The police thought that he was bitten by a snake. Relatives told News 5 they believe he died of natural causes as he had complained of stomach pains prior to his death. Today the mystery deepened as police pathologist Doctor Mario Estradabran released the findings an autopsy performed on the body of Jose Luis Mario […]
While cops in the north pursue a killer or killers, their counterparts in Belize City are trying to get a straight story from a group of youths involved in a shooting incident on Eve Street. Police responded to a call about a domestic dispute around one o’clock this morning, but when they showed up, they […]
Belize Water Services Limited is currently in the middle of one of its most trying periods since taking over control of Belize’s water supply. What B.W.S. officials describe as “a major incident” on the Belmopan distribution system last weekend, left thousands of residents in the capital and surrounding villages high and dry. Torrential rains dumped […]
While the Caribbean Court of Justice was at the top of the Prime Minister’s agenda this morning, today’s press conference ranged far and wide. Here are some excerpts of the main questions and answers. Has the bond issue failed? Prime Minister, Said Musa “Because of the volatility in the financial markets, particularly with the emerging […]
There is no denying that the last five years have brought a revolution in the quality of health services available in Belize. From CAT scans to neonatal care, whether in private clinics or public hospitals, ailments that once sent Belizeans rushing to Chetumal are now routinely being taken care of at home. But having new […]
The delegation was larger than any put together for talks with Guatemala…but then again the stakes are perhaps just as high. The subject was trade and the venue was Geneva, where an eleven-member group travelled to plead the nation’s case for a fair deal to the World Trade Organization. According to a government release, Minister […]
A Belize City man is recovering from gunshot wounds after a shooting incident on Vernon Street last night. According to police reports, twenty-seven year old Michael Welch was playing pool with his friends at the Red House Bar, at the corner of Vernon Street and East Collect Canal just after seven, but unbeknownst to the […]
Another Belize registered ship has been busted for drugs on the high seas. On Wednesday, Spanish police boarded the vessel “Africa 1” one hundred and forty kilometres off that country’s port of Cadiz and seized four point five tons of cocaine. Four Greeks and an Italian were arrested. The seventy-foot fishing trawler, which has been […]
Sunday was observed as World Population Day and number of activities are taking place this week to commemorate the occasion. This morning, Belize City Mayor David Fonseca was presented with a poster that signifies the progress that Belize and other countries have made in population issues. Present at the short ceremony were Jewel Quallo Rosberg, […]
The Public Utilities Commission today announced a new initiative, which it says, is designed to make the use of electricity safer in Belize. According to the P.U.C., the approved practice for connection of electricity supply to all buildings will now require a certificate from a licensed wireman, technician or engineer before Belize Electricity Limited can […]
Sexual abuse and exploitation: On a list of Belize?s social problems, it would rank at or near the top. But before a problem can be solved, it must first be exposed. And that’s what was happening today in Lord’s Bank. New’s 5’s Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting The over one hundred girls and young […]
It may be the first time in Belize’s political history that there has been any suspense over a vote in the House of Representatives. With the Government in need of Opposition support to pass a constitutional amendment to establish the Caribbean Court of Justice, the name of the game is “Let’s make a deal.” Amid […]
An Orange Walk man is dead tonight; the victim of what police are saying appears to be the result of a confrontation with a snake. According to police, the body of forty-two year old Jose Luis Mario Gonzalez was found in a cane field in Trinidad village around eight thirty last night. A relative of […]
Representatives of the fisheries and aquaculture sectors of Central America are meeting in Belize City this week for the first national forum on continental water bodies. It’s a regional project, the first of its kind, funded by the Republic of China on Taiwan. It seeks to give governments of the seven Central American countries a […]
On July second reporter Patrick Jones visited a stretch of the Cave’s Branch River near Frank’s Eddy, where villagers had complained that quarrying activities in the waterway posed a major threat to their growing ecotourism business. Today it appears that Belmopan has listened to their concerns and acted to safeguard the ecological health of the […]
It’s a programme that is often cited as a success for the organisers-namely the Belize Police Department–as well as the thousands of young participants. This week the Police Cadet Corps is winding up its annual summer camp in Benque Viejo and News 5’s Jacqueline Woods paid the kids a visit. Alma Worrell, CPL, Police Cadet […]
It’s not often we lead our newscast with a story occurring outside of Belize, but this one hit us hard. Belizean Marion Jones, holder of three Olympic gold medals and generally assumed to be the finest female athlete on the planet, has failed to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team in her premier event, the […]
Shortly before noon today, San Ignacio police were alerted to the discovery of human remains found in Belizean territory just this side of the Guatemala border. Authorities say from information they have gathered from bits of a tattered passport found near the set of bones, they believe the remains are those of a Guatemalan woman. […]
Apart from those bones at the border, we are happy to report that there were no murders or shootings over the weekend…but one man was badly beaten during a robbery. The attack took place in Dangriga around ten-thirty on Friday night. According to police, around eleven that night they were called out to Southern Regional […]
Authorities in Punta Gorda have detained two people in connection with a break in that occurred at one of that town’s business establishments. Police say sometime between Thursday night and early Friday morning thieves broke into the store on Main Middle Street owned by twenty-four year old Frank Madrid. He reported missing from his store […]
San Ignacio police say four men who decided to visit their municipality for the purpose of crime will think twice before they come again. They report that early Saturday evening thirty-eight year old Leonard Augustine of Seine Bight, forty-six year old Ansel Welch of Gales Point and Belize City residents twenty-seven year old Wayne Castillo […]
Cabinet says no decision was ever taken on the project and the minister of culture says he’s against it…but those disclaimers have still not allayed fears that government may permit some form of privatization of the ancient Maya Site of Caracol. With the Belize Tourism Industry Association and Belize Ecotourism Association already on record with […]
It may be the wealthiest urban area in the nation, but residents of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, have not had access to a corresponding level of medical care. Now, thanks to a partnership between a service club and government, that situation may soon be remedied. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports.
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?ve logged on to this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Sagitun of Independence and Juventus of Orange Walk clashed at the People?s Stadium yesterday in what can be viewed as a preview of the Championship series inside the Regent Cups Insurance Cup tournament. It?s all smiles […]
The Police have brought formal charges in connection with two recent robberies that occurred at sea. For the jacking of the fishing boat Yanise, which occurred on June twenty-first, at Tobacco Range, the police charged Lincoln “Kilo Boy” Allen, Leonardo Cassanova, and Owen Parham, a.k.a. Oscar Seguro. Parham/Seguro was charged in absentia because he is […]
