The suspect accused of murdering a Belize City father in front of his wife and children appeared in Magistrate’s Court today. On Tuesday, relatives of thirty-one year old Stewart Sutherland accompanied him to the Queen Street Police station where he turned himself over to investigators. He has since been charged with the murder of forty-one […]
Official ground breaking ceremonies took place on the Wesley College campus this morning for a new school building. The single story structure will include six classrooms and represents a half million dollar investment. According to Wesley College Principal Brenda Armstrong, the student population has outgrown the institution’s infrastructure. Brenda Armstrong, Principal, Wesley College “This is […]
The fracas in the Orange Walk district during the election of the Trial Farm Village Council has highlighted the fact that Belize’s two mass parties are both taking very seriously an electoral event that in the past barely made a blip on the political radar. As we’ve reported, results so far have proved confusing as […]
In wartime they build bridges, airfields, and barracks in a matter of days. Here in peaceful Belize the U.S. military is using that expertise to construct schools. News Five’s Kendra Griffith today joined the top brass for a tour of the educational battlefield. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning Brigadier Generals, Lloyd Gillett, Commander of the […]
If making money was easy, we’d all be rich. For those of us not born with the Midas touch, one initiative in Belize is hoping to teach young people how to move up the economic ladder. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Thirty-three year old Stephanie Smith is one of the eighty young entrepreneurs the Youth Business Trust […]
This morning, the sixth annual book fair was launched at the Leo Bradley Library in Belize City. This year’s event is being held under the theme “Reading Develops the Mind.” According to Coordinator Raymond Bradley, the fair and open day included a read aloud and story telling competition as well as other opportunities to instil […]
You probably saw it on the U.S. television news: the story of a fun loving couple on a Caribbean cruise who somehow managed to fall overboard in the middle of the night but were miraculously rescued after spending four hours in the deep blue sea. Well, today that ship dropped anchor in Belize City Harbour […]
The murder is nowhere near being solved, but tonight police at least have a body and identity. Jacqueline Godwin Today the family of fifty-six year old Janet Rivers Myvette visited the Orange Walk police station where they positively identified the jewellery found near the remains of a woman as the property of their mother who […]
A second suspect has been arrested and charged with murder four days after the shooting death of a Belize City man. According to police, twenty-two year old Lincoln Sabido was an accomplice in the killing of Sherwin Locke. Sabido appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare this morning and was formally charged with the crime and has […]
Having failed to pressure Belize Telecommunications Limited to rehire four dismissed employees using traditional methods of marches, strike threats and go slows, union leaders are now proposing to boycott the businesses operated by B.T.L.’s majority owner, Michael Ashcroft. The call came in the form of a press release from the National Trade Union Congress of […]
In related news from the labour front, the tribunal appointed to investigate the firing of three employees in the stores section of Belize Telecommunications Limited did not begin on Monday morning as the panel is incomplete. According to General Secretary of the Belize Communication Workers Union, Christine Perriott, both B.T.L. and the union have named […]
His flat out denial under oath that neither he nor his law firm benefited from the thirty million dollar Novelo’s loan came as a refreshingly straightforward answer amidst a sea of “I don’t remembers” and “I can’t recalls.” The only problem is that Glenn Godfrey’s testimony wasn’t true. Subsequent statements to News Five by attorneys […]
An early morning traffic accident in Orange Walk Town has left one woman critically injured. Thirty-seven year old Maria Santana and twenty-four year old Xandu Copo were both standing by a fence along the main road in the town when a vehicle suddenly rammed into the women. According to police, around seven forty-five this morning, […]
They fixed the teeth of hundreds of school children and they’ll soon complete construction of new classrooms. But in between those good deeds will come the more traditional functions of a modern army. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting We have heard a lot lately about the U.S. military’s humanitarian projects in Belize. But what armies are all […]
The problem of disaffected youth is not unique to any generation, but what makes today’s young people in Belize a bit different from their predecessors is that the dangers they face are a whole lot more lethal. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Most of Belize’s crimes are committed by young people, and it is a growing problem […]
Tomorrow night Belizean author Zee Edgell will officially launch her fourth novel, Time and the River. Set in 1798, the book chronicles the life of Leah Lawson, a slave living in Roaring Creek. This afternoon Edgell stopped by our studios to explain that while writing about slavery was painful, it was also liberating. Zee Edgell, […]
Afri-Kola. The name alone is intriguing enough to be displayed in a museum, but what sounds like a soft drink consumed in Nairobi or Johannesburg was actually a vital means of transport for the colony of British Honduras. Janelle Chanona has the story. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning, the Museum of Belize proudly unveiled the […]
Police usually show up just after a crime has been committed but on Sunday evening two constables actually witnessed a double murder. Around five thirty that day, cops were called out to an area near the Haulover Creek Bridge and on a lonely feeder road, authorities found the decaying body of a murdered man. Six […]
As we said, Sunday night’s double homicide was the second time detectives had to be dispatched to the Haulover Creek area as earlier in the evening a partly decomposed body was also found on the same feeder road. The victim is described as a man of slim built dressed in long jeans, a black t-shirt […]
The weekend’s killing spree was not confined to the Belize district as on Saturday a stabbing resulted in the death of an Orange Walk man. According to police, around five in the evening, twenty-eight year old Roberto Patt had just gotten off a bus near his home in Guinea Grass Village when he and another […]
Round two of the village council elections were held on Sunday in fifty-six more villages across the country. And just as they did the last time around, this week both political parties are claiming victory. The United Democratic Party has their party winning in thirty villages, with ten independents running successful campaigns, leaving the People’s […]
The weekend’s fourth murder occurred around eight-thirty on Sunday morning. Forty one year old Gary Gabourel and his common law wife Topaz Smith and children were on one of their weekend retreats at the family farm in Willow’s Bank Village in the Belize District when the peaceful atmosphere was shattered by a fight followed by […]
While the burglary of a school may have once been considered a rare event, these days it appears to be commonplace. The latest institution to suffer the injustice and indignity is Living Hope, located on the ground floor of the Belize City Centre. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Natalie Lino, School Manager “Those people did […]
There are disturbing reports of child abuse emerging from the Ladyville area tonight as three girls have made allegations of sexual assault against an elderly security guard. The victims, aged six, eleven, and fourteen have told authorities that seventy year old Francisco Ortega molested them and then threatened to kill their parents if they told […]
It wasn’t Tropical Gaming’s biggest jackpot but hey, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars isn’t exactly chump change. That’s why there were more than a few people keeping their fingers crossed during the Saturday night’s lotto draw. And when it was over, two lucky people came away winners. According to San Ignacio resident […]
