A community along the Belize River spent today searching for missing loved ones now feared dead. Kendis Moody, fifty-two; Daren Rhaburn, twenty-three; and Curtis Rhaburn, three, were travelling in a dory Thursday night went it suddenly capsized. News 5 was in Maypen this afternoon. Patrick Jones, Reporting The sparsely populated village of Maypen is under […]
It’s been criticised as being a commission without teeth, but today the Public Utilities Commission, P.U.C., called a press conference to show that they mean business. The timing, on the same day as INTELCO’s launch, led many to believe they would be announcing the long awaited interconnection rates for B.T.L. and INTELCO. But this was […]
And speaking of customers, the press could not let this morning’s opportunity of meeting with the P.U.C. slip by without asking about the big event of this afternoon, the launch of INTELCO. The launch of the company’s telecommunication services is being hampered, however, by the lack of a decision about the rate B.T.L. can charge […]
Well, they probably hold the record for the most eagerly anticipated opening, but finally after months of speculation, controversy, and attempts to have their opening stalled, delayed, and derailed, INTELCO officially began offering phone service today. They opened undeterred by the fact that the Public Utilities Commission has yet to indicate just how much INTELCO […]
It is the biggest electoral division in the country, with almost nine thousand people registered to vote, almost seven percent of the entire voting population, and a traditional People’s United Party stronghold. But with the death of Area Representative Agripino Cawich in August, his vacated seat became a battle ground for power, pitting Cawich’s son […]
There are new developments in the case against three British soldiers accused of killing fourteen-year old David Zabaneh in May of 2001. News 5 has confirmed statements made by David’s mother, Maria Zetina, who revealed on last night’s newscast that British prosecutors told her the murder charges would be reduced to “violent disorder.” A British […]
In all the election excitement this week’s Cabinet meeting didn’t get much notice, but members of Belize’s tourism industry might want to log on to the Press Office’s website and check out the new cruise ship policy. The policy increases the visitation limit at the Belize City Port to eight thousand people per day and […]
There is nothing that inspires panic as fast as fire. This afternoon the National Fire Service was testing their response to a possible emergency at the nation’s largest health care facility, the K.H.M.H. Ernest Dominguez, Station Supervisor, Natl. Fire Service “On arrival at the scene we saw smoke coming from the medical ward of the […]
You may have missed the launch last week Thursday, but tonight Channel 5 viewers have the opportunity to tune in to “The Christian Life”. The show is produced by a group of energetic followers of Christ. Today, two of the programme’s coordinators stopped by our studios to talk about the show and give highlights from […]
While some of you may be putting last minute touches on your Halloween costumes, the people at the Mexican Institute have already completed their annual tradition, creating an altar to honour those no longer with us for… El Dia de Los Muertos. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Imagine once a year sitting down and having a drink […]
The result is not going to change the balance of power in Belmopan, but an opposition victory in today’s Cayo South by-election will halt the P.U.P.’s unprecedented electoral roll and inject the U.D.P. with a dose of momentum that it badly needs to regain national credibility in the wake of its massive March fifth defeat. […]
Police in Toledo have a suspect in custody following the fatal shooting of a man in Punta Gorda last night. Thirty-year-old Rovidio Yat was shot once in the head as he was bathing at his house in the Indianville neighbourhood of P.G.. His common-law wife, eighteen-year-old Nereyda Martinez, told police that she heard Yat scream […]
In the wee hours of May eleventh, 2001, four young men–all high schools students at St. John’s College–entered the strip club and brothel known as Raul’s Rose Garden on the Northern Highway. The four: Said Musa, Jr.; Ryan Edwards; Eugene Zabaneh, Jr.; and his cousin, fourteen year old David Zabaneh, Jr. somehow got caught in […]
Almost as soon as residents of San Pedro awoke to the smell of smoke on Thursday morning, speculation began as to how a fire could start within the concrete confines of the town’s largest supermarket. That’s exactly what fire investigators have been wondering… and while they have yet to come to a conclusion, the evidence […]
Meanwhile, in Benque Viejo, police have acted quickly to charge a resident of that town with arson. To make matters worse, the house he is accused of torching is that of his mother. It is alleged that in the wee hours of Monday morning thirty-three year old Alvin Mendez set fire to the upper flat […]
The public image of law enforcement authorities in the area of riot control has not been particularly strong, especially since the invention of the video camcorder and the proliferation of television stations only too eager to use them. Now very much aware that the whole world is watching, the police are taking steps to ensure […]
It is Belize’s oldest environmental group, but unless we visit our national parks and other protected areas, we don’t get to see what the Belize Audubon Society actually does. That will all change tonight as a photographic exhibition hosted by Audubon opens on the Barracks. Dirk Francisco, Photographer, B.A.S. “People use the images for presentations, […]
When you work in this business it never hurts to be a big fan of television. But if truth be told, while TV is a sweet piece of eye candy, a really nutritious meal for the mind can only be found in the world of books. This afternoon Patrick Jones got a bellyful as he […]
It was a bad weekend for security guards as two were shot while on duty in separate incidents in Belize City. The good news is that both men lived to tell the tale. Ernest Alarcon, Shooting Victim “So he shoot me inna my leg right here so. Well the doctor claims the bullet gone in–according […]
In other city crime news, a Chinese owned grocery in West Landivar was robbed on Saturday night. Proprietors Qias Na Guan and Zhi Xin Lin told police that as they were closing shop around nine p.m. four armed men emerged from a car parked nearby, entered the store and took fifteen hundred dollars from them, […]
Another case of incest has been reported, this time in the Cayo District. A sixteen year old girl, accompanied by her sister, told San Ignacio police that on the morning of October sixteenth, her father forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. Police are looking for the alleged perpetrator.
And finally, while Belizeans are no strangers to auctions, two coming up next week merit special mention. On Wednesday and Thursday, November sixth and seventh, the government of Belize will be auctioning off two recently acquired twin engine aircraft–both believed to have been used for drug smuggling. The first, a Russian built Antonov 26, was […]
Prices are not what they should be and production has yet to return to record levels…but tonight there is optimism in Belize’s citrus industry, an optimism based on improved competitive efficiency and the fact that for the first time growers are the masters of their own fate. Patrick Jones reports on this weekend’s activities in […]
Twenty-five year old Dalilah Vanzie was the first runner up in the Miss Belize Pageant. That position automatically made her Belize’s entrant in the upcoming Miss World Pageant to be held on December sixth in The People’s Republic of China. Today Dalilah received a much-needed donation from the Belize Chinese Association to help with her […]
It was a packed house at Club Calypso for Sunday’s week two CKTV competition. When the eight singers were finished, two more candidates had advanced to the finals. Maureen Dawson, Host, CKTV “And the winner is Tanisha Bodden.” (Tanisha sings “My Heart Will Go On ” by Celine Dion) Maureen Dawson “Drum roll, because I […]
