Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Over the past year, tragedy has destroyed a number of Belizean families. To help those left behind have a Merry Christmas, today officers from the Community Policing Unit handed out food hampers and gifts for the children. Insp. Diana Hall, O.C Community Policing Unit, Bze. Dist.
And while some members of the Belize Police Department are busy spreading Christmas cheer, other colleagues are busy investigating crimes. In the Cayo district, homicide detectives are looking for two teenagers accused of murder. According to investigators, around eight thirty on Thursday night, sixteen year old Elriquez Orellano was walking in Roaring Creek village when […]
Meanwhile, in Mullins River a fight for the affection of a female relative got bloody when two cousins decided to settle the argument with a machete. According to Dangriga police, thirty-three year old Troy Benard and his cousin Carlton Benard both like the same woman, who just happens to be their cousin. Things got dirty […]
Officers in the south had their hands full on Thursday night as a traffic accident on the Stann Creek Valley road claimed a man’s life. Thirty-five year old Cowpen businessman Elmer Aguirre has reported to police that around seven that night he was driving his cargo truck towards Silk Grass Village when he knocked down […]
Amid the excitement of the holiday weekend, the wheels of justice continue to turn. In a special Saturday sitting, tomorrow Justice Troadio Gonzalez will listen to a plea for bail for accused murderer police constable Jesus Maroquin. This morning the officer’s attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley began arguments on Maroquin’s behalf but the matter was adjourned […]
This holiday season, our News Five teams have covered a number of Christmas parties across the city, many organized to make sure the less fortunate among us aren’t left out of the festivities. This afternoon, I stopped in at yet another such event in a North side neighbourhood. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting This afternoon approximately seventy-five […]
Getting a box or barrel of gifts from family and friends abroad is a time honoured tradition for many Belizeans. But holiday traffic this year has not been limited to the streets as officials at the General Post Office tell News Five that the mail, letters and parcels alike, has been delayed for more than […]
But if you’re not expecting a barrel from the States, you are one of the thousands of Belizeans who are still gift shopping tonight. Today, News Five’s Kendra Griffith took a tour of the old capital in search of gift ideas. Kendra Griffith, Reporting If you
Carolling by the Salvation Army on Albert Street is hallmark of the Christmas season but today, another choir presented Prime Minister Said Musa with the gift of song. And as you’ll hear, mixed in with the classical favourites was the sound of home. Prime Minister Said Musa
Best holiday wishes to all News 5 viewers. Please note that December 25th and 26th are public holidays in Belize. We will rejoin you with news on Wednesday, December 27th.
With less than fifteen months until Belizeans cast their ballots to choose a national government, a new Chief Elections Officer has been installed. As News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, both the boss … and the system, have been altered. Danny Madrid, Justice of the Peace
They say that the Peoples United Party is working to end its internal squabbling and pull together into a unified electoral fighting force … but you’d never know it by reading the Belize Times. In another one of his mystifying columns, First Deputy Party Leader Godfrey Smith not only revealed some startling new details of […]
A Coca Cola truck driver was held up at gunpoint Wednesday and robbed of an undisclosed amount of cash. According to a report from Bowen and Bowen Limited, at four thirty p.m. a driver and his sideman were making their usual sales rounds when they stopped at Perez Hardware at the corner of Woodpecker and […]
A Toledo man has died, apparently as the result of an accidental drowning. The body of eighteen year old Fermin Choc of Crique Sarco was found by a search and rescue team at the bottom of the Temash River near the village. He was last seen on Tuesday morning talking to another man by his […]
After major publicity on the city’s two television newscasts, we are pleased to report that work crews were hard at work this morning in downtown Belize City patching holes in the wounded streets. And motorists will be happy to note that the fill being used is not sand, but tar and stone. We are told […]
In these final weeks before Christmas there have been literally dozens of special raffles, large and small. But none has generated more buzz than the one conducted by General Sales Tax Department. News Five’s Janelle Chanona was on hand for today’s grand prize draw. Janelle Chanona, Reporting As part of a month long awareness campaign […]
It’s a tortured acronym called GENACIS, which stands for Gender Alcohol and Culture: An International Study. Basically it’s a survey designed to tell us whether Belize has a drinking problem. And while no one who has stepped outside the house in the last thirty years needs a study to answer that question, the results make […]
If you are looking for a place to party this holiday season you can hit all the clubs you want … but when you really want to get serious on the dance floor, there’s only one venue to visit: Sister Cecilia’s. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting While many Belizeans are just getting ready to celebrate Christmas, the […]
The corpse of a Nigerian resident of Belize was found floating in the sea this morning … and while his identity is no longer in question, the cause of his death remains a mystery. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from the scene. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Around ten this morning, police received the report of a […]
He is on his way to a seat on the Supreme Court in the new year and in his final days as Chief Magistrate, Herbert Lord is digging deep into the lawbooks. Yesterday we reported on his fining of a recalcitrant witness for the seldom brought charge of Disobeying a Summons. Today he presided over […]
A young man who was convicted of Murder earlier this month has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Twenty-one year old Dionicio Salazar was found guilty of the June twenty-eighth, 2004 killing of Randy August. August was sitting on the banks of the Macal River in San Ignacio with his friend, Janelle Longsworth, when he was […]
On Tuesday’s newscast we quoted the pointed comments of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh as he criticized Commissioner of Police Gerald Westby, for his apparent disregard of a D.P.P. directive to arrest a constable Jesus Maroquin for murder. Today, Westby told News Five that he has never tolerated wrongdoing on the part of his officers. Gerald […]
‘Tis the season for Christmas parties and dinners and the Belize Defence Force is not immune to the festive epidemic. But unlike other events, today the soldiers at Price Barracks were served by some extremely over-qualified waiters in the form of Prime Minister Said Musa and Minister of Defence Cordel Hyde. Brigadier Gen. Lloyd Gillett, […]
And while we had the Prime Minister’s attention we took the opportunity to seek an update on the refinancing of our debt … along with some less urgent issues. Prime Minister Said Musa
And while on the subject of taking care of our health … amid widespread criticisms of the government’s purchase of Universal Health Services and its proposed amalgamation with the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, this afternoon Minister of Health Jose Coye announced that a task force has been appointed to make recommendations on how to proceed. […]
