Tonight Belize City police are actively seeking a husband who hacked up his wife and left her bleeding in their home. According to the authorities, around nine-thirty last night cops responded to reports of a domestic abuse on Kelly Street. When officers arrived at the scene, they found Julia Amaya with a number of her […]
Two million dollars, that’s the amount the Protected Areas Conservation Trust officially handed over to local environmental groups today in one of their largest contribution ceremonies ever. According to a PACT press release, the University of Belize received the lion’s share of the money, a whopping nine hundred thousand dollars for a three-year project designed […]
On Wednesday, we introduced you to Belize City mother Lisa Neal and her nine children who were threatened with eviction from the place they’d called home for the past two years. Tonight there is good news to report as we understand a host of political figures including Area Rep Anthony “Boots” Martinez, U.D.P. Mayoral candidate […]
Despite another series of skirmishes between the Speaker and members on the floor over proper standing orders, today’s hot topic in the House of Representatives was definitely the motion of a fifty million dollar loan negotiated by the Musa Administration and the Government of the Republic of China on Taiwan. The Opposition charge a bailout […]
Tonight there is news to report in the banana talks in Hong Kong. According to international media reports, bananas imported from the Africa, Caribbean Pacific Group will enter Europe tariff free, while fruit from the Latin American countries has been set at one hundred and seventy-six Euros or two hundred and twelve U.S. dollars per […]
We’ve spent much of this week touring the city, visiting various Christmas parties held for hundreds of Belize City children. But today, I attended one event that was organized entirely for the children at heart. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It may have been just one hour of the day, but it was clear that more than […]
This weekend the Pallotti Music School is presenting their annual Christmas Concert with an all star line-up. The Sunday night programme is scheduled to feature students both past and present, as well as violin teacher Gilles Rabinovitch and his wife, professional musician Veronique Barone. This week, News Five spoke with guest artist Daniela Gongora during […]
Most Belizeans can agree that there is nothing like an Ole Time Christmas Bram. But if you don’t exactly know how to organise one at your home, don’t worry, you can enjoy an entire evening of Brukdown music on December twenty-third during what is rapidly becoming a new twist on an old tradition. William Neal, […]
This evening the Young Men’s Christian Association joined the list of charitable organisations trying to make a difference in the lives of others. Even at this hour, members of the Y.M.C.A. are hosting a Christmas party for some of its youngest members. The children are all participants in the Y.M.C.A. After School Programme which caters […]
The music event is being billed as the “Trodding Down Corruption” reggae concert…complete with a host of imported artists and their local counterparts. This morning the Jamaican crew arrived at the Phillip Goldson International Airport and News Five was part of the welcoming committee on the tarmac. Janelle Chanona, Reporting They arrived by private plane […]
A tour guide involved in the disappearance of an American cruise ship passenger has been fined for not having a valid license. According to court reports, this morning forty year old Bernard Mortis pleaded guilty to the charge of operating as a tour guide without first obtaining a license. Magistrate Harry Hulett then ordered Mortis […]
A husband and wife from Teakettle Village who took the law into their hands after their home was burglarised is tonight facing prosecution. According to Lorenzo Vanegas, around eight on Wednesday morning, his wife Melony Bardalez, returned from an errand only to catch a thief red-handed trying to steal the family’s Christmas ham, apples, a […]
A man accused of the carnal knowledge of a fourteen year old is tonight free after he produced evidence that the victim had lied about her age. According to reports from the Belize City Supreme Court, thirty year old Dionicio Howard was charged with the offence after the father of the girl reported that in […]
This morning hundreds of students and their proud parents gathered at the Saint John’s Junior College gymnasium to mark Belize’s academic performance in the annual CXC exams. Hosted by the CXC National Committee of Belize, the ceremony celebrated more than grades, it recognized the fact that more families are making the sacrifice to ensure that […]
Few Belizeans might realise that half a world away, the outcome of talks in a Hong Kong boardroom has the power to significantly affect Belize’s agricultural sector. A Belizean delegation led by Minister of Foreign Affairs Godfrey Smith is putting the country’s case for better prices for local bananas on the international market to the […]
Archaeology is one of the pillars of attraction to Belize, but this week an educational publication addresses some lingering misconceptions being perpetuated about our ancient ancestors. The book is entitled “101 Questions and Answers about the Ancient Maya.” According to author and archaeologist Dr. Jaime Awe, the compilation of information is an easy to read […]
The spirit of the season continued in Belize City today as a number of businesses hit the streets to donate food and toys to needy children and their families. We followed our neighbours, Young’s Law Firm as they headed to the Port Loyola Preschool for an extra special Christmas party. Gwen Jones, Head Teacher, Port […]
Today was what we in the media call a slow crime day; that is an absence of deadly violence on the streets of Belize City. Well tonight, a group of women on the southside of the city is claiming some credit for that fact. They call themselves the Yabra Citizens Development Committee… a group made […]
Mid-morning traffic ground to a halt today as a butane gas leak on the north side of the city threatened an entire neighbourhood. For more than a few tense moments, the situation was touch and go as officials rushed to secure the scene, because as cameraman Rick Romero and I discovered, just about anything could […]
Belize City police have arrested and charged four men in connection with the murder of twenty year old Sherwin Yarwood. This afternoon twenty-eight year old Terrence Bailey, twenty-eight year old Jerry Bush, twenty-nine year old Shinette Staine, and sixteen year old Erwin Adolphus appeared in Belize City Magistrate’s Court were they were formally arraigned for […]
A brazen morning robbery in Belama has netted thieves more than two thousand dollars in cash and goods. According to police reports, around eleven-thirty on Tuesday morning, two men, masked and armed with a handgun, entered Julie’s Supermarket on Albert Hoy Street and held up employees. One robber pointed the weapon at the victims, while […]
A convicted child molester fined for his attack against an eight year old is tonight behind bars after authorities dug up a case file from the year 2000 which showed that he had been sentenced in absentia to seven years behind bars for another incident. According to court reports, Godfrey Coote was found guilty of […]
This morning, another flare up in the bus industry left commuters without a ride. For at least two hours a number of passengers were stranded along the Northern Highway after employees of the receivership Novelo’s Bus Company decided to go on strike. We understand that the group, made up of mostly drivers, refused to make […]
In news from Cabinet, that executive body has gotten a new loan from Taiwan, approved a multi-million dollar deal for the Southside of the city, and made a step towards protecting those with HIV/AIDS in the workplace. According to a release from Belmopan, at the sitting of the House of Representatives on Friday, the Musa […]
It was just one of several government owned entities that have been sold off in privatisation deals by the Musa administration since 1998. But tonight, the man at the helm of Port of Belize Limited, Luke Espat, is fighting mad, asserting that Belmopan has systemically breached parts of the agreement it signed with investors in […]
