There were presidents galore on Ambergris Caye today as Belize hosted a pair of regional summits. News Five’s Janelle Chanona joined the crowd in San Pedro that included equal measures of media and security personnel. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Today coordinated chaos dominated the San Pedro airstrip as heads of state from Central America arrived in […]
Belizean shrimp farmers, who have suffered through several years of depressed world prices caused by low cost Asian competition, received some very good news today. Following revelations of contaminated pet food, toothpaste and toys exported from China, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned the importation of Chinese shrimp and four types of fish. […]
For the second time this year, the Salvation Army School has been burglarised. Sometime between six Wednesday evening and eight Thursday morning a thief or thieves broke in the infant one and standard one classrooms. Fortunately, the school was not hit terribly hard as the culprits only made off with two tape recorders. Police are […]
Police have sixteen pounds of marijuana waiting to be collected by its rightful owner. The weed was found at the cargo office of Maya Island Air on San Pedro, having arrived by plane from Belize City. According to police, they were called by employees who said the three unclaimed parcels looked and smelled suspicious. Anyone […]
Just swipe it! That’s what you’re supposed to do with your debit card. Of course it helps to have some cash in your account. And speaking of cash, those who have been swiping over the last several months received a chance to win some big money in a promotion sponsored by the Belize Bank. Misty […]
It has been in the planning stages for some time, but tonight the Belize Independent Media Association will hold its official launch. BIMA’s ten founding members include owners and editors of various media houses who represent radio, television, and print. According to pro-tem president Ann Marie Williams, the overall goal is to promote freedom of […]
This weekend Belize will be hosting the Central American Bodybuilding Championships for the third time and this morning the first wave of officials and competitors arrived in Belize City. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has more. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Sixty participants from four countries are expected to compete in the 2007 Central American Bodybuilding Championships. Giovanni […]
The two organisations are similar in name and purpose and both do great work in Belize. Last week we looked at what the Y.W.C.A. is doing in the way of summer activities and today we’ll check in on the Y.M.C.A. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Sandy Liming has worked with the Young Men’s Christian Association in the […]
With the controversy over taxation and environmental concerns largely resolved, Belize’s fledgling petroleum industry has been absent from the headlines. But while the rhetoric has cooled, the wells, pumps, and tanker trucks have been running steadily … to the point where crude oil just may be the nation’s largest single export. News Five’s Janelle Chanona […]
A young wife is under arrest tonight after she stabbed her husband to death. Authorities found the lifeless body of twenty-three year old Cornelio Montero inside the couple’s residence in Succotz Village in the Cayo District. Police say their investigations revealed that twenty-two year old Glenda Lucrecia Montero and her spouse were having an argument […]
In Belize City Magistrates’ Court a man who broke into a home in Biscayne Village pleaded guilty to burglary and damage to property. Twenty-six year old Oscar Lopez Martinez was apprehended by neighbours and held for police after he entered the home of seventy-six year old Marjorie Tillett on June twenty-sixth. Six hundred and fifty […]
Every day Belizeans engage with used car dealers to purchase vehicles. Usually, the transaction ends happily … but not always. One that didn’t work out has resulted in a dealer being arrested. Twenty-nine year old Jude Coye of Johnson Street appeared today in Magistrates’ Court charged with Obtaining Property by Deception. It is alleged that […]
It used to be that an international summit meeting in Belize would have the whole country in a panic. But tomorrow on Ambergris, Caye not one, but two heads of government meetings will be taking place. The first involves the Central American grouping SICA and the second adds Mexico and Colombia, constituting the Tuxtla and […]
This week, Belize became the third country in Central America to sign onto a regional initiative that should modernise our ability to fight threats to our agriculture. According to a release issued by the Government Press Office, under the auspices of OIRSA, the International Regional Organization for Health in Agriculture, on Monday Minister Vildo Marin […]
We all may be aware that it’s hurricane season, but that knowledge doesn’t do much good if we don’t take action. One group that knows the value of hurricane preparedness more than most is the tourism industry. Today they gathered to hear some familiar–and critical–advice: plan ahead. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting It’s been six years since […]
From what we see on the streets of Belize City, our typical cruise ship visitors tend to be middle age and North American. Today, however, a very special group of tourists disembarked who were neither. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the story. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The Bahamas National Children’s Choir was welcomed to Belize by […]
The results were released earlier this month, but today was the day to officially honour this year’s top scorers in the Primary School Examination. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the story. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning proud students, parents, and educators gathered at the Bliss to honour the top twenty-six finishers in the Primary School […]
A dead body has been found on the outskirts of Belize City, but it appears that foul play was not involved. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Five days after thirty-nine year old Godwin Slusher went missing from his Belize City home around eleven this morning, a police mobile patrol came upon his remains under this abandoned structure […]
It was around this same time last year when the staff of Anglican Cathedral College was held up as they collected registration fees in the school’s office. In that incident over twelve thousand dollars was stolen by the two robbers who also destroyed some property in the process. Following the incident the school staff and […]
The Public Utilities Commission has delivered its final decision on electricity rates. The result is that beginning July first, lower volume consumers will see their bills drop while larger users, including commercial and industrial customers, will pay more. A key feature of the new set of tariffs is that the ten dollar monthly service charge […]
It’s a common ailment in Belize as well as across the Caribbean and throughout the world. Diabetes has long been acknowledged as one of our leading killers and its debilitating effects are often crippling. While campaigns to raise awareness are often implemented, one new initiative is seeking to focus on a particular target. Anthony Castillo, […]
Corozal police have arrested and charged the three young men they say killed eighty-one year old Harry Duesbury at his residence in San Andres Village in the Corozal District. The accused, who all live in the community, have been identified as twenty-six year old Noel Guy and seventeen year old Rosendo Guy, believe to be […]
Also arrested today was twenty year old Allan Martinez of Central American Boulevard in Belize City. Martinez was identified by Roy Latchman as the man who tried to burn his house down Sunday night. Latchman chased the intruder away, but not before he had poured kerosene on the wooden veranda. Martinez has been charged with […]
Details are sketchy tonight, but police are investigating a disturbing allegation involving the rape of a minor. Authorities say an eleven year old has reported that sometime between four and five on Monday evening she was not only kidnapped, but taken to an area in Belize City where at least one of her abductors raped […]
A traffic accident on the Southern Highway has left seven members of a Toledo family injured. Around two on Monday afternoon, twenty-eight year old Domingo Teck was driving his Dodge van in a southerly direction when between miles six and seven, one of the vehicle’s rear wheels broke off its axle. Teck jammed on the […]
