The Police Department reports success in the early weeks of their programme that offers cash rewards for information leading to the seizure of firearms. So far sixteen illegal guns have been confiscated as the result of phone tips, and arrests have been made in fifteen of those busts. According to police press officer G. Michael […]
It’s been open less than a month, but most motorists travelling the Western Highway have already forgotten the dangerous old days of the big curve at St. Matthew’s Village. Today, the new bridge and its laser straight approaches were officially dedicated. And with a crowd of government heavyweights returning from Belmopan, the timing could not […]
Students and teachers got a head start on their Independence Day holiday…and for those in Belize City, the only price they had to pay was a march in the hot sun to sit in an even hotter auditorium. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was with them every step of the way. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thousands of […]
They’ve been around the medical world for decades, but it’s only now that residents of the jewel will be benefiting from the device known as a pacemaker. And with a generation of Belizeans growing up on a diet of greasy fried chicken, these hearts will need all the help they can get. Patrick Jones has […]
With most of the region’s economies still limping along in the aftermath of 9-11 and the ensuing global recession, representatives of Caribbean governments were today given more bad news. They were informed that even modest growth rates could be cut to zero by the skyrocketing demands of health care and lost productivity caused by the […]
But while it’s one thing to plot strategies to deal with the economic impact of the AIDS epidemic, it’s quite another to experience the harsh reality of living with the disease. Thirty-three year old Herman Bain was diagnosed with HIV two years ago. Today, he is still coping with the discrimination from potential employers, and […]
In crime news police have yet to apprehend the woman who fatally stabbed Mark Peters on Tuesday night near B.T.L. Park on the Barracks… But they have charged another female for a similar–though not deadly–attack on Sunday morning. According to police reports, twenty-five year old Denmark Casimiro was in a bar in Ladyville when he […]
According to education officials, one in every ten children in Belize has a disability…be it attention deficit disorder, dyslexia or an impairment like immobility or blindness. It’s a sobering statistic, and today concern is focussing on how to adapt our educational system to account for these students with special needs. Today educators and non-profit organisation […]
Whether “Destiny”, “Murdera”, or “Psalm 23 “is your favourite song, tonight we’re just over twenty-four hours away from one of the biggest acts to ever hit the stage at the Belize City Centre. That’s right, Buju Banton has arrived. The Jamaican superstar landed just after eleven this morning to be immediately interviewed by various local […]
To some people, they are the pirates of the Caribbean, sampling songs from various musicians throughout the region to come up with catchy compilations. But to most Belizeans, September isn’t quite September unless they’re here. I’m talking about Bryon Lee and the Dragonaires of course. The Bryon and his band also arrived this morning at […]
Having shown off their traditional culture at Memorial Park for the last several days, you’d think the folks at the Mexican Embassy would be content to kick back and nurse a goma. Not so. With the Cultural Institute barely cleaned up from independence festivities, it is now home to a new exhibition. Patrick Jones, Reporting […]
Saturday afternoon the streets of Belize City will come alive with the sights and sounds of carnival. As part of preparation for the big day last night the various bands held their traditional mas camps. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods made the rounds. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Saturday’s carnival road march will not be the biggest in […]
We usually lead this newscast with shocking stories of crime, important decisions of government, or plain old political gossip. But ten years from now when we look back at the biggest story of the decade, it will likely be the devastation produced by the AIDS epidemic. Today officials from across the Caribbean met in Belize […]
A Belize City man is dead, stabbed during a fight between two women. According to police reports, thirty-four year old Mark Peters of Neal Pen Road was walking near the Princess Hotel late Tuesday night with his girlfriend when she became involved in an argument with another female. When Peters tried to intervene the woman […]
In other crime news, the driver of a vehicle that killed a pedestrian on the Western Highway has been arrested and charged. Thirty-four year old Honduran Jose Monterosso has been charged with failure to stop and report an accident, driving without due care and attention, manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless conduct. On […]
It was one of those typically Belizean controversies that provided hot copy for a week or so and then seemed to simply vanish into thin air. What I’m talking about is the issue of tenders for cruise ships. Today that issue resurfaced as Cabinet approved development concessions for two companies to bring in new boats […]
The Belize Hotel Association is out of the closet. Hey, they said it…not us. It seems the B.H.A. has been bouncing from holes in the wall to borrowed space and back again for years. But after all that torture and torment, they now have a new home. According to the association’s President, Ben Routi, their […]
But as the Belize Hotel Association gets its residential act together, they’ve still got an old beef with cruise tourism, particularly as two big deals are in the works that would open Belize to over a million cruise visitors a year. As these of one-day tourists hit the city streets and rural destinations, the B.H.A. […]
According to health authorities, everyday the emergency room at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital sees an average of seventy patients… and that number gets bigger on the weekends and holidays. In light of this reality, medical officials need as much help as they can get. This week, that aid comes in the form of a […]
It’s a media house that dominates the radio dial with no less than three stations aiming for nationwide dominance. And as of today all the broadcasting entities under the direction of Rene Villanueva and family are cohabitating in a new home in Belize City. Patrick Jones reports from Slaughterhouse Road. Patrick Jones, Reporting The new […]
There was a parade today in Belize City–not terribly unusual during the patriotic season–but this morning’s revellers brought experience as well as enthusiasm to the streets of the old capital. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This time it was not a bunch of excited school children parading the streets, but men and women old enough to be […]
It’s not as familiar as the latest dance hall tune, but that doesn’t mean the music described in our next story does not have an impact. News 5’s Patrick Jones tells us why attending tonight’s concert at the Biltmore will be a memorable experience. Patrick Jones, Reporting Sir Colville Young’s Ode to Independence is described […]
Another mysteriously empty cargo plane has landed and been abandoned in Belize…and if these unscheduled visits continue, the B.D.F. may soon have the biggest air force in the region. It is not certain when the latest landing took place, but law enforcement officials speculate that it was around the fourth or fifth of September that […]
Police are tonight looking for the driver of a pickup truck who fatally injured a pedestrian on the Western Highway. The dead man is nineteen-year-old Jose Gonzales of La Democracia Village. Around seven this morning Gonzales was walking on the highway having just gotten off a bus near mile thirty-one, when he was struck by […]
Gentleman–and I use the term very loosely–if you are thinking about sexually assaulting your daughter, niece, neighbour or any other child…beware, because you will get busted. Another victim of incest has come forward, this time in the Cayo District, and her father has been detained. The thirteen year old, accompanied by her mother, told police […]
