece of technology may make life a bit easier for new appointee, her thirty-year march to the top ranks has been anything but. Today News 5’s […]
When word that Belize’s Financial Intelligence Unit was investigating a possible money laundering aspect to last year’s immigration and passport scandal, it had the whiff of a fishing expedition, a U.S. instigated ploy to bring some heat on alleged passport fixers Gabby Affif and Hassan Al Sayed. Perhaps, but today News 5 has learned that […]
A Belize City businesswoman is over five thousand dollars poorer tonight, and she’s pointing the finger at three of her customers. Zhen Yan Li told police that on Friday afternoon three men entered her shop on Faber’s Road Extension and ordered a five gallon bottle of water. When she opened the burglar bar door to […]
Two people are dead tonight and two more have been injured, the victims of road accidents in Cayo and Belize City. The first happened around five o’clock on Sunday morning when sixty-two year old Oliver Wade was knocked down as he rode his bike across the Belcan Bridge. Police say the man was hit by […]
He was a low-profile official with a top-level position in the Belize office of the Inter American Development Bank. And tonight Carl Henri Dupui is dead. Dupui, a forty-nine year old Haitian national, has been serving in the post of Financial Specialist with the I.D.B. country office in Belize since 1998. When he did not […]
Almost one week after we reported that thirty-eight year old Gregory Skeen from Ladyville was missing, his family informed News 5 that over the weekend they were happily reunited after he was found in Chetumal. It is not certain how Skeen, who suffers from Down’s syndrome, managed to cross through both the Belize and Mexico […]
The Kid-O-Rama Show is Belize’s first radio programme to be produced by children. Today, the National Committee for Families and Children announced that the show has won the international One World/UNICEF Award for Outstanding Children’s Radio. According to the N.C.F.C.’s Executive Director, Judith Alpuche, late last year they decided to submit the entry because they […]
Chicken…it’s what’s for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Belize cause face it, as a people, we stick with what works. But for the few among us who don’t know that riceandbeanschickenandsalad is one word, this week, the Ministry of Agriculture is conducting a survey of our kitchens to find out exactly what we’re eating and […]
With less than two weeks of vacation left for most Belizean school children, families are beginning to make the transition from holiday mode to the discipline of formal education. Today, in one last burst of fun, one of the city’s best known summer programmes graduated its latest squadron of swimmers. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The elementary […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this latest edition of Sports Monday. Week six of the Regent Insurance Cup Tournament brought back semi-pro soccer to the M.C.C. Grounds as Kulture Yabra hosted Real Verdes of San Ignacio. We open with the Belize City team on the attack as Daniel Thomas presses, […]
