It’s official… the go-slow at the port is over, the workers are getting a Christmas bonus and there won’t be a strike early in the New Year. A settlement in the labour dispute that severely interrupted movement of goods through the Belize City port for almost a week was reached this morning when the workers […]
After two nights as a guest at the Punta Gorda police station, a U.S. nurse was finally released from custody this evening. In the end, fifty-four year old Donna Reishus was charged with the crime of “committing a mischievous act” when police and prosecutors could not find a more specific charge. A police press release […]
In another case of sexual exploitation, a suspect has been detained pending charges of carnal knowledge. A fifteen year old girl, accompanied by her father, told police on Tuesday that for the past five months she has regularly engaged in sexual intercourse with the man in question, who has been paying her a stipend of […]
Four days after armed robbers hit the Radisson Fort George Hotel, police have charged a trio of Belize City youths they believe were the perpetrators. Twenty-two year old Chadrick DeBride, twenty-year-old William Vasquez, and twenty year old Shane Budran appeared in Belize City Magistrate’s court this afternoon to answer to joint charges of robbery and […]
A tragic accident on Wednesday morning that killed a young Orange Walk man has resulted in charges being filed against the two drivers involved in the incident. After a second day of investigation by police, twenty-one year old Francisco Sabido, driver of the Saturn that hit a white Honda Accord on the Northern Highway, has […]
The opening of the forty-third session of the Caribbean Meteorological Council was the occasion for Minister of Natural Resources Johnny Briceño to sign on the dotted line for a European Union financed project under which Belize and three other countries will receive advanced weather radar systems. According to Chief Meteorologist, Carlos Fuller, while satellite imagery […]
If you tried to drive anywhere near downtown during lunch hour today, you discovered that traffic was even more congested than usual. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods explains why. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting A steady stream of smoke was slowly rising out of the second floor of the three storey concrete building at the corner of Queen […]
If that 2003 calendar on your wall is looking kind of tattered, don’t worry, help is on the way. News 5’s Patrick Jones drew the short straw last night and his assignment took him across the street to the Bellevue Hotel. Patrick Jones, Reporting It was the place every red-blooded Belizean man wanted to be […]
Just when we thought things were getting back to normal in Punta Gorda another event has taken place which suggests that the ancient practice of witch hunting is alive and well. Tuesday night around seven, Donna Reishus, an American volunteer nurse based in P.G. was detained by police and will remain in custody tonight. According […]
The stalemate at the Belize City port continued today, but sources close to the negotiations say progress toward a settlement has been made. Officials of the Christian Workers Union and the Port of Belize Limited have been engaged in marathon meetings since Tuesday afternoon, with inputs from the Commissioner of Labour, Paul Williams. Late this […]
A night of merrymaking, lots of booze, and two speeding cars on the Northern Highway were a recipe for disaster early this morning in the Orange Walk District. According to police, a group of eight friends had gone out on the town Tuesday night and around three-thirty on Wednesday morning boarded separate vehicles and headed […]
There is more police news tonight… but not the type we’re used to. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Police work, despite the demands of the season, is not only about cracking crime. This year officers will be spreading some Christmas cheer especially to those persons who may not otherwise be remembered. […]
On Tuesday night, Atlantic Bank officially launched its much-anticipated online internet banking services. Customers will now be able to inquire about their checking, savings, time deposits and loan accounts, while corporate customers can do their payroll, payments to suppliers and any other third parties with the new service. According to the bank’s General Manager, Sandra […]
They are nothing if not persistent, and their enthusiasm has paid off as a group of young people from an organisation called Youths for Peace, has put together what is being billed as a Christmas Peacefest. The event, set for Sunday in the front yard of the Belize City Centre, will feature a day of […]
This year’s hurricane season may have been kind to Belize, but our recent memories of Mitch, Keith, Chantal, and Iris are still too fresh to be easily forgotten. And while mankind has not yet devised a way to divert or shrink the deadly storms, scientists are at least improving their means of tracking them. Beginning […]
The children may be out on their Christmas break, but their principal and teachers are making sure that when students return in January, they will continue to receive the well rounded education they deserve. This morning the management of Stella Maris School, a learning institution for children with special needs, received a sizeable donation from […]
No Christmas in Belize would be complete without our seasonal visit to the Salvation Army’s big event. Today, as in years past, it seemed that every child in the city was crammed into the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It may have been cold, wet, and windy but these children […]
Belize is among the hottest of the region’s tourism destinations, and what that also means is that all things Belizean, including the food we eat, is considered trendy. Capturing the spirit of that culinary wave is a new DVD appropriately titled “Taste Belize”. Patrick Jones, Reporting The DVD, which was produced by Belize City based […]
The Public Utilities Commission has reached what it calls its “initial decision” on an application by Belize Water Services Limited for a raise in water rates. And while the P.U.C. did not approve the thirty-two percent hike the company requested for the five-year period beginning in 2004, it did grant a tariff structure that will […]
While one utility was being granted a rate hike, another was struggling to provide service to one of its biggest customers. At eight twenty-five this morning the entire island of Ambergris Caye lost its electricity supply and power was not restored until over four hours later. According to a press release from Belize Electricity Limited, […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway near the Faber’s Road junction in Belize City has claimed one man’s life and left his passenger seriously injured. Around eight-fifteen this morning a small pickup truck heading west on the highway made a left turn into an automotive shop at mile two and a half. But before […]
It’s not a thoroughfare that carries much traffic, but on the theory that “if you build it, they will come” government has signed a contract for major improvements in the road to the ancient Maya site of Caracol. The upgrading of six miles of road and paving of another nine point two miles will be […]
Most of the British Army personnel involved in the court martial of three Gurkha soldiers are winging their way home across the Atlantic. One young Belizean who also boarded the plane–although flying only as far as Houston–was twenty-year-old Ryan Edwards. Edwards, along with Said Musa Jr. and Eugene Zabaneh Jr., was scheduled to testify for […]
With last minute Christmas shipments for the nation’s merchants hanging in the balance, officials of the Christian Worker’s Union and the company that operates Belize City’s port were meeting today to avert a situation that threatens to shut down Belize’s main commercial point of entry. Patrick Jones was on hand last night as workers gathered […]
With our traditional long stay tourists being granted preferred access to Caracol, the question remains of where to send those day trippers off the increasing number of cruise ships that anchor in the Belize City harbour. This morning News 5’s Patrick Jones received a tour of a new attraction that should prove to be extremely […]
