Rafael Martinez, Gold Rush Host ?I say he wins five thousand dollars. What do you say? You say three. My goodness gracious, he?s won himself one thousand five hundred tax free dollars. Let?s give him a big, big round of applause.? That’s how much money Brian Snagg, the latest winner in the Court’s Gold Rush […]
The Ford Motor Company today launched its 2004 Conservation and Environmental Grants Programme in Belize, making us one of more than sixty countries participating in the initiative. This is the second year Ford and one of its subsidiaries, Jaguar, is providing funding for non-profit groups and individuals working to enhance environmental conservation and cultural heritage […]
School’s out for summer…well almost. And in case you are a parent desperately looking for a positive programme for your child to participate in, tonight News 5?s Jacqueline Woods offers a few options. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting As summer rapidly approaches, Belizean parents will be scrambling to find summer programmes to enrol their children. Young men […]
It was the kind of weekend that has become a staple on the Monday media circuit: Keen competition on the sporting field, first class entertainment on the stage and a morgue filled to capacity with the victims of murder and bad driving. We’ll begin with the murders. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from the Salt […]
The weekend’s second homicide occurred on Sunday, this time in Orange Walk Town. Nineteen-year-old Honduran Nulvis Gomez was pronounced dead on arrival at Northern Regional, the result of a massive cut wound to the side of the neck. According to police, around nine-forty-five p.m. Gomez was involved in an argument over money with one Daniel […]
She was returning to the jewel after eighteen years in Los Angeles…but Shawn Smith’s homecoming to the land of her birth lasted only a matter of hours. After a long trip through Mexico, she managed to hitch a ride with a family headed to Belize City. That ride ended just before midnight on Saturday night. […]
Meanwhile, a man has been arrested in connection with another deadly accident that occurred in the Cayo District over the weekend. According to San Ignacio police around twelve-fifteen on Sunday afternoon, twenty-three year old Jorge Freissen, a resident of Spanish Lookout, was driving his Plymouth van on the Spanish Lookout Road toward Blackman Eddy. Inside […]
While resulting in some significant busts of illegal guns, the 922 hotline has been plagued by suspicions over confidentiality practically from the time it was launched last year. Now, with the help of the Rotary Club of Belize, the Crimestoppers concept is about to undergo an overhaul. Incoming Rotary Club President, Alberto Young, says his […]
With the seemingly unending flow of violent crime and highway carnage it’s easy to forget that the overwhelming majority of Belizeans are not only law abiding citizens, but actually love and care for each other. Over the weekend News 5’s Jacqueline Woods took a ride up the road to Ladyville–not to report on a tragedy–but […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. With the National Football Team having returned from the World Cup qualifiers at Canada, the Regent Insurance Cup Playoff kicked off in earnest over the weekend. Yesterday at the People?s Stadium, the number two seed in this four-team playoffs, Juventus of Orange Walk, held court […]
On the first day this week without a murder, it may seem like overkill to lead tonight’s newscast with a story on a homicide–especially one that occurred back in March. But the unsolved death of an American woman in Gales Point Village has left the picturesque community in a state of fear and agitation. This […]
Another Mennonite child has died in a traffic mishap caused by a family member. One-year-old Giana Kornelson was killed on Thursday when her aunt, twenty-year-old Anita Loewen, ran the child over with her Ford F-150 pickup while driving in the family’s yard in Spanish Lookout. Police are investigating. In a similar incident last weekend in […]
Belize’s international credit rating may be in for some trouble. That news comes courtesy of the ratings service Moody’s which announced that it was conducting a review of the country’s status amid concerns that current economic policy could not support the sustainability of increased debt. Such a move, which would increase Belize’s borrowing costs, comes […]
She’s employed as secretary to the policy analyst in the Ministry of Agriculture, but this afternoon Nigna Andrews, known to most of her friends as Mimiom, collected big–not her retirement benefits, but one of the largest payouts in Belize’s lotto history. On Wednesday night the jackpot stood at a tidy one hundred and thirty-five thousand […]
A team of business experts from the Republic of China on Taiwan today met with local business people in Belize City. The half-day seminar dealt with various aspects of trade cooperation between Belize and Taiwan. According to Counsellor Yin-Yih Lee, the participants shared views on how to maximize mutual benefits from local products by applying […]
The battlefield park: it’s a place where people from all walks of life cross paths on a daily basis, some passing through on their way to do business, others meeting old friends and some just relaxing in the shade. But this afternoon it was the people who’ve taken up permanent residence inside the park that […]
Belize is well known internationally for its large population of manatees…but how many of us have actually seen one up close? This morning if you happened to be on the Southern Foreshore near the Bliss, you would have seen, not one, but perhaps as many as eight manatees cavorting in the shallow muddy waters at […]
The fledgling local movie industry is tonight celebrating another milestone with the premiere showing of the latest production entitled: “Risking it All.” According to writer/director Kimberly Vasquez, the ninety-minute film is a sequel to her first effort “Choices”, with the issue of HIV/AIDS as the central theme. Vasquez says that it took her nine months […]
Like the northside Belize City neighbourhood of Belama, the new bedroom community at mile eight on the Western Highway is known as a quiet suburb with a strong sense of cooperative spirit. But tonight mile eight joins Belama in another similarity, that is as the scene of a murder. That’s right, for the fourth time […]
It may not have been a murder, but another M-word–mayhem–is a fitting description of what went on this morning when police decided to make their presence felt in one Belize City neighbourhood that didn’t seem to appreciate it. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It?s not the first time that Belize City police have come in contact with […]
While the police are trying to keep abreast of the criminals, the department today got a modest helping hand from the business community. Arun Hotchandani of the Mirage group of companies operating in the Corozal Free Zone this morning handed over a shipment of ten top of the line computers and peripherals to Commissioner of […]
In accepting the computers, Police Commissioner Carmen Zetina said the donation, which will be used as part of a project to fully computerize the police department, is evidence that the community-police relationship is deepening. But in an interview with News 5 after the ceremony, Zetina said that there is much more that the community can […]
She won an unprecedented five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and in celebrating the feat draped herself in the Belize flag. But tonight world champion sprinter Marion Jones is trying to overcome a hurdle that is threatening to keep her out of the summer games in Athens. The United States Anti-Doping Agency is investigating […]
The names and rankings were announced several weeks ago, but today was the day that the hard working students got to take their bows and bask in the spotlight of official recognition. Janelle Chanona This morning, to an audience of their biggest fans: their family, friends and teachers, the nation?s top scorers in this year […]
For the third straight day, Belize City police have had the unpleasant task of collecting a body from the roadside. This time the crime scene was in the area of Marigold Lane and Jasmine Street. Residents tell News 5 that around ten-thirty on Tuesday night they observed forty-five year old Gilbert Reyes staggering down Tibruce […]
