It’s not a summer camp, but Easter vacation is just as good a time to get young people out in the sun and having fun. News Five’s Kendra Griffith was in Orange Walk for one activity designed to give kids a sense of belonging. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This week, approximately three hundred and fifty children […]
The two day meeting of U.S. and Central American military brass ended today in Belize City and before the assorted generals and colonels jetted back to their respective bases the press was given a brief update. For General John Craddock, head of the U.S. Southern Command, Belize and Central America play an important role?in both […]
Craddock’s co-host, B.D.F. Commander Lloyd Gillet, offered an outline of what the conference accomplished and went on to field questions on the two security issues of greatest importance to Belize: drugs and the Guatemalan claim. Brigadier General Lloyd Gillett, Commander, B.D.F. ?We want to find out how we can measure how we are making success […]
And while the Guatemalan Army Chief of Staff did not necessarily share the B.D.F. Commander’s enthusiastic style, he did admit that he’s on board with the reduction of tensions along the border. Gen. Ronaldo Leiva, Chief of Staff, Guatemalan Army ?I hope that a diplomatic relationship continues between both countries. The reality is that we […]
The national under twenty-one football team continues its quest for international status despite being impeded by lukewarm support from the Belizean public. As the best loser from round one of the Central American under twenty-one championship, Belize finds itself paired with Panama for a final shot at the tournament in Cartejena, Colombia. The odds in […]
Tonight a boat owner with a big investment is counting on your help in trying to locate his stolen vessel. Tour guide Dean Belisle told police that the boat was docked at a pier in Button Wood Bay when it went missing the night of April fourth. The blue and white forty-one foot fibreglass skiff, […]
He is the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, but that exalted title could not prevent Joseph Brown, better known as Brutus, from being on the wrong side of a sharp machete. Brown, currently in serious but stable condition at the K.H.M.H., was involved in an argument in front of the Royal Club […]
It happens more often than we’d like but is not always brought to the attention of authorities. Tonight, a Belize City man has been arrested for threatening a witness in a criminal trial. Twenty-three year old Arthur Higgs, a horse and carriage driver working out of the Tourism Village, has been charged with “attempted suppression […]
Diabetes: There’s hardly a family in Belize that has not been affected by the alarming rise of this sometimes fatal condition. But diabetes does not have to kill or disable so many Belizeans … and that’s why PAHO and the Ministry of Health may soon be knocking on your door. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting A total […]
when we think of the art scene in Belize our minds usually focus on places like the Image Factory, Houses of Culture or the Mexican Cultural Centre. But since Good Friday the nation’s art capital has migrated seventy miles west to downtown San Ignacio. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports that Shane Vasquez is not the […]
There was a time in Belize’s history when the idea of a Belize Defence Force Commander sitting down at the same table with his Central American counterparts was well outside the realm of reality. But the world changes and–for better or for worse–Belize changes with it. Today not only did the B.D.F. sit down with […]
Don’t look now but from the glorious days of Easter it’s only a scant six weeks until (whispers) Hurricane season. And while many of us may be fretting, the region’s professional weather forecasters are planning. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Since the year 2000, the Central American meteorologists and hydrologists meet every four months in a different […]
Belmopan continues to wrestle with the question of how to handle what it hopes will be a large and continuing flow of cash from the nation’s first oil find. Today, according to an official press release, cabinet set up a three man committee to direct government policy on petroleum, particularly on how to maximize G.O.B. […]
Today police arrested two of their own in a sensational case that involves allegations of ongoing sexual relations with a fourteen year old girl. That child is now three months pregnant. Police constables twenty-five year old Gilroy Usher and twenty-six year old Elton Elijio appeared before Magistrate Margaret Gabb-McKenzie where they were arraigned on charges […]
Burglaries are hardly a rarity in Belize but over Easter thieves scored big-time at one city boutique … at least they thought they did. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Rhona?s Boutique located at the corner of Western Avenue and Mahogany Street may be situated along one of the busiest roadways in the city, but that did not […]
A Belize City man accused of attempted murder has plea bargained his way to a lesser charge. This morning when Norman Mitchell appeared before Justice Troadio Gonzales for the continuation of his trial, the undefended forty-seven year old asked the court if he could instead plead guilty to dangerous harm. Prosecutor Kamar Henry agreed to […]
Week four of KTV is signed sealed and delivered but in case you missed the climax, here’s host William Neal giving up the winner. William Neal, KTV Host ?Our winner for tonight is contestant numberrr … unu have to roll something let?s go … contestant number five; all the way from Boom, Karen.? (Karen Haylock […]
There was no shortage of bad news over the last four days but when future historians recount the happenings of Easter 2006, only one event will be remembered: the heroic ride of Shane Vasquez. In five hours and fifty-eight minutes of superhuman effort the twenty-seven year old from Cayo erased four years of national fustration […]
While thousands of Belizeans took advantage of the weekend?s balmy weather to enjoy recreation in every corner of the country, the last five days were not without tragedy. Three murders were recorded, the most recent occurring this morning in Belize City. News Five?s Kendra Griffith reports that this latest killing was not your average urban […]
The full moon may have lent a magic quality to the night enveloping the hills of Cayo but for one resident of Santa Elena, Thursday’s moonlight foreshadowed only death. This morning I travelled west to unravel the details of a murder that appears to be the result of jealousy. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Police investigations have […]
Uncontrolled jealousy also seems to be the likely motive for a murder that occurred late Sunday night in Benque Viejo del Carmen. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Benque Viejo police say twenty-two year old Israel Geovanni Contreras is the man who killed fifteen year old Anna Aldana. The young girl?s body was found behind this abandoned school […]
Two separate traffic accidents on Monday in the northern part of the country have claimed three lives. The first two fatalities occurred between miles forty-one and forty-two on the Northern Highway. Twenty-six year old Erlin Anderson of Libertad Village reported to police that he was driving from Belize City just after midday when his van […]
Tourists have once again become victims of crime at the Rio Frio Cave in Cayo’s Mountain Pine Ridge. According to police reports shortly before one on Good Friday afternoon a total of seven visitors accompanied by four tour guides were held up by a heavily armed gang of seven men brandishing assault riffles, handguns and […]
He officially became an adult on Sunday, but instead of a celebration, Travis Arnold is facing jail time. A jury of six men and six women deliberated for just under two hours today before finding Arnold not guilty of murder, but guilty of the alternate charge of manslaughter. Justice Adolph Lucas has set May twelfth […]
A postman accused of mail tampering was today fined over twelve thousand dollars in Magistrate’s Court. Thirty-one year old Belize City resident Brian Luna today opted to plead guilty to ten of the twelve charges, telling the court “my family is going through a lot of pressure because of this case. I just need some […]
