Today, the family of Raymond Simon remains hopeful that soon they will be reunited with their loved one. This follows an encouraging phone call Florence Martinez received about the possible whereabouts of her common law husband. Martinez says after our news report on Monday night, the Orange Walk police contacted her to say a vehicle […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources has released its year end report on petroleum and despite a recent decline in world oil prices, the treasury is beginning to feel some impact from the four producing wells at Spanish Lookout. The figures show a total of over eight hundred eleven thousand barrels of light sweet crude pumped […]
With multiple televisions found in most Belizean homes the idea of going to the library for a book sounds almost ancient. But libraries are changing and reading will never go out of style. Today News Five’s Kendra Griffith attended the opening of a very special library in Ladyville. Luciano Choc, Chair, Ladyville Village Council
Downtown Belize City ground to a halt this morning as the country’s legal community gathered for the official opening ceremonies of the Supreme Court. The annual event is often dominated by pageantry but as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, this year’s function belonged to the new faces that will guide the course of justice in […]
Last Wednesday, the Belize City Council made public its intention to lobby the Musa administration for one U.S. dollar of the seven dollar head tax collected from arriving cruise ship passengers. Since then the council has launched a city wide advertising campaign to publicise the issue and according to Mayor Zenaida Moya, are soliciting the […]
Belize City police have arrested and charged one man following Friday’s fire on the Western Highway. According to police, thirty five year old Honduran Jose Alfredo Reyes, was living in the building without the owner’s permission and intentionally set fire to the structure. As a result, Reyes was today charged with arson. When he appeared […]
Police have charged two men believed to be the perpetrators of two separate robberies in Orange Walk. According to fifty four year old Druid Rosado, around eight on Friday night he was inside his store on Belize Corozal Road when two men armed with a gun walked in and demanded money. The bandits took three […]
A fugitive from justice is back behinds bars tonight, more than a hundred miles from where he escaped police custody. Twenty seven year old Ernest Hinds was captured in the Havana area of Dangriga during a predawn raid this morning. He was immediately transported to Belize City and brought before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb. He […]
A Belize district family is tonight asking for your help in locating their missing loved one. According to relatives, seventy four year old Raymond Simon left his home in Vista del Mar around seven on Friday morning and has not been seen or heard from since. Florence Martinez says she is concerned for her husband’s […]
We’re not sure if anyone was locked up in the Belama Police Station’s holding cell over the weekend, but by the time News Five’s Kendra Griffith showed up this morning, all she found was a single occupant with a big toothy grin. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Since Saturday, this eight-foot crocodile has been detained in a […]
Today Belize’s first Prime Minister and only National Hero George Price celebrated his birthday with a special party in the nation’s capital. This morning, I travelled to Belmopan to join in the festivities. George Price, Celebrating 88th birthday
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Just after dawn today fire and police officials responded to reports of a blaze on the Western Highway. And as News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin explains, while no one was hurt, the incident has left the family with more questions than answers. Sherilee Mangar, Fire Victim
The citrus controversy is heating up again in the south as a published notice to growers is calling for yet another special general meeting. According to the advertisement, the meeting has been called for January twentieth at the Citrus Growers Association’s compound at mile nine on the Stann Creek Valley Road. Items on the agenda […]
Belize Natural Energy continued its damage control efforts today, releasing a copy of a letter from Belize Water Services regarding possible contamination to Spanish Lookout’s water reservoir. In the document Chief Operation Officer Frederick Sandiford informs B.N.E. Chief Executive Officer Dr. Gilbert Canton that lab tests conducted on samples from the two ponds showed that […]
An Orange Walk family is in mourning tonight after their loved one bled to death in a cane field. Police investigations reveal that around one on Thursday afternoon sixty-two year old Hilario Vasquez, a resident of San Roman Village, was using a machete to clear out a cane field when he fell into a hole. […]
Police officers in the Cayo district are tonight looking for the driver of a vehicle who knocked down and killed a Roaring Creek resident. Reports are that around eleven-thirty on Thursday night, cops found the body of Alford Parham lying in the middle of the Western Highway between miles thirty-five and thirty-six. Parham, suffering from […]
Manuel Matute may be thirty-eight years older than the thief who tried to rob him, but that fact didn’t stop the well known jeweller from chasing and catching the culprit. The drama unfolded around eleven Thursday morning inside Manuel’s Jewellery Shop on West Canal. Matute was behind the counter when a fifteen year old boy […]
In 2005, Moses Sulph became a household name as the militant student activist from the University of Belize. But Sulph’s reputation came under fire in April of that year when police arrested him on charges of organising and taking part in a procession without a permit, trespassing on the compounds of Pallotti and Saint John’s […]
As the hunt for accused killer Louie Ganzie continues, thirty-three year old Allison Hemsley, better known as Dan Man, has been touring the media circuit with his latest release. The veteran reggae artist says the recent violent attacks against women, especially the murder of his friend Keisha Sutherland, have motivated him to produce the album […]
Today international experts on fish ecology and the human impact on marine ecosystems dropped a bombshell on local environmentalists: a popular fish species is disappearing. From the depths off the Belize Barrier Reef, scientists have extracted cold hard facts for the Nassau grouper and as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, there is no quick fix. […]
For many people, the term “climate change” invokes thought on environmental policy, especially regarding global warming and its effects on life as we know it. But as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, while world leaders are tasked with the challenge of mapping the way forward, each of us can make a difference. Kendra Griffith, Reporting […]
As a source of Thursday news, Godfrey Smith’s column in the Belize Times is getting to be as reliable as a Rolex. In today’s issue, the Minister of Tourism for the first time publicly reveals what appears to be a crisis in the cruise industry. His take is that Luke Espat and Carnival have reached […]
Member countries of the Central American Integration System are meeting in Belize this week to hold regional information sessions regarding the work of the secretariat. At the end of the month, Belize will accept the pro tem presidency of the organisation and officials will use today and tomorrow to update their Belizean counterparts on the […]
We’ve been looking for a corporate response for several days now and this morning we finally received one. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the latest on last week’s environmental accident in the Spanish Lookout oil fields. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today Belize Natural Energy
