There’s a meeting Wednesday morning at the Radisson Hotel in Belize City and while it is being billed as a simple public discussion, the ramifications are huge. It’s all about VOIP–voice over internet protocol–and you don’t need to be a computer expert to know that this technology, which enables people to make low cost international […]
Any politician will tell you that making promises is easy; it’s keeping them that causes problems. In office less than two months, the new Belize City Council is discovering that the job requires tough decisions, which often involve choosing the lesser of two evils. Dale Trujeque, Advisor, Belize City Council ?We realize that some of […]
Every week the Belize City council says nearly a hundred people come knocking at its doors asking for work. With that reality in mind, today the council announced that it has created an employment agency to find work for the jobless. Michael Theus, Directory Officer, Belize City Council ?A person interested in seeking employment can […]
A suspect has been arrested in the weekend murder of Perfolio August. Twenty-seven year old Ashton Martin, a fisherman of Fabers Road Extension in Belize City, was today brought to Magistrate’s Court where he was formally charged with murder. August was shot to death on Sunday afternoon as he left a shop at the corner […]
Two Orange Walk men are nursing serious wounds tonight following separate brawls over the weekend. Late Saturday night, an argument between brothers turned bloody, when one sibling picked up a shovel. According to police, thirty-four year old Salvador Pacheco was hanging out with his brother, thirty-one year old Samuel Pacheco, at their mother’s house in […]
A burglar’s plea for leniency fell on deaf ears when Magistrate Margaret Gabb-McKenzie sentenced him to five years in prison. In court this morning Armond Pilgrim was informed by the magistrate that there is nothing in his criminal record which would make her consider a lesser sentence since he has three previous convictions. The twenty-four […]
A youth accused of that popular crime of cell phone theft will also spend the next five years in prison. This morning twenty-one year old Bernard Smith and a fifteen year old appeared before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord for the continuation of their trial, but halfway through the proceedings Smith decided to plead guilty to […]
This week, officials of Youth for the Future will take delivery of a public address system, courtesy of UNICEF. According to Y.F.F. administrator Linsford Castillo, the donation will be used in connection with meetings and consultations to create a new national policy for Belize’s young people. Castillo says the idea is to update a policy […]
Mentor: it’s a fancy title for a person who simply uses his or her experience to help someone else. And a little bit of help is something all of us could use. Kendra Griffith has more. Forum Participant ?All of us could be a mentor, because whatever you don?t get in the home from your […]
And while we’re on the topic of successful women, we have been informed that a Belizean has made Essence magazine’s list of the world’s most inspiring Black women. She is thirty-six year old Dr. Lisa Johnson. Johnson is Belize’s first female general surgeon, graduating from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. According to […]
Another Belize City family is in mourning tonight after their loved one was gunned down on Sunday afternoon. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin had the gruesome details. Bernadette Bennett, Mother of Deceased ?When I heard the gunshot, I thought it was dynamite. I seh why them children the play with dynamite, they wa give people heart […]
Orange Walk police are tonight investigating an attempted murder following a cat fight on Thursday night. According to the cops, around midnight twenty-one year old Marisela Mai and a seventeen year old got into a vicious brawl in Trial Farm village near the football field. When it was over Mai had been stabbed several times […]
Search efforts continue at sea tonight following a boating accident in the waters off Belize City. Police reports are that around nine on Saturday night forty-one year old Robert Massiah and four friends were in a twenty-three foot fibreglass boat near the Stake Bank area when the vessel suddenly began to take on water. Tonight […]
A traffic accident in downtown Belize City over the weekend has left one man dead. According to investigating officers, around nine on Saturday night thirty-nine year old Carlos Alamina was riding in the back of a pickup truck, but when the vehicle turned at the corner of North Front and Queen streets, Alamina fell out, […]
We didn’t receive this next piece of news via press release. No, we got it the hard way just like everybody else. I’m talking about fuel prices, which as of midnight Sunday reached a record high at gas stations all over Belize. The new price for super is a whopping ten dollars and forty-three cents […]
Belize and Taiwan have forged closer relations thanks to a new agreement between cultural counterparts. According to officials of the National Institute of Culture and History, on April fifteenth the Mayor of Kaohsiung City Chu-Lan Yeh officially opened a Belizean exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. According to NICH President Yasser Musa, “We are […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and you?re locked into this fresh flick of Sports Monday. They came from every walk of life … they came from every direction in every shape and size … every section was represented. The painted fans made a big time statement of support and nuff Sub Umbra Floreo showed up […]
Today police arrested and charged a third officer in connection with the sex scandal involving a fifteen year old girl. Twenty-three year old Detective Police Constable Jeremiah Usher was this evening arraigned in Magistrate’s Court for carnal knowledge. In a statement to police, the minor, who is now three months pregnant, referred to Jeremiah UsherCbetter […]
More heavy duty firepower has been found on a northern caye. Police say an operation on Thursday at an island about a mile north of Deer Caye resulted in the discovery of an AK47, an AR15 rifle, an UZI machine gun, assorted ammunition, as well as fuel and a radio antennae. It is believed that […]
Police are seeking a man known only as “Old Bomb” following a stabbing on Thursday night in Belize City. The victim, forty year old Francis Simon, told police he got into a quarrel over the purchase of a pair of sandals and that Old Bomb stabbed him in the neck with a knife. The weapon […]
A man given away by his dentures and his own testimony in court has been sentenced to ten years behind bars for robbery. Today Gary White appeared before Magistrate Harry Hulett undefended and gave details of the September 2005, Highway Grocery hold-up that only the actual robber would have know. The owner of the shop […]
It took a while for the Belize Tourism Board to get its stats together but the B.T.B. is reporting a record year for 2005. Tourist arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport reached almost one hundred seventy-five thousand, a seven point four percent increase over 2004. The P.G.I.A. handles around three quarters of the nation’s […]
Football, most commonly referred to as the World’s Sport is now Belize’s sport, with all eyes set on our Under 21 National Football Team ready to take on Panama this Sunday in the last match of the Central American Games. This tournament serves as prequalification for the Central American and Caribbean Football Championship to be […]
Since winning the CariCom Championship in 1998 Belize’s stature in international basketball has been on a downhill slide. That situation will hopefully be reversed when a newly selected national team will take to the City Centre court on May second and third against Mexico. The four game home and away series is prequalifier for what […]
Devastating hurricanes were probably the farthest thing from most Belizeans minds as they enjoyed the beautiful weather over the Easter holidays. But in just a few weeks the season will be on us again. However, regional and local preparations are already underway as News Five found out today at the National Emergency Management Organization headquarters […]
