Heavy rainfall in Southern Belize has caused rising waters and conditions are expected to worsen with an approaching tropical wave. Today News Five’s Marion Ali sat with Chief Met Officer Ramon Frutos to find out what to expect. Marion Ali, Reporting The experiences of Tropical Storm Arthur have left most Belizeans wary of present weather […]
A freak accident in the Toledo District has claimed the life of an elderly woman; the victim, seventy-six year old U.S. citizen Carolyn Albridge of Georgia, U.S.A. Police say around nine this morning Albridge was being driven back to Cuxlin (CUSHLIN) Ha Resort, two miles off the main Southern Highway on the Puppet (Papi) Show […]
Wilfred Elrington, Attorney General “We are not going to apply that ruling in a broad way over all the other Indian villages in Toledo because there’s a criterion for them to be able to have the status which they are claiming and that has got to be established before the court.” Those were the words […]
Reliable reports reaching News Five are that Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie will get the green light from Belmopan to be the new Ombudsman. McKenzie is expected to replace former Ombudsman Paul Rodriguez, whose contract expired prior to the February elections. McKenzie, a trained attorney, rose through the ranks of the judiciary and was named Chief […]
It started as the Committee to Oust Michael Ashcroft and following a demonstration of a few hundred to test their muscle, COLA has evolved into Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action. At a meeting this weekend the organisation elected former Prison Superintendent Bernard Adolphus as President. He is joined by six others, who will serve […]
The father of three children who died in last week’s fire in Belmopan has been charged. This morning thirty-six year old Francisco de Jesus Ruedas was arraigned on three counts of Manslaughter by Negligence in Belmopan Magistrates’ Court and was remanded to prison until August fourth. Around ten-fifteen Thursday night a fire broke out at […]
Tonight police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a car and a boat which were reportedly stolen. According to twenty-three year old Allison Cuthkelvin, some time between eleven Saturday night and one-thirty Sunday morning someone stole his Toyota Corolla from in front of Putt-Putt bar on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. […]
Two mothers in the Corozal District have filed assault reports against their sons. According to thirty-eight year old Irma Castillo, she was at her home in Halls Layout around seven-forty Friday night when her son Francisco Vasquez tried to stab her. About an hour later in the Village of Libertad, Carmen Carter alleges that her […]
A case of he said, she said has landed before the courts. Fifty year old Bernard Bowen is accusing thirty-three year old Aloma Pike of robbery, while she is claiming Bowen made a false report against her. According to Pike, Bowen refused to pay her twenty dollars as agreed for her sexual favours and so […]
The City Council has promised that an improvement to life on Belize City’s streets will come in a month’s time … but as News Five’s Ann-Marie Williams found out, we’ll just have to wait and see. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The rains are coming down and it’s four days shy of four months since the Belize […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Father’s Day Cycle Classic finally got staged by the Belize Cycling Association yesterday featuring the Elite and the junior classes. Here are the thirty-two elite riders blasting off for the eighty mile run from the Benque Viejo border station en route to the finish […]
This morning the Public Utilities Commission held a press conference to officially release its final decision on B.E.L.’s request for a rate increase. On Monday, the P.U.C. released a forty-four page document outlining the various price hikes B.E.L. requested and the eleven decisions taken by the Commission. Among them are: a raise in the Reference […]
When the last round of negotiations between Belize and Guatemala failed to resolve the matter of that country’s territorial claim to Belize, Secretary General of the O.A.S. Miguel Insulza, suggested that the issue would best be settled by the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Both the Barrow administration and the Guatemalan government have […]
The village of Arenal is shared by both Belize and Guatemala, divided only by a football field. Interaction between the two communities is well known but every now and then there are skirmishes that break the peace. Yesterday morning gunmen, suspected to be Guatemalan nationals on the Arenal Road, held up a group of school […]
An Orange Walk fireman has been murdered. According to police reports, around ten Thursday night, thirty-nine year old Michael Wills was socialising at Cool Place Restaurant and Bar at the corner of San Antonio Road and Staine’s Alley in Orange Walk town when a man armed with a nine millimeter pistol and wearing a grey […]
On Thursday, Belize City police made a gruesome discovery when they dug up a child’s remains in the St. Martin’s area. Acting on information, police visited a yard on Riverside Street where they extracted a white plastic bucket which was buried three feet underground. Inside they found the skeletal remains of a small body wrapped […]
Belmopan police have detained a man following a fire that claimed the lives of his three children. The blaze occurred around ten-fifteen last night on Diana Street in the San Martin area of Belmopan. The Hernandez family had just returned from church, but before the father left for a friend’s house to make tamales for […]
Tonight the temporary causeway constructed by the Ministry of Works three weeks ago to replace the Kendall Bridge is totally inundated, making crossing by vehicle impossible. This was the mode of crossing the Sittee River today after torrential rains caused the river to swell for the second time in one month. Canoes and a ferry […]
A cane farmer charged with traffic violations now faces charges of attempted bribery. On Wednesday, police were on a routine patrol in the Caledonia Village when they stopped thirty-nine year old George Allen Junior. The officers noticed that the San Victor cane farmer did not have a driver’s license and the insurance on his Toyota […]
On Tuesday Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt was approved by the Senate as Acting Director of Public Prosecutions but the number of cases and the imminent departure of two attorneys from her office, are already posing challenges to the new D.P.P. Today Branker-Taitt refuted a report that twenty-six cases for the June Session were struck out because the […]
The lack of classroom space is a constant battle for school administrators across the country, but come August the staff and students of St. John Vianney in Belize City will have a little more breathing room. This morning the primary school inaugurated a recently completed building valued at almost five hundred thousand dollars. Over one […]
It’s the month of Lobster fests with Placencia, Caye Caulker and San Pedro each hosting its own celebration of seafood. But beyond the fun on the beach, the question of how we manage our valuable marine resources is never far from the minds of coastal dwelling Belizeans. And while much of the news we receive […]
At news time, there are reliable reports that the Barrow Administration will make good on its promise in respect of light bills. Word out of the P.U.C. is that electricity rates will not be increasing for now. This past March B.E.L., citing skyrocketing oil prices, applied for a fifteen percent rate increase under its Threshold […]
Belmopan has reacted to a decision by an International Arbitration this week that will make government coffers eight million dollars leaner. According to a government release, the Barrow Administration is “distressed” about the ruling which resulted from a dispute between a company named NEWCO, a consortium which included Lufthansa, and the Government of Belize over […]
He was detained on Tuesday for the brutal murder of Sandhill resident, Dorla Pitterson and today thirty year old Orlando Wade was formally arraigned for the crime. Wade showed no emotion this morning when Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb read him the charge of Murder. No plea was taken as the offence is indictable and Wade […]
