A watchman from a Dangriga gas station was fatally wounded after being shot in the chest on Sunday. Reports are that on around four p.m., David Gilbert Lopez approached a resort in the Riverdale area saying he was looking for a thief who stole his money. According to reports, he appeared to be under the […]
In a follow up to a story on our newscast on Friday, a man from Independence was charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of twenty-nine year old Larry August on Thursday. Today police said twenty-two year old Clayton Foreman of a Disco Street address was apprehended and charged with the crime.
Police are looking for a suspect following a report by a woman from Rock Stone Pond Village that she was attacked by a man wielding a broken bottle. Tanya Wallace told police she was on her way home around eleven Saturday night when the man, whom she knows, stabbed her in the neck and left […]
Belize was represented by Minster of Foreign Affairs, Defence, and National Emergency Management Godfrey Smith at the CARICOM Foreign Ministers meeting in Barbados last week. Items on the agenda included: developments in Haiti, the Caribbean’s Relationship with the United States, the Fourth United Kingdom-Caribbean Ministerial Forum, and border issues. At a previous meeting, the CARICOM […]
On Saturday, Courts Belize on the Northern Highway in Belize City held its first Gold Rush Show and Draw of the year. The audience at the game show answered questions and won prizes. This was followed by the selection of the customer who would spin the Gold Rush Wheel for up to five thousand dollars […]
Fire officials are still trying to find out what started the fire that totally destroyed a one room wooden structure and partially burnt a nearby grocery shop on Central American Boulevard over the weekend. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting There was nothing Melanie Abraham and her two young children could do to save any […]
HIV/AIDS is a disease that is of concern to all Belizeans, but how many people are really listening to the messages and, more importantly, changing their behaviours? Not enough apparently. This past weekend, the Methodist Church in Belize City held a special gathering to try and reach those most at risk and do their part […]
Patrick Jones, Reporting Bodies in Motion at the Princess Hotel…The Bulls got some football schooling in Calcutta…And, pain and excitement on the diamond out west as the 2004 Cayo softball competition resume play after the Easter break. Good evening, with the April twenty-sixth edition of Sports Monday, I am Patrick Jones. The Belize Shotokan Karate […]
A twenty-two year old man has been charged with murder following an incident in Independence Village on Thursday night. According to police, twenty-nine year old Larry August and twenty-two year old Clayton Forman got into a misunderstanding on Disco Street around eleven-thirty that night. During the dispute authorities say Forman pulled out a pen knife […]
A fourteen year old girl has been arrested and charged for attempted murder, maim, and use of deadly means of harm after she chopped off a woman’s finger. Information is sketchy, but News 5 understands that on Thursday evening Celia James was at a home on Freetown Road speaking with another woman when the young […]
It is the place just about everyone stops when they get to the nation’s capital…And today a new and improved market, with a new name, the “Friendship Plaza”, was inaugurated in Belmopan. News 5 was there. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today Belmopan residents witnessed the opening of their brand new market. The six hundred thousand dollar […]
Next month, the National Lands Advisory Committee will be holding a symposium as a follow-up to its nationwide consultations. These were held to obtain the views of the public on issues of land allocation, acquisition, and the formation of a Land Distribution Policy. A synthesis of the meetings with landowners, real estate agents, farmers, community […]
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment, Johnny Briceno, gave the keynote address at a conference on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Trinidad earlier this month. His topic was “Policy and People Issues in Regional Climate Change.” News 5 was provided with some excerpts and comments he made to the press following the […]
The Mexican Embassy is inviting the public to a free concert Saturday night at the Bliss featuring a youth orchestra from Quintana Roo. The Orquesta Sinfonica Juventil has been a part of the Quintana Roo School of Music since 1994 and has performed in Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Campeche, as well as their home state. […]
Alumni of the Belize Technical College have embarked on an ambitious project to bring together past graduates of the institution before it was amalgamated into the University of Belize. Adele Ramos, herself a past student of Technical, is doing some of the leg work for the reunion effort and today she told News 5 that […]
Food, glorious food. Belizeans certainly love their food. So it was no surprise that there was an enthusiastic response to B.T.B.’s “Taste of Belize” training session. Today Patrick Jones got a chance to sample the fruits of their labour. Patrick Jones, Reporting They are not unaccustomed to the heat of the kitchen, but these sixteen […]
He made a bold run for freedom by loosening the bars over his cell door, but twenty three year old Luis Urbina Junior could not evade the long arm of the law for long. Around two-thirty this afternoon Urbina was captured in a cane field near Xaibe Village, but he didn’t go quietly. According to […]
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has denied an application by two Belizean men to have their ongoing trial in connection with one of the biggest drug busts in Belize restarted. Hadrian and Robert Hertular are being tried for a May 2001 drug seizure during which Belizean law enforcement authorities confiscated two thousand, five hundred and fifty-four pounds […]
It’s a subject that the average citizen may feel is beyond his or her comprehension, not to mention interest. But for a country like Belize, which lives or dies according to its commerce with the outside world, the subject of international trade is critical. Today I had the chance to speak to the men who […]
Foreign Minister Godfrey Smith is in Barbados attending the seventh meeting of the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations. While most of the meeting will be taken up with discussion of the situation in Haiti, Smith took time out today to sign a memorandum of understanding with Antigua and Barbuda under which Belize’s Embassy […]
Belize Electricity Limited has reported a year of solid financial performance. At its annual general meeting, held Wednesday night, the company revealed that for the first time revenues from energy sales jumped the hundred million dollar mark. After tax profits also reached a record, rising eight percent to fourteen point one million dollars for the […]
In sporting news, the Belize Premier Football League has taken a hit with the abrupt departure of one of its eight teams in the middle of the season. Hankook Verdes is pulling itself out of B.P.F.L. play due to what it calls biased behaviour by league executives as well as the officials on the field. […]
The four-day Easter weekend may have put a dent in your pocketbook, but if you’ve recovered enough to go out this weekend, the folks at the House of Culture are inviting you to something special on Friday night. Patrick Jones, Reporting The show will feature beautiful young ladies modelling elaborate fashions from all over the […]
More visitors than most of us ever imagined now flock to enjoy Belize’s natural wonders. But while tourists from Milwaukee to Melbourne are enjoying themselves in our forests, rivers, and sea, most Belizeans have yet to catch the jungle fever. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods discovered that imbalance may not be permanent. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
If the process of setting utility rates seem complicated, that’s because it is…and to be perfectly honest, the medium of television does not deal very well with complexities. But behind all the financial jargon relating to what the P.U.C. calls a seventeen percent revenue increase for Belize Water Services, one thing is clear: somebody’s going […]
