Another cop is in trouble tonight after he barrelled through a police checkpoint on the Northern Highway carrying a cargo of uncustomed liquor and cigarettes. Off duty police constable thirty year old Andres Hernandez sped through the checkpoint at the Boom cut-off around five-thirty this morning, was chased by Ladyville cops, turned around at mile […]
It’s the guardian of Belizean workers’ retirement and benefit funds, as well as a dominant force in the nation’s economy. And while the Social Security Board has taken its share of public criticism, a new initiative seeks to dispel that image and produce real change in the organisation. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Today, the Social Security […]
We often receive complaints from viewers regarding various shortcomings in the services provided by different governmental bodies or public utilities. In many instances the calls amount to much ado about nothing, but occasionally the grievance is not only genuine but the offence is disgraceful. Such was the case investigated this afternoon by News Five’s Marion […]
There was not an empty seat in the Bliss auditorium and the singers responded with perhaps the strongest set of performances ever given in six years of KTV. Each of the four finalists sang as if ten thousand dollars was at stake … which of course it was. Here’s how it went on stage. [Contestants […]
There is good news and bad news tonight concerning the oil industry. The good news is that after being exposed by the opposition and pressured by civic groups and the media, the Belize Government has cancelled two production sharing agreements with local oil companies that gave them unusually favourable terms and disadvantaged the public treasury. […]
Toledo is most often referred to as the forgotten district but in archaeological terms, Stann Creek comes closest to that description. However, a new preservation project by the Institute of Archaeology should change that. The Serpon Sugar Mill site, located along the banks of the Sittee River, was officially declared a reserve several years ago […]
The death was shrouded in mystery from the initial discovery of the body … but little by little information is emerging on the death of a young man that increasingly points in a direction that has made many people uncomfortable. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The family and friends of twenty-eight year old Rennick Ryan Reneau strongly […]
The second of four escaped prisoners is back behind bars at Hattieville Prison. Kolbe Foundation officials have confirmed that Rupert Manzanero turned himself in to police in the Cayo district this morning in the company of one of his brothers. Manzanero had been on the run since he and three other prisoners escaped from the […]
Tonight, police are still looking for the two men who brazenly held up a passenger bus and made off with several hundred dollars. Twenty year old Keran Rocke, a conductor for National Transport Service, told authorities that, the bus, on its way from Benque Viejo to Belize City, on Monday evening stopped by the Mile […]
Seven year old Shawn Flores is home tonight recovering from a pellet wound he received after the young boy was accidentally shot by a twelve year old friend. The children, who reside in Dangriga, were at the residence of twenty-five year old Aaron Nolberto. Police report that the older child, who is mentally challenged, took […]
In a society that seems to have lost all sense of morality and discipline, trying to set Belize’s young people on the right path is nothing if not difficult. But one institution continues to confront the challenge head on. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting These banners are the work of students at […]
Accusations against the Belize government that it gave extraordinarily generous terms to a group of local businessmen in an oil concession have yet to be answered by Belmopan. Our canvassing of Cabinet members reveals that the members have spent the last three days reviewing their minutes of the June fifth meeting, presumably to refresh their […]
Details remain sketchy but police have made plans to exhume the remains of a Corozal resident so investigators can determine whether he was murdered. For four days, seventy-seven year old security guard Enrique Lino had been hospitalized, first in Corozal, then at the K.H.M.H. in Belize City. When he died last Friday, the body was […]
It is always disturbing to report attacks against children and older persons, but on Sunday morning an elderly woman was viciously assaulted and raped in the Cayo District. According to the sixty-seven year old victim, she was at her home in San Ignacio around six a.m. when she was attacked by an intruder. The perpetrator […]
Two men are wanted by police in connection with reports filed by separate pregnant girls in Belmopan. In the company of a social worker, a twelve year old girl told cops in the capital that over the summer she met a Corozal man named “Luis”. The two became friends and then in June, the child […]
One of four prisoners who escaped from Hattieville prison earlier this month has been captured. Twenty-seven year old Terry Bainton was apprehended shortly after noon on Sunday as the result of a police raid on a house in Belize City. According to police press officer Bart Jones, based on a tip, officers entered a residence […]
Two months after a Belize City businessman was shot during a botched robbery, police have made an arrest in the case. On Friday, twenty year old Marlon Jones was charged with Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Grievous Harm. The accused was remanded to Hattieville Prison until December eleventh. Apparently Jones had […]
Separate cases of burglary have resulted in one man being sentenced to jail and two others imprisoned on remand. According to court reports, on Saturday night police were tipped off that there was an intruder near the Romac’s warehouse on Albert Street. The security guard was subsequently able to detain the individual who was later […]
Police are looking for a suspected arsonist who torched a school building in the Toledo district over the weekend. Around two on Sunday morning, villagers of the Bladen community woke up to the smell of smoke and when they looked outside, they were horrified to see four classrooms of the Fabian Cayetano R.C. School engulfed […]
The seven-member delegation included four athletes and three officials and today they returned to Belize after a splendid performance at the recent Special Olympics in China. Michael Graham, Gold Medallist, Track & Field “Just try hard and bring the gold to Belize.” Marion Ali “Anybody can do this?” Michael Graham “Yes.” Marion Ali “Was it […]
The votes have been tallied and in the closest balloting ever, the last two finalists in Ultimate KTV have been selected. Earlier today Ilda Chiac of the auditing firm PKF Belize confirmed the results of the text message voting. Mary Mangar, Producer, Ultimate KTV “Ilda, can you confirm that your firm has reviewed the text […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this session of Sports Monday. Week four of the R.F.G. Cup Tournament found the Belize Defence Force making a stand at the M.C.C. Grounds against the Revolutionary Conquerors of Dangriga. Five minutes in, B.D.F.’s Deon ‘Pussy’ Flowers get this shot at goal but the Dangriga defence […]
Amid the allegations of impropriety being hurled at the Government of Belize regarding the awarding of separate concessions to two local petroleum prospectors, tonight we understand that the government has launched an investigation into the matter. Sources tell News Five that Cabinet Secretary Bobby Leslie has been instructed to review the product sharing agreements presented […]
Almost two years ago he shot a cop and then turned the gun on himself, but tonight former tourism police officer Charles Grant is behind bars. Today in the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Troadio Gonzalez sentenced the thirty-six year old to a year in jail in connection with a series of incidents that occurred in […]
In other news from the courts, today a third man was accused of the murder of Kurlin Felix. This afternoon, nineteen year old Wabala Noralez appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers were he was formally charged with Murder and two counts each of Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm, and Grievous Harm. Noralez was […]
