Pundits may speculate on the relative popularity of the nation’s two political parties but one point on which both P.U.P. and U.D.P. may agree is that politicians and the process of government are today held in lower esteem then at any point in recent memory. How that situation has come to pass is another story…but […]
And in that spirit of disclosure and transparency on matters of public interest, this morning Prime Minister Said Musa addressed the financial crisis of the telecommunications company Intelco, and the still secret contract the government of Belize signed with the company. Prime Minister Said Musa ?I don?t think people should expect the government to be […]
And while we’re still on the subject of transparency, government appears to be very sensitive regarding a plan to involve the private sector in developing the area around the Caracol archeological site. On Monday of this week an unknown source distributed to the news media copies of what purported to be an unsigned memorandum of […]
Police have arrested the man they believe is responsible for Monday’s killing on the banks of the Macal River. Dionysio Salazar Jr. was today charged with the murder of Rodney August. August, while in the company of a female companion, was fatally attacked with a machete. According to police, before he died, August was able […]
In the past, we have been known to gently needle the Belize Tourism Board for shouting its good news from the rooftops, but keeping quiet about any developments that hint of negativity. Tonight, we have been proven wrong. Buried in the fifth paragraph of a BTB press release comes word that for the first time […]
School may be out for the summer, but this doesn’t mean Belize’s educators are sleeping late. As News 5’s Patrick Jones discovered, the process of learning never takes a break. Patrick Jones, Reporting It sounds, and even looks like a typical classroom, but the teachers of Holy Redeemer Primary School have traded places with their […]
Just as not all teachers are on holiday, it’s not necessarily true that all Belizean children are running wild. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited one site in Belize City where youthful energy was being usefully channeled. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Looking at eleven-year-old Mike Smith, you would not know that only five months ago, he […]
Police in San Ignacio have detained a man believed to be the machete-wielding murderer who chopped a man to death on Monday afternoon. According to police, twenty-two year old Rodney August was on the banks of the Macal River in Santa Elena Town along with an unnamed female companion, when he was attacked. August, who […]
Whether by extradition or kidnapping, they have been plucking their high value criminal suspects from Belize with regularity…but in a very short time the United States government will be shipping home one of Belize’s most wanted. His name is Jason Flores. In January of 1999 the then twenty-six year Flores allegedly abducted a ten-year-old girl […]
Two Guatemalan youths, one a sixteen year old, will spend time in Hattieville Prison, after they were busted for illegally harvesting Xate leaves in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve. Sixteen-year-old Mauricio Mota and nineteen-year-old Erwin Juarez were arrested and charged on Saturday after a joint police-Belize Defence Force patrol caught them harvesting the exotic leaves in […]
Nine days after his bullet ridden body was discovered at the Salt Creek shooting range, authorities appear to have made little progress in finding the killer of Nadir Husman. Today his mother, Yvonne Moore, appealed to the public for any information that might produce a break in the case. Yvonne Moore, Mother of Murder Victim […]
Church leaders from across the country have taken a break from their congregations to attend a three day workshop in Belize City, dealing with pastoral care for people infected with and affected by HIV and AIDS. Organized by a group called the Commission for a Faith Based Response to HIV/AIDS, the workshop is the second […]
There is good news tonight for a whole lot of Belizean children. Although the final details have not been ironed out, it appears that the Y.W.C.A. will, in a few weeks time, be able to operate its swimming pool on St. Thomas Street and once again offer its range of popular swimming classes to the […]
The steady stream of cultural activities continues in Belize City with what seems like a new event opening virtually every week. Tonight the venue is the Mexican Cultural Institute and the medium is photography. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has a preview. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The first time that Mexican photographer Eduardo Arco visited Belize was […]
They have been one of the most durable bands in modern Belizean history, but come next week the sounds of Santino’s Messengers will be heard only on your favourite electronic playback device. Recently I spent some time with the guys to find out the story behind the music. Santino Castillo, Santino?s Messengers ?So this is […]
Caught between the rock of overwhelming debt and the hard place of almost non-existent cash flow, the telecommunications company known as INTELCO appeared to take one step closer to the brink of disaster today as it closed three district offices in Orange Walk, Belmopan, and at the airport, and let go an undetermined number of […]
Corozal police have charged three young men, one of them a minor, following the stabbing death of twenty-two-year-old Miguel Angel Lin. According to police, Lin was at the Miramontes Bar in Santa Elena around eleven-thirty on Saturday night when he apparently became involved in an argument with sixteen-year-old Jose Omar Machado, eighteen-year-old Antonio Anderson and […]
Belize City resident Crystal Woodye, believed to be in her early twenties, lies in a critical condition tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The young woman was inside her house on Neal’s Pen Road around eight this morning when she was shot in the face. The bullet entered Woodye’s left cheek and she has […]
A two-year-old Dangriga boy has died tragically from electrocution. According to police, the child, identified as Cory Rosa, was playing in a yard with his siblings when he touched the live wire that the family used to get current from a neighbour. According to the mother, Patricia Rosa, she was sleeping around eight-thirty on Saturday […]
Police in Belmopan are investigating the circumstances behind the discovery of a dead body found Sunday in the Belize River. The corpse, found behind the Warrie Head Lodge, has been identified as twenty-eight-year-old Felix Jimenez of Ontario Village. A post mortem is scheduled at Western Regional Hospital.
With construction about to start on a modern cruise and port complex in Belize City, it appears that the administration of the country’s maritime interests is also expanding to meet new challenges. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Major (Retired) Lloyd Jones, Ports Commissioner ?You could never be a hundred percent secure. I think that […]
Belize is currently hosting the third Central American Air Navigation Experts Working Group. The meeting, which opened this morning at the Princess Hotel, includes the participation of the International Civil Aviation Organization and the Central American Corporation for Air Navigation Services. According to Department of Civil Aviation operations officer, Gilberto Torres, the gathering is just […]
Summer vacation officially started this week for thousands of the country’s students. And while most will travel to vacation spots at home and abroad, a group of forty-five teachers will spend the first half of their summer break in the classroom, working towards their Masters degree in Education. Coordinator of the Masters in Education programme, […]
Rex Nettleford; his name has long been synonymous with the University of the West Indies–and to honour him UWI has created a travelling exhibition. That presentation is now in Belize…and News 5’s Patrick Jones checked it out. The exhibition chronicles the inspiring rise of Professor Rex Nettleford from humble beginnings in rural Jamaica to become […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we?re rolling out another portion of Sports Monday. The Regents Insurance Cup playoffs found two winless ball clubs Saturday night inside the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in week two of the post season as Builders Hardware Bandits played host to Griga United of Dangriga. Shall we say both ball clubs […]
