On Saturday police confiscated another firearm, but only after it allegedly was used to shoot at somebody. Forty-two year old Honduran Marciano Gonzalez has been charged with attempted murder, discharging a firearm in public and keeping an unlicensed firearm and ammo. Gonzalez is accused of using his nine-millimetre pistol to take two shots at twenty-year-old […]
Details are emerging on the new private management contract soon to be awarded for the operation of the Philip Goldson International Airport. In a telephone interview with management team executives Enrique Hoare and Linsford Rosado, News 5 has learned that the new owners of a thirty-year concession to manage the airport are a consortium of […]
Just a week after a lucky winner took home a Lotto jackpot of one hundred and twelve thousand, five hundred dollars, someone else has done it again. Lotto officials confirmed to news 5 that somebody is holding the winning ticket in Saturday’s fifty-two thousand, five hundred dollar draw…but that person has not yet come in […]
On Saturday night in Barbados, Belize had a big night as two of the nation’s media houses were honoured for excellence in the annual PAHO media awards. I was fortunate enough to collect both the UNICEF and U.N.D.P. prizes for the story I produced on children and crime. Those awards were shared with presenter Kayla […]
The initial round of Children’s Karaoke Television is now history as the fourth set of eliminations in the junior and senior categories took place on Sunday afternoon at Club Calypso. Here’s how it went. Maureen Dawson, Host, C.K.T.V. “And the winner in our junior category is Godwin Sutherland, all the way from Belmopan.” (Godwin sings […]
The University of Belize continues to upgrade its postgraduate offerings with the inauguration of its latest programme for a Masters Degree in business. The intake for the Executive M.B.A. course, which numbers twenty-one, is the third group of Belizeans to earn their degrees without major disruption of their professional or family lives, through U.B.’s collaboration […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The battle of undefeated teams in the Regent Insurance Cup playoffs brought a monstrous crowd to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday as Kulture Yabra hosted the Builder’s Hardware Bandits of Belmopan. So who becomes the daddy and who receives the spanking? Let’s check it out. Norman […]
The announcement came in the form of a government press release issued this evening after the close of business hours…but the impact of the news will be far reaching. After several years of negotiating with a subsidiary of Lufthansa Airlines to take over management of the Philip Goldson International Airport, Government has decided to award […]
They worked in the Cayo courthouse and police station…but today two government employees found themselves in the role of accused. The women, both of San Ignacio, have been charged with numerous offences surrounding the misappropriation of funds. Forty-one year old Antonia Lourdes Castellanos, a clerk and interpreter at San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court, has been charged […]
Police in Belmopan are looking for a pair of armed robbers. The two men, described only as of Hispanic descent, struck a shop on Hummingbird Avenue around six-thirty Thursday evening. They pulled a nine-millimetre pistol on the proprietors and made off with over three thousand dollars in cash and another two thousand worth of jewellery […]
Marijuana smokers hoping to see an end to an alleged weed shortage will not be happy tonight as two busts, one in Orange Walk and the other in Belize City, may put a crimp in the supply of the popular herb. On Wednesday morning cops raided two pot plantations five miles southeast of Guinea Grass […]
The physical transformation of the Bliss Institute into the country’s premiere venue for the performing arts has entered the homestretch. And while the contractors are under pressure to deliver the building for a projected February inauguration, the Belizean public is being invited to be part of the historic metamorphosis on the foreshore. The building will […]
Manatees: they are the aquatic darlings of the conservation world…and it just so happens that Belize has the largest concentration of West India manatees in the region. To keep it that way a Belizean organisation long active in the protection of the marine environment was today charged with the task of giving the sea going […]
The Central Bank of Belize today moved to calm fears over the lack of money in the private banking system available for lending. A Central Bank release issued this afternoon admits that liquidity is tight and that the commercial banks have been asked to shift their lending priorities from consumer loans to the productive sector […]
In crime news police report that they have arrested two men in Monday’s sexual assault of a woman in the Stann Creek District. Twenty-six year old Hector Cohouj of Indian Creek and thirty-four year old Oscar Mejia of Santa Cruz Village have both been charged with the crime of rape. The victim, a forty-nine year […]
And if police have their way, the pair from the south will be joined by another accused rapist from Cayo. On Wednesday a twelve-year-old girl, accompanied by her mother, told Belmopan cops that two years ago, when she was ten, her stepfather had sexual intercourse with her. Police are now looking for the offending family […]
Mention the word passport and it’s usually preceded by the word “illegal”. But believe it or not, Belmopan does occasionally grant citizenship to those foreign nationals who actually deserve it. On Wednesday, seventy-two such new Belizeans took the oath of allegiance in a ceremony held at the Belmopan Convention Hotel. The oath was administered by […]
A student of S.J.C. Junior College has been awarded the 2003 Belize Open Scholarship. Gian Garfield Cho was judged the top performer out of the one hundred and twenty Belizeans who sat the University of Cambridge International Exams in May and June. Finishing just behind Cho were Jacqueline Usher and Bruno Samos, also of St. […]
They didn’t come back with the gold medal they had their hearts set on, but today the Belize National Under Twenty-Two basketball team sat down with the media to report on what happened in Guatemala at last week’s regional tournament. According to the coaching staff, Belize was at a disadvantage even before the first whistle […]
We regularly run stories on people who need the community’s help…and often as a result of the ensuing publicity they receive it. It’s not always, however, that we get the chance to follow up such stories… particularly one with such a happy ending as that found by News 5’s Jacqueline Woods. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting One […]
It’s quite an honour to be considered an icon in the fickle world of the arts. But what if you’re a legend in two artistic pursuits: painting and music? Welcome to the world of Pen Cayetano. Patrick Jones, Reporting From the Wanaragua to the Mahogany Logs to Punta Night, the latest creations to spring from […]
Police have another mystery on their hands tonight as family members insist that a corpse removed this morning from a Belize City home is a victim of murder and did not die of natural causes. News 5’s Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting The body of thirty-eight year old Ernesto Garbutt was found under […]
Around the same time Patrick Jones was investigating the report of that dead body, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was responding to a call about a violent incident not far away. In this case, while the motive may be cloudy, there is no mystery over who was responsible. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The police wasted no time […]
It was another one of those massive blackouts that wasn’t supposed to happen under the efficient management of a well financed and privatised electric company. But last night around eight-thirty Belize was plunged into darkness…and while power was restored to some segments of the grid at various times, it was not until this afternoon that […]
With the common use of the internet and email, a whole generation of Belizeans has perhaps grown up without the experience of dropping a letter in the post box and hoping for a rapid reply. Today, with the release of a new issue, the post office reminds the public that there’s more to stamps than […]
