Another child has come forward to report a sexual assault committed by a parent. The man in question from the Toledo District has been arrested and charged with incest. According to what the fifteen-year-old girl told police, her father had been raping her since August thirteenth of this year and threatened to kill her if […]
As the fastest growing cruise ship destination in the Caribbean, Belizean tourism officials should be whistling a happy tune…but a history of boom and bust in Caribbean tourism has taught the region that complacency is the one marketing strategy that never works. With that lesson in mind, members of the Caribbean Tourism Organization are suggesting […]
While regional governments are joining forces to promote tourism, local entrepreneurs are developing new activities for all those visitors to experience once they’re here. Today, the press was invited for a sneak preview of a Belize City attraction that, according to News 5’s Jacqueline Woods, received rave reviews. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The press release from […]
B>In the drug trade it’s called a wet drop: when a plane, usually from Colombia, discharges several tons of well sealed bundles of cocaine over a pre-arranged area of sea. The bales are then collected by local drug dons and warehoused for future shipment through Mexico and into the States. But not all wet drops […]
It was one of five murders we reported following an unusually lethal weekend, but the killing of a young man in Orange Walk was not the result of robbery, sudden passion or drunken vengeance. In fact, the motive remains shrouded in mystery with the only witness unable or unwilling to provide police with much assistance. […]
The brutal murder in Orange Walk and other recent killings across the country have left many citizens wondering just what our once peaceful society has turned into. This morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods hit the streets to find out how the city’s shopkeepers are reacting. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting While there is no consensus on exactly […]
The generic name given to official handing over ceremonies is a “dog and pony show”…and while there were no horses to be seen in Belmopan this morning, the U.S. Embassy’s donation of anti-drug equipment did include three canines. According to U.S. Ambassador Russell Freeman, the new additions will significantly upgrade the Police Department’s ability to […]
In diplomatic news, Foreign Minister Godfrey Smith is in New York heading Belize’s delegation to the fifty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. While Smith will deliver his formal address next Tuesday, he has been busy as pro-tem chairman of the Central American Integration System’s Foreign Minister Group. In that capacity he will convene […]
There is good news tonight for Belizean fishermen and seafood farmers, as the European Union has now fully opened its doors to our fisheries exports. The decision to elevate Belize to List One status means that as of the end of October we can export fisheries products to any and all of the fifteen members […]
The ceremony may have been lost in the hoopla of the Independence Day weekend, but on Sunday night fireworks in Belize City, Ladyville and Orange Walk marked the technical launch of Intelco. Guests at the Sunday evening ceremony, including Communications Minister Vildo Marin, made the first official phone calls on the new system to customers […]
This evening Courts Belize Limited awarded several students with a year’s scholarship as part of the store’s back to school promotion. According to Advertising and Promotions Manager, Anamarie Bennett, throughout the year they hold giveaways for their customers and they thought that at the start of the new school year, it was only appropriate to […]
With the recent onslaught of depressing news on the crime front it’s easy to forget that there are many positive developments taking place in Belize. One is the steady growth in a new kind of religious commitment by Belizeans, particularly among young people. For many, that devotion coalesces around the music of one popular band. […]
He’s been a well-known member of the business community for over forty-five years. Tonight sixty-four year old Innis Leal is dead, the victim of a robbery and murder this morning that has stunned his Belize City neighbourhood. According to family members who were upstairs at the time, Leal was alone in Blankie’s Store at number […]
For the family of a Belize City man murdered on Friday night, the death was a double tragedy. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-year-old Jimmy Williams was a taxi man for only five months when he was robbed of ten dollars and then shot in the back of the neck. […]
Belize City police were not the only cops with their hands full. In Cayo authorities were also busy trying to solve a pair of murders in that district. The first occurred on Saturday in San Ignacio in which thirty-one year old security guard Abelino Choc was shot in the chest. Choc died while undergoing treatment […]
Jealous lover? Mistaken identity? Or none of the above. Orange Walk police are tonight trying to figure out the motive for the late night execution style murder of a Crooked Tree man on Sunday. According to reports, eighteen-year-old electrician Russell Tillett and his girlfriend from Orange Walk were hanging out in the couple’s car around […]
Four prisoners at Hattieville used the Independence Day weekend to make a run for their own freedom…but only one succeeded. Twenty year old Pablo Martinez was one of four inmates in the remand section who, at around two-thirty Saturday morning, broke through a window of their cell, overpowered a guard and relieved him of his […]
And just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, they did. A police officer, already on interdiction for fatally shooting a Caye Caulker resident earlier this year, has shot and wounded another man, this time in Independence Village. According to police reports, twenty-year-old Robert Young told cops that around two on the morning of […]
The news item missed our deadline for Friday, but the story of how the AIDS epidemic is affecting our nation, the Caribbean, and the world is not going to go away any time soon. Patrick Jones has the roundup of decisions taken at last week’s regional forum. Patrick Jones, Reporting The participants worked right up […]
On Wednesday night the University of Belize will hold the first of a six part forum under the theme, “Making the hope real: The role of U.B. in National Development–Perspectives from the Belizean Society.” According to senior lecturer and organiser, Sylvia Cattouse, the idea is get members of the public to come forward with suggestions […]
The Belize City Carnival may grab all the media coverage, but over the course of the September celebrations, virtually every community in Belize does something to mark the patriotic spirit of the season. On Sunday, while most city folks were recovering from the road march through the old capital, News 5’s Patrick Jones and Rick […]
And in an unfortunate aside to the Carnival, News 5’s camera captured these dramatic pictures of an emergency vehicle, which burst into flames during the parade. The driver of the vehicle quickly evacuated the people who were riding in the back of the ambulance and tried to extinguish the blaze. When his efforts failed, a […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley presenting you with yet another fresh edition of Sports Monday. Week eleven of the Regent’s Cup Tournament took Juventus of Orange Walk into the Norman Broaster Stadium Saturday night for its scheduled match with Real Verdes of San Ignacio. For certain the home field advantage propels Verdes to fast start, […]
Due to Independence Day celebrations, the next newscast will be on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003.
It’s a People’s United Party innovation that is part report card, part cheerleading session and part social event for local and visiting dignitaries. And while no state of the nation address could ever be mistaken for confession, the one delivered in Belmopan this morning had some candour mixed in with the usual dose of optimism. […]
