In the not too distant past, if you made your way to Goff’s Caye, chances are yours would be the only boat there. Even a crowded weekend would usually find no more than a half dozen skiffs moored in the clear blue waters off the beach. That, of course, was before the arrival of cruise […]
Police and the victim’s family have been tight lipped about a possible motive and other details, but tonight three men and one woman are behind bars, formally accused of murdering twenty-five year old Nadir Husman on the twentieth of last month. This morning I joined a large and boisterous crowd on Bishop Street as the […]
Eighteen-year-old Fernando Middleton, a Belize City resident, is lucky to be alive after he was sprayed with bullets on Saturday Night. Middleton told police that around eight, he was walking on Baracat Street, when a gold four door car with three men inside, pulled up next to him. According to Middleton, one of the passengers […]
Tonight the police need your help to find the perpetrator of a hit and run accident that occurred just after midnight on Saturday Morning. Authorities say they discovered a young man, later identified as twenty-two year old Leopoldo Moralez, lying in the middle of the Northern Highway between miles eighteen and nineteen. Moralez had a […]
Almost a week after two Guatemalan youths were busted for illegally harvesting Xate leaves in the Chiquibul Forest Reserve, on Sunday, seven more Guatemalan nationals were arrested after they were found doing the same thing. Authorities say around eight thirty that morning, the police and BDF were on a joint jungle patrol in the Caracol […]
They are two important locations for the provision of basic health services to residents of Belize City and over the next few months the Cleopatra White and Matron Roberts Health Centres will undergo major renovation and expansion. This morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand for the signing of the contract. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
Her products have been selling in selected gourmet markets in the United States since 1986. But come September Marie Sharp’s hot pepper sauce will be hitting the taste buds of millions of customers in the south-eastern United States. According to Sharp, she has entered into agreements with the major super market chains of Wal-Mart, Winn-Dixie […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?re plugged into this production of Sports Monday. The quest for the one CONCACAF berth available saw the two-game series between the B.P.F.L.?s Kulture Yabra and the F.F.B.?s Boca Jr.?s conclude inside the Norman Broaster Stadium at Cayo yesterday at San Ignacio. Yabra comes in with […]
Over the last few months we’ve seen homicides claim victims of all shapes and sizes, sexes and ages. So while tonight’s report on the murder of a Belize City teenager may not be unusual, it is still disturbing Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Andrew Fuentes was only fifteen years old when he was gunned down and killed […]
Prime Minister Said Musa will be in Grenada this weekend where he will attend the twenty-fifth CARICOM summit. Two key items on the packed agenda are the single market and economy, and the future of sugar in light of challenges to the present protocol with the European Union. Other important matters for discussion include fisheries […]
The saying “progress brings problems” is a familiar mantra in modern day Belize, and is applicable to everything from traffic jams to health problems. More recently the collision between old practices and new realities has been felt in the burgeoning tourism industry. Our rivers, for example, once highly valued for all the sand and gravel […]
The perennial last-ditch effort to establish a semi-pro basketball league has once again proven successful. And while the female fans are busy doing their hair-nails-clothes thing, News 5’s Janelle Chanona checked out the calibre of the competition. Janelle Chanona, Reporting With little fanfare, but high expectations, tonight Semi-Pro basketball action will take to the hardwood […]
In related news from the world of sports, Belize has a high-powered team entered in one of North America’s most prestigious canoe races…but the problem is the venue has received so much rain that the river is unpaddleable. Armin Lopez, Alex Lisbey, and Daniel Cruz, all veteran champions of our own Ruta Maya race, form […]
A fisherman from Sarteneja Village is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds after he was attacked and robbed at sea. Twenty-five year old Julian Santiago Ricalde told News Five this afternoon that he and his crew were moored near Rendezvous Caye, around sixteen miles southeast of Belize City, around one o’clock on Tuesday evening. Suddenly a […]
The death of a Belize City man whose decomposing body was found on the banks of the Mopan River in Benque Viejo appears to be a case of accidental drowning. According to police press officer G. Michael Reid, thirty-three-year-old Jahlarud Sankey, was apprehended by Guatemalan authorities in Melchor on Tuesday morning, where he was apparently […]
It was the single most deadly month in recent memory…and we can only give thanks that the calendar has turned a page. Beginning with Rubita Oroman Hernandez on the first and ending with Rodney August on the twenty-eighth, a total of sixteen people were victims of homicide during June. The tally included seven in the […]
Intelco is not shutting down. That’s the short answer from C.E.O. Juan McKenzie today in response to questions about the financial crisis the telecommunications company is currently experiencing. In a brief conversation this morning, McKenzie told News 5 that executives had secured additional funding for their operations from Panamanian and European investors. The C.E.O. says […]
The man identified in last night’s newscast as the key player in a proposal to privately develop Belize’s largest Maya archaeological site has strongly defended the project and his involvement in it. In a press release today businessman Eugene Zabaneh referred to his proposal for Caracol as being “in the spirit of national development with […]
This week Belize joined other countries around the world to observe the eighty-second International Cooperatives Day, which is held every year on the first of July. The day highlights the many benefits of cooperatives, speaking about their history, and giving them recognition and support. According to Belize’s Registrar of Cooperatives and Credit Unions, Zenaida Moya, […]
We have not covered many graduations this season, but the one that took place this morning at the Belize City Centre was kind of special. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting Proud parents watched from the sidelines as thirty-four young men took centre stage at the fifth graduation of students from the National […]
The double loss in Canada is history and the 2004 Regent Cup Champion is yet to be decided. So why are we reporting on a midweek football match? James Adderley explains. James Adderley, Reporting The fuel that fires up football in the world is international play, and with the recent kiss and makeup by our […]
He exploded on the local television scene over a decade ago and when Jamaican Oliver Samuels appeared in Belize for the stage version, he was mobbed on the streets virtually everywhere he went. Well, having been off the tube for ten years he may no longer be known to a generation of young Belizeans…but come […]
