Easter may seem far away, but one sporting committee has already issued a call to canoe enthusiasts to register for the Easter Sunday Canoe race. The Sittee River race takes place on Monday April twelfth and features three classes: professional, local, and women. Cash prizes are being offered and there is an entry fee. Other […]
If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at painting but couldn’t decide how to go about it, here is your chance. The Art Department at Saint John’s College is offering an art course for the public. According to the department’s director, Michele Perdomo, the course will run for six months and is designed for […]
The Institute of Social and Cultural Research invites the public to the first in a series of lectures this Thursday evening. News 5 spoke with I.S.C.R.’s Froyla Salam about the topic, which is both historical and timely. Froyla Salam, Institute for Social and Cultural Research “As in the case of the subject of our first […]
Tonight News 5 is pleased to bring you another segment in our series on children available for adoption. Last week’s profile resulted in a good response from viewers, and we hope that once you meet the following four kids, they too may have a better chance at finding a family to love them. Jacqueline Woods, […]
It is becoming an all too common story, and frequently one with a very sad ending: children being knocked down. Over the weekend, it happened again, and although the latest victim is recovering, the driver is still unidentified, and the child and his mother are still shaken from the experience. Karl Malic, Knocked down off […]
A twenty-year-old man from Esperanza died Friday night after his Isuzu Trooper flipped over on the Western Highway. Abraham Lopez succumbed to his injuries at the San Ignacio Hospital, while his two passengers, twenty-five year old Jose Lopez and nineteen year old Kerry Lopez, were hospitalised. The incident occurred between miles sixty-seven and sixty-eight sometime […]
Drivers in the northern districts have been under the gun recently, the speed gun that is. The police and transport departments joined forces over the weekend for a special operation that resulted in forty-four drivers receiving court summons for speeding, fifty-four tickets were given out for poor vehicle maintenance, insurance violations, and overcrowding, while thirty […]
Two police officers were treated at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital today after a detainee reportedly attacked them with a broken light fixture. According to a release from the Police Department, around nine this morning twenty-five year old Albert Middleton, who was in a holding cell, asked to be taken to the restroom. On the […]
Three residents of Paraiso Village in the Corozal District have been arrested for transporting persons for the purpose of exploitation as prostitutes. Police say last Thursday a police constable riding a bus en route to Belize City from Benque became suspicious of a young man in the company of five Hispanic women. He began to […]
The President of the Court of Appeal, Ira Rowe, has passed away. The seventy-five year old justice was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday on the Turks and Caicos Islands where he had gone to hear appeal cases. A statement from Attorney General Eamon Courtenay was issued this afternoon saying, “Justice Rowe was […]
There were no caps or gowns, but a graduation ceremony this afternoon was just as meaningful for ten people who successfully completed a special tour guide training. Aldo Perez, Graduate, Specialty Marine Tour Guide Program “Well first of all, it’s a great achievement. It’s the first of its kind and I think it’s long overdue. […]
While the ten special marine tour guides were getting their certificates and having lunch with the Minister at the Princess Hotel, down the street at the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute a group of their colleagues were learning about the proper use of Goff’s Caye, a tiny one acre island located twelve miles offshore […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re in tuned with this week’s version of Sports Monday. We begin with the B.P.F.L.’s B League clash at Sandhill field where Belize Rural All Stars caught up with Creative Tiles of Ladyville. And Henry Gillette fires this monster at Elias Hercules whose gallant attempt at save is foiled […]
The 2004-05 budget was presented today in Belmopan and the man doing the presenting was none other than the Minister of Finance, Ralph Fonseca. Fonseca insisted that despite criticisms, G.O.B. stayed within its budget last year and intends to do so again this year. Education and health will be the priorities and the expectation is […]
Before Fonseca could even catch his breath after his hour-long narrative, Leader of the Opposition Dean Barrow was already punching holes in the budget speech, saying it is riddled with deception. Dean Barrow, Leader of the Opposition “The fact that taxes are being increased, there is going to be an across the board increase in […]
It’s been in the U.S. headlines, but do Belizeans have to worry about mad cow disease? Belizean officials are taking the “better safe than sorry” approach, implementing a number of preventive measures. Since seventy-five percent of all animal product imports come from the United States, government is temporarily banning all commodities deemed risky, assessing meat […]
A three-year conservation and development project for the Port Honduras Marine Reserve and Payne’s Creek National Park is being launched tonight in Punta Gorda. The aim is to conserve the resources of these protected areas as well as develop alternative income generating options for local residents. Activities include a fire management plan, demarcation and installation […]
They say there is a book inside each of us, if we could just sit down and write it. Sheldon Samuels may have taken a few years to get his thoughts on paper, but now his is the latest work on the Belizean book circuit. It’s called “A Father in Need of a Father’s Love” […]
By Belizean standards, the latest shooting to rock the city was unusual only in the time of its occurrence: seven-thirty this morning. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports on the crime and the broader implications of violence for one particular neighbourhood. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today, as Kenrick Johnson got ready to celebrate his twenty-fourth birthday, he […]
In police news of a different nature, ground was officially broken this morning on a new police station for the burgeoning village of Placencia. Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Stann Creek West Area Representative Rodwell Ferguson did the honours this morning on the one hundred and thirty thousand dollar structure. […]
It may not be the most serious consequence of mad cow disease, but if you own a finicky dog or cat, the ban on U.S. beef imports means that you better start looking for some new recipes. Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting A temporary ban has been placed on all imported animal […]
The confrontation has been building for years. On Tuesday Cabinet decided on a course of action, yesterday the P.M. delivered the decision, and today it was left to the National Sports Council to give the details of government’s latest move to break the impasse in the national crisis over football. Janelle Chanona, Reporting By all […]
All those tiny explosions heard around Belize City today may have sounded like gangsters gone wild, but they were only firecrackers set off in celebration of the New Year. No, not the one that passed twenty-two days ago… I’m talking about the New Year that started today…and observed by over a billion people. Patrick Jones […]
It is an issue that’s a growing concern for government officials… energy: its production, distribution, and conservation. With that in mind, a joint commission comprised of representatives of the public, private, and non-governmental sectors has been working for the past year, investigating safe, affordable, environmentally friendly ways of producing energy. Head of the Project Steering […]
It’s a decision that will diminish Belizean football in the eyes of the world, but one that in the end the Government says has become necessary. In this week’s Cabinet briefing the executive has quote “supported a decision of the National Sports Council to suspend the Football Federation of Belize from representing association football in […]
