The case has been at the centre of controversy for the last several weeks as investigators search for answers in the death of baby Kimora Leslie. Today a four page report on the official findings of a five person panel appointed by the Minister of Health was released to the media. The team’s conclusion is […]
They have not yet established a chapter of the gray panthers, but Belize’s seniors are becoming better organised with regard to the enforcement of their rights. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports. Kamela Palma, Chairperson, National Council on Ageing ?The National Council on Ageing which is an advocacy body should not be speaking for older persons. […]
Did you and your date ever take that long romantic walk under the stars over the bridge to Bird’s Isle? Was Rhaburn playing? Or was it the Professionals? And how many of those little green bottles of Charger Beer were strewn around the table when you left? If those images bring back happy memories, then […]
Two brothers are dead, a third is hospitalised and a friend is in critical condition following a shooting spree early Sunday morning in Belize City. The rumour mill has been in high gear since the incident, but the scenario appears to revolve around the not unfamiliar story line of petty jealousies and alleged disrespect ending […]
While police were busy connecting the dots in the Brannon murders, officers were called to another shooting, this time in the Yabra area. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Twenty four year old Tyrone Felix was on his way home from the City Centre?s Mother?s Day Bash when he was shot in the back of his head at […]
Police in Belmopan also have a homicide on their hands. On Sunday night they were called to Montalvo Street in the Las Flores neighbourhood where they were shown the unidentified body of a man suffering from numerous chop wounds to the head and neck. The deceased was lying on a foam mattress in a house […]
A combination of luck and good police work has resulted in the arrest of two suspects who audaciously robbed a couple and also raped the woman. Nineteen year old Michael Trapp and twenty-two year old Derrick Sampson, both of Belize City, have been jointly charged with two counts of robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery […]
The massive assault on the innocence of Belizean children continues unabated. The latest abomination was reported in Corozal, where a thirty-three year old man has been arrested for the rape of a nine year old girl. According to a report filed by the girl, Ludijerio Castenada visited the child’s home in October of last year […]
In the Belize City Supreme Court today, the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management filed a motion asking for judicial review of a government permit granted to a U.S. company to conduct seismic testing within the Sarstoon Temash National Park. Following the court proceedings, representatives of five Toledo villages: Barranco, Sunday Wood, Crique Sarco, Conejo […]
During brief ceremonies in Belize City today, librarians gathered at the Thurton Library on North Front Street to mark the official opening of an exhibition celebrating the country’s young history. The show is called “The National Collection: Contributing to National Growth.” According to Brian Plummer, chairman of the Thurton Library Board, the idea of the […]
On the first night they lost by seventeen points. On the second night, the deficit grew to twenty-one. And today our national men’s basketball team is making its way north to where they will once again go head to head with the Mexicans in the third game of the four game series. And while we […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and we welcome you to this issue of Sports Monday. Mother?s Day not only brings with it a focus on the role of mothers, but it also produces the female cyclist of the year on that very special day. So we take you to yesterday?s start of the seventeenth Annual […]
It’s a strange story and many details are still unclear, but today police reported they have unearthed a dead baby and arrested the mother. What happened and why would be hard to fathom at any time, but to hear about such a situation just two days before the celebration of motherhood is all the more […]
A police officer convicted of the violent beating of a prisoner is now in legal limbo following the discovery that the jury was hung in its decision. Twenty three year old Cyril Wade was found guilty by a jury of his peers in the Belize City Supreme Court on Thursday following an announcement by the […]
Local authorities are patting themselves on the back tonight following the arrest of a Guatemalan fugitive in the Cayo district. Reports are that a joint task force comprised of Belize Police Officers and members of the Policia Nacional Civil visited an area in Santa Elena and were able to detain Fabio Galicia. Galicia is wanted […]
Since the official announcement of a petroleum discovery in the Cayo district in June 2005, oil has been the Belizean buzz word. Discourse has flowed throughout society and experts have popped up faster than wells in Spanish Lookout. With the reality in mind that not all the information is grounded in truth, a public meeting […]
On Sunday morning, mothers across Belize should be waking up to breakfast in bed, flowers and other showers of gratitude. But a dozen young women, including a handful of mothers, will be gearing up for the seventeenth annual female cross country. Today I got a preview of the race from the seat of the competition. […]
Her last concert in Belize was the biggest show to hit the stage at the Belize City Centre in the last year. That’s right, Tanya Stephens is back in town, joining fellow performers Gyptian and Vybz Cartel. News Five’s Janelle Chanona caught up with the “Three the Hardway” for a preview of the big event. […]
For the past week, primary school children from the Belize District have been participating in the Children’s Festival of Arts. The bulk of the presentations have been performances in music and dance. Tonight News Five is pleased to bring you highlights of the students in action. (Video Footage Courtesy of NICH) The festival continues tonight […]
Two months after police foiled what appeared to have been a hit on an Orange Walk businessman; tonight it is believed that someone else has finished the job. The body of forty-six year old Alvaro Zetina was found early Wednesday afternoon three miles into the Honey Camp road. Zetina had been shot multiple times in […]
Word out of the Attorney General ministry tonight is that the contract of Solicitor General Elson Kaseke will not be renewed. News Five understands that Kaseke’s agreement with Belmopan expired earlier this month but the Musa administration has declined to retain his services. In a statement to this press today, Attorney General Francis Fonseca maintained […]
The investigation into the case of baby Kimora Leslie continues tonight because the team charged with determining the factors surrounding her death failed to interview the little girl’s family. That’s the word tonight out the Ministry of Health. Apparently the five person panel of government, medical and legal officials submitted their final report to Minister […]
In a clarification to our story regarding the P.U.C.’s decision on B.E.L.’s rate structure, today the company maintained to us that they had not proposed a rate hike. According to B.E.L., they are in full agreement with having current electricity rates apply to customers at approximately forty four cents per kilowatt hour.
As part of its mandate, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) funds a national commission in every signatory country. But for the past twelve years, the Belize chapter has been non existent. Why? Officially, the group just stopped meeting. Unofficially sources tell News Five that one by one, the assets, monies and […]
One of the newly appointed Vice Presidents of the Belize National Commission for UNESCO is Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and Labour, Rodwell Ferguson. Today we took the opportunity to ask him about his position on Ara Macao, the controversial mass tourism project being proposed for the Placencia Peninsula. Rodwell Ferguson, Area […]
