If you are in the mood for some lively music, high stepping, and maybe even some leaps and turns, then get your tickets now for a special show on Sunday. No, it’s not River Dance … it’s Vista Dance, featuring brand new choreography from some local and imported talent. News Five spoke with Director Sistie […]
A little boy burned in an accident in Buena Vista Village is tonight undergoing treatment in the United States. But while doctors both here and in Texas are doing all they can for him, so are some children he has never even met. Today I visited a school in Belize City where the students and […]
In comparison to last year’s budget, debated only a rock’s throw from a tense confrontation at the foot of Independence Hill, today’s 2006 version was predictably anticlimatic. The speeches from both sides of the aisle seemed more perfunctory than impassioned, perhaps out of political weariness following the municipal elections or a recognition that with little […]
Despite Barrow’s graphic metaphors, the government side of the house was not without some life of its own. The emphasis of the PUP presentation was less on the how we got here, than on where we are headed. For Minister of Works and financial point man Joe Coye, the budget’s greatest accomplishment was the process […]
Another thing not to be taken lightly in any budget debate are the words of Mesopotamia representative Michael Finnegan. Finnegan, who enshrined the mantra “Solomon, Smith and Barney” in Belize’s political vocabulary and whose marathon presentations to the House are legendary, this morning may have made the shortest budget speech of his career: less than […]
The downtown streets were crowded with students of SJC extension waiting for classes to start … but that didn’t stop a trio of gunmen from shooting up a popular King Street restaurant, leaving its proprietor in the hospital. Jacqueline Woods Forty-five year old Garnet Brown, well known chef and proprietor of Jambel?s Jerk Pit on […]
A Belize City man was today arrested for trying to burn down his grandmother’s house. This morning twenty-seven year old Glenroy McLeary of East Canal appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord where he was charged with attempted arson. No plea was taken because the crime is an indictable offence, and despite objection from the prosecution, […]
Twenty-six year old Aniver Palacio walked out of court today a free man after being acquitted of all charges. After just over two hours of deliberation, a nine-member jury found Palacio not guilty of attempted murder, dangerous harm, and two counts of robbery against businessman Philip Gallaty. During the trial, witness for the defence, Frank […]
Two law enforcement officers accused of killing a Belize City youth will get a re-trial. That’s the ruling of the Court of Appeal handed down today for B.D.F. soldier Giovanni Gutierrez and Police Constable Dennis Palacio. According to the justices, the trial judge should have informed the jury in his address that the men were […]
For the second consecutive year Old Belize at mile five on the Western Highway invites you to another 4×4 mud track competition. Last year’s competition started off with nine registered entries but by the end of the day a total of seventeen vehicles had ploughed through the rough terrain. This time around organizer Francis Woods […]
It’s a place we’ve visited before?twice actually?and while the hike to Davis Falls may be challenging, our reporters never seem to tire of the magnificent view. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the latest developments on what may become Belize’s newest national park. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The eight miles to Davis Falls is not what you?d […]
The Government’s Budget for the financial year beginning April first was presented last week … And over the course of tomorrow and Friday the Opposition will try its best to blow that document out of the water. But on the eve of the theatrics in Belmopan the press was today treated to a briefing by […]
Police have arrested four men for Wednesday night’s home invasion and shooting at Sunset Park. Eighteen year old Jovan Tillett, twenty-two year old Kevin Graham, eighteen year old Dwayne Almendarez, and a sixteen year old will be charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, wounding, dangerous harm, aggravated burglary, and use of deadly means […]
Police are also reporting more success in their effort to take guns off the streets. The latest yield includes a twelve gauge sawed-off shotgun, the result of a house search on Victoria Street, and a tec-nine submachine gun, discovered at a vacant lot on Faber’s Road. Following the shotgun seizure, police arrested nineteen year old […]
It was at best a freak occurrence but at worst a crime with frightening implications. On Saturday afternoon around one-thirty Senator Godwin Hulse arrived for a meeting at the Belize City law office of Lois Young-Barrow on New Road. He parked his truck, a 1993 Dodge Ram turbo diesel, in the lot at the back […]
In news involving Belize on the international stage our diplomats and soldiers are very much on the move. Today in the Bahamas, Minister of Foreign Affairs Godfrey Smith, along with his CARICOM colleagues, met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. The topics of discussion were wide ranging and included trade, development, governance, and crime […]
The beginning of what promises to be a long hot dry season seems like a good time to celebrate the joys of a commodity that, fortunately, we in Belize possess in apparent abundance. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Water: It?s one of those conveniences that most of us take for granted. […]
It seems like only yesterday that Corozal’s Angelo Fabro captured the nation’s collective heart as he sang his way to stardom as the 2005 king of Karaoke Television. Well Guess what? In less than a week KTV is back. William Neal, KTV Host ?There are no rules. So it makes it definitely, besides being spontaneous […]
A home invasion by armed intruders: It’s a nightmarish crime that fortunately seldom occurs–at least not without a good reason. And it’s that motive that has both police and the victim’s family thinking deeply tonight. News five’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-three year old Anthony Lewis better known as Bobby remains […]
On Wednesday, the official investigation into the death of twenty one year old Leslie Rogers Jr. will continue and perhaps conclude in Belize City Magistrate’s Court. Witnesses expected to testify before Magistrate Margaret Gabb Mckenzie and a seven member jury includes Albert Ciego, the Police Department’s firearms expert, forensic pathologists Doctors Mario Estradabran and Hugh […]
In other court news, a bicycle thief was this week sentenced to spend the next five years behind bars. Twenty five year old Carl Parham was found guilty of robbery by Magistrate Harry Hulett following his victim’s account of the incident. According to Juan Cucul, around seven on the night of October twelfth, he was […]
Attorneys representing Jeffrey Prosser today presented their case in the Supreme Court, seeking to restore his ownership of the special share in BTL. That share and the rights it confers was taken away from the American Investor by the Minister of Public Utilities acting under a statutory instrument that had been passed by the National […]
When we last spoke to the new Mayor of Orange Walk, Ravei Gonzalez, he and his council had just entered office … and while they had found a few things out of order, nothing serious had popped up. Today however, the new council is singing a different tune, alleging that thousands of taxpayers? dollars have […]
We’re at the height of the cruise ship season and Belize City harbour has never been more crowded with vessels both large and small. And that is just one of several reasons why the Belize Port Authority is seeking to make our coastal waters safer for those who use them. News 5’s Kendra Griffith reports. […]
After two decades of responding to the global pandemic of HIV and AIDS, experts have concluded that the response must stretch across all facets of the disease’s impact, addressing treatment, prevention, and the social context. This week two separate training initiatives are taking place to advance that strategy. News five’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Herman Bain, […]
