In the fallout following the much criticized Government guarantee to Universal Health Services, the People’s United Party has taken flak from the Opposition, the public and even from some of its own cabinet ministers for the implications of that decision. The guarantee, signed in December 2004 by Prime Minister Said Musa and Attorney General Francis […]
And while the People’s United Party circles the wagons to defend the decision of Prime Minister Said Musa to grant an open guarantee to U.H.S., on Wednesday the legality of the liability will be challenged in court. According to the Association of Concerned Belizeans, on Wednesday they plan to file suit in the Supreme Court […]
A Sandhill man is recuperating at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway over the weekend. According to police around three Sunday afternoon, Darrell Hyde was riding his bicycle between miles thirteen and fourteen when he was knocked down from behind by a Mitsubishi Gallant. The driver, thirty […]
Meanwhile, a Santa Elena man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder following a stabbing in that municipality. Police reports indicate that around eight thirty on Saturday night, twenty two year old Pedro Melendez was at a shop in Santa Elena when he was attacked by a man armed with a knife. During the […]
In other police news, a teenager has been arrested for joyriding after cops found him driving a stolen car. According to court reports, around twelve thirty on Saturday morning, Bernardo Bay Junior was leaving the Shooter’s Nightclub located on Amara Avenue when three men asked him for a cigarette. Bay says as he looked down […]
A pregnant Gales Point woman and her two children are homeless tonight following a fire over the weekend. According to relatives, on Saturday evening Sherry-Ann Slusher took her three year old and one year old to visit her grandmother in another part of the village but around eight that night, neighbours saw smoke and then […]
The recent spate of deadly violence against women at the hands of their significant others has placed the issues surrounding domestic abuse on the forefront of public concern. But tonight there is yet another disturbing case to report because over the weekend two women were attacked because they tried to help a neighbour who was […]
It was bumper to bumper traffic in Belmopan this weekend as thousands of Belizeans travelled to the capital city to attend the 2007 National Agriculture and Trade Show. According to organizers, on Saturday a record crowd of more than twenty thousand people visited the grounds while Sunday saw a whopping thirty thousand visitors braving the […]
Seven months after Steven “the Seaweed Man” Hemsley made a tearful plea for help for his three year old son who needed leukaemia treatments, tonight we regret to announce that on Friday night the child died. Malecai Hemsley died in his father’s arms after being rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Hemsley was devoted […]
In his quest to strengthen the Belizean education system, this month Dr. Arlie Petters, of the Petters Research Institute, continues to help students prepare to sit this year’s Primary School Examination with specially prepared textbooks and courses on study skills. But according to Petters, this summer he’s taking things a step further by hosting a […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this issue of Sports Monday. Week ten of the Regent Insurance Cup Tournament found SP Costa Del Sol Nairi’s visiting with Sugar Boys Juventus inside the People’s Stadium yesterday looking for that big win in their final regular season outing that would lead them into the […]
Gunshots; the wail of an ambulance; police sirens; the screams of mourning relatives. Sadly, these are the succession of sounds that have become commonplace on the streets of Belize City. That scene played out again on Amara Avenue last night and now yet another family is in the grips of grief. And as News Five’s […]
A young Belize City man has pled guilty to the armed robbery of a Cemetery Road restaurant. According to court reports, this afternoon seventeen year old Julian Willoughby and eighteen year old Kareem Arnold appeared before Magistrate Roberto Ordonez on a charge of robbery. But before the matter could proceed, Willoughby told Ordonez that he […]
The Belize Police Department has four new vehicles at its disposal tonight, thanks to the Republic of South Korea. According to a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South Korea has donated three 2007 Ssang Yong Diesel pickup trucks and one Hyundai van. According to the release, the gift is the product of […]
Word out of Belmopan tonight is that Corinth Morter-Lewis and the University of Belize are parting ways. According to the rumour mill, Santos Mahung will be replacing Morter-Lewis as President of U.B. But for now the rumour will remain just that, as U.B. board chairman Dr. Louis Zabaneh, Morter-Lewis, Mahung, and even public relations officer […]
You might have seen them on your travels … young members of the Belize Defence Force on a cross country journey on foot! But the investment of sweat, blood, and tears was not about personal accomplishments because as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, the soldiers are the latest to support the fight against HIV. Kendra […]
Financial independence is a status far easier to discuss than achieve, but for the next two months, one group of villagers will be arming themselves with skills that should bring them closer to that reality. Under the theme, “Empowering the rural poor to increase their income and employment”, this morning the Belize Rural Development program […]
Today was a big day for the Belize City Council as their newest infrastructural investment was unveiled to the public. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin has more. Anthony Michael, Deputy Mayor, Belize City Council “Welcome to honesty, welcome to transparency, welcome to a future filled with hope for a new dawn, a new era of honest […]
It’s the largest and one of the most beautiful protected areas in Belize, but the Chiquibul National Park also has its fair share of challenges. Located along the porous Belize Guatemala border, its resources are constantly being pillaged, but as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, conservationists are undaunted by the formidable challenge and are more […]
Last week we ran a story following up on a murder investigation in which a Belize City family complained that overzealous police ransacked their home in search of a weapon that wasn’t there. This morning police returned to the house on Arlington Drive … with a different result. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Belize City police are […]
The crime occurred over a year ago, but justice was finally administered today for Wilfred Lemoth. Lemoth, initially charged with Attempted Murder and Maim following a macheting incident in Belize City on April nineteenth, 2006, this morning pleaded guilty to Dangerous Harm. Justice Troadio Gonzalez sentenced him to five years in prison, effective from today’s […]
Four days after fifty-three year old Leonides Puc was knocked down near mile eighty-five on the Northern Highway, this morning the San Narciso resident succumbed to his injuries at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Following the accident, eighteen year old Kairo Romero of Santa Rita Layout in Corozal Town was arrested and charged. Investigations revealed […]
Twenty-eight year old Mark Cho, a resident of Red Bank in the Stann Creek district, is lucky to be alive. In February, the young father of two children, was riding his bike home from work around seven at night when he was knocked down by a pickup a half mile down the road to the […]
It’s been an issue on the backburner of the B.T.L. stove, but this morning attorneys representing Michael Ashcroft and Jeffrey Prosser were back in court, with both men laying claim to the chairmanship of the telecommunications company’s board. The private session was held in the chambers of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh but we can tell […]
Today a small contingent of Mayan community leaders gathered in the courtroom of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh to witness the first official proceeding related to their legal claim for demarcation of village lands. Residents of Conejo and Santa Cruz filed suit in the Supreme Court earlier this month, asserting that the Government of Belize has […]
