If you’ve been to Cancun, Jamaica or any one of a dozen tourist hotspots in the Caribbean, you know it’s not a particularly new idea. But hey, why reinvent the wheel? Or in this case the concept of a pirate ship…on which passengers can load up on rum punch, hoist the Jolly Roger and even […]
Who would want to kill a disabled man? And why? Those are just two questions that Belmopan police are trying to answer as what appears to be a murder in Roaring Creek over the weekend has shocked residents of the village and outraged the victim’s family. Twenty-four year old Sherman Herrera, a resident of Teakettle, […]
The plot thickens in the investigation into the weekend murder of Orange Walk merchant Ghanshayan Alamchandani. This morning police detained a suspect in the case, saying only that he was a man “close to the victim”. At the same time information reaching News 5 indicates a possible motive that is nothing short of disturbing. Alamchandani, […]
No arrests have been made following a dramatic shooting incident on the Hummingbird Highway in late November. According to a traumatised U.S. couple, just after ten on the morning of Saturday, November twenty-seventh, they were heading to the airport after vacationing in Placencia but when they stopped at a speed bump between miles 19 and […]
Meanwhile, Belmopan police are tonight investigating another incident on the Hummingbird Highway. According to the authorities, around seven on Saturday night, employees of Sibun River Farm, located near the Sibun Bridge, were inside their house preparing dinner when there was a knock on the door. Farm worker Rudolfo Mendoza opened it only to find three […]
And in a follow up to our coverage of the robbery of the Belize Water Services office in Belmopan, police today wrapped up their investigation after the third suspect was taken into custody. According to Sergeant Sinquest Martinez, the community played a big role in catching the criminals. Sgt. Sinquest Martinez ?We have recovered over […]
Fortunately, no one was killed, but a road accident Monday evening between San Ignacio and Benque Viejo has left a trail of pain stretching across two Belize City hospitals. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-four year old Gessy Hernandez is just one of five passengers who were seriously injured after the […]
While some people will be celebrating Christmas in the comfort of their homes, others will be recovering from illnesses and injuries at the country’s main medical institution, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. So, once again the KHMH is receiving some much needed help to make things a little bit brighter. This evening the staff of […]
Tonight Belizean investors behind a tourism project involving Belize’s barrier reef are remaining tight-lipped about their plans, claiming reports in the local media are threatening to swamp their scheme even before it hits the high seas. Being sold under the title of the Belize Barrier Reef Park, the proposal is financially backed by Belize City […]
It is estimated that over forty-two million people around the world are infected with HIV and AIDS and a whopping twenty six million of those living with the disease are workers between the ages of fifteen and forty nine years old. To respond to this global problem, the International Labour Organisation and the United States […]
The last time someone tried to build a major span over the Belize River was June of 1993 at a place called Iguana Creek. A flood washed the nearly complete structure into oblivion and its contractor firmly into the nation’s folklore. Today, with the lessons of history still fresh, another bridge is arching over the […]
In these times of rampant senseless crime we tend to put murders in neat categories: jealous lovers, drunken brawls, robberies gone wrong and just plain gangbanging. But the brutal killing that took place sometime Friday in Orange Walk Town doesn’t seem to fit so neatly into our criminal stereotypes. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline […]
The only good thing that can be said about this next story is that it could have been worse…much worse. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports on a drive-by shooting in Belize City with enough wounded victims to fill an emergency ward. Patrick Jones, Reporting The bullet marks on the front window of this shop on […]
A Belize City man lies critically wounded at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a weekend stabbing. According to police, twenty-seven year old Moises Flores and thirty-three year old Javier Saragosa got into an argument sometime around eleven on Saturday morning in the area of Police Street. The fight ended when Saragosa pulled out a […]
They were taken into custody late last week, and today two men accused of robbing the Belmopan branch of Belize Water Services faced the magistrate in the nation’s capital. Twenty-three year old Jovanni Theus of Belize City and twenty year old Cordel Cayetano of Caye Caulker were charged for the crimes of robbery and harm, […]
It wasn’t included in the Police Department’s daily situation report but there was another shooting in Belize City this morning…and unfortunately it was fatal. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Family and neighbours say the Pit Bull named Pain was only doing his job, protecting his master?s property, when he was shot and killed by law enforcement officers. […]
Getting shows off the ground is no easy task, particularly without a whole lot of resources. But on Saturday night the first Belizean Entertainment Award Show made its debut at the Bliss and, good to the promoter’s word, the red carpet arrivals did not disappoint. As for the awards themselves Heights of Vibes took top […]
And on Friday night three hundred and fifty people jammed the Belize Biltmore Plaza for the fifth annual Tourism Awards ceremony. Twelve honours were bestowed on industry personnel and companies, with the Hotel of the Year prize going to Turtle Inn in Placencia. Fernando’s Seaside Guesthouse was named Small Hotel of the Year while the […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this brand new serving of Sports Monday. The Central Division Secondary Schools Basketball playoffs got off to a start Friday night at the Civic Centre where two arch rivals: the St. Michaels College and Wesley College battled it out to get into the male finals. It?s […]
To the relief of virtually all Belizeans, the manhunt ended with a whimper instead of a bang, as accused copkiller Earl Young turned himself in to police. But the question left unanswered after the brutal apparently unprovoked shooting of police constable Uwin Armstrong, is…why? Today I travelled to the Orange Walk District in search of […]
It was a roller coaster of a day for those involved in the lucrative task of handling cargo at the Belize City Port…and News 5’s Patrick Jones chronicled the ups and downs that preceded a last minute settlement of the dispute. Oswin Blease, Operations Manager, Port of Belize Limited ?I am the one who ceased […]
At one hundred and ten thousand tons, she is one of the largest cruise liners to sail in these waters and on December twenty-eighth, the Carnival Valor will make the first of what should be many stops in Belize City Harbour. The Valor, which holds a maximum of just under three thousand passengers, was built […]
Belize’s latest lotto winner dropped by the office of Tropical Gaming this evening to collect his cheque for Wednesday’s fifty thousand dollar jackpot. Eusabio Rodriguez of San Ignacio cruised West with forty-two thousand, five hundred dollars following the deduction of income tax. Saturday’s draw remains at fifty thousand.
The week set aside to focus on the AIDS pandemic may be coming to an end, but efforts to combat the disease remain in high gear. Patrick Jones reports from the Belize City Centre. Patrick Jones, Reporting With statistics showing a worrying trend in HIV infections, the Pan American Social Marketing Organization is engaging the […]
This is not a story we like to run, but as we’re all aware, the news is hardly ever all good. Tonight’s heartbreaker involves Marion Jones, the world’s greatest female athlete and perhaps the planet’s most famous Belizean. Not surprisingly, she is once again being accused of taking banned performance enhancing drugs. But while previous […]
