Officially, he is a resident of Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala, but fifty-year-old Belizean Edgar Catalan had family ties on both sides of the border. But no matter where he resided, tonight he is dead, the victim of murder. On Saturday morning, just after midnight police came across his taxicab parked suspiciously at the side of […]
Two Belizeans have died in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, thirty-five year old Ramon Pacheco lost his life when the driver of the car in which he was riding lost control of the vehicle and it flipped over on the approach to the Guatemalan border. Pacheco died on the spot of […]
It did not appear on the original weekend police blotter, maybe because there were no serious injuries, but a spectacular accident on the Northern Highway caused quite a commotion in Belize City Saturday night. According to police, this Suzuki Side Kick sitting on top of a Mazda pickup originally collided into the side of a […]
As expected, more charges have been filed against an alleged European con artist. Thirty-five year old Robertino Oprescu, a citizen of Romania, has been charged with theft along with nine counts each of possession of forged documents. The charges arise out of a scam in which Oprescu is accused of stealing over two hundred thousand […]
Some idle residents of Belize’s coastal communities will spend a lifetime of beach combing without ever encountering that highly prized specie known as “Square Grouper.? Well on Sunday, it was the police who were blessed with fisherman’s luck. A maritime patrol operating some ten miles south of Belize City spied a suspicious package floating in […]
Prime Minister Said Musa has returned home following his attendance over the weekend at the summit between European, Latin American, and Caribbean leaders in Guadalajara, Mexico. According to a government release, Musa addressed the meeting, calling for increased investment in education, health, and housing along with the concessionary international financing to implement such programmes. The […]
It has been rumoured for weeks and today it was made official. Director of Immigration Colonel Peter Parchue has served his last day in that post and on Tuesday begins a new career as the number two man at NEMO. Parchue took over the Immigration Department almost two years ago following a twenty-year stint in […]
He was among a group of four lucky Courts customers selected to compete in the monthly Gold Rush Show on Saturday. And while the other three semi-finalists walked away with household appliances, Glenford Archer of Punta Gorda got the chance to spin for five thousand dollars. And when the Gold Rush wheel stopped turning, the […]
On Tuesday night at seven, all eyes will be on the Miss Universe pageant, where Belize’s representative, Leilah Pandy, will take to the stage in Quito, Ecuador. Leilah is generally thought to be one of Belize’s strongest entries in a number of years and has reportedly been received very well by officials, media, and fellow […]
It has been conclusively proven in numerous studies that smoking a cigarette causes everything from cancer to heart disease to impotence. In the face of that kind of information you’d think that anyone who still chose to light up must either be suicidal or stupid. Well…on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day News 5’s […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley, this is Sports Monday. The struggle to make the four-team cut in the Regent?s Insurance Cup playoffs intensified into week thirteen, especially with one more round of play remaining at this juncture. In week thirteen, the San Pedro Seahawks took their post season hopes south to Dangriga where they face […]
Dangriga police have detained one man and are looking for another following a report from a minor that she was raped by both. The incident reportedly occurred sometime last month. The complainant, a fourteen-year-old student from the town, alleges that while she was walking on Yampa Street a red car driven by someone she knew […]
No news is bad news in the case of Jose Coyoc as police are still on the hunt for the thirty-two year old, wanted for murder and attempted rape. Coyoc, a resident of Xaibe Village in the Corozal District, is accused of breaking into the home of forty-three year old Apolonio Tun on Wednesday and […]
Ever since the cruise craze took off in Belize several years ago, there have been rumblings from those in the overnight tourism industry who believed that large numbers of low cost day trippers was not the way to go. But recently those rumblings have moved from late night bar talk at the eco-lodges to the […]
The Belize Red Cross has launched an appeal to help flood victims in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. More than one thousand people are reportedly dead after their houses were swept away by floods following storms that affected the island of Hispaniola last weekend. Fifteen thousand people have been left homeless. Belize Red Cross Acting […]
For the past three years chefs from across the country have been testing their skills in what has become the de facto cooking championship of Belize. This year, according to the sponsor, Belize Tourism Board, fourteen participants will take part in Taste of Belize. B.T.B.’s Product Development Officer and the competition’s coordinator, Janine Alpuche, says […]
Sometimes when we read the headlines and watch the evening news, it’s easy to become depressed over what appears to be all the bad things happening to Belize’s children. And indeed, being a young Belizean appears to be an increasingly dangerous occupation. But despite the problems, the overwhelming number of our young people manage to […]
If you’ve ever tried to read the weekly column in the Reporter, “Weh Ah Gat Fi Seh,” you know that reading Kriol is more easily imagined than accomplished. Today, on the occasion of the release of a Kriol book of short stories, Patrick Jones decided to give it a try. Patrick Jones, Reporting ?Ah memba […]
There are signs of movement tonight in the ongoing labour dispute in the sugar industry. Union and company sources have confirmed to News 5 that at a meeting held today between representatives of Belize Sugar Industries and the Belize Workers Union a new offer was put on the table by the B.W.U. Abandoning its proposal […]
A man believed to be a criminal mastermind is behind bars tonight, the prime suspect in a forgery which allegedly netted him more than two hundred thousand dollars. This man, thirty-five year old Robertino Oprescu, a Romanian national, is the man police believe set up a cobweb of fake companies, forged corporate checks from the […]
Belize and the other hundred and sixty or so other nations of the world are constantly signing international agreements. Some are taken seriously, others quickly forgotten by the signatories. One document that the United Nations seems determined to be remembered involves the status of the planet’s children. Today a U.N. regional representative told journalists that […]
It may have looked like the year’s biggest disaster, but the commotion today in Belmopan was in fact a simulation conducted to better prepare us for the real thing. The exercise was organised by the National Emergency Management Organisation as the culmination of a regional conference dealing with management of disaster scenes. This particular scenario […]
She left Belize over a decade ago with a reputation as the nation’s most accomplished novelist and a job offer at a U.S. University. Today, she was back as keynote speaker on day three of the education summit. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports. Zee Edgell, Author “I learnt that my home language is Creole, but […]
He is not yet a household name in Belize–in fact he’s not even a Belizean. But with a new CD and a hotly promoted concert this weekend at the Bliss, Aurelio Martinez is betting that Paranda music will reach the popular pinnacle that punta rock has presided over for the last two decades. Janelle Chanona, […]
A massive manhunt on both sides of the Northern border is underway tonight for a man accused of murder and attempted rape in Xaibe Village in the Corozal District. Police report that just after midnight this morning, thirty-two year old Jose Coyoc, armed with a sixteen gauge shotgun, broke into the home of forty-three year […]
