Meanwhile police in Orange Walk have charged one man with murder after a fight with a pair of brothers in the bus terminal led to a fatal stabbing. According to police reports, around eight thirty on Friday night, Oscar and Elmer Pech got onto the last bus bound for Corozal Town. But within minutes, the […]
Investigations continue into a motorcycle accident in Belize City that left a young man dead. Around eleven Monday morning, twenty-two year old Haseef Hassan was driving a GSXR 750 on Seashore Drive when something went very wrong. The bike slammed into this cement fence and stayed there for the entire length of the property. Tracks […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a fifteen year old hitchhiker. According to police reports, late Saturday night, thirty year old Jerome Goff was heading home from a party when he stopped at the airport junction in Ladyville to pick up a young man whom he knew only as […]
A Belize City family is in mourning tonight after an accident just off the coast claimed the life of a young father. As News 5’s Jacqueline Woods explains, what should have been routine for the fisherman, suddenly turned deadly. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-seven year old Zenaida Castro had been looking forward to a life with […]
Cops in the Cayo District are tonight appealing to area residents to help them solve a robbery turned murder in the border town that left an elderly man dead. According to the authorities, seventy-two year old Walton Usher had been working as a watchman for a local business on Monday night. But sometime during his […]
The case of Maria Roches, the teacher who took the Roman Catholic Church to court after being dismissed for getting pregnant out of wedlock has moved one step closer to conclusion. The three member Court of Appeal, sitting in Belize City, this afternoon dismissed an appeal brought forward by the Catholic Management. After Roches was […]
It’s one of those words most students like to hear: scholarship. The Michael Ashcroft Foundation is once again accepting applications for Belizeans to study towards a Business degree in the United Kingdom. From the applicant pool, nine students will be selected to attend a three to four year programme at the Anglia Polytechnic University in […]
This afternoon, employees of the National Sports Council staged a protest at the Council’s offices below the Belize City Centre demanding monies they say G.O.B. is refusing to pay. The workers, who are members of the Christian Workers Union used their lunch break to hold up posters calling on government to fulfil a promise made […]
There is good news tonight for persons infected or affected by AIDS in Belize. Thanks to money collected through a telethon held in August, starting this week, the Living with Hope project will begin accepting applications from persons crippled by the financial reality of the disease. Chairman of the National AIDS Commission, Dolores Balderamos Garcia, […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening I?m James Adderley with this Tuesday version of Sports Monday. With the highest level of Belizean Football play still in the off season, the focus remains on the Reginald Jex Challenge Cup inside Sandhill where the struggle to get into the big leagues continue. As we look at the pre-game […]
Due to a public and bank holiday in observance of Pan American Day, there will be no newscast on Monday, October 11th, 2004.
On Thursday BEL announced it was requesting a short term rate hike to offset the rising cost of fuel and its effect on their operations. They said it was a “last resort” after eighteen months of attempts to improve their liquidity position, taking measures which included early retirement incentives for thirty percent of their staff […]
A delegation of eight workers from the Belize Electricity Limited is home after a two-week deployment to hurricane ravaged Grand Bahamas. While in Freeport, the group, headed by Line Supervisor Rodney Baird, worked alongside other Caribbean utility companies to restore power after hurricane Frances practically destroyed the country’s infrastructure. Speaking with News 5 today at […]
The Special Senate Select Committee appointed to inquire into the management and investment portfolio of the Social Security Board met this week to begin an initial review of documents the Committee requested from the SSB. Included among these were records of board meetings, audits and annual reports, board meeting procedures and regulations, a list of […]
The Belize Tourism Industry Association has a new Executive Board with Lucy Fleming of Chaa Creek voted in as President, succeeding Steven Schulte. The new First Vice President is Alberto Villanueva, second Vice President is Rosella Zabaneh, Treasurer is Santiago Gomez, and Secretary is Ramon Reyes, Jr. During Thursday’s Annual General Meeting at the Princess […]
A man listed as one of Florida’s top ten fugitives has been apprehended in Belize. Reinaldo Silvestre, wanted in Miami for posing as a doctor and performing cosmetic surgery among other charges was apprehended by a coordinated effort between US and Belizean authorities this week and has been remanded to Hattieville prison pending extradition. He […]
The shrimp industry is one of the most lucrative export earners for Belize, with over one hundred million dollars in income last year. In an effort to keep the marine delicacy in healthy production, the Belize Shrimp Growers Association in collaboration with other agencies will be hosting an international shrimp culture symposium in Belize next […]
September was full of them, October has another one, and then November, and of course December brings Christmas. The Belizean calendar is full of holidays. But what does all this time off cost us? Patrick Jones did a little investigating to find out. Patrick Jones, Reporting An ordinary calendar year is comprised of three hundred […]
A couple of years ago, News 5 toured the site of a proposed children’s home in Flowers Bank. This week, we toured the new facility. As you will see, the home and the setting are welcoming indeed. Miller Tyler, Belizean Christian Efforts Children?s Home ?It?s finally over. I mean it?s finally at the end. I […]
They represent more than four hundred tour guides, tour operators, and hoteliers and today, the Belize Tourism Industry Association is not happy. After taking a good look at the contract signed between the Carnival Corporation and the Government of Belize, the BTIA is seeing red. According to the organization’s President, Steve Schulte, the clauses contained […]
Just two months after a price hike, the cost of butane has gone up again, by five dollars. According to the Ministry of Fisheries, Cooperatives, Commerce and Industry, the new charges for a one hundred pound cylinder are as follows: Belize City: eighty-three dollars Belmopan: eighty-five dollars San Ignacio: eighty-six dollars Benque Viejo: eighty-seven dollars […]
And if Belize Electricity Limited has its way, pretty soon, Belizean consumers will also be paying more for power. In a press release issued by the electricity company today, BEL says it has applied to the Public Utilities Commission for permission to raise its rates. BEL says the changes in their prices per kilowatt hour […]
Police are tonight looking for two men involved in separate incidents of forgery. According to authorities, for an unspecified period of time, checks in the name of Allan Lucario, valued at more than three thousand dollars were cashed through the Bank of Nova Scotia. It wasn’t until last Saturday that the unlucky customer, area representative […]
Tonight a twenty-one year old Belize City woman is hospitalised after she was shot in front of her home. Kareema Robinson told News 5 that around eleven thirty last night, she was about to enter her yard on Morning Glory Street when a bullet, apparently not intended for her, found its mark in her right […]
Their motto is: “Helping People to Help Themselves” but in an effort to introduce the services being offered by the Ministry of Human Development, and make the process easier, the Ministry has embarked on an ambitious public education campaign. The initiative is in the form of an Educational Forum on Social Services. Human Resources Development […]
