Police have made arrests in two murders that stunned the city in the wake of September celebrations. Twenty-year-old Dwight Stanley Francis of North Creek in Belize City has been charged in Saturday morning’s fatal shooting of Dylan Ferguson. Ferguson was killed on Central American Boulevard following an argument at Archie’s Restaurant and club. The second […]
More unlicensed and prohibited firearms continue to be taken off the streets, some as the result of the Police Department’s Cash for Information programme. The latest seizure involves a sawed off shotgun discovered at a house in the Belama area of Belize City. Arrested was twenty-year-old Moises Shoman. The shotgun, with its original full-length barrel, […]
In News from New York, Foreign Minister Godfrey Smith today addressed the fifty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. His speech was short and to the point. In return for their consistent economic support and friendship, Smith urged the admission of Taiwan to membership in the world body. He then made the case for […]
We will try to modestly report on this next item, but it is with great pride that we announce that News 5 reporter Jacqueline Woods has been named the winner of two prestigious prizes in this year’s Pan American Health Organization Media Awards. The story on “Children and Crime”, produced by Woods, presented by Kayla […]
It’s one of those ideas that prompt people to ask, “why didn’t I think of that?” Well, the subjects of our next story not only thought of it, they actually did it. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting Long before Belize City was inundated by the roar of SUVs the most common sound in the […]
With the tourism boom showing no signs of letting up, there will be increasing pressure to find new visitor attractions and bring more formal organisation to existing ones. The result is that while the natural wonder may retain its beauty, the socio-political fallout can get downright ugly. The cave I visited yesterday is a good […]
It was a death that the police would describe as typical: an “old beef” finally settled in the early hours of Saturday morning by the business end of a handgun. But for the family of a victim, no death could ever be considered typical. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Anthony Ferguson, Father of the Deceased […]
If the weekend shooting death in Belize City fit a familiar pattern, so too did a fatal shooting today in the Toledo District. According to police reports, a mental patient, Frederick Espinosa, is dead after being shot by a police officer in Punta Negra. It is alleged that Espinosa had attacked the Chairman of the […]
In Corozal, another citizen with alleged mental problems also met an untimely death following a brush with the law…although in this instance the fatality was attributed to natural causes. Martha Lorenzo was arrested on Sunday and charged with wounding after she is said to have bitten a policeman during an altercation. When she was on […]
Two deaths in different parts of the country have been classified as tragic accidents. On Friday eighteen year old Manolo Guardado of San Felipe Village in the Orange Walk District lost his life when he suffocated after climbing into a well on a farm outside the village. And on Saturday afternoon twenty-three year old Dwayne […]
It’s official: Wednesday, October twenty-ninth is the date set for the by-election in Cayo South. Today, Governor General Sir Colville young signed the paperwork naming October fourteenth as Nomination Day and the twenty-ninth as election day. Joaquin Cawich will be running for the People’s United Party, while John Saldivar received the nod as the United […]
As a parent, it’s always a proud day when you attend a graduation…whether it’s primary, secondary, junior college or even law school. For Prime Minister Said Musa, it must have been a double pleasure as he was asked to be the guest speaker at the graduation exercises of the class of 2003 at the Norman […]
We reported last week that Belizean shrimp exports have been given the green light to enter the European Union…and it may be just in time. Reports from the U.S.A. are that shrimp producers from eight southern states have banded together to fight what they claim are unfair trade practices by ten shrimp exporting countries. The […]
It’s Senior Citizens Week and since all of us, barring disaster, will one day reach that magic sixtieth birthday, it would be foolish–not to mention ungrateful-not to big up our favourite folks. Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting Their footsteps may be a little slower, but the spirit of these seenagers is as electrically […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re hooked into this latest delivery of Sports Monday. The Belize City football fans finally got a close up look at the newcomer upstart Jacintoville United of P.G. as Regent’s Cup play brought them to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday against Kulture Yabra. With only two rounds remaining on the […]
Early this afternoon the combination of a roving child, smooth highway and fast moving taxi sent a little girl from Hattieville to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with injuries that threaten to claim her life. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods arrived at the scene to find that it was a case of history repeating itself. Jacqueline […]
There is good news to report tonight in the case of the burglary of the Port Loyola preschool. Principal of the school, Gwendolyn Jones, stopped by our studios this afternoon to report that after the story aired on last night’s newscast, she received a telephone call from a friend informing her that a man was […]
While the preschool theft has apparently been solved, police are tonight hot on the trail of the thieves who broke into the Gill Street home of Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber. Around eleven o’clock this morning, Faber was alerted that his house was being burglarised, but by the time he arrived the burglars had already […]
After three weeks of operation, officials of the Cash for Information programme have reported solid success. Twenty-two guns have been seized as a result of phone tips and nineteen persons arrested. Over two thousand, six hundred dollars has been paid to informants who called the 922 hotline. According to C.E.O. in the Ministry of Home […]
Orange Walk police are no closer to solving the weekend murder of eighteen-year-old Russel Tillett. An autopsy performed on Thursday has yielded little in the way of help for investigators. According to Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, the bullet retrieved from Tillett’s body was fragmented beyond recognition. Reid says the police will now turn […]
In an update to another recent murder, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, through its anti-crime fund, is offering a two thousand dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man or men who killed Inez Leal. Leal was shot on Tuesday morning in the course of a hold-up at […]
It’s a housing programme that works: not only in Belize, but all over the world. I’m talking about Habitat for Humanity…and while the Habitat habit has yet to catch fire here, it remains one of the best avenues to home ownership for many low income Belizeans. This weekend, one more house will become a home. […]
When the meeting opened it was not known that before the day was out a taxi driver would knock down a little girl in Hattieville. But the tragedy on the Boom Road only served to emphasise the importance of what was taking place at the Belize Institute of Management. In that meeting, what was being […]
It’s a global organization but its decisions have direct impact on even the smallest communities in the most remote corners of the world. But the average citizen–and this includes most Belizeans–doesn’t give much thought to the movements of the World Trade Organization. But we should. At the last W.T.O. ministerial meeting in Cancun earlier this […]
Crime in Belize comes in many shapes and sizes. Over the weekend a total of five murders rocked the nation…and later in this newscast we’ll focus on a violent assault in Placencia that had its roots in the international drug trade. But we’ll lead tonight’s news with an act that barely registers on the Richter […]
