Looking for something cool to do this weekend? News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports the Y.W.C.A. on St. Thomas Street is the place to be. Sonia Linares, Executive Dir., Y.W.C.A. “It’s a day of fun at the Y.W.C.A. We always promote it as a family affair. Apart from making it an activity where we gain an […]
Don’t look now but one of our most newsworthy yet depressing regular news events will be taking place on Saturday. That’s right, yet another fractious meeting of the Citrus Growers Association. Tomorrow’s gathering figures to be no less controversial than those in the recent past, the only difference being that the faction that used to […]
The citrus war is not the only news coming out of the Stann Creek Valley. This week it was announced that a group of U.S. investors has reached agreement with the Belize Government to purchase one hundred and eighty acres of the Old Lynam College property to be used for a bio-fuels project. According to […]
A week ago it appeared that the stinking overflowing mess at the city’s garbage dump was on its way to being cleaned up, but today the garbage has once again overrun the compound and is threatening to spill onto the Western Highway. Councillor Wayne Usher says he is not sure what caused the Ministry of […]
The issue of the business relationship between the Development Finance Corporation and its former Chairman Glenn Godfrey continues to grow more complicated … and incriminating. Evidence gathered by News Five indicates that contrary to Godfrey’s sworn testimony–as well as that given to us by his former law partner Christopher Coye–the Godfrey law firm was directly […]
The debate on the nation’s budget for 2007-2008 began today in the House of Representatives in Belmopan. The presentations by area representatives commenced shortly after ten this morning and continued until four this afternoon. First to take the floor was Leader of the Opposition and the member for the Queen’s Square division, Dean Barrow. While […]
Responding for the Government to Barrow’s presentation was Minister of Tourism and representative for Pickstock Godfrey Smith. Godfrey Smith, Minister of Tourism “The arrogance of the Leader of the Opposition Madam Speaker and members of this honourable House is displayed in that they already assume, wrongly, that they will form the next Government, that they […]
A fifty-three year old man has been detained by police in Punta Gorda following reports that he has been sexually abusing his twelve year old stepdaughter. The child reported to police, in the presence of a social worker, that at the age of nine she had engaged in sexual intercourse with a neighbour and since […]
Viewers will recall the tragic incident several weeks ago in Dangriga when police constable Ever Morales was stabbed to death by a mentally ill assailant, twenty-five year old Giovanni Tasher. Tasher was subsequently shot in the leg by cops and put under guard in the hospital. He is now apparently well enough to stand trial […]
The Young Men’s Christian Association has been quietly assisting a number of Belizean children with their primary school education. Presently the after school programme caters to fifty youths whose families would not be able to afford the extra help for boys and girls who may be struggling with their schoolwork. These students not only benefit […]
On Saturday ten young men and women hope to raise at least two thousand dollars to support charitable causes and assist their scholarship programme at S.J.C. Junior College. The sixth form students are the contestants in this year’s Mr. and Ms. S.J.C. Pageant Explosion. According to pageant choreographer Xanthia Willacey, the event is not all […]
Belize may be world famous for its wildlife but apparently not all Belizeans are in tune with the programme. That’s the word from the Audubon Society, which is launching a campaign to make Belizeans more aware of the value of the nation’s spectacular animal population–particularly our birds. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting We are not sure how […]
It was one of the high points of his testimony yesterday before the Commissioner of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation. When questioned about whether his law firm benefited from the one-day disbursement of a thirty million dollar loan to the Novelo’s Bus Company, former D.F.C. Chairman Glenn Godfrey was adamant in his denial. [March […]
Belize’s labour unions will be demonstrating in Belmopan this Friday. According to a release from the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, the protest rally will coincide with the second day of budget debate in the House of Representatives. The N.T.U.C.B. is calling on all workers to support the action, which seeks the reinstatement of […]
In today’s climate of technological piracy and entertainment overload, for a musician to succeed financially in Belize is nearly impossible … and to make your mark on the global scene is about ten thousand times more difficult. But if there’s one Belizean who has that one-in-a-million shot it’s Andy Palacio, who today launched the C.D. […]
Bruce Willacey, the young man who changed his story in his friend’s murder trial and was then himself charged with murder, has now had those charges withdrawn and replaced by a count of perjury. The swap took place this morning in the court of Magistrate Sharon Fraser based on a written request from the Director […]
The Liberty Children’s Home has embarked on its most ambitious fund raising drive ever. On May nineteenth, a lucky family will receive the keys to a brand new three bedroom concrete house in Vista Del Mar. Proceeds of the raffle will be used to help provide for the needs of the home’s young residents who […]
HIV and AIDS. There’s no shortage of media coverage, both as news, education and paid announcements. And while in some countries rates of infection are slowing, the Caribbean is still second only to Sub-Saharan Africa in the incidence of the virus. To bring those numbers down, a group of fifty television and radio broadcasters in […]
Cycling in Belize is serious business and as the clock ticks down to Holy Saturday, the prospects for controversy will only get stronger. On last night’s sports report, James Adderley noted the disqualification of a team in Sunday’s Belmopan Classic. Tonight James has a sequel. James Adderley, Reporting Yesterday’s news of the punitive measures issued […]
It was billed as the last public hearing of the Commission of Inquiry investigating the financial affairs of the Development Finance Corporation. Appearing to testify was no less than the former board chairman for much of the period under investigation, Glenn Godfrey. But before Godfrey was sworn in this morning his attorney, former Solicitor General […]
A Belize City man has been arrested following a bizarre incident in which he allegedly engaged in a shootout with law enforcement authorities. According to police, around eleven-thirty Thursday night eighteen year old Lincoln Sinclair, a resident of Logwood Street, was driving a gold coloured Cadillac Escalade on Princess Margaret Drive. But when he saw […]
Despite that incident, violent crime was held to a minimum over the long holiday weekend. But the same could not be said for the slaughter that occurred on the nation’s highways. The most recent death occurred Monday evening around six in Belize City. Marisol Bradley, Sister of the Deceased “If she was sick we could […]
Two others died in weekend traffic mishaps and a third lies hospitalised in critical condition. Just after midnight Saturday morning in Orange Walk, twenty-six year old Otilla Quintanilla lost her life when she ran her Ford Escort into the back of a cane truck, between miles sixty and sixty-one on Northern Highway. Police are trying […]
The majority of the approximately sixty different types of snakes in Belize are harmless to humans … but a few–nine to be exact–can send you to an early grave. And that’s exactly what happened to fifty-three year old Domingo Cucul of San Roman Village in the Stann Creek district. On Sunday morning Cucul was at […]
It may not amount to a whole lot of seats but Belizeans who want to travel to Los Angeles this summer will have an easier time, thanks to a new route being opened by Delta Airlines. According to a Delta press release, beginning June ninth, the airline will fly once each week between L.A. and […]
