Local environmentalists gathered in Belize City on Thursday night for the presentation of the annual James A. Waight Conservation Award. This year’s recipient is Pulcheria Teul of the Toledo District. Teul is best known for her work with the Southern Alliance for Grassroots Empowerment, SAGE. With Teul at the helm, today SAGE is actively involved […]
A new feature launched by the Elections and Boundaries Department now enables Belizean voters to find out which polling station they are supposed to report to on election day … via the internet. As we found out today, the process is easy enough once connected to the website at www.belize-elections.org. Simply click on “Municipal Elections […]
With our population scattered across remote locations or, more noticeably, stretched across a city filled with narrow streets and too many cars, medical history in Belize has shown that first aid skills are crucial to an injured person’s survival. This week, a group of Canadian trainers have been conducting advanced first aid workshops for Red […]
This evening, fifteen police officers received certificates after successfully completing a prosecutor’s course designed to improve courtroom success. The participants are expected to complement the department’s badly understaffed prosecution branch. The intensive two-week course included lessons in report writing, presenting evidence, exhibit identification, preparing for court, and bail and jurisdiction procedures. During the ceremony, Head […]
It’s been missing from the Belizean sports scene for almost two years, but according to the organisers, this season semi-pro basketball is back with a vengeance. News Five’s Karla Vernon has the latest from the hardwood at the Belize City Centre. Karla Vernon, Reporting After a two year hiatus, semipro basketball opens tonight with defending […]
A year ago on this newscast we reported on a new activity in Belize’s ever expanding world of tourism. Skydiving over the turquoise blue Caribbean was introduced to Ambergris Caye by an intrepid band of adventurers who took the island by storm and even induced dozens of Belizeans–me included–to literally take the plunge. Today the […]
A cyclist knocked down by a motor vehicle on Sunday morning died of his injuries. Sixty-nine year old Juan Perez was hit while riding on the road between San Roman and Cristo Rey by twenty-eight year old Emore Ewan. Perez succumbed to severe head wounds this morning at the K.H.M.H. and police are currently preparing […]
Belize City police have detained a suspect in connection with a shooting incident on Wednesday night. According to authorities twenty-eight year old Troy Trapp of West Canal told them that around seven-thirty that night he was at the corner of West and Plues streets when a man who he was able to identify walked up […]
Two men have been sentenced to five years in jail for their involvement in separate burglaries. Forty-nine year old John Burgess of Tigris Street was found guilty by Magistrate Harry Hulett this morning after testimony revealed that after helping his neighbour, Deborah Broaster, move house, he helped himself to her possessions. Broaster was alerted to […]
Reports to this station from residents of the Placencia peninsula indicate that this morning a number of armed military helicopters, believed to be Blackhawks of the U.S. Army, skimmed along the beach at treetop level, heading from south to north. News Five was unable to confirm whether the American choppers were in active pursuit of […]
We don’t hesitate to report when Belize-registered vessels are busted for illegal fishing, drugs, or safety violations. So when our marine registry does something right, it’s only fair to relay the good news. According to an article in the prestigious shipping publication Lloyd’s Registry, IMMARBE, the company that administers the registration of Belizean flagged vessels […]
The Young Men’s Christian Association of Belize and its counterpart organisation in St. Louis, Missouri have enjoyed a close working relationship for the last five years. Today, the associations are looking to strengthen those ties to improve and expand the programmes offered to their members. This week the partners met to review their plan of […]
The traditional good deed performed by a Boy Scout is to help an elderly pedestrian cross the street. Today the Belizean equivalent of that service was executed many times over by some of our favourite Girl Guides. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon steel band music filled the Sister Cecilia Home as part of a special […]
Assessing the job market is a task usually left for sometime near graduation. But this morning in Belize City one group of very young people were given a major jump on their competition in the future work force. Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Not all of these five and six year olds […]
With its fund at over three hundred and fifteen million dollars and counting, the Belize Social Security Board stands as the undisputed financial goliath of the nation’s economy. Today that jolly green giant, whose recent history has been mired in controversy, paused to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. News Five’s Stewart Krohn reports. Stewart Krohn, Reporting […]
Police in Benque Viejo and Melchor de Mencos have launched a joint investigation into the discovery of a badly decomposed body near the border on Tuesday. The corpse has been identified as thirty-one year old Guatemalan Marco Antonio Morales, a resident of Melchor. Morales was reported missing by his wife on February eleventh, and even […]
Two gunshots rang out last night on the south side of Belize City, and when the commotion cleared, a familiar figure lay wounded. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods caught up with him today at the K.H.M.H. Herman ?Yagga? Morris, Shooting Victim ?I done get inna my yard?I mi deh inna my hard already and I gone […]
A traffic officer has been arrested and charged for the seldom prosecuted offence of attempting an unnatural crime. Because the charge is an indictable offence to be tried in the Supreme Court, no plea was taken from thirty-two year old Albert Hendy when he appeared today before Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. The Hattieville resident was then […]
Murder charges have been dropped against four men accused in the killing of Celestino Zetina. Steven Zelaya, Daniel Anderson, Andrew Williams and Austin Rowland walked out of court today free men after police prosecutor Edwin Barallos presented a letter to Magistrate Dorothy McKenzie, signed by the D.P.P., withdrawing the charges. Apparently, the D.P.P.’s office was […]
A Belize City journalist has been arraigned in Magistrate’s Court for traffic offences and–you won’t believe this one–cussing out a Supreme Court judge. Godwin Haylock, a reporter for the Guardian newspaper, appeared before Magistrate Harry Hulett this afternoon where he was charged with driving without due care and attention, failure to conform to a traffic […]
For every life lost there are dozens of survivors left behind to mourn. And when death comes suddenly, by violence or accident, the magnitude of the pain is that much greater. In the following report Jacqueline Woods looks at one group that gathered today in Belize City to find strength in numbers. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
Nomination Day: It’s a straightforward legal process that in recent years has been incorporated into the partisan hoopla that now surrounds even the smallest electoral contests. Today the P.U.P., U.D.P., a pair of third parties, and six independent candidates signed up for the March first municipal elections in the nation’s seven towns and two cities. […]
To avoid political confrontation the Elections and Boundaries Department set up a nomination day system in which the P.U.P. candidates appeared in the morning, the U.D.P. in the afternoon, and any independents or third party aspirants used the lunch hour. And that’s just when News Five’s Karla Vernon showed up in Belmopan. Karla Vernon, Reporting […]
No one was hurt, but the jacking last March of Brad’s store on Vernon Street was very much a heavyweight crime. This morning, however, the nine defendants accused of robbing the popular business establishment were cleared of all charges by Magistrate Margaret McKenzie when the prosecution announced it was not prepared to proceed. Sherwin Locke, […]
Freedom may have been short-lived for the young men accused of jacking Brad’s but in the Supreme Court today another defendant walked unencumbered down the steps, just as if he had used a get out of jail free card.” This morning Javier Saragoza appeared before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh for what should have been the […]
