This Sunday will mark one month since four year old Rudy Misael Lopez disappeared without a trace from his parent’s home at Trinidad Farm. Today Rosalina Lopez says while they may have called off the search for her son, she has not given up hope of finding him. Rosalina Lopez, Mother of Missing Boy ?I […]
Last week the government announced that as of Monday July eleventh, the money changing houses, known as casas de cambio, would close. The idea was to plug what was believed to be a very large leak of uncontrolled foreign exchange. The question that immediately arose was how would Belizean shoppers convert their money into pesos […]
A weekend boat collision in the waters between Belize City and San Pedro has left more than seventy-five people shaken up and recovering from varying degrees of injuries. According to Ramon Reyes Jr., President of the Caye Caulker Water Taxi Association, around five-thirty on Saturday evening, “Tsunami” driven by Captain Rene Rosado and carrying thirty-three […]
Belize City police are still trying to determine the cause of a shooting that occurred at the Texaco gas station at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard. At the time of the incident there were at least three persons on the compound including twenty-two year old Paul Lopez, the gas attendant; forty-one […]
A morning robbery inside a downtown store has left one traumatized young woman appealing to the public to help her recover her stolen documents. According to Michelle Hoy, she had just arrived in the city from her home in Cotton Tree. After going to the bank to cash her paycheque, she headed to Brodies with […]
In October of 2003, it was headline news. We were treated to lurid tales of child molestation involving indecent assault and carnal knowledge… all part of a sinister international ring of child pornography that had its headquarters in the bucolic town of Punta Gorda. Various criminal charges rained down on three U.S. residents of P.G.: […]
He was charged with murder after shooting his common-law-wife squarely in the chest with a three-five-seven Magnum revolver, but today Lloyd Brakeman is out on bail following a reduction in charges. On the evening of November twenty-first, 2004, Brakeman and his girlfriend of two years, Irene Gibson, were at their home at the corner of […]
He called a gal sexy and when she failed to appreciate his advances, he punched her in the face. Now Luis Zetina will have two years in prison to think about disrespecting and assaulting women. The twenty-nine year old resident of Reggae Street in Belize City was this morning convicted of wounding and sentenced in […]
She’s making some progress, but doctors warn that the young victim of a hit and run will be permanently impaired. Today News Five’s Jacqueline Woods stopped by the hospital for an update. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Seven-year-old Skylar Sanchez has been slowly responding to her mother?s voice, but she is still not fully conscious and there […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Harrison Parks National Cricket championship reigned supreme at Double Head Cabbage on Saturday where the host team Excellence went into game two of the three game series with a 1-game lead over Brilliant of Crooked Tree. For certain, the Double Head fans who had […]
For the past two months, most of us were convinced that the fifty thousand U.S. dollar a day meter set by a Miami Federal judge had stopped ticking…but in a ruling this week, Judge Ursula Ungaro-Benages dropped a bombshell on Belize’s international attorneys. On Wednesday, in a judgment entitled “Order denying…defendant’s motion to recognize purge”, […]
Just two days after he was shot to death, police picked up two youths they believe are responsible for the killing of Alberto Saragoza Jr. Today Kyle Edwards of Reggae Street and Roger Batty of Kraal Road, both eighteen, were jointly charged with murder. They were remanded to Hattieville to await trial on August eleventh. […]
An accident last night on the Western Highway has left a bicyclist dead, a family in mourning, and the passengers of a bus shaken. News Five visited the scene today. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Sixty-two year old Gerald Mervin Underwood usually rode his bike to his home near mile six on the Western Highway. But as […]
In an update to a storied aired Wednesday night, we regret to announce that forty-three year old Gilberto Pat has died. Pat, who was found on June eighteenth, lying unconscious near the Tower Hill Bridge in Orange Walk, had a fractured skull, broken hand, and damaged lung. Police say Pat was also extremely intoxicated. Authorities […]
Police have also arrested one man and are seeking another in connection with the robbery of two Running W Meats employees in Belize City on Tuesday. Twenty-one year old Raymond Allen was today charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm, dangerous harm, and robbery when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord. […]
Three men accused of stealing everything but the kitchen sink from a Belize district resident are tonight enjoying the comforts of the Hattieville Correctional Facility. Twenty-one year old Brian Yorke, nineteen year old Aaron Arnold, and twenty-one year Darrel Grey appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord today where they were formally arraigned on charges of […]
We first got to know Steven Griffith back in November of last year when the fifty-two year old resident of Unitedville participated in that village’s unique celebration of Garifuna Settlement Day. Unfortunately for the transplanted U.S. citizen, life in the months following that party has been less enjoyable. Griffith has languished in Hattieville prison since […]
It’s a new record for the Central Statistical Office…the release of quarterly figures just two months after relevant surveys were conducted countrywide. But according to officials at the C.S.O., the timely production of accurate information will become a consistent trademark of the department. This morning, officials presented the latest numbers on the economy, and according […]
Most of us would consider ourselves blessed with a long life if we reach eighty or ninety. But as this next story shows, there are those among us who reach one hundred and arrive at this amazing milestone full of energy, vigour and good humour. News Five was invited to a very special celebration at […]
While most of us sought shelter from the heat this week, one group of students was willingly toughing it out in a room filled with hot stoves. But the sweat beading on their foreheads did not deter them from their goal of becoming more proficient at what they love best: cooking. News Five was invited […]
It was the untying of only one small knot out of the many binding the Government of Belize. But, for the G.O.B., even the slightest loosening of the tangled mess it created in the telecommunications industry must have felt sweet. The big news this morning was that Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh has lifted an injunction […]
As they have done dozens of times this year, the police were busy last night securing another Belize City crime scene. The offence: homicide. The location: Yabra. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Angelina Allen, Mother of the Deceased ?I just always pray for them, I pray for my two sons every night. And I say […]
The Minister of Tourism may have changed, but the numbers coming out of the Tourism Board remain the same. According to the B.T.B., figures for the first four months of the year show continued strong growth in both the overnight and cruise sectors of the industry. Total non-cruise arrivals at all border points from January […]
There may be no cure for AIDS, but there are medications which can improve and extend the lives of those affected. For a long time those pharmaceuticals were too expensive for most Belizeans, but now, one of the key treatments used internationally has became available here at home, and, best of all, at no cost. […]
Anyone looking for a little bit of serenity and artistic inspiration will enjoy a new exhibition at the House of Culture. Artist Lee Vanderwalker who lives on Caye Caulker, is sharing a collection of images that blurs the boundaries between photography and painting, not to mention reality and fantasy. Vanderwalker, who normally paints on cloth […]
