Three days after twenty-six year old Jeramine Orosco mysteriously disappeared somewhere along the banks of the upper Macal River there is still no word of his whereabouts. Orosco, a boat captain, is an employee of David Penner, a contractor hired by BECOL to clean the Chalillo reservoir impoundment area. Reports are that around seven on […]
Belize City police say shortly after one this afternoon, two brazen young men walked into the compound of Wesley Junior College, went upstairs and robbed acting dean Winsome Arana and college principal Brenda Armstrong of thousands of dollars. The money had been collected from students who had gone to the institution to register. According to […]
There are more questions than answers in a pair of shooting incidents that sent two young men to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Tuesday night. Police say they do not have much to go on but believe the assaults on twenty-three year old Andrew West and twenty-eight year old Edwin Rivera are related. It […]
A U.S. citizen expelled from Belize and turned over to the F.B.I. in December of last year has pleaded guilty to terrorism related charges. James Ujaama, who had already served a two year prison sentence in the States for setting up a terror training camp, had entered into a plea bargain agreement with U.S. authorities […]
First, let me preface this next story with an explanation that we report it not to cause any undue concern, but out of a healthy respect for the power of nature. Yes, there is a storm out there and while soon-to-be Hurricane Dean poses no immediate threat to Belize, it certainly bears watching. Jacqueline Godwin, […]
Hopefully Dean will not be attending next Tuesday’s performance of Ultimate KTV. Last night, however, there was a storm surge of talent onstage at the Bliss. The show opened with the announcement that last week’s winner was Cayo’s Audrey Augustine. She will move on to the semi-final round next month and a shot at the […]
It has always been considered one of Belize City’s nicest neighbourhoods but West Landivar has never been called a hotbed of news … that is until its residents started to organise. News Five’s Marion Ali has the latest from the area. Marion Ali, Reporting Today the West Landivar Citizens’ Action Committee and the Belize City […]
Belize’s Revolutionary Conquerors of Dangriga started out strong during their match last night against Real Espana of Honduras, but their luck did not last. The local boys scored the first goal in the sixteenth minute of the first half when Dennis Serano blasted one into the opposing net. However, our guests tied the match ten […]
Fifty-four murders have been committed since the first of the year and while police have chalked up some success in solving many of the killings, the perpetrators in two of 2007’s most high profile homicides remain undiscovered and unpunished. We asked Eastern Division Deputy Commander Chester Williams for an update on the deaths of businessman […]
The corporal punishment of children is always a controversial issue with traditional disciplinarians lined up against a supposedly more enlightened generation of parents. This week the debate has moved from the theoretical to the practical as the case of Clifford White, principal and schoolteacher at Belize Christian Efforts Foster Home, is being heard in Magistrates’ […]
Seven hundred dollars for a stick of weed seems like a pretty drastic penalty but that’s what thirty year old Albert Chaparro, a painter of Neal Penn Road, must pay between now and September fourteenth or he will spend seven months behind bars. That court ruling followed Chaparro’s guilty plea this morning before Magistrate Aretha […]
Over the last two decades the nature of politics and the media has changed to the point where Belize appears to be in a state of permanent electioneering. Yet even though it’s sometimes difficult to figure out where one campaign ends and the next begins, viewers will have noticed that recently the intensity of the […]
It is nothing more than a coincidence but today was a day of donations in Belize, with money, vehicles, furniture and scholarships changing hands like fried chicken at Li Chee. The biggest handover took place in Belmopan when Taiwanese ambassador Joseph Shih presented Prime Minister Said Musa with a cheque for seven hundred and fifty […]
Meanwhile, at the Belmopan Showgrounds, the Minisitry of Agriculture was handing over the keys to some new Toyota pickups. What makes the presentation unusual is that instead of some foreign government doling out the goodies to an impoverished but grateful government, it was the government making its own counterpart contribution to an ongoing assistance project. […]
Next on the receiving end of some wheels was the Police Department. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The donation may be just one motorcycle but it will greatly improve the efficiency of the police prosecution branch in delivering summons to witnesses in a timely fashion. Police Constable Glen Arzu is one of the three process servers attached […]
One month after five families were left homeless by the Prince Street fire, the Belize City Council continues to extend a helping hand to the victims. Today, in a short ceremony, a three piece sofa set, donated by Adventura Furniture of Corozal, was given to one of the families. To decide which family would receive […]
Deputy Mayor Michael also took the opportunity to weigh in on a story we ran on Monday night’s newscast. He says preliminary investigations have revealed that alcohol was not a factor in the accident that caused one of their traffic officers, Mark Banner, to crash into a light pole near the Bridge Foot over the […]
And finally on this day of donations came some help from one of the country’s most successful corporations. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. These twenty-one students hailing from all over the country earned scholarships to the institution of their choice through B.T.L.’s high school scholarship programme. It’s an opportunity that twelve year-old Toledo […]
The photo exhibition is a collection of pictures taken by well known media personality Ann Marie Williams on her recent trip to Nairobi, Kenya, where she was a delegate to the World Council of the Young Women’s Christian Association. The display is dedicated to the Y.W.C.A. of Belize. Ann Marie Williams, Journalist “if anything these […]
Two murders occurred over the weekend, one in Belize City by gunshot and the other in the rural Stann Creek District by machete. To say they are examples of senseless violence is to state the obvious. Not so obvious is how to stop the bloodshed. Jacqueline Godwin Twenty-seven year old Simon Alexander Montes, better known […]
Police in the Stann Creek District are on the lookout for a Honduran national who not only killed one man but left another to die. According to authorities, around six-thirty on Friday evening, the suspect, who remains unidentified, was in Middlesex Village when he reportedly got into an argument concerning a woman with another Honduran, […]
But while police continue to look for their murder suspect, they have made progress in another stabbing incident that also occurred last Friday in the Stann Creek Valley village of Pomona. Twenty six-year old Julian Polanco of the Hummingbird Community has been arrested and charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means […]
This morning, thirty three year old Lionel Castillo, the investigator at the Ombudsman’s Office, appeared in Belize City Magistrates’ Court where he was arraigned on the charge of Extortion following a sting operation by police. Authorities say Castillo received an initial payment of five thousand dollars after he purportedly helped an inmate serving time at […]
While most of us were sleeping this morning a burglar or burglars were working hard to break into the Ladyville branch of Atlantic Bank. According to the manager, sometime between four and six a.m. the steel shutters at the back of the building on the Northern Highway were broken and the building entered. Unfortunately for […]
Prime Minister Said Musa and his delegation have returned from a weekend summit and ministerial meetings in Venezuela. The talks in Caracas, hosted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez, brought together the fourteen countries participating in the Petro Caribe initiative, a programme in which oil rich Venezuela is providing petroleum products […]
