Three people have been arrested for attempting to intimidate a witness in a criminal trial. Based on a report by the witness that he was accosted on Saturday, prior to the trial police have arrested sixty-five year old Ramon Barahona, thirty-six year old Jesus Echeverria, and fifty-one year old Azucena Tesecum, all of Corozal Town. […]
A tourist has died while snorkelling off Ambergris Caye. Sixty-four year old Forest Wells of New Jersey, U.S.A. was in the waters of the Hol Chan Marine Reserve on Tuesday afternoon, along with eight other visitors when he experienced breathing problems. Although quickly taken ashore, he died before reaching the clinic. Foul play is not […]
Last night we introduced the top scorers in the Primary School Examination, but tonight it’s time to take a closer look at the statistics. The Ministry of Education reports that compared to 2006, there was an almost seven and a half point improvement in English scores with this year’s national average coming in at sixty […]
Today was the final leg of the event known as the PACT Challenge. The three teams, having experienced the wonders of Belize’s magnificent atolls, returned to Belize City to meet the press. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today the PACT Challenge 2007 came to an end, coincidentally on the same day that the Protected Areas Conservation Trust […]
The newly constituted Cabinet met this morning and we are informed by the Government Press Office that the meeting–attended by all members except Foreign Minister Lisa Shoman–went smoothly and the new ministers, as well as old ones with new portfolios, are getting down to business.
And while those political leaders were talking, so too were the new inductees into the former ministers club, a body whose membership yesterday doubled to a total of four. This afternoon John Briceño and Eamon Courtenay visited our studios where they individually explained to News Five’s Stewart Krohn why they did what they did and […]
While Eamon Courtenay may be contemplating a career in electoral politics, John Briceño is a veteran who plies his trade in one of Belize’s roughest political neighbourhoods. To give up the perks and power of the Deputy Prime Minister’s office, not to mention a ministry that controls any election’s most important commodity–land–did not come easily. […]
The changes in Cabinet have prompted reaction from just about every sector of society, but the most vocal response–not surprisingly–has come from the Opposition United Democratic Party. This morning, U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow maintained that the P.M. must take the blame for the latest fracture in his Cabinet. Dean Barrow, Leader of the Opposition “I […]
Tonight we regret to report that well-known physician and local businessman Dr. Harry Hoy has died. He was forty-six years old. Hoy suffered a heart attack on Sunday morning and never recovered. He will be buried following funeral services at Holy Redeemer Cathedral at ten-thirty on Thursday morning. He is survived by his wife Dr. […]
Coordinating people can be hard, but trying to get entire countries to agree on the same goals and how to achieve them is even tougher. But that’s the challenge environmentalists face today during their ongoing efforts to preserve, protect, and sustainably develop our natural resources, like the Belize Barrier Reef. But a book launched in […]
It’s not a new story, but if you’ve ever been swindled by a bogus blue note, you’ll agree it’s an important one. Yes, counterfeit currency is still around and here’s a reminder to be on the lookout. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting These two one-hundred dollar bills look very similar, but a closer inspection of the notes […]
Separate appeals by two men convicted of sex crimes have been denied in the Court of Appeal. In September 2006, twenty-two year old Sheldon Baptist was ordered to spend the next seven and a half years behind bars. Through his attorney Lionel Welch, Baptist appealed the decision, but the court struck down his claim. Baptist […]
Progressive education experts have for years told us that standardised tests are at best a mediocre measure of academic performance, let alone an accurate indicator of future achievement. So why do we so anxiously await the results? Because as humans, we love to keep score. Today the 2007 Primary School Examination results were released and […]
In terms of sheer numbers it was by no means the biggest Cabinet reshuffle ever engineered by Prime Minister Said Musa … but when it comes to impact, the political projectile launched this afternoon from Belmopan resembled a roadside bomb in Baghdad: powerful, unexpected, and lethal. But in Belizean politics–unlike Iraq–death is often in the […]
A one year old baby is dead and Corozal police are awaiting the results of a post mortem to determine whether or not they should charge the mother and uncle in her death. According to authorities, the child’s uncle, Juvencio Chan, told them that on Saturday afternoon he was at home in San Narcisco Village […]
An Independence villager is hospitalized tonight, following a stabbing in that southern community late Saturday. According to family members, around eleven-thirty that night, twenty-two year old Baudillo Vargas was riding his bicycle near the cemetery when he was struck in the back with a machete. Vargas fell and was hit again in the forehead and […]
The epidemic of break-ins at public institutions has spread to the nation’s premier cultural site, the beautifully recreated Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. The worst part was that this crime was not perpetrated by a bunch of kids out for mischief. William Neal, Executive Director, ICA “The security guard was not terribly hurt but […]
On Friday, forty-three year old Thierry Roquet, A French national residing in Guatemala, arrived in Belize for a three-day visit, but his vacation became a nightmare when later that same day he was run over by a boat. Roquet says that he was snorkelling approximately sixty feet from the pier in Caye Caulker around five-thirty […]
Some were masters, others, aspiring amateurs … but this weekend, they all received the same opportunity to impress the judges in the sixth annual Taste of Belize Competition. On Saturday, some forty-three participants showed off their bartending, cooking, grilling, and cake decorating skills to the sold-out crowd that gathered at the Radisson Fort George Hotel […]
They have been promoting the event for months and as I speak, some fifteen hardy souls and a small army of support troops are resting up for one more day of adventurous competition. Today News Five cameraman Rick Romero received an aerial tour of the event, sponsored by the Protected Areas Conservation Trust. News Five’s […]
Good Evening I’m James Adderly and we welcome you to Sports Monday. Game one of the RFG Cup Championship was staged at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday where F.C. Belize hosted the Revolutionary Conquerors of Dangriga to kick off the home and away series for this most prestigious football title. Folks, we’re just one minute into […]
In his first televised interview, today political activist Derek Aikman gave his account of his bizarre kidnapping that occurred five days ago. Aikman was a guest on Krem Television’s Wake Up Belize Morning Vibes where he shared an incredible story, beginning with how he was taken hostage. According to Aikman, just after eight on Sunday […]
Separate attacks at two city schools have sent a security guard to hospital and left a teacher walking to work. In the first incident, before seven this morning, staff and students of All Saints Primary showed up to school only to find blood all over one of the verandas and their security guard missing. Subsequent […]
A Belmopan woman is seventy thousand dollars richer tonight after her numbers matched those drawn in Wednesday’s Lotto draw. Forty-two year old Elsa Middleton says she’s been a persistent buyer but she still could not believe the news when a friend told her that she had won. Elsa Middleton, $70,000 Lotto Winner “I had a […]
The United States has been a significant ally to Belize’s armed forces on land and on the high seas. Today, Uncle Sam made another major donation in cash and kind to the Belize Defence Force. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning the Belize Defence Force took possession of seven hundred thousand […]
