The music may not be dancehall, reggae, or soca but people will still be rocking this weekend in Orange Walk. News five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra Griffith, Reporting From north to east to west, the evening air has been filled with a cacophony of sounds … drums beat [Band playing] …trumpets blare [Band playing] … […]
Never in Belize’s history have a few feet of concrete resulted in so much judicial acrimony. But with millions at stake in the highly competitive cruise industry, the warring parties in the dispute over access to the Tourism Village are as determined as Obama and Clinton to end up on top. Today one side was […]
Firemen across the country have been seeing red for the last two weeks but instead of flames, they were looking at their empty wallets. The newly trained firefighters say they’ve yet to be given the cheques due to them on April fifteenth and have been unable to find out why. When we called Fire Chief […]
Two more suspects have been charged in connection with the high stakes break in at the penthouse apartment of businessman Luke Espat. Twenty-nine year old Kent Skeete of Mahogany Street and eighteen year old Michael Plunkett of Supal Street in Belize City were arraigned today for Burglary and Conspiracy to Commit Burglary in the court […]
A family of four escaped serious injury or death this evening when this four-door Mazda flipped several times on the Western Highway. Driver of the vehicle, twenty-seven year old Leon Usher, an employee of Advance Advertising and resident of Gibnut Street in Belize City, was heading from Belmopan towards the old capital when at mile […]
We are used to periodic visits by ships of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard as well as the U.K.’s Royal Navy, but next week a new flag will fly in Belize City Harbour: that of Taiwan. A training squadron of that country’s navy is making a goodwill tour through the Caribbean that will stop […]
The national animal of Belize, as any child can tell you, is the mountain cow, more formally know as Baird’s Tapir. But unlike the other national symbols, which tend to be a generic tree, flower or bird, the top animal spot has come to be personified by a single tapir who resides at the Belize […]
The nation’s thirty-second murder of 2008 took place last evening, just after the sun set over Belize City. By all accounts it was just one more senseless execution style shooting. But as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, every murder leaves behind a large and tragic measure of collateral damage. Glenda Madrill, Mother of Murder Victim […]
The walls separating the Fort Street Tourism Village from neighbouring waterfront businesses have been the subject of much legal debate, but in March the case climaxed with a decision by the Chief Justice for the obstructions to be removed within fourteen days, an order yet to be executed. The Village was the first to ask […]
The Peoples’ United Party has announced the names of its three appointed senators. They are Hector Silva Senior of Cayo, Stann Creek’s Corona Villafranco and Eiden Salazar of San Pedro Town. A release from the party says the appointments follow weeks of consultation within the party and the wide scope of representation reflects a new […]
In a follow up to a story which ran yesterday, we are happy to report that the woman who lost her purse on George Street has been reunited with her money. She came in to our studios this morning and correctly described the wallet and that it contained more than one hundred and fifteen dollars. […]
Today is observed in the United States of America and other nearby countries—including Belize—as Earth Day. And that’s about the only explanation we can find for the visit this morning of a very large manatee to the waters in front of the Bellevue Hotel on the Southern Foreshore. While we occasionally find injured manatees entering […]
It is a phenomenon that affects almost every major city on the planet, rich and poor, albeit to different degrees. Today the Belize City Council unveiled its plans to deal with the problem of homelessness. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting If you’ve travelled on one of the main arteries of downtown Belize […]
The visit of the manatee to Belize City this morning may have been a coincidence, but the Earth Day activities organised in Belmopan were not, as News Five’s Kendra Griffith discovered that our national university is well in tune with mother nature. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Today the University of Belize hosted its second annual Earth […]
Before we sign off tonight we’d just like to mention to viewers that at any moment this transmission may cease. The problem involves a light pole on Albert Street that, never too strong to begin with, began to seriously lean when the utility trench being dug nearby, came too close. B.E.L. was scheduled to replace […]
After almost two weeks of relative peace from the scourge of deadly violence that has rocked the streets of the old capital, over the weekend yet another young man fell victim to a hail of bullets. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports, the motive of the execution style killing amounts to little more than […]
Meanwhile, police investigations into the death of a Stann Creek mother have led to the arrest of her husband. It is alleged that on March twenty-fourth, twenty-two year old Avette Augustine and her common-law husband twenty-eight year old Alvin Guzman were in their Georgetown Village home when the two became embroiled in an argument. The […]
Three people lost their lives in separate traffic accidents over the weekend. Reports to News Five indicate that around ten on Sunday morning, a Toyota Prado heading towards Belmopan was attempting to overtake a bus between miles twenty-seven and twenty-eight on the Western Highway when it collided head on into a Toyota Corolla coming from […]
It could have been the perfect crime but the perpetrators stuck around long enough to get caught. Sometime between April eleventh and April fourteenth, Belize City businessman Luke Espat’s penthouse apartment in the Renaissance Towers was burglarised and police now believe it was the work of three conspirators. First there’s the building’s security guard, twenty-four […]
The villages of the Toledo district are not often the scene of gun violence but an armed robbery in the usually quiet community of San Pedro Columbia has left residents concerned about their safety. According to police, around eight last night husband and wife Alumberto and Petrona Cal were around their dinner table when three […]
Police were in the right place at the right time on Sunday afternoon to make a significant drug bust along the Stann Creek Valley road. According to Dangriga police, a mobile patrol was near mile six when officers spotted a silver Isuzu Trooper emerging from a farm road. The cops say when they searched the […]
It’s not uncommon to see someone burning bush or garbage in Belize City but the practice is illegal. And as one man found out today, it’s illegal for a very good reason. According to residents on Unity Street, just after eight this morning a homeowner was trying to clear his property of high grass but […]
Tonight we have the wonderful story of a Good Samaritan in Belize City—but to make the good news complete we’re going to need the help of an equally honest viewer. It seems that our public spirited citizen found a woman’s purse this morning on George Street. It contained a significant amount of money but no […]
On Friday, he was the irate Belize City driver claiming victimization by the City Council and the Police Department. But today Orlando Pelayo is a much happier man because this afternoon, the Belize City authorities said sorry to the aggrieved motorist. The release states that the City Council “apologises for any undue suffering” and reassures […]
Fort Point Security Services is back in the news as a number of guards discovered they had been fired over the weekend. Several officers who reported to work this morning said letters, some of which were not even signed, were delivered to their homes during the last several days. The officers, all of whom had […]
