A Placencia girl is lucky to be alive after a shocking attack on the peninsula last night. According to police, around nine on Monday night sixteen year old Haidy Nunez was home alone when an unknown assailant or assailants attacked her with a knife. The teenager was struck three times in her throat and left […]
It seems like not a week goes by that a gunshot victim doesn’t tell police that he doesn’t know why someone would shoot him. For one Belize City family, that feeling is multiplied by three. Dora Doniz, Aunt of shooting victim “It is not only for one person, I’m talking for the whole city that […]
One of two men who robbed a King’s Park shop has been arrested leaving the scene of the crime. Twenty-two year old Jion Bernard, a resident of Lovely Lane, has been charged with robbery after police chased him down following a report of a hold-up at Tang’s Store on Vasquez Avenue. Proprietor Zan Chee Chen […]
Two men attending a wake in Belize City on Sunday night were wounded when a lone gunman used the event to retaliate against his enemies. Sources indicate to News Five that around eleven on Sunday night, family and friends had gathered at a home on Castle Street to mourn the passing of Michael “Papa’ Gladden […]
A suspect accused of stealing a taxi man’s possessions in Ladyville has been arrested and charged. According to the victim, David McKenzie, when he pulled up to his Dawn Road home around three-thirty on Sunday morning he was surprised to see a young man in his yard carrying a V.C.R. and other household goods. Realising […]
On Saturday, twenty-nine Nigerian professionals were hosted at the Princess Hotel for an orientation session prior to taking up positions in Belize’s healthcare system and the Ministry of Natural Resources. The volunteers form part of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps Scheme that the African country and Belize signed back in 1991. On Saturday, that bilateral […]
I don’t know where the time has gone, but when the starting gun goes off Friday morning in San Ignacio, it will mark the tenth anniversary of La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge. The one hundred and seventy-five mile long event spread over four days will feature nearly a hundred teams participating in categories ranging […]
Sometimes in life, it’s the little things that count. For Belize City’s cruise tourism industry one of those little things today got a whole lot better. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Where vendors once had to dodge stinking drain water, tomorrow a new sidewalk will welcome cruise visitors to North Front Street. The twenty-five thousand dollar project […]
Throughout much of his more than five hours of testimony yesterday, Troy Gabb, former Chief Executive Officer of the Development Finance Corporation, failed to recollect the information asked of him by the Commission of Inquiry investigating the corporation. According to Gabb, when he left the institution in June 2004, it was “financially viable” and boasting […]
Those often delayed D.F.C. hearings resumed today at the Belize Institute of Management. News Five’s Janelle Chanona was on hand for all the protests, denials, and lapses of memory. Janelle Chanona, Reporting After weeks of anticipation, today the former Chief Executive Officer of the Development Finance Corporation Troy Gabb and former chairman of the board, […]
On Friday we reported that the National Trade Union Congress of Belize had given Government an ultimatum that if it did not take action resulting in the reinstatement of Christine Perriott and three other fired B.T.L. employees some, unspecified act of retribution would take place. Well, at news time Perriott and her three colleagues remain […]
On Saturday evening an off duty police constable from Dangriga, twenty-five year old Ever Morales, lost his life after he was attacked and stabbed numerous times to the chest and back. The perpetrator has been identified as twenty-five year old Giovanni Tasher. According to a police press release, after Tasher killed Morales, the man then […]
The killing of Ever Morales is not the only anti police violence we have to report. Authorities tell News Five that this morning officers had to shoot twenty-two year old Oscar Videz in the ankle when he attacked them with a large knife. Police were called in response to a domestic dispute on Curl Thompson […]
On Sunday morning, ten days after he was brutally beaten in the head, twenty-five year old Earl Bonner succumbed to his injuries at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to family members, Bonner never regained consciousness. Today the police arrested twenty-six year old Wyatt Anderson, the young man they believe inflicted the fatal blows, and […]
Four people drowned over the weekend in two separate incidents, one in Orange Walk and the other in Cayo. Robert Mariano, O.C., Orange Walk Police “It is very, very disturbing because every life is very important to us. The police is doing everything that the police could do in order to save lives and when […]
On February twenty-third she appeared on this newscast seeking assistance in connection with an emergency operation desperately needed by her baby … and the public responded generously. Today, however, Claudette Haylock reports that on Friday a hard-hearted robber handed her another setback. It seems that near the intersection of Church Street and Duck Lane a […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this issue of Sports Monday. Week 2 of the R.F.G. Cup Tournament brought Santels of Cayo to the People’s Stadium for its date with Alpha Glitters of Orange Walk. And the home team tries to strike first off this long range left foot from Augustine […]
There was standing room only in the National Assembly building on Independence Hill this morning as Prime Minister Said Musa presented his government’s budget for the fiscal year 2007 to 2008. And as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, Musa’s “Facing, Fixing and Moving Ahead” speech also contained bold promises designed to curry favour with the […]
But the bill to approve the Placencia road project did not pass without fuss as Area Representative for the Collet constituency Patrick Faber and Speaker of the House Elizabeth Zabaneh got into heated exchange when Faber rose on a point of order during a presentation by Caribbean Shores representative Jose Coye. Jose Coye, Area Rep., […]
As he had promised on our newscast on Thursday night, this morning Leader of the Opposition Dean Barrow questioned Minister of Immigration Ralph Fonseca on the Cal controversy. Following Barrow’s petitions for changes in the system of issuing and withdrawing diplomatic status, Fonseca maintained that new measures have already been put in place. Ralph Fonseca, […]
“My clients will be there.” That’s official word from attorney Dickie Bradley tonight regarding speculation on whether or not attorney Glenn Godfrey and former Chief Executive Officer of the D.F.C., Troy Gabb will be present at the public hearings of the Commission of Inquiry investigating the Development Finance Corporation. According to Bradley, summons were served […]
This morning a crowd gathered at Belize City’s Magistrate Court as an accused drug dealer prepared to defend himself against extradition to the United States. Family and friends of thirty-seven year old Mark Seawell held up placards to show their support for their loved one and called for his release. Appearing on behalf of the […]
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to life behind bars for the crime. In the courtroom of Justice Troadio Gonzalez, Edward Barahona stood with his attorney Lionel Welch to hear his fate. Welch was the only person present at the time to beg the judge to be lenient, telling the court that his client was […]
Today union activists upped the ante in the continuing face off between Belize Telecommunications Limited and the local labour movement, with executives publicly setting a deadline for the reinstatement of all four fired employees. But as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, it’s unclear what will happen when the timeline expires. Kendra Griffith, Reporting At noon […]
Bright and early tomorrow morning Women=s Week will officially begin with a bike ride into the old capital. The event, like others planned over the next seven days, is designed to bring awareness and change to the disturbing issue of domestic violence. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports. Icilda Humes, Human Dev. Coordinator, Women’s Dept. “There […]
