There is more detailed news to report tonight on the cautionary replacement of credit cards in Belize. Research reveals that the compromising of the Visa and Mastercards was not isolated to one bank but involves virtually all banks that issue those cards worldwide. The security breach by a computer hacker occurred in the system of […]
Creditors continue to sign up for the new superbond created to restructure Belize’s external debt. According to a government press release, the requisite eighty-five percent of the holders of a bond issue due to mature in 2015 have opted to convert them to the terms of the superbond, which matures in 2029. That original hundred […]
There was a time when breaking into a school in Belize was about as rare as a major hurricane. Those days, however, have gone the way of five cent panades and Charger Beer. The latest institution to suffer the indignity of burglary is one of the largest Anglican schools in the country. Therese Roches, Principal, […]
It was a good day for attorney Lois Young Barrow as Chief Magistrate Abdulai Conteh awarded her thirty thousand dollars in damages against The Belize Times and its editor Andrew Steinhauer. In addition to the libel compensation, The Times was also ordered to pay ten thousand dollars in attorney’s fees.
Reports of missing persons are nothing out of the ordinary, in Belize or anywhere else, but today we spoke to one mother who appears to have good reason for concern. Gesenia Cook last saw her five year old daughter, Zoe, on Friday. That afternoon the child’s father, U.S. citizen Donald Richard Cook, of La Democracia […]
The final tourism figures for 2006 are in and, not surprisingly, the Belize Tourism Board is putting its best spin forward. The good news is that overall visitor arrivals through all ports of entry rose four point five percent to reach a total of two hundred and forty-seven thousand, three hundred and twenty-five for the […]
And while tourism continues to lead Belize’s economy, the need for education and training is greater than ever. To that end the Caribbean Hotel Foundation, a subsidiary of the Caribbean Hotel Association, has announced the availability of scholarships for people already involved in the hospitality industry and those students seeking to pursue a tourism related […]
You may not have realised it yet, but love is in the air. You know, the kind expressed with hearts, flowers, chocolates and, if you’re lucky … some choice words. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting You may know him as the hard working and humble parking attendant at Benny’s Parking Lot on Regent Street, but sixty-four year […]
There’s nothing like a good magic trick to arouse a sense of wonder in young and old alike. Next weekend that rare art will be on display for Belizeans … and the best part is that it’s all for a worthy cause. News 5’s Kendra Griffith has more. William Neal, Director, ICA “Harold “The Professional […]
This weekend, a hundred inmates of the Belize Central Prison were recognised for their efforts at rehabilitation in ceremonies held by the Kolbe Foundation. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the details. Kendra Griffith, Reporting On Saturday, thirteen prisoners graduated from the Inner Change for Freedom Belize programme. Directed by Jeanne Goematt, a retired American school […]
By now the public has become well acquainted with the long running circus that has been performing in the Stann Creek Valley for the better part of forty years. But make no mistake: while the unruly antics of citrus growers may at times be laughable, behind the comedy is a hundred million dollar a year […]
A knife fight in San Pedro over the weekend has left one man dead. According to island cops, around eight-thirty on Saturday night, twenty-two year old Dison Ezer Diaz was socializing with friends in the D.F.C. area when he and another man started to scuffle. When the dust settled, Diaz had been stabbed once to […]
Tonight local authorities are liaising with their Interpol counterparts to verify reports that Belize City businessman Hassan El Sayed has died in Lebanon. According to family and friends, El Sayed was travelling between Tripoli and Beirut when he saw an accident on the side of the highway. Apparently El Sayed stopped to help, but in […]
A security breach in North America has resulted in the mass cancellation of credit cards worldwide, including Belize. The cards, both Visa and Mastercards, issued by Scotiabank in Belize, total between one hundred fifty and two hundred. The bank’s international headquarters began contacting cardholders by phone over the weekend, telling customers that their existing cards […]
Four days after his brutal murder, today members of the media and the legal community joined family and friends to pay their last respects to veteran court reporter, Richard Hulse. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting This afternoon forty-seven year old Richard Rodney Hulse was laid to rest following services at the Holy Redeemer Cathedral. The mass was […]
For months, potholes have exceeded the amount of pavement on Fort Street. But thanks to combined efforts by the Belize City Council and the Tourism Village over the weekend, things appear to be on the road to recovery. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra Griffith, Reporting On Saturday, the Belize City Council began working on […]
Tonight Belize City police are investigating a report that an administrator of St. Michael’s College pulled a gun on two students. According to Amalia Aldana, the mother of one of the students, on Friday morning she received a disturbing phone call from her seventeen year old son telling her to come to school because there […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The National Football Team is readying itself to participate in the 2007 UNCAF Nations Cup Tournament and will leave the Jewel for El Salvador tomorrow, by way of TACA. After beating Inter Playa Del Carmen of Quintana Roo 1-0 at Chetumal, Team Belize concluded the […]
One man is dead and two others are in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Seventy-nine year old Oswald Young, affectionately called “Daddy”, was on his way home when the vehicle he was travelling in as […]
The Belize Communications Workers Union has given the Minister of Labour the mandatory twenty-one days notice of industrial action against Belize Telecommunications Limited and has instituted a work-to-rule, effective Monday. At issue is the firing of three workers in the stores department, with the union claiming that the B.C.W.U. was not properly consulted as required […]
A Dangriga man has been arrested after he burnt down a house belonging to his family. According to police, forty year old Luis Lambert set fire to a residence on Ganey Street around nine this morning. The house had been the subject of a longstanding dispute between Lambert and his brother, Fitzgerald, who reports that […]
Two Guatemalans are in police custody tonight charged with the illegal possession of Mayan artefacts. According the police reports, around eleven o’clock this morning they stopped a green Ford Escort at a checkpoint between miles seventy-one and seventy-two on the Western Highway. A subsequent search the car, led to the discovery of a number of […]
Riddle me this, News 5 viewers. Why was today’s session of the D.F.C. Commission of Inquiry like a Belize City gangster style shooting? Answer: Because nobody saw or heard a thing. Janelle Chanona explains. Janelle Chanona “The day’s first witness was former Vice Chairman of the D.F.C. Board of Directors, David Courtenay. Like his former […]
Government officials, public, and private sector representatives participated in a one-day forum today designed to increase efficiency. According to organisers, the session entitled: E-Governance and National Information Communications and Technology describes how the internet can be used to access important data and services. Myrtle Palacio, Director, Office of Governance “In the development of I.C.T. in […]
A small European country has awarded a Belizean children’s group with forty thousand dollars. Through the San Marino Permanent Mission to the United Nations, “My Neighbours and Me” based in Lake Independence was recognised for its extraordinary contribution to children. Today the group’s director Herbert Wiltshire told us how the money will be used. Herbert […]
