The account comes from the lawyer for Jeffrey Prosser but until the Belize Government puts its own spin on today?s events we?ll report based on the information in hand. According to attorney Lanny Davis, reached by phone in Miami, the Government of Belize has been declared in contempt of court. He claims that U.S. district […]
They received nine years in jail for crimes committed in Orange Walk and today Robert Hill and Mark Massam received more bad news. Pleading guilty to charges arising out of three robberies in Corozal on March twentieth, twenty-second and twenty-fifth, Hill received a total of twenty-seven additional consecutive years in prison while Massam was given […]
It was a neatly done piece of engineering by the Ministry of Works but today the new Beaver Dam Bridge is suffering at the hands of a careless truck driver. At around eight last night a lowboy carrying a tall and awkwardly arranged excavator snapped a power line across the Western Highway and continued on […]
Details are in short supply tonight but News 5 has confirmed that late this evening a policeman was the victim of a shooting incident in Belize City. According to sources in the police department, Constable Edgar Pech, attached to the Crimes Investigations Branch was at home around five this evening, cleaning his service revolver when […]
Coincidence? Or competition? Whatever the case, Belize Telecommunications Limited, today announced new telephone rates for their DigiCell customers. No, you won’t have to pay more. In fact, Senior Marketing Representative Lisa Stanford says that beginning on Friday, thousands of B.T.L.’s DigiCell customers will be able to talk more and without feeling any bad rhythms in […]
Out with the old, in with the new. That’s how Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh described it as he formally introduced new rules that will govern how cases are handled in the Supreme Court. The new rules come into effect on Monday, and will replace the seventy-nine year old British procedures which were adapted for local […]
We see them every day and continually ask why something cannot be done to improve the lives of Belize’s street people. Today one group of people came forward to say they will try. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting The problem of homelessness has been with us for a long time. But compounding the situation […]
She visited the site over three years ago, and while the magnificent waterfall in the Stann Creek District lived up to its advanced billing, getting there was another matter altogether. But you can’t stop progress–and while reaching Davis Falls is still not exactly easy, it is at least within the reach of many more Belizeans…as […]
Police have arrested and charged one person and are looking for three others, following an early Tuesday morning burglary in Belize City that netted thieves in the vicinity of thirty thousand dollars. Officer commanding C.I.B., Assistant Superintendent Chester Williams, says investigations indicate that around two on Tuesday morning, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Locke and three other men […]
Justice was swift for three guys who held up a store in Orange Walk on Easter Monday. Twenty-eight-year-old Robert Hill of Cotton Tree, eighteen-year-old Mark Massam of Belize City and a sixteen-year-old minor today pled guilty to robbery and aggravated assault in Orange Walk Magistrate’s Court. The three were captured on Tuesday while walking down […]
He took over command of the department two weeks ago and today Commissioner of Police Gerald Westby made the first of what will be a series of stops at police formations around the country to introduce himself to the rank and file. Flanked by Deputy Commissioner Maureen Leslie and other members of the high command, […]
Fire struck today in Belize City but investigators will not have to work too hard to figure out how it started. I arrived on the scene as the unfortunate family was putting the pieces together. Patrick Jones The mid afternoon fire on Police Street extension has left seven people without a roof over their heads. […]
Around two weeks ago we reported the “soft” opening of Speednet’s new telecommunications service. And while since then a lot of news has been generated by recent battles over ownership of BTL, the folks at Speednet kept plugging away. Last night they held their formal opening, and while Minister of Communications Vildo Marin could not […]
Islanders have been using it for three weeks already, even though the official opening is still a day away and it won?t be fully functional for at least three more months. But after waiting eight years who can blame residents of Ambergris Caye for being anxious to take advantage of the brand new San Pedro […]
While residents of Belize City have been coping with the stench of smoke from the burning municipal garbage dump, those people living the quiet life in the Belizean countryside have not been spared from environmental problem of equal importance. Yesterday News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited communities along the Sibun River to investigate persistent reports of […]
The judging was close in last night’s KTV first semi-final round, but when the moment of truth arrived, host William Neal did not hesitate to call the numbers of the two winners. William Neal, Host, KTV ?Our two finalists for tonight are contestants number two and number five.? (Lorraine sings ?Respect? and Angelo sings ?You […]
The dispute over who owns and controls Belize’s major telecommunications provider keeps getting nastier. At times the level of detail has become dizzying but we’ll do our best to put the situation in as simplified a version as possible. Basically, Jeffrey Prosser’s ICC, relying on a U.S. district court order issued Friday, claims to hold […]
It’s not the first time it’s happened and–official pronouncements aside–will probably not be the last. I’m talking about the burning Belize City garbage dump. Over the weekend a change in wind direction sent the thick acrid smoke directly into the heart of the old capital. This morning I visited the area and met with some […]
A fight between two teenagers from the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro has left one dead and another facing a charge of murder. Police say that around four thirty on Thursday afternoon, seventeen-year-old Lloyd Swazo and eighteen-year-old Jason Joseph got into argument, apparently an old beef that flared up again. The dispute came […]
It was not a good weekend for several Belizeans who sought relief from the intense heat. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods today visited Hattieville where two deaths by drowning are still being studied by police. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting A post mortem conducted on the bodies of eighteen-month-old Austin Young and nineteen-year-old Desiree James revealed that mother […]
The enticing waters of the Mopan River in Cayo claimed the life of a thirteen-year-old boy from Unitedville Village on Easter Monday. San Ignacio police say Enid Gentle went down to the river in Bullet Tree village to bathe with the family of forty-five-year-old Gregorio August yesterday afternoon. But sometime during the outing, Gentle apparently […]
The death of a thirty-three-year-old Belize City stevedore on Easter Monday is under investigation to determine if it was an accident or the result of foul play. Co-workers found the body of Andrew Betson in the sea near Stake Bank off the coast of Belize City around seven on Monday morning, one hour after his […]
A Belize City man is dead following a single car accident on the Coastal Road. Sixty-one-year-old Ryan Samuels was killed on Saturday when the Suzuki Sidekick he was driving went into a ditch approximately four miles from La Democracia. Injured was forty-two-year-old passenger Rubin Brown. Both men were security guards at the Karl Heusner Memorial […]
A fire in San Ignacio Town has destroyed a number of buildings in the downtown business area. Around one forty-five on Monday morning the alarm rang though the Burns Avenue neighbourhood that a warehouse belonging to the Bismilla Furniture Store was on fire. By the time, San Ignacio fire fighters scrambled to the scene the […]
Two cases of suspected arson over the weekend have destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property in Belize City and Orange Walk. According to police, the first incident happened shortly after two on Holy Saturday morning. Twenty-seven-year-old Shirley Lambey told police that she and her common law husband Travis Olivera were at the couple’s Jane […]
