A popular way to bring in the New Year is with fireworks, but just in case you didn’t know, they are illegal. But fireworks aren’t the only cause of fire this time of year and today Patrick Jones spoke with the National Fire Service about some of the risks around the holidays. Patrick Jones Reporting […]
Anyone following international news has seen the pictures of devastation and disaster following the terrible tsunami that struck parts of Asia on December twenty-sixth. The Belize Red Cross Society has not launched a local appeal, but informs all Belizeans that they will help forward any monetary donations to Red Cross and Red Crescent headquarters in […]
Police do not suspect foul play in the death of a fifty-five year old American tourist. The woman identified as Donna Lea Howard was vacationing in Belize along with her husband Gary Deon Howard. The couple was staying at a resort in San Pedro Town when around nine on Thursday morning, Howard discovered his wife […]
Every year we seem to greet the New Year with a list of things we promise to do for ourselves. We say we will lose weight, get fit, stop smoking, spend more time with family, save money…But this year it seems, from the sampling we took on the streets many people are not just thinking […]
He was one of four ministers ejected from the Prime Minister’s Cabinet this week and today Eamon Courtenay has announced his subsequent resignation from the Senate following a letter delivered to the P.M. on Wednesday. Courtenay and six of his colleagues, including the deputy prime minister, created political high drama in August, when they resigned […]
The Police Department is holding its collective breath as tonight one of their own has disappeared without a trace, and foul play may be involved. Thirty-seven year old Morris Martinez, a constable attached to the Orange Walk police station went missing last Wednesday evening after going off duty. In a press release today, the department […]
It was a bizarre and frightening incident. There they were, parishioners attending midnight mass on Christmas Eve. But then an uninvited guest, a bullet, threatened the lives of worshippers as they sat in the pews. News 5’s Patrick Jones has more. Rev?d Noel Leslie, Parish Priest, St. Ignatius ?A few minutes before midnight while I […]
Tonight the family and friends of police sergeant Alford Grinage are hoping that the officer fully recovers from injuries sustained in a traffic accident on the Western Highway on Wednesday night. According to authorities, Grinage was travelling from Belize City towards Hattieville Village when somewhere between miles seven and eight he tried to over take […]
Earlier this month, a project proposal spearheaded by local investors involving the Belizean barrier reef, which included building platforms at various points along the reef between Caye Caulker and South Water Caye, snorkeling trails, guides and proper bathroom facilities, triggered a flurry of negative publicity that appears to have all but drowned the idea. But […]
The hot topic of the day was definitely politics as the details and possible impacts of the latest changes in the Musa Cabinet reverberated throughout the country. While some went “public” on the local talk show circuit to express their opinions, it seems most are holding their breath to see which corner will react first. […]
From the red corner, tonight the Opposition United Democratic Party is also waiting to see who will play which card in this political poker game. According to Leader of the Opposition, Dean Barrow, the high stakes are indicative of serious instability within the ruling party. Dean Barrow, Leader of the Opposition ?Public perception is crucial. […]
Police have identified the body of a Guatemalan man shot and killed by Belize police near Bullet Tree Falls village over the Christmas holidays. An unnamed individual from Guatemala showed up at the San Ignacio hospital morgue and positively identified the dead man as Guillermo Garcia Esquivel. Garcia’s mother is believed to be living in […]
The Christmas holidays may be over, but it’s never too late for The Message of Christ. And that’s just what a group of young people from the St. Luke Methodist Church in Belize City want you to remember. On Thursday night, they will take to the stage at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts […]
In the biggest relief effort in modern history, tonight cargo planes from around the world continue to land with food, vital medicine, water and sanitation supplies in the countries of South-east Asia that suffered apocalyptic devastation by walls of waves initiated by an underwater earthquake on Boxing Day. The death toll currently stands at seventy-seven […]
Tonight a Belize City family is keeping vigil at their loved one’s bedside at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim of a violent attack on Christmas Day. News 5’s Patrick Jones has the details. Patrick Jones Reporting Tonight forty-five year old Hugo Silva lies critically injured at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, the victim […]
It was a move spoken about in closed door discussions and secret meetings for weeks now but this afternoon, Prime Minister Said Musa confirmed the rumours. Four ministers have been removed from his cabinet. In a press release issued at four thirty this afternoon, the Office of the Prime Minister stated, “The cabinet will be […]
He was the second police officer killed in two months. And tonight the man who police believe shot Nedi Reymundo in the head is behind bars. News 5’s Patrick Jones has the dramatic details. Patrick Jones Reporting Twenty-three year old Charick DeBride was arrested at his home on Sunday and marched to Magistrate?s Court this […]
Cops in the Cayo District were also caught in the line of fire this weekend as a mobile patrol was attacked by armed bandits near Bullet Tree village. According to the authorities shortly after midnight on Christmas day, villagers reported that mixed in with the celebratory gunshots, suspicious men were in the area also firing […]
A Canadian man arrested after more than a thousand photographs of nude Belizean women were found in his home has been charged in Cayo’s Magistrate?s Court. Police tell News 5 fifty-one year old Arthur Wager pled guilty to possession of obscene objects and was fined eight hundred dollars. We understand that his computer has been […]
A fire in the Commercial Free Zone early Monday morning has left Corozal business owners short of some three hundred thousand dollars of merchandize. Fire officials tell News 5 that at twelve twenty three am Corozal firefighters were informed that smoke was coming from a two storey cement building in the zone. The building, still […]
The driver involved in last Thursday’s fatal traffic accident on the Southern Highway has been charged. Twenty-one year old Clifford Calam from Placencia village has been charged with manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, and driving without due care and attention. At the scene Calam told police that he was driving south on […]
Around twelve forty five this afternoon several gunshots rang out on Newtown Barrack just in front of the Princess Hotel and Casino as armed men tried to hijack the casino cash pan. Belize City police say two unidentified suspects tried to steal the money shortly after the establishment’s security courier service left the compound with […]
To date it is the deadliest, costliest natural disaster of the twenty-first century. More than fifty thousand dead and counting. Thousands more missing. Still thousands more homeless. In just a few hours, eleven countries in the Indian Ocean and as far away as the Eastern coast of Africa hit with devastating ferocity after a 9.0 […]
James Adderley Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?ve just logged on to the show we call Sports Monday. The Kolbe Foundation in alliance with the Belize Amateur Boxing Federation presented a fight card at the Civic Centre yesterday but they might have been operating in a vacuum as far as fan attendance went. […]
It’s not the kind of crime you’d expect on Christmas Eve but by now we know that when it comes to violence in Belize, there are no longer any rules. This morning a bustling downtown Belize City paused in shock while another police officer was gunned down on the street. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has […]
