You may have seen them last week at the House of Culture. They’re called the Maroon Kriols and if you liked them live you can now take them home. Bredda David Obi, Producer, Maroon Kriols “This is the first time that we record the Sambai Music at this level. The Sambai music is one of […]
It is a medical institution that gets more than its share of bad press… but what we often fail to mention is that, as the nation’s busiest and most important health facility, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital handles thousand of cases each year–ranging from gunshot wounds to headaches–with a competent professionalism that cannot be matched […]
There is a tendency in some segments of our community to write off much of the violent crime now plaguing Belize as an urban phenomenon in which ghetto youths simply slaughter each other over minor drug deals and “old beefs.” But whether you hold that view or not, the cold-blooded shooting that occurred this morning […]
The police have finally finished weighing those ninety-nine bales of cocaine seized on Monday and indeed, the bust is by far the biggest on record. The official tally is two thousand, three hundred and seventy-six kilograms or five thousand, two hundred and thirty-eight pounds. No arrests have been made and police remain tight-lipped about their […]
The B.T.L. issue simmered today as members of the National Trade Union Congress met late this evening to decide what to do about their two representatives on the Social Security Board, Antonio Gonzales and Horris Patten, who failed to oppose a ten million dollar S.S.B. loan to Sunshine Holdings to buy shares in the telecommunications […]
Belize has a new Chief Elections Officer. He is Stuart Leslie. Leslie has previously served as our Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, but was abruptly fired from that post on May tenth. He was sworn in this morning at the Elections and Boundaries Department in Belize City and officially begins work on […]
They were blindsided with a massive tax increase on liquor and cigarettes, but merchants in the Corozal free zone decided to take their case to the Prime Minister. Apparently their arguments found some sympathy as sources indicate that a decision has been made to roll back the ten percent levy to a still high, but […]
A tempest in a teapot has been brewing on Newtown Barracks as officials of the Belize Ex-Services League continue to buck heads over missing money, rights to the headquarters building, and responsibilities to the welfare of veterans. The situation climaxed earlier this month when the Belize City Branch was served with an expulsion letter from […]
It’s the season for culture and history and today we found both right up Regent Street. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting During the next several weeks, the Institute of Social and Cultural Research at the Belize City House of Culture is hosting an informative display on one of Belize favourite pastimes: the playing […]
At news time police were still unable to provide an exact weight, but with estimates suggesting more than two and a half tons of cocaine, it is by far Belize’s biggest drug bust ever. This morning the police were taking a well-deserved bow… and News Five’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand for the show. A.S.P. […]
Sometime after one this afternoon, Belize City police received a report about a woman’s body floating in the waters off the Belize City Port. The corpse was retrieved and identified as thirty-four year old Yvonne Tillett. Authorities are not certain what may have led to the woman’s death, believed to be by drowning, but say […]
Three young men have been arrested after a seventeen year old girl reported that she was raped by the trio. The young woman told police that while she was standing in front of a hotel in Dangriga around two on Monday morning, she was forced inside a vehicle by three young men she knew and […]
A construction worker accused of murder was acquitted of all charges against him today in the Supreme Court. According to court reports, on August twenty-seventh 2004, nineteen year old Oligario Assi stabbed Rolando Crawford in the chest with a knife after the two became embroiled in an argument in San Pedro Town. Assi testified before […]
This morning the United States Embassy in Belize delivered cheques to thirteen deserving organisations currently working in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, cultural preservation and environmental protection. During ceremonies at the his Belize City residence this morning, newly appointed Ambassador Robert Dieter presented funds to Friends of Nature for whale shark research and institutional strengthening; the […]
As we mentioned, today’s ceremony starred newly installed U.S. Ambassador Robert Dieter. In an introductory interview with the diplomat this morning, he briefly explained his plans for the next few years. Robert Dieter, U.S. Ambassador to Belize “My wife and I are very delighted to be here and look forward to working with you in […]
Lately B.E.L. has been keeping a low profile on the project, but in a late evening press release, the company announced that on Monday the Chalillo Hydroelectric Facility generated the first of what it hopes will be many billions of watts of power. According to the release, testing of the turbine will continue through the […]
He is no longer the Minister of Finance, nor Minister of Budget Planning… and you won’t find him listed as member of the ministerial committee on money matters. But if you think that Ralph Fonseca has retreated–or has been relegated–to some quiet corner of Cabinet, you’d be very much mistaken. Because there’s no one in […]
If you read it in a novel you’d probably dismiss it as just one too many unbelievable twists in an already improbable narrative. But the story surrounding Belize Telecommunications Limited keeps growing more weird with every passing day. The latest chapter involves information long rumoured but now confirmed in the company’s most recent financial statements, […]
Police are asking for the public’s help in solving what appears to be the murder of a watchman in Belmopan over the weekend. Fifty-seven year old Santa Anna Mercado of Cotton Tree Village was found dead on Saturday morning in a sparsely populated area in University Heights in the capital city. The body had chop […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway Sunday afternoon has left two people dead and sent four others to the hospital. Sixty year old Policarpio Chan and forty-six year old Eliseo Huits were riding their bicycles on the highway between miles seventy-three and seventy-four around three-thirty when they were struck from behind by a Ford […]
A police forensic team was able to identify the body of a man found in San Pedro on Friday by his distinctive dental work. He is Ramon Andres Ramirez, a Mexican who was last seen on Wednesday when he left home to go jogging. There were no signs of violence on the body when it […]
A Corozal man who said he was the victim of a violent attack while walking home from a club may face charges that he stabbed someone else first. Twenty-year old Emmanuel Villanueva told police he was ambushed by some guys early Sunday morning and stabbed in the stomach, recounting that shortly after midnight he had […]
Two Belize City women and a ten year old boy are accused of burning down the home of a romantic rival. Eighteen-year-old Joanna Usher was charged with arson in Magistrate’s Court today after a fire on Tibruce Street destroyed a small wooden house belonging to twenty-four year old Edna Young on Saturday afternoon. Young told […]
Last week the office of the Alliance Against AIDS was broken into and computers and other equipment valued at over eighteen thousand dollars were stolen. Tonight there is some good news for the organisation as police got a tip over the weekend and they were able to recover the items and arrest four people, one […]
A taxi driver from Biscayne Village whose eye was shot out by a neighbour in 2004 says he is still trying to collect restitution ordered by the Supreme Court. Laurencio Smith told News Five that in April, Alpheus Gillette was convicted of attempted murder. Instead of being given prison time, Justice Troadio Gonzalez ordered that […]
