An accused rapist from the states living in the Stann Creek district has been expelled from Belize. According to local authorities, Dennis Wayne Fleming was charged with Rape in Oregon in 2001 and put on supervised release. Some time later, Fleming relocated to Belize and had been living at mile seventeen on the Stann Creek […]
A Cayo bartender is tonight accused of orchestrating a con to steal thousands of dollars from an exclusive hotel in the Stann Creek district. According to Roberto Fabbri, manager of Kanantik Reef and Jungle Resort, last Thursday he found out that six company cheques were missing from the Belize Bank cheque book. When bank officials […]
On Friday, he led Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in the House of Representatives, but today Johnny Briceño is actively preparing to face off with the U.D.P. in the 2009 municipal elections. According to Briceño, the idea now is to organise new constituency teams in all divisions to support the fresh faces that will offer themselves […]
It doesn’t come as a much of a surprise but according to the Public Utilities Commission, the public’s response to Belize Electricity Limited’s request for a rate increase is a big fat “No!”. According to a press release issued by the P.U.C., three hundred and fifty written comments were sent in as part of the […]
On Saturday afternoon Orange Walk town was a blaze of colour and steeped in music as marching bands and drum corps from across the country gathered to participate in Band Fest 2008. In all, ten schools lined up for a parade through the streets to compete in two categories: wind instruments and drums. Here are […]
It was full house at the Belize City Centre on Saturday night as six contestants vied for the coveted title of Miss Y 2008. In the end, it was sixty year old Joyce Flowers who walked away with the crown. News Five’s Rick Romero was in the audience and has highlights of the show. [Montage […]
Rounding out entertainment news tonight is the Cuban story of hip hop. “InVentos Hip Hop Cubano” is an award winning, medium length documentary by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi that chronicles how Cuban youth have used the popular music genre to express themselves and make it their own by injecting “Latin flavours, culture and politics”. The film made […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley, this is Sports Monday. The tension inside the Michael Ashcroft Stadium for game two of the three game Super League Championship series between Benque DC United and the host team Texmar Boys is as thick as a well made cow foot soup going into game time. Facing a one game […]
Over the years we have consistently received comments from viewers/readers expressing their difficulty with our transcriptions of certain quotes in stories in which the speakers use Kriol. The common complaint is that such transcriptions are difficult—of not impossible—to read. The other side is that putting broad Kriol into proper English destroys all the flavour of […]
It was a real estate deal that looked just too good to be true: one of the city’s most valuable pieces of land sold by government for less than twenty thousand dollars, perhaps one fiftieth of its market value. Today some financial aspects of that sale were prosecuted as criminal, and the man accused is […]
Twenty years: that’s how long a convicted child rapist will spend behind bars. Before handing down his ruling this morning to thirty-eight year old Rene Chavez Ramos, Justice Herbert Lord heard a mitigation plea from the prisoner, who continued to maintain his innocence. On the victim’s side, an impact statement from Dr. Melhem Ayala was […]
It’s a crime we are having to report with frightening regularity: grown men having sexual relations with little girls. But when the mother gives her consent to such abuse, it makes the situation twice as sickening. That was exactly what a ten year old girl told police happened to her two separate times in less […]
In other news from the courts, today the man accused of entering a student’s home, beating him and then chopping him with a machete was formally charged for the crime. Twenty-seven year old Steven Lemoine pled not guilty to Aggravated Burglary, Conspiracy to Commit Burglary and Wounding. Magistrate Sharon Fraser denied him bail and ordered […]
It doesn’t come as much of a surprise but beginning on Monday the price of Belize’s favourite source of protein is going up. According to a release from the Belize Poultry Association, the wholesale price of whole dressed chicken will rise from two dollars and six cents per pound to two dollars and eighteen cents. […]
One of Belize’s finest boat builders has passed away. Simeon Young, in addition to building real vessels, also specialised in wooden models, including the replica of the Afri-Kola displayed at the Museum of Belize. Young, who would have turned ninety-one in June, is fondly remembered by his nephew. Eddie Young, Nephew of Simeon Young “Beside […]
The day’s other political developments took place at the National Assembly in Belmopan. News Five’s Janelle Chanona has the highlights. Janelle Chanona, Reporting The first business meeting of the House of Representatives was a busy session as the new United Democratic Party Government introduced the first of several bills as part of their reform package. […]
It’s an event that has become a Belizean institution. On Saturday night thousands of fans will flock to the Belize City Centre to cheer on their favourite contestants. News Five’s Ann-Marie Williams has a sneak preview. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting They’re not you typical beauty pageant candidates but these six over sixty ladies all want to […]
The scandals that have swirled around officials of the former P.U.P. government have centered largely around the millions of dollars in public funds spent on the private debt of Universal Health Services. At various times it was strongly rumored that former prime minister Said Musa and Home Affairs Minister Ralph Fonseca were about to be […]
If you’re sick and tired of hearing about the back and forth over some walls at the Tourism Village, don’t worry, you’re not alone. But between the fight on Fort Street and the deadly violence around the country, I’d at least prefer to start with the war of words instead of bullets. As we hinted […]
Two men are dead but for a change the homicides were not committed on the streets of Belize City. The latest incident occurred shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning in Santa Elena, Cayo where a brawl had broken out among four men at the Cinco Banderas Bar. The owner of the bar, forty-six year old […]
It may not have been a case of murder, but a Belize City youth came close last night when he was shot three times on Victoria Street. Twenty year old Leon Bainton was reportedly standing alone on the sidewalk around six-thirty at number nine Victoria Street when two men came from the direction of North […]
A student was viciously attacked at his home around three on Wednesday afternoon by a group of six thugs looking for a gun which one of them either lost or discarded while running away from police the day before. Police say the lead suspect in the assault, Steven Lemoine, accompanied by five accomplices, including two […]
It is Belize’s largest publicly owned financial institution and last night’s annual general meeting of the Holy Redeemer Credit Union did not disappoint its forty thousand members. The institution reported assets of over two hundred and ninety million dollars, an increase of ten point four percent from last year and net profits of twenty point […]
It’s been five years running and for four of those years, outstanding Belizeans have won the title of the region’s Unsung Hero in a programme sponsored by FirstCaribbean International Bank. It’s that time again when the bank relies on you to submit nominations for the annual recognition and today they went over the ground rules. […]
Violence is increasingly coming to dominate our society and while everyone has a different idea how we can solve the problem, it is also clear that only a unified approach will succeed. With that in mind, this weekend artists and musicians will team up with government officials and Youth for the Future to promote peace. […]
