Last night Ultimate KTV completed the second of eight first round matchups. But before the competition got underway the auditors announced that last week’s winner was Ronald Casimiro. Ronald will move on to the semi-finals set to begin at the end of September. As for this week’s winner, viewers will now choose between the following […]
This week the folks who run and inhabit Belize’s only prison are taking time to mark their achievements. Yesterday News Five’s Janelle Chanona made the trip to Hattieville and found that in five years of private administration much has changed. Janelle Chanona, Reporting On Tuesday, inmates of the Hattieville Correctional Facility put their talent on […]
We’ll open tonight’s newscast with a quick take on sports … and, like most recent reports from that arena, the news is not good. In a game ended a little over an hour ago F.C. Belize, this year’s F.F.B. Champion, went down to a three-nil defeat at the hands of Punta Arenas of Costa Rica. […]
There are no new breaks in the investigation into the weekend of deadly violence in Santa Elena. On Monday, San Ignacio police arrested and charged twenty-five year old Ruben Echeverria for Attempted Murder saying he is the man who stabbed Justin Gordon several times in the back outside of the Galindo residence on Perez Street. […]
If you were expecting fireworks last night between the two sides in the West Landivar land use dispute, you were probably disappointed. While there was no shortage of hard talk, it was delivered with only one intent: to stop the project proposed by businessman David Gegg. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. Rhenae Nunez, […]
The month before school starts is always a stressful time for parents and students, as they not only have to deal with the coming academic challenges but also the financial. Today one set of families found some welcome relief from those worries. Marion Ali, Reporting Seven students will have an opportunity to further their education […]
This week the Police Department is hosting the annual camp for its Youth Cadet Corps. Close to three hundred young people between the ages of eight and seventeen are participating in the event. This year’s camp, the largest of its kind in the country, is being hosted at the Belmopan Comprehensive School. On Monday we […]
We were there when all those annual summer camps started … and now, as some of them wind down, we are invited back to see what the little angels have accomplished. If this morning’s show at the Bliss is any indication, the time was well spent. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Looking at these children, you would […]
It’s an organisation that does a lot of different things, most of which involve helping the community. And if you’re lucky you can be a part of the Rotary Club’s good works by attending a play that will not only raise money, but–if the past is any indication–have you rolling in the aisles. News Five’s […]
One man is dead and four others are injured as the twin town of Santa Elena, Cayo, was the scene of a family feud gone violent. The shootings took place on Saturday night and today I went West looking for answers. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting According to Yolanda Echeverria her brothers, seventeen year old Marvin, twenty-five […]
Police in Independence are tonight investigating an apparent drowning that occurred near Mango Creek on Sunday. According to officials of TMM Yacht Vacations, around six Sunday evening one of their employees, thirty-five-year-old Estevan Nab, used one of the company’s small inflatable boats to transport a co-worker from their base in Placencia across the lagoon to […]
Also in Placencia over the weekend, thieves, believed to be using a boat, made off with two new outboard engines from the stern of a barge anchored in the lagoon. The engines, forty horsepower four stroke Mercuries, are black with blue trim with some red scuff marks. A reward of one thousand dollars is being […]
A three-year old child died on Sunday after a barbeque grill fell on top of him. According to the boy’s mother, thirty-one year old Sophia Gladden, she and her son Kevin Garnett, had been watching television shortly before he ran into the yard to play. But that was the last time the high school teacher […]
Tonight police believe there is a young man suffering from gunshot wounds hiding somewhere in the city after a robbery went wrong over the weekend. According to reports, around two on Saturday afternoon two men, one armed with a handgun, walked into VRJ’s Fast Food on West Canal and demanded money from owner Deepak Gidwani. […]
In other police news, a homeless woman has been detained by police, accused of stabbing a homeless man. Fifty-six year old Leo Jones was hospitalized with a single wound to his abdomen after he was stabbed around ten on Sunday morning. The victim and the alleged perpetrator reside at the Department of Human Services Homeless […]
Police have made arrests in two recent Belize City shootings. Twenty-two year old Bejohn Martinez of Tibruce Street has been identified as the man who shot food vendor Silas Molina in an attempted robbery on the morning of August second, on Dolphin Street. Martinez has been charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, Use of Deadly […]
Two years after a fatal shooting at a popular nightclub, the man accused of the crime has been convicted of murder. According to court reports, this afternoon twenty-nine year old Dean Hyde was found guilty in connection with the death of sixteen year old Dual Wagner Jr. On October ninth, 2004, Wagner was at the […]
Five members of the University of Belize Engineering faculty have received scholarships to study in Taiwan. The grants, for graduate and post-graduate studies at Yunlin University, will be for the 2007/2008 academic year beginning in September. Jeffrey Jones, Leonard Mortis and Adrian Leslie will do graduate work in construction engineering while Andres Chimilio will pursue […]
This morning officials of the Ministry of Health, the Belize Cancer Society, and a team of medical practitioners from several universities in the U.S. began a one week campaign to help Belizean women defeat a disease that, with early detection, need not be fatal. News Five’s Marion Ali has the story. Marion Ali, Reporting Worldwide, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this version of Sports Monday. The champion and the sub-champion in the 2007 Belize Premier Football League take their dreams to the international scene as they compete in this year’s UNCAF Champions Tournament. The champion F.C. Belize opens against Puntarenas at Cost Rica tomorrow three p.m., […]
Today in the Supreme Court, twenty year old Abdiel Sandoval was sentenced to fifteen years behind bars after he was found guilty of the attempted murder of his girlfriend, Tracy Donis, who was only sixteen years old at the time. The crime occurred in San Ignacio on September third, 2005. Sandoval reportedly slashed the young […]
Two years after thirty-seven year old Sergeant Leslie Wade was accused of raping a thirty year old woman police constable, today Wade walked out of the Supreme Court a free man. According to the woman, the rape occurred in the early morning of September twentieth, 2005, in the barracks of the Police Training School in […]
Sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning someone broke into the Belize Western Energy offices on Central American Boulevard and managed to cart away over sixteen thousand dollars worth of electronics and cash without being noticed. The burglars gained access into the gas company building by breaking a wooden door located on the side of […]
Twenty-one year old Robert McKenzie lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a gunshot injury to his left foot… and claims he does not know who shot him or why. McKenzie told Belize City police that around nine on Thursday night he and a friend were standing in his yard on Taylor’s Avenue when […]
On last night’s newscast we spoke to Minister of Health Jose Coye and learned that the nation’s expanded National Health Insurance coverage would be financed by the Ministry of Health, Social Security and the about-to-be-created Petroleum Fund. We also asked for an update on the situation with Universal Health Services. Coye said that two foreign […]
