They have relied heavily on the generosity of friends to get state of the art medical equipment, and this week, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is once again the recipient of another important donation. According to Dr. Francis Smith, the new orthopaedic implants and instruments will help the KHMH put patients back on their feet. […]
For the young and the young at heart, seeing an African elephant, an Asian tiger or even a Peruvian llama in real life is a source of great excitement. But with these amazing animals comes the possibility of diseases which might affect our local animal population. News 5’s Patrick Jones explains. Patrick Jones Reporting The […]
In the eyes of many, all the men and women who aimlessly wander the streets of Belize can easily be dismissed as “crazy”, “crack heads” or “drunkards”. But passing judgment is a lot easier than confronting the problem of mental illness in this country. And as News 5’s Jacqueline Woods discovered, more than medicines, patients […]
As copies of the controversial Carnival contract continue to circulate throughout the country, tourism investors, average businessmen and the woman on the street are all voicing their opinions of the signed document. While one industry insider calls the agreement “frightening”, at least one Member of Parliament says based on what he’s read, he is proceeding […]
Tonight, Cayo police are on a manhunt for five bandits who robbed a store and its customers in Bullet Tree Village. According to the authorities, just after seven on Tuesday night, thirty-six year old Guo Lian Wu was behind his counter at Max’s Store when suddenly, five men armed with handguns burst into the building […]
Police investigations also continue into Tuesday morning’s shooting and while police have found the van used in the incident, no arrests have been made. Additional details revealed to the media today indicate that just after ten that morning, a taxi van picked up three men on Orange Street and believing he was on a normal […]
Increases in agricultural development and the expansion of settlements are just two factors that have impacted the country’s forest reserves, yet experts maintain that Belize continues to be a shining example to the region for having much of its natural resources still intact. In 1998, Belize became signatory to the United Nations Convention to Combat […]
In related news, this week the Protected Areas Conservation Trust (PACT) is hosting an expert on park management to develop business plans for protected areas in Belize. According to PACT, Scott Edwards from the Centre for Parks Management, a non-governmental organization based in Washington DC, will use this trip as the first step in coming […]
By all accounts, it has taken a lot of work and a number of consultations with a wide range of educators, but work on the National and Regional Standards of Secondary Education is finally complete. Today, the document was presented to Minister of Education Francis Fonseca during brief ceremonies this morning. The project focussed on […]
It is one of those subjects that many people don’t like to talk about, which could be why domestic violence is on the increase in Belize. In 2003, one thousand two hundred and forty cases were reported. Of that number fifty point five percent or six hundred and twenty-six of those incidents took place in […]
Armed with a physical description, Belize City Police continue to look for the prime suspect in the vicious attack of thirteen year old Stanwell Arana. The teenager was found unconscious lying in a grassy area behind the Church of Christ building on Elston Kerr Street. Today Arana remains in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and […]
Police are tonight searching the city for a van and three people believed to be involved in a mid morning armed hold up and shooting near Lord Ridge Cemetery on the Western Highway. According to police Press Officer G. Michael Reid, two men identified as Ernesto Granedos and Daniel Moreno were on their way to […]
In the north, detectives continue to investigate the mysterious death of eighteen year old Mary Enns. Enns, eight months pregnant at the time, had been reported missing on September third by her husband Jacob. But five days later, her badly decomposed body was found floating in the Rio Verde River in the Orange Walk District. […]
An attempted robbery on Ambergris Caye has left the victim hospitalized but the bad guy is in police custody. According to officers stationed in San Pedro, thirty-nine year old Said Juan was in the San Juan area of the town on Sunday night with friends and family but sometime after ten, he was attacked by […]
Most people spend their Saturdays resting and relaxing at home after a hard week’s work. But in late September, over eight hundred volunteers including students, members of scouts and various conservation organizations descended on beaches and riversides all over the country. No, not for recreation, but armed with garbage bags, determined to get thousands of […]
After months of speculation, the contract signed between the Government of Belize and the Carnival Corporation is now in the public domain. And using copies provided by the website “freebelize.org”, the United Democratic Party has launched its criticism of the Musa administration for what they say is the reality behind the details contained in the […]
The buzz in tourism might be centered on cruise tourism these days, but some Belizean entrepreneurs are going against the grain, designing adventure packages aimed squarely at residents and overnight guests. And as the News 5 team found deep in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve, one such idea has four wheels, can go just […]
The constant stream of reports of crimes against children has done little to erase the shock value of brutal attacks on the nation’s most helpless citizens. Tonight, a thirteen-year-old boy slips in and out consciousness as he fights to recover from a violent assault near his home on the Southside of the city. Today News […]
In the ward with Stanwell Arana is twenty-seven year old John Conorquie who was hit by a moving vehicle on Friday afternoon near Belize Waste Control on the Western Highway. Police reports are that Conorquie was crossing the street near the entrance to the dump when he was struck by a van heading towards Belmopan. […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has left a resident of the Cayo District dead. According to police reports, forty-five year old Carlos Oscar Lara was driving his Toyota Previa from Belize City to San Ignacio in the early morning hours of Saturday. But between miles sixty-nine and seventy, the van went off the […]
A shooting in the Stann Creek District has left a police officer suffering from chop wounds and his assailant recovering from gunshots to the leg. Reports are that on Saturday night, a mobile police unit was travelling on Fadden Avenue in Independence Village, but the officers say when two men standing on the street saw […]
Meanwhile, police in Belize City has charged a man in connection with a shooting at the corner of Gibnut Street and Central American Boulevard last Friday. Twenty-two year old Rowland Smalls of a Mayflower Street address have been charged with dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm and discharging a firearm in public. Smalls […]
And still on the crime beat, police have arrested and charged one of their own for sex offences against a thirteen year old girl from the Orange Walk District. According to the minor, thirty-four year old Corporal Sebastian Coc has been having sex with her since July. Medical examinations of the child confirmed that she […]
If you are suffering from Monday blues, this next bit of news might be just what you need to hear. Pan American Day, which falls on Tuesday October twelfth this year, will instead be observed on Monday, October eleventh. So yes, that does mean a three day weekend. The holiday is celebrated annually and is […]
Over the weekend, hundreds of Belizean music lovers gathered at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts to attend the Heavenlies Gospel Concert, held to launch their latest CD: ?Next Level?. Here are the highlights of their big night on stage. (Scenes of concert)
