This week a notorious bad man was sentenced to five years in jail for an attempted robbery gone really wrong last October. On Monday, twenty-seven year old Wayne Castillo told the court that on October twenty-second 2004, he walked into the Maya Tortilla Factory located at the corner of West Canal and Water Lane. He […]
And if you think the attempted robbery was strange, listen to this item. Eight defendants, jointly accused of drug trafficking, were acquitted today in the court of Magistrate Dorothy Flowers due to weak evidence. It seems that on November ninth a police patrol visited a yard on “T” Street in Port Loyola where the group […]
This morning Belize Telecommunications Limited launched the newest addition to its high-speed internet service: wireless access. Dubbed “Hotspots”, B.T.L. customers can now connect to the web in designated zones without the benefit of an umbilical cord. The company says the service will initially be available only at the Great House in Belize City and at […]
Is there someone in your life who has dedicated his or her time or sacrificed money and resources, just to make things easier for someone who needed help? If you do and you would like to say thanks, then you can submit that special person’s name in the effort to find FirstCaribbean’s Regional Unsung Hero. […]
On Yesterday’s broadcast we broke the news of a drilling rig searching for petroleum in the area of Spanish Lookout. Today News Five’s Patrick Jones returned to the site where the project’s directors were joined by officials from Government. As the bit prepares to once more bite through the Cayo clay, Jones reports that optimism […]
The rumour mill was in high gear today…no, not about politics, credit ratings or long lists of fired contract officers. No, today’s gossip concerned oil. That’s right–black gold, Texas Tea… all allegedly gushing from a well being drilled in Spanish Lookout. Well, like most rumours, this one had a kernel of truth. There is a […]
The drama over the D.F.C. Commission of Inquiry has apparently ended… not with a bang but with a whimper. Today in the Court of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh the D.F.C., through its attorney Michel Chebat, dropped its case against the Commission and agreed to comply with the summons issued to D.F.C. Chief Troy Gabb, who […]
Sunday was not a good day for Belize Electricity Limited, nor, for that matter, virtually every resident of Belize. Around seven-thirty in the morning, the nation was plunged into blackout and power was not restored until over eleven hours later. The cause, according to a B.E.L. release, was a fault on the western transmission line […]
Prime Minister Said Musa will have a week to forget about the nation’s financial woes as on Sunday he departed Belize on an official visit to Brazil. While in that country Musa will hold discussions with President Luis Ignacio de Silva, focussing on cooperation in agriculture, specifically sugar cane and ethanol technology, as well as […]
Police have intercepted a cache of weapons large enough to outfit a small platoon. On Saturday night, officers of the Crimes Investigation Unit stopped a vehicle at the Burrel Boom-Northern junction and a search of the three men on board resulted in the discovery of six hundred and fifty dollars hidden in the socks of […]
Orange Walk police have nabbed two suspects wanted in connection with an armed robbery that occurred on Saturday night. Twenty-eight year old Manuel Vega of August Pine Ridge in the Orange Walk District told police that two men whom he was able to identify held him up at gunpoint around ten-thirty that night and stole […]
George Herbert, the Belizean drug runner who was convicted late last year in a New York court, received his sentence on Friday: thirty-three years and four months. The sentencing of the thirty-one year old Herbert brings to a close one of the most successful U.S. prosecutions of foreign narco-traffickers. In addition to Herbert, the court […]
Three days after it occurred, police are still not certain what caused the accident on Friday evening on the Western Highway that killed sixty-seven year old John Frampton Senior, B.D.F. private Beverley Roches, and two-year-old Shanine Avila. According to authorities, their initial investigations reveal that Frampton was riding a motorcycle heading east towards Belize City […]
In San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, two tourists have died, but police do not suspect foul play in either case. On Saturday, the body of fifty-one year old U.S. citizen Kevin Riley was discovered floating in the sea near Banana Beach Resort. Riley had last been seen by the resort’s security personnel around two a.m. when […]
In a climate of shaky national finances, this quasi-government institution sits on a solid financial foundation, looking forward to playing an even stronger role in safeguarding the nation’s environment. Its name? PACT, and today the organisation paused to celebrate its birthday. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Valerie Woods, Executive Director, PACT ?It is not […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley with this version of Sports Monday. Week five of the Regent?s Cup playoffs found the defending champion and host team Sagitun fighting for its championship life against worthy contender San Pedro Seahawks Saturday night at Independence. With thoughts of repeat flashing, the 2004 BPFL champ looks for the early lead […]
Around four this evening a B.D.F. truck filled with people collided with a motorcycle. The result was predictably disastrous, with several dead and others being sent to the hospital for treatment. We caution viewers that the following scenes may be disturbing. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting The carnage on the Western Highway near mile […]
It’s not clear what started a fire at Loskot’s Hardware Furniture Company in Orange Walk this morning, but the blaze kept staff and fire-fighters busy for several hours. Our media affiliate in Orange Walk, Centaur Cable Network, was on the scene and provided the following footage. Omar Delgado, Employee, Loskot’s ?I was trying my best […]
It’s not an uncommon practice for victims of alleged police brutality to make the media rounds to show their bruises and vent their frustration. But now there is a new, preferred avenue for accusers to get official redress for their complaints. The re-instituted Police Complaints Board has now been formally placed under the control of […]
Three men from San Narciso Village in the Corozal District have been arrested for the murder of a young Guatemalan woman. Vivien Ysenia Mendez Cruz, age thirty-four, was last seen by a female travelling companion who got off a bus with her around nine on Monday night at the junction of the Northern Highway and […]
A Stann Creek businessman is in the Southern Regional Hospital tonight after being shot during a hold-up. Mathem Kallukalam of Sagitun Farm reported that three Hispanic men entered his store, Riverdale Supermarket, around nine Thursday morning carrying a shotgun and small firearms and robbed him of four hundred and fifty dollars. Despite the fact that […]
A man who mistakenly thought the owner of a Belize City laundromat was an easy target for robbery was given six years in jail by Magistrate Margaret Gabb on Thursday. The incident in question dates back to November thirtieth, 2004, when Shane Fuller was working at a laundromat on “C” Street in Kings Park. His […]
Personnel from an American military medicine university held a workshop this week on malaria vectors, namely mosquitoes, for the Ministry of Health. The sessions covered a range of topics including collection methods for larvae and adults, materials needed to identify malaria carriers, their resistance to insecticides, data management, and display techniques. Eighteen members of the […]
The Reuters news agency is reporting that police in Spain are dismantling a money-laundering ring and has frozen bank accounts in a number of countries including Belize. Thirteen suspected gang members belonging to a Ukrainian criminal organisation are believed to have laundered some one hundred million Euros, or one hundred and sixty-three million U.S. dollars […]
With so much negative attention focused on the Social Security Board, it’s easy to lose sight of the staff which serves the public when we go their offices to make contributions or collect benefits. But this week, the S.S.B. workers are doing their part to help Belizean charities by going the extra mile… Or should […]
