A land dispute in Benque Viejo del Carmen is now in the hands of the Supreme Court, complicated by politics and missing documents. According to the Mayor of that municipality, Said Badi Guerra, the property in question had been designated as a park years ago, and even though it was later subdivided into lots and […]
We have heard about the city’s shortage of parking spaces, but this is carrying things a bit too far. Around five this evening this Nissan Frontier was making a turn from South Street onto West Canal when a pickup truck belonging to the Customs Department travelling south on West Canal ran the stop sign. It […]
With email, internet, and gradually declining international telephone rates, most of us don’t write as many letters as we used to….which means we are also losing our familiarity with stamps. But those tiny square bits of paper, as News 5’s Jacqueline Woods discovered, are not just for the postman. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The exhibition entitled […]
The waters, cayes, and coastline that make up the Gulf of Honduras are still considered well off the beaten path…not just by tourists from North America and Europe, but even by most residents of the three countries that define it. But as the global stage shrinks and its smaller actors must fight ever harder to […]
One of the laws of physics dictates that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. And while crime does not necessarily behave with the predictability of physics, every now and then a reaction is produced that resonates strongly with a public long fed up with its sense of helplessness and victimization. The latest response […]
In an update on a less satisfying story from Dangriga, police have released three of five men detained in connection with the weekend murder of Melissa Swazo, but have taken into custody another man, believed to be one of the main suspects in the killing of the eighteen year old pregnant woman. Police also announced […]
With an apparent lull in the recent storm of violent crime, law enforcement authorities took the opportunity to do some important P.R. work as part of police week. Today the public–including News 5’s Jacqueline Woods–was invited to Eastern Division headquarters on Queen Street for an open house. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The pictures may have been […]
He did not die in the line of duty, but the Police Department is still mourning the sudden loss of one of its own. Sergeant Denfield Casey, attached to the joint intelligence committee at Belmopan headquarters, passed away last night at home, apparently of a heart attack. Casey, only forty-one years old, joined the police […]
It was a major P.R. event that came just prior to the last general election; the presentation of a fleet of brand new Fords for the Police Department. And while today everyone takes the Ranger pickups and Focus sedans for granted, I’ve always wondered just how the vehicles were holding up. Today I found out. […]
It may remind viewers of bringing coals to Newcastle or better yet, sand to Sandhill… but it’s true – Belize, the home of some of the world’s most delectable seafood, is now importing fish. But while that development seems like a step backward, the reality is a bit more complicated. Janelle Chanona, Reporting According to […]
After several weeks of hard talk and a series of slowdowns and work stoppages, agreement has finally been reached on a new contract for sugar workers. The Belize Worker’s Union and Belize Sugar Industries Limited came to terms Monday night as an open-ended B.W.U. strike lost steam in the face of worker defections and disenchantment […]
The Attorney General’s ministry has announced the official appointment and swearing in of the Court of Appeal. Returning as president is Justice Elliot Mottley, while newcomer Justice Cecil Morrison joins Justices Manuel Sosa and Boyd Carey to round out the four-man panel. Justices Mottley and Morrison were officially sworn in Monday morning during ceremonies in […]
It landed on the Belize side of the Sarstoon River, allegedly after dodging an armed party of pursuers that, depending on whose story you want to believe, included the Guatemalan police, army, air force, and U.S. D.E.A.. Tonight the Bell 206 helicopter with two bullet holes remains under guard in the Toledo District awaiting its […]
He has been missing for more than a month now but despite the disappointment of dead end leads and bureaucratic lethargy, the family of fifty-seven year old Orlando Bodden is still clinging to the hope that they will see their loved one again. Today frustrated family members told News 5 that in the past six […]
A traffic accident on the Iguana Creek road this afternoon claimed the life of an eighteen-year-old man from Blackman Eddy Village. Jareth Ireland was knocked off his bicycle by a Mitsubishi pickup driven by thirty-four year old Elvis Cadle. The Burrel Boom resident told police that he was attempting to overtake two other vehicles on […]
The Attorney General’s ministry has announced the official appointment and swearing in of the Court of Appeal. Returning as president is Justice Elliot Mottley, while newcomer Justice Cecil Morrison joins Justices Manuel Sosa and Boyd Carey to round out the four-man panel. Justices Mottley and Morrison were officially sworn in Monday morning during ceremonies in […]
Belizean students have made their mark at scores of universities around the world, but two recent graduates of S.J.C. Junior College will be charting a new course in September. Javier and Andrea Bosch will take their place in the freshman class at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Javier told News 5 that he […]
There is no doubt that a cadre of talented and energetic painters and sculptors has taken Belizean art to a new level. The challenge, however, is to expand the creative renaissance to the masses. This morning at the Belize City House of Culture, a credible start was made in that effort. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick […]
On the night of February twelfth of this year a rookie police officer found himself looking down the wrong end of a criminal’s loaded gun. When the pistol went off and the bullet struck his head, the young cop’s career, not to mention his life, should have been over. Tonight News 5’s Jacqueline Woods explain […]
It was another murderous weekend in a nation that appears to be blessed with abundant natural beauty and cursed with a corresponding amount of inhumanity among its inhabitants. The latest outrage took place in the once peaceful town of Dangriga. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the details. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Eighteen-year-old Melissa Swazo was eight […]
In the Orange Walk District a man was stabbed to death during a fight. Twenty-year old Armildo Carillo was killed Friday night, allegedly with a switchblade knife wielded by one Marlon Carias. Carias is in custody pending a charge of murder.
A man has been arrested and charged for Friday’s murder of a shopkeeper in the Belama area of Belize City. Thirty-two year old Earl Bowden was today brought to Magistrate’s Court and then remanded to Hattieville. According to police, he was drinking at the shop of Chi Hua Qu Friday evening when he became loud […]
Another policeman is in trouble, this time in Belmopan. The allegations are that he drove drunk, knocked a cyclist to his death, and sped off into the night. Not surprisingly, the victim’s family is both distraught and angry. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This afternoon, Inspector of Police Cardinal Smith appeared in Belmopan Magistrate Curt where he […]
Another collision between a vehicle and pedestrian has left a person dead. Five-year-old Tue Young was knocked down by a car as he crossed Vernon Street on Sunday evening. Driver of the vehicle, sixty-three year old Allan McKoy of Lord’s Bank, told police the child darted out suddenly in front of his vehicle. Young died […]
Around eight-thirty this morning a foetus was discovered in this garbage box on Ferrel’s Lane in Belize City. Following an examination at the K.H.M.H., the foetus, a female believe to be three months from birth, was declared dead. Police are investigating and a post-mortem has been ordered.
