Since April fifth, when U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow released the text of the agreement between Government and Innovative Communications Corporation for the sale of majority ownership in B.T.L., both the Opposition and a wide range of independent critics have been vocal in their denunciation of the deal. For its part, save for a few innocuous […]
The body of a man feared drowned over the weekend has been recovered. Around two on Tuesday afternoon, a search team including police and relatives of nineteen year old Andrew Castro came upon the young man’s corpse floating in the water just off Caye Chapel. Castro, who was reportedly intoxicated at the time of his […]
The first conviction has been achieved under the recently enacted trafficking in persons legislation. According to a police press release, fifty year old Mildred Villanueva appeared today in Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court and pleaded guilty. She was fined one thousand dollars or in default a year in prison. The charges stem from the discovery of […]
He claims he was the victim of a beating at the hands of the police. And while Asban Gordon had the bruises and blood stains to prove he’s been roughed up, he maintains he did nothing to provoke the cops. According to Gordon, the incident happened around midday today in front of Mars Spicy Kitchen […]
The thirty-fourth annual convention of the Belize National Teacher’s Union got underway today in Corozal. Among speakers appearing at the two-day event are Education Minister Francis Fonseca, Corozal Town Mayor Mario Narvaez, and B.N.T.U. President Anthony Fuentes. Union members from all ten branches were expected to attend. The theme for the convention is “B.N.T.U.: continuously […]
It is a threat that thousands of Belizeans face every year, the product of a growing population that continues to expand into terrain that is highly susceptible to wildfires. Today I visited what is no doubt only the first of many blazes to come. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Black smoke could clearly be seen rising above […]
The pilot of a flight from Kanantik resort to the P.G.I.A. this morning had to make an emergency landing in a swamp near the airport. Fortunately, he got the plane, and the passengers, on the ground safe and sound. News 5 was at the scene. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It has still not yet been determined […]
Relations between Belize and Guatemala have been simmering on the diplomatic back burner over the last few months, but the heat was turned up last week when a group of Guatemalan xate farmers attacked a Belizean patrol unit inside the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. The joint B.D.F./Police patrol took one of the Guatemalans into custody. The […]
Caye Caulker police and the Castro family of Belize City have still not recovered the body of nineteen-year-old Andrew Castro, presumed drowned after he fell off his boat over the weekend. According to the family, Castro who is the captain of the vessel named Liz was chartered by a group of friends to go to […]
In another tragic incident, on Holy Saturday another man drowned, this time while attempting to save the lives of several other swimmers. Reports are that Juan Manuel Orellano was with a group of friends and family at Grace Bank near Sandhill when two girls encountered difficulty in the water. Juan and his father jumped into […]
Also this weekend, a traffic accident on Holy Saturday resulted in the death of a Belize City man. According to police, forty-five year old Winston Smith was a passenger in a Grand Cherokee, which was traveling on the Western Highway towards Belize City when the vehicle crashed into the Roaring Creek Bridge. Winston Smith suffered […]
Police in Corozal have charged a man in connection with the brutal murder of seventeen-year-old Sheila Hall over a week ago in San Antonio Village; he is twenty-seven year old Shane Morgan. Hall’s decomposing body was discovered last Tuesday morning by a man who had gone to cut bush on a piece of land situated […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this dish of Sports Monday. We hope you enjoyed the Easter and we know you know that the Easter always brings the annual Cross Country Cycle Classic on Holy Saturday, so we take you immediately out to Georgie August on the Western Highway for the […]
A petroleum haulers strike couldn’t have come at a worse time, just as thousands of Belizeans are hitting the highways and waterways to get away for the Easter weekend. But although the Belize Petroleum Haulers Association were adamant about their refusal to continue working without a contract with Shell Belize, a meeting convened by Minister […]
A woman is reported to have attacked a fisherman with a hatchet on Wednesday night. Daniel Lanza, sixty-two, was admitted to the K.H.M.H. with wounds to his neck, left ear, and shoulder. Lanza told police that he was at the fish market on Vernon Street when he got into an argument with a woman and […]
A Guatemalan has been detained after police on patrol in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve reported being fired at. The officers were on patrol in the Las Cuevas area on April seventh and say four shots were fired at them from persons in the bush. They fired back and saw three people running away. The officers […]
Good Friday is described as the day of “greatest grief” for Christians. Many traditions and superstitions are associated with the day. In Belize, many people avoid swimming in the sea or river, set eggs in glasses to try and see the future, or look for flowers on the ruda plant to bring good fortune. Perhaps […]
It’s one of Belize’s most passionately followed sports, and there is always a hefty helping of nationalism surrounding the outcome of the biggest cycle race of the year. News 5 hit the road early this morning and met up with the competitors from both home and abroad. Janelle Chanona, Reporting After hundreds of hours of […]
Due to holidays in celebration of Easter, the next newscast will be on Tuesday, April 13th.
Later in this newscast we will air a story about the observance of World Health Day, which for the first time is focussing on traffic accidents as a major health problem. Of course, it’s just a coincidence, but tonight we open our coverage with a road mishap… although this particular type of fender bender does […]
Fire investigators have sifted through the debris left in the wake of Tuesday evening’s fire at the Simon Quan warehouse on New Road. Their determination: it was a construction accident. According to Fire Chief Henry Baizar, sparks from welding works being carried out inside the building ignited some foam material and mattresses. Baizar believes that […]
Until a cure or vaccine for AIDS is discovered, the only hope in stopping the pandemic is behaviour change through education. And that’s exactly what a group of young people were promoting this week in Belize City. Patrick Jones reports on the latest effort to keep Belizeans free of the deadly virus. Patrick Jones, Reporting […]
The World Health Organization reports that each year road traffic injuries kill one point two million men, women and children around the world. The problem has become so great that for the first time in its history, WHO has dedicated its annual World Health Day to highway safety. In Belize, the occasion was marked by […]
It was chaos on Queen Street and New Road late this evening as a fire at the Simon Quan warehouse sent authorities scrambling to keep the blaze from spreading to the congested downtown business area. The alarm was raised around five o’clock this evening and in the ensuing effort to put the blaze out, News […]
For the second time in less than two weeks we regret to report the murder of a teenaged girl in the Corozal District. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods hit the road early and has just returned with her story. Amparita Sanker, Sister “Well, we never believe that mi wah happen, we never believe that mi wah […]
