A pedestrian is dead after being hit by a pickup truck on the Western Highway. According to police reports, sixty-year-old George Francis was struck around six thirty Thursday night between miles two and three, near the Belize Waste Control dump site. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The driver […]
A fire Thursday night in downtown Belize City has caused damage to two business establishments. At around eleven thirty, fire-fighters responded to reports of heavy smoke pouring from a building at number fourteen Orange Street. The owners opened the metal shutters and the blaze was extinguished, but the contents of both stores were largely destroyed […]
This evening the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, released its annual publication on the state of the world’s children. The seventeen-page report, which was launched in Punta Gorda, focuses on how poverty, armed conflict and AIDS threaten a child’s ability to grow and develop to his or her full potential. According to UNICEF?s Representative in […]
It clawed its way across the Caribbean in August and by the time it hit Florida, Hurricane Ivan was one of the most devastating storms in history. This week two Belizean organisations expressed their thanks to those who donated money, goods and services to help those people adversely affected. The Caribbean Hurricane Ivan Appeal of […]
It has been a source of confusion for decades: two beautiful natural formations, each called the Blue Hole. It wouldn’t be so bad if they were in close proximity, but as most school children know, one sits just off the Hummingbird Highway. While the other lies fifty miles off the coast within the coral ring […]
The Salvation Army today received a generous measure of help in its campaign to bring a smile to needy children at Christmas. Presenting a cheque for one thousand dollars to News 5’s Stewart Krohn, who accepted on behalf of the Salvation Army, was Speednet’s Chairman, Jaime Briceño. Jaime Briceno, Chairman, Speedent Communications ?On behalf of […]
They are often criticized, sometimes unfairly, for just doing their jobs. But there is a gentler side to public officers and this evening, that humanitarian spirit was aptly demonstrated by the staff of the Income Tax Department who hosted over seventy children at their annual Christmas party. Tax Officer Annisa Perdomo says the joy on […]
His talent was exposed to thousands over television and now viewers will be able to have him–or at least his voice–at home. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The last time twenty-two year old Sheridath Williams appeared on Channel 5 was as one of the finalists in the 2003 Karaoke Show. This year he?s back hoping to garner […]
Firefighters responded quickly, but it appears that no amount of speed could have saved the life of a Belize City man who died in his bed as fire consumed his wooden house early this morning in Belize City. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Report Investigators still have not determined what started […]
Tonight, police believe the mastermind of an elaborate land fraud scheme is safely behind bars. Thirty-seven year old William Burke was spotted by one of his victims this morning just as he was about to board a water taxi at the Marine Terminal on North Front Street. The police were called in and within minutes, […]
Police have detained a suspect in last weekend’s armed robbery on the Hummingbird Highway and in the process managed to shoot him in the leg. As we reported on Tuesday, three masked men with guns jacked the occupants of a house near Sibun Bridge and escaped with money and jewelry. According to police, their investigations […]
One of the two breaks in the ARCOS undersea cable ring has been repaired and BTL has begun to shift some of its telecommunications traffic back to that system. Viewers will recall that the first of two unrelated and highly improbable cuts in the cable occurred on November eleventh, seven miles east of Cancun. Traffic […]
On Friday night, Belizean music lovers will take a step back in time as an all star line-up will take the stage at the Bliss Centre for Performing Arts to serenade their audience with the classics that made them famous. The event is called the Lord Rhaburn Music Awards Show and will recognise local singers, […]
And the Lord Rhaburn Awards Show is not the only thing going on this weekend at the Bliss. The Mythical Rainforest crew, led by Anansi himself, will take to the stage for two shows which promoters say will give audiences young and old, a chance to lose themselves in an aura of Belizean folklore. Delbert […]
Ask anyone to name a Belizean artist who lives in Germany and the immediate answer will be a resounding “Pen Cayetano”. But guess what? Pen’s not the only child of the jewel painting palm trees in the heart of Europe…and today I got to meet her. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Though she?s lived outside Belize for […]
A group of Belizean women have gotten together and committed themselves to offer to senior citizens and anyone in need of after health care the service right here in Belize. The women, who are former nurses, say that too often patients are being discharged early from hospitals and left on their own to recover from […]
It first appeared in 2000 and five editions later, the Belikin Calendar just keeps getting better. The 2005 version, featuring twelve ladies whose pictures will grace the walls of offices and homes around the country, is hot off the press. This evening, News 5?s Patrick Jones caught up with three of the models as they […]
Whether you live in San Ignacio, Belmopan, Dangriga, or Belize City, at some point you would have been forced to breathe the sickening smoke of a burning garbage dump. But help may be on the way. Nearly a decade after the project was first outlined in collaboration with the IDB, Belize will begin to comprehensively […]
Cabinet has also approved a proposal to seek funding to increase efficiency and productivity in the sugar industry. The ten million dollar project would establish a core-sampling unit, which would be paid for through deductions from cane payments by BSI to farmers. The goal of the project is to increase yields from seventeen to twenty-five […]
In June 2003, shortly after Belize was placed on a black list of countries not complying with minimum standards to prevent illegal migration and trafficking in humans, the government established a task force to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the situation and suggest ways forward. With the help of a consultant from the International Organisation […]
It has been a dream of BEL engineers for years, but as of this week Belize Electricity Limited can finally boast of a truly national electricity grid that stretches from North to South, East to West. The final leg, a sixty-nine kilovolt line connecting Big Falls in Toledo to Independence in the Stann Creek District, […]
A ride by shooting in Belize City last night has left one man hospitalized. According to the victim, twenty-four year old Glenn Swazo, around seven Tuesday night he was standing in front of his house on Gill Street when a man on a bike rode by, pulled out a gun and started pulling the trigger. […]
Meanwhile, armed bandits have hit another business in Belize City, this time making off with cash and phone cards. Around eight last night, Hung Wai Chan, proprietor of Ah Konk restaurant, located at the corner of Cemetery Road and Lakeview Street, says two men, one brandishing a 9mm pistol, walked into the building and ordered […]
Proponents of a project to manage tourism on the Belize Barrier Reef say they will hold a press conference sometime this week to explain their plans to the public…although no time or date has been set. Today, however, representatives of the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute have clarified their organisation’s role in the initiative. […]
The “Art in Motion” project today got fresh instalment to its bench museum at the Battlefield Park. Thirty-two year old Walter Castillo, originally from Nicaragua, but who now resides in San Pedro, spent the afternoon painting a mural on one of the area’s many benches. Castillo says apart from depicting the happier side of life […]
