Belmopan police are still investigating the cause of a traffic accident on the Western Highway which claimed the life of a young woman from Belmopan. She is twenty-one year old Jamie Lee Zelaya. Reports are that just before seven on Tuesday evening, Zelaya, her seventeen-year-old brother Moamar, and two other people were heading from Belize […]
Guatemala would like to conclude a free trade agreement with Belize. That’s the hope of Foreign Minister, Jorge Briz, as quoted in the Guatemalan daily, Prensa Libre. While not abandoning the territorial claim, Briz called for a deepening of relations between the two countries marked by concrete actions that would promote development in the border […]
In news from the education front, the Government has announced that ten young Belizeans have been awarded scholarships to study at the University of the West Indies in various fields. According to this week’s Cabinet release, Michael Arana will study electrical and computer engineering; Areini Arzu: Environmental Engineering; Herman Castillo: Land Economy and Valuation; Evan […]
We all knew the score almost as soon as the game finished Sunday afternoon: four-nil. What we did not get is feel for, however, was how the World Cup qualifying match between Belize and Canada was actually played. Tonight, having just received the tape via FedEx, James Adderley shares the highlights. James Adderley, Reporting The […]
There has been another murder in what has traditionally been considered one of the city’s quieter residential areas. Phase three of the neighbourhood called Belama was the scene where the latest dead body was found. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid was on location shortly after the discovery and says the victim may have been […]
After experiencing a good deal of embarrassment in 2003, Belize can claim some credit as one of a handful of countries removed from the U.S. State Department’s 2004 sex trafficking blacklist. Belize, along with Bosnia, Suriname, the Dominican Republic, and Georgia were commended for making significant improvements in their efforts to fight what is called […]
Representatives from the special branch sections of twenty-one Caribbean police departments are in Belize to exchange experiences and discuss new strategies in the fight against crime. In his address, Head of Special Branch in Belize, Superintendent Mauricio Uk, stated that in light of global terrorism it is important that the intelligence communities in the region […]
On June twentieth Belizean and foreign cyclists will be pedalling from Benque Viejo Del Carmen to Belize City in the second annual Father’s Day Cycling Classic. The race is hosted by F.M. 2000 and sponsored by Bowen and Bowen Limited. This morning, the company handed over five thousand dollars that will be used to fund […]
There are few institutions in Belize more authentically grass roots than our credit unions. And today the nation’s largest credit union announced a major new initiative to give back even more… to its members and the community. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting The fifty-two page book chronicles what directors of the Holy […]
From the vantage point of Belize City, the cruise ship business consists of endless boat-loads of visitors who disembark at the Tourism Village and wander the old capital in search of its virtues and vices. But while many cruise tourists opt for the city life, a majority choose to head out for more adventurous attractions. […]
The trail of blood may reach from Dangriga to Belize City but tonight police are still trying to find out what led to the murder of Dangriga resident Rialton Pablo Flores. Flores’ body was found after eight this morning lying just off a feeder road near mile three on the Western Highway. It was clad […]
He was shot last month, died of his injuries on Friday and today his wife was charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Authorities are not saying much about why they believe twenty-five year old Florecita Quiroa may have conspired in the shooting death of her husband Jose Merino Quiroa but the evidence appears to be […]
One hundred and ninety thousand dollars in cash. It wasn’t won in Lotto, and all those long-shot bets on the Pistons won’t be paid until Tuesday night at the earliest. So what was that kind of money doing in a Mercedes Benz searched by police on Partridge Street Friday Morning? That’s what they’d like to […]
A Salvadoran living in the Orange Walk District has been arrested after he allegedly knocked down and killed a cyclist on Saturday night. According to police, fifty-nine year old Maximiliano Sarceno, a Guatemalan living in Guinea Grass Village, was riding his bicycle on the Guinea Grass Road around nine-thirty when he was struck by a […]
And not far away, in Shipyard, a one-year-old child is dead after being run over by his father’s tractor. Thirty-three year old Peter Friesen told police that around seven-thirty Friday morning he accidentally ran over his son Abraham. The infant was rushed to the Northern Regional Hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival. Friesen has […]
It was a dispute over six lots in the town of Benque Viejo del Carmen that the mayor said were earmarked for a park and his political opponent claimed were private property. Today the Supreme Court spoke, saying the construction of the park could proceed. But as News 5’s Patrick Jones discovered, the quarrel had […]
While we often hear of huge monetary donations made by the world’s great philanthropists–people like Bill Gates and Ted Turner–perhaps the greatest gift one human being can give another has nothing to do with money. It is the gift of life that is given every time we donate blood. Today, on the occasion of World […]
Good evening I?m James Adderley with this brand new dish of Sports Monday. The word hit the streets yesterday that the National Football Team of Belize had fallen to Canada 4-zip in the first match of this two game World Cup qualifying series at Canada with Canada. We caught up with National Head Coach Anthony […]
The recent dispute between union and management at the Tower Hill factory focussed the public’s attention on the sugar industry: a crucial part of our economy that is often ignored by the media. But if you thought that the big news in sugar is labour relations you’d be wrong. Today at a press briefing held […]
But even as far back as sugar’s glory days in the early seventies authoritative voices were calling for reforms in the industry. According to Minister of Agriculture, Servulo Baeza, there were two main reasons for the lack of action. Servulo Baeza, Min. of Agriculture ?The complacency of saying, well you know this thing will come, […]
It sounded a little bit too good to be true, but when we expressed our doubts to the police they assured us the report was on the up and up. What I’m referring to is a story we ran earlier this week in which a household in Dangriga, led by one John Lambey, rose up […]
Two more convicted murders will not be heading to the gallows. Late this afternoon the Belize Court of Appeal, while upholding the conviction of Jeremy Harris and Deon Slusher, ruled that Justice Troadio Gonzales did not allow the defendants and a social officer a proper hearing with regard to the sentencing phase of the trial. […]
For the two people involved, every wedding is the wedding of a lifetime. But for Ernest Broaster and Tifarah Gill, their trip down the aisle will be extra special…one, because the Radisson and other suppliers will pull out all the stops, and two, because the whole affair will cost them hardly a cent. Today I […]
For close to two millennia it?s been one of the busiest pieces of real estate in Belize. And while the traffic these days consists primarily of tourists, thanks to recent improvements at the site, a visit to Lamanai will be better than ever. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting A trip to Lamanai is really […]
Two young children are still in shock tonight after an attempted kidnapping in the Corozal District. According to police, around seven-thirty on Wednesday night they were called out to an area of Corozal Town known as White Cocal where they found a crowd of people surrounding a small white car. Officers waded through the mob, […]
