A fire in the wee hours of Sunday morning has totally destroyed a well-known entertainment spot in Seine Bight Village. The Wamasa Beyabu beach bar was burned to the ground by a fire of unknown origin that began sometime before five a.m. Investigators from the National Fire Service visited the scene yesterday but have yet […]
She is best known as the tireless producer of the hit television show “Ultimate K.T.V.” But this morning Channel Five’s Mary Mangar hit a sour note courtesy of a purse snatcher. Mangar had just stepped out of a store on Freetown Road when an unidentified attacker pounced on her from behind. The brazen thief, who […]
Tonight two of the three men police believe attacked a woman and her two young sons are behind bars while a third is still at large. Today twenty-eight year old Delbert Hinds and seventeen year old Ryan Neal appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers where they were arraigned on charges of Aggravated Burglary and Conspiracy to […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions has opted to drop another murder charge against an accused killer. According to court reports, seventeen year old Ervin Franklin, arrested for the murder of twenty-year-old Cruz Sho, will not stand trial for the crime. On March fifteenth, the partially nude body of the young Ladyville resident was found on […]
Seven villages in the Stann Creek and Toledo districts will soon receive electrical service as part of the Banana Support Programme of the European Union and Belize Government. Under the five million Belize dollar project, Monkey River, Bladen, Trio, San Isidro, San Pablo and Cowpen will be electrified. The agreement signed today in Belmopan will […]
Months after Hurricane Dean wreaked havoc in northern Belize, contributions are still coming in to assist residents. One such donation was made this afternoon to the Belize Red Cross by its sister organisation, The Red Crescent Society of Egypt. The forty-nine boxes of medicines were handed over by Egyptian Ambassador, Aly El-Hefny to Red Cross […]
Over the years, the names of certain Belizean families or businesses have become inextricably linked to a particular set of numbers. In the case of the Novelo’s Bus Company that number is thirty million—the size of the loan it failed to pay back to the D.F.C. Today, in what is probably the grandest public relations […]
Most of us are prepared for the thief in the night or the purse snatcher but for several months, local businesses have been schooled by a well-dressed crook with a gift for forging signatures. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This afternoon twenty-nine year old Lino Herrera was formally charged with three counts […]
And while charges are amounting against the accused con-artist, Belmopan police are also investigating the country’s latest homicide. The victim is thirty-six year old David Santos, a resident of Camalote Village. According to authorities, on Saturday, Santos and another man were working on his farm located off the Prayer Mountain Road in Ontario Village. But […]
Separate accidents over the weekend have resulted in the deaths of three people and the hospitalization of a fourth. At around four-thirty Saturday morning taxi driver Byron Williams of Pomona New Site crashed into the back of a bus at mile eleven and a half on the Stann Creek Valley Road. No one was injured […]
Rounding out the weekend crime are reports that a Bella Vista couple have been charged for Keeping a Prohibited Firearm and Unlicensed Ammunition. On Friday, police say that when they searched a pickup truck at an Independence checkpoint, they found eight rounds of point three-five-seven ammunition hidden under the driver’s seat. Cops immediately arrested the […]
Three high profile cases were heard today in the Supreme Court. Convicted murderer Louis “Louie Ganzie” Gentle was sentenced to life imprisonment by Justice Troadio Gonzalez. Earlier this month, the thirty year old was found guilty of killing the mother of two of his children, Takeisha Sutherland. On January third, Sutherland was stabbed twenty-one times […]
He was jointly charged with Conspiracy, Aggravated Burglary, and Theft in connection with a terrifying home invasion against businessman Derek Nisbet and his son back in July. Late last week, however, on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, all charges were withdrawn against Hilberto Gallego. Gallego told News Five that he never had […]
The local airline industry, already hamstrung by the banning of commercial flights into Guatemala, was facing an internal problem today in the form of unsafe conditions at the Punta Gorda airstrip. The airstrip, which provides an important transport link for the people of the Toledo District, has been deteriorating steadily to the point where Tropic […]
More often than not, in this newscast, police officers are accused of abuse of power or in brutality cases. But today three officers of the Belize Police Department were honoured for excellence in the performance of duties over the last three months. Woman Police Constable Sherla Cocom was the top cop in September, P.C. Anthony […]
The C in Christmas isn’t meant to symbolize capitalism but around this time every year, entrepreneurs and business owners alike come up with creative marketing techniques to separate you from your cash. But according the residents of one Belize City community, their goal is to show the rest of the country how a little innovation […]
James Adderley Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re certainly most welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. With the RFG Cup Tournament currently on hold as a result of National Team activities, we visited the Super League which presented Forever Strong Kraal Road at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday against Benque D.C. United. The city […]
The trial balloon that floated over Social Security headquarters and Universal Health Services this week has been officially shot down. According to S.S.B.’s chief executive officer, Dr. Louis Zabaneh, the proposal for the board to buy U.H.S. was given to an independent consultant three weeks ago for an initial evaluation. If the assessment proved at […]
Today one local business is looking into the possibility of one of its own being involved in a hold-up that relieved the company of thousands of dollars on one of its busiest days. Manager of Advance Advertising Ideas’ branch at the Tourism Village, thirty-three year-old Cennie Muschamp, reported to police that she was robbed of […]
A forty-seven year old resident of the Stann Creek District has been detained by police following accusations by his two daughters that he has been engaging in sex with them. The fourteen year old, in the company of her mother, told police that she was molested from age eight right up to present. Her older […]
In a follow up to our story last night on environmental degradation in the Pelican Cayes, News 5 has been able to determine, based on data supplied by the Geology Department, that two dredging permits, each for sixteen thousand cubic yards, were issued to Treasure Cove Resort in 2006. An initial comparison of the coordinates […]
The cost of taking a trip to the states is about to go up. According to a U.S. embassy release, come January first, the application fee for a non-immigrant visa will rise by thirty-one percent from the existing two hundred Belize dollars to two hundred and sixty-two. The hike, which is being implemented worldwide, is […]
It’s one of Belize’s most enduring musical institutions and on Sunday evening the Pallotti Chamber Group will be holding its Christmas Concert. The chamber orchestra includes the junior and advanced groups who will perform under the directorship of Jiles Rabinovich. Music teacher and member of the strings department, Colville Young Jr., says the variety of […]
On Wednesday it was the Customs Department that sponsored a kids Christmas party; today it’s those friendly folks at Income Tax. We don’t know what’s gotten into these usually scrooge-like public servants, but Marion Ali reports on the fun. Marion Ali, Reporting They’re popular around town for their talent in the television drama series “Noh […]
For years many Christians have been lamenting the commercialisation of Christmas as the holidays seem to have become just another reason to shop, eat, and fix up the house. But musician Duane Ysaguirre is hoping that the songs on his newly released CD “Christmas Holy Bible” will inspire Belizeans to return to the reason we […]
