Recently we’ve been devoting a lot of airtime to show viewers the multitude of activities being organised for children during the summer. Today, however, News Five’s Alyssa Noble visited St. John’s College and found that it’s not only the students who are keeping busy during the school holidays. Alyssa Noble, Reporting It?s the fifth year […]
Heavy rains are not unwelcome in the television news business as the resulting flooding is usually good for at least one visually rich story. This week’s adverse weather is no exception, but as I discovered in the Belama Phase Three area of Belize City, there’s more to a flood than just water. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting […]
There were a lot of hard words thrown around Belize today. One set involved the operation of our health care system; the other the running of a lucrative free zone at our northern border. We’ll begin tonight’s coverage with a story that combines money and politics, two subjects that seem to converge much more than […]
After months of living at the mercy of armed bandits, tonight Cayo hoteliers and tour operators are breathing a little easier after reports that the primary suspects in a series of armed robberies are now in the custody of Guatemalan law enforcement authorities. But the question has now become: will they ever face justice in […]
The project has been on the table for well over a decade and on July eighteenth the public will get to voice its opinion on the proposed dam on the Macal River at Vaca Falls. The hearing, part of the Environmental Impact Assessment process, is hosted by the Department of Environment and involves the presentation […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is no stranger to controversy. By the very nature of the life and death decisions made there, it would be a miracle if things always proceeded without incident. As for the latest allegations, like others in the past, they involve institutional negligence. Today the K.H.M.H. and a well known doctor […]
Summer: it’s a time for fun, relaxation and, of course, vacation activities for young people, the latest of which comes courtesy of the Commonwealth Youth Programme. According to Alberto Vellos, the regional representative of the programme, they are looking for a few good men and women. Alberto Vellos, Regional Youth Caucus Rep., Commonwealth Youth Prog. […]
In the twelve years that Tropical Gaming Company has been running the Belize Lotto franchise the biggest jackpot has been one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Tonight that record stands to be equalled as Belizeans lined up to buy tickets for tonight’s draw. At least one journalist, News Five’s Alyssa Noble, was among those hoping […]
Last month it was housing loans; today Cabinet extended its cheap sale to students by offering write offs and discounts to over fifteen hundred borrowers from the Development Finance Corporation. According to the press briefing on Monday’s Cabinet meeting, that body will recommend to the D.F.C. board that all student loans with original amounts of […]
In other news from Cabinet it has been confirmed that Prime Minister Said Musa has received the report of the Senate Select Committee investigating Social Security. The document was presented on Monday morning by the clerk of the National Assembly and the P.M. has committed to making his views known at an early date. Among […]
In news from the world of politics, the suspense continues over who will be the P.U.P. standard bearer for Belize Rural Central. Incumbent area representative Ralph Fonseca is out of the country but his camp is maintaining that no decision has been made by the veteran politician as to whether he will seek a fourth […]
A teacher from Independence primary school is dead tonight, an apparent drowning victim. Police report that around nine thirty this morning, thirty-six year old Edelmira Morey, accompanied by nine other adults and eleven students on a summer camp, was tubing in the South Stann Creek in the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary when she became entangled […]
Three men might be feeling like they walked away clean from a store robbery because they broke the surveillance camera … but they forgot to take the tape. That’s right; police have pictures of the perpetrators of an armed hold-up at M and M’s Boutique on Euphrates Avenue. According to the store manager, around eleven […]
A retrial has been ordered in the case of well known Belize City businessman Eduardo “Mando” Reyes. Reyes, the owner of Prime Cut Meats on Central American Boulevard, was convicted in March in connection with the death of Norman “Butta” Ferguson. A jury unanimously found him guilty of manslaughter after he shot Ferguson in January […]
Since Monday representatives from the Belize Defence Force, Police Department, NEMO, Coast Guard and a host of other organisations have been huddled in a room at Price Barracks in Ladyville. Their mission? To come up with a national search and rescue policy. According to B.D.F. Chief of Staff, Lt. Col. Reuel Black, in the last […]
If there’s one thing that Belize has in abundance, its young people … so when the United Nations looks at Belize’s population it?s not hard to figure out what they see. News Five’s Alyssa Noble has more. Arnulfo Kantun, Project Coordinator, U.N.F.P.A. ?This celebration is really celebrating people, young people and not just the statistics, […]
Last week we premiered the comeback C.D. of Punta Rocker Super G. Tonight we look at a less well known artist with a different kind of music. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Twenty-one year old Gilbert Alamilla a.k.a. ?Mr. Program? started out his career as a disc jockey. But he soon grew tired of buying music and […]
There is little that any of us can do to ease the pain suffered by the family of Vicente Avila following the boat captain’s death on Sunday on the New River. But today authorities and tour operators are looking for ways to make sure that this kind of accident will never happen again. Jacqueline Godwin, […]
An accident on the New River in the Orange Walk district over the weekend has resulted in the death of a boat captain and left several tourists injured. Around ten on Sunday morning, Captain Vicente Avila, his sideman and a tour guide left the dock at Tower Hill with fourteen passengers and headed to the […]
In other tragic news from the north, a Corozal family is mourning the loss of a loved one following a freak accident in their backyard. Apparently nineteen year old Wilbert Dermont was helping his father and brother build a septic tank near their home in San Antonio village. But while Wilbert was walking on one […]
Tourism statistics for the first five months of the year are out and the numbers are good or bad, depending on whether you earn your living in the overnight or cruise side of the industry. For traditional overnight visitations, arrivals at the Philip Goldson International Airport are up a healthy four point seven percent over […]
Authorities are tonight searching for three suspects following an attack on Calabash Caye over the weekend. In his statement to police, fifty-one year old caretaker William Ysaguirre reported that around eight thirty on Saturday night, three masked men arrived at his house and held everyone inside hostage. The men immediately tied up his son, Devon […]
A string of burglaries in the capital city has left investigators with their hands full and three men behind bars. The first call came from three Belmopan residents who returned from vacation to find their possessions missing and their homes gutted by fire. Subsequent investigations have led to the arrest of eighteen year old Hildibrant […]
The Court of Appeal has declined to increase the sentence of a man convicted of beating his girlfriend senseless. In June of 2004 Elston Young repeatedly punched Lorna Wade with his fists and then whopped her in the head with a stick, sending her to the hospital with serious head injuries. In January of this […]
Belize City police are tonight on the lookout for one suspect involved in a shooting in the downtown area around noon today. According to reports, twenty year old Chris Hernandez was on his way to buy lunch when he was shot once in his lower right abdomen at the corner of Rocky Road and West […]
