Father’s Day may not be until June, but one grateful son is paying tribute to his artist father the only way he knows how: by dedicating his first exhibition to his favourite teacher. News Five was at the House of Culture in Belize City today for the opening of Alex Croft’s “Uncovered”. Karla Vernon, Reporting […]
It’s become a trendy thing for American college students to devote their Spring Break to volunteer service instead of just partying the time away. But for the undergrads at the University of Louisville, coming to Belize is nothing new as the Kentucky school’s International Service Learning Programme has been active here for the past seven […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week three of the RFG Trophy Tournament brought Hankook Verdes of Cayo into the M.C.C. Grounds for a Sunday evening date with the Belize City team called F.C. Belize. And talk about a fast start for the home team. We?re only five minutes into the […]
A Belize City businessman has been found guilty of manslaughter. After deliberating for about two hours, a jury of eight men and one woman came back to court with the unanimous verdict against thirty-four year old Edward Reyes. Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh has set March seventeenth as the date for mitigation and sentencing. On January […]
A truck transporting prisoners to Hattieville Correctional Facility collided with an S.U.V. this evening, fortunately there were no major injuries reported. Reports reaching News Five are that around four o’clock, nine prisoners were on their way back to jail when around mile eight on the Western Highway an Isuzu Rodeo made a sudden U-turn onto […]
In Belize City, police continue to investigate the disturbing discovery of two hand grenades in an abandoned lot. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid declined to identify the area where the hand-held explosives were found, citing the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation. Along with the grenades, police also recovered a nine millimetre pistol. It is […]
A Mexican national has been arrested in Corozal after police found guns in his hotel room. Acting on a tip, on Thursday evening police searched the room of thirty-four year old David Rendon and found two unlicensed nine millimetre Beretta pistols and one nine-millimetre Sig Sauer. All the guns were loaded and additional rounds were […]
A purse snatcher who thought a Belize City teacher was an easy target could not have been further off the mark. This afternoon Tricia Reneau, a teacher of Calvary Temple School was on her way back to work when as she got near to the Salvador Habet Store a man identified as forty-seven year old […]
A Belizean teen kidnapped in Los Angeles earlier this week may not have been the intended target. According to media reports out of California, police believe thirteen year old Kalan Dapson was mistaken for someone else by the two men who took him at gunpoint from his uncle’s Inglewood home. The boy told police he […]
A man who told police six men tried to steal his boat and threatened to shoot him, has dropped all the charges, except against one man. Dwayne Tillett reported that around ten-thirty on Wednesday morning a group of men tried to tow away his skiff with their boat. He yelled at them, but one of […]
A trial in the Supreme Court was halted today after the prosecution convinced the judge that the defendant might not get a fair trial. In February, forty-four year old Valentine Ferguson pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by careless conduct. But when he appeared in court on March second for sentencing, his lawyer […]
It may have started out over a long weekend full of sporting activities, but Women’s Week 2006 was certainly not overshadowed. In fact, the various agencies promoting the observance say this year was one of the best ever, and much of the success was due to strong sister to sister relations. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods […]
Belize’s office of the Ombudsman played host this week to its counterparts from the around region. And as News Five found out, despite the variations in country size and population, many of the complaints the ombudsmen investigate share common causes and cures. News Five’s Karla Vernon was at the Princess Hotel this afternoon for the […]
It’s never been a real hotspot for media coverage, but today all eyes were on Belize City Hall, as for the first time in sixteen years the building was under the control of the United Democratic Party. Stewart Krohn reports. Stewart Krohn, Reporting The mayor and ten city councillors were sworn in today in a […]
Three men accused of having a shootout with a prominent businessman have been granted bail. This morning Kenrick Reneau, Giovanni Lauriano, and Egbert Vernon appeared before Magistrate Sharon Fraser where they met bail of five thousand dollars each and were ordered to reappear in court on April eleventh. The men are charged jointly for attempted […]
Police have arrested a second suspect in connection with the killing of a Guatemalan resident of the Orange Walk district. Twenty-three year old Ostillio Garcia was yesterday charged with murder for the death of Jose Armando Perez. Perez’s body was found on January eighteenth in a shallow grave near the boundary of the Belize and […]
A Faber’s Road man has been remanded to jail for the sexual abuse of a minor. Fifty-three year old Hilton Guy was today formally arraigned for aggravated assault before Magistrate Harry Hulett. This is the second complaint filed against Guy by the same teenaged girl. In the first instance, the fourteen year old victim reported […]
Orange Walk police are giving credit to fingerprinting technology for securing a burglary conviction. Sometime between December thirtieth and January first, someone broke into the Trial Farm home of Manuel Polanco and stole almost three thousand dollars worth of jewellery. During their investigation into the incident, the recently revamped Scenes of Crime Unit lifted a […]
A Belizean teenager abducted in California has been found unharmed. Thirteen year old Kalan Dapson was picked up Wednesday at the Greyhound bus station in Los Angeles following a tip phoned in to the Inglewood Police Department. Dapson had been dragged away from his uncle’s car by two armed assailants Tuesday night as he was […]
There is good news to report from Belize’s citrus belt, as prices on the world market continue to climb and forecasts indicate they should remain strong for at least the next couple of years. The price of grapefruit, which reached an all-time high last season at around nine dollars and eighty-two cents per box, is […]
We often pass them as we make our way by Battlefield Park in Belize City, but just how many of us have stopped to give a helping hand to those who–for whatever reason–have no place to call home. The men and women often beg for meals or go hungry, but today members from the Belize […]
Since Youth For the Future was established four years ago, the organisation claims to have worked with six hundred at risk youths countrywide. Today the spotlight was turned on young people from the Cayo and Stann Creek districts who received the tools that will hopefully provide them with sustainable employment. Douglas Hyde, Coordinator, Youth For […]
Belizean archaeologist Dr. Jaime Awe has done it again. Just months after releasing his book 101 Questions and Answers about the Ancient Maya, he is back promoting another publication. Maya Cities and Sacred Caves: A Guide to the Maya Sites of Belize includes maps, photographs, descriptions, and historical information on ten ancient cities and three […]
It may be one of the activities in connection with Women’s Week, but the issue of violence in our society is not confined to one gender. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The presentation by the Police Drama Club may have brought smiles and laughter to many of these students faces, but the […]
It’s flourishing in our schools, on the stage, and in the streets. Poetry is making a comeback in Belize and no people are more pleased than those who met this morning at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting There were far more people seated at the head table than in the […]
