In case you missed the memo, the summer holidays are here and various academic, artistic and athletic camps are popping up across the country. The organisers of one such annual activity are tonight encouraging interested parties to sign up early because according to Ian O’Keeffe, the Eder Alamilla Art Camp is two weeks of pure […]
In March, Stonetree Records released its latest compilation entitled “Umalali: The Garifuna Women’s Project” and less than a month later the women and the Garifuna Collective hit the road for a tribute tour in honour of Andy Palacio and to promote the album to music lovers everywhere. According to producer Ivan Duran, they were successful […]
Four days after he knocked down and killed two people, Orange Walk Town Mayor Ravei Gonzalez was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrates’ Court on two counts of Causing Death by Careless Conduct. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers did not take any pleas from Gonzalez because the matter will be tried in the Supreme Court following a […]
Litigation involving the Belize Bank continued in the Supreme Court today before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. Through its attorney Nigel Pleming, the Bank filed what is being referred to as an anti-suit in response to the Government’s ongoing efforts to recover the ten million U.S. dollars sent from Venezuela. To put things in context, viewers […]
In our coverage of these various cases, we have noted that several private attorneys have been arguing the Government’s position in court. Earlier this week Solicitor General Tanya Herwanger told us that while those services do not come cheap, her office simply does not have the manpower to handle Belmopan’s legal issues. Tanya Herwanger, Solicitor […]
In news from the Court of Appeal, an accused killer awaiting retrial for Murder has been granted a new trial for a separate charge because of a technicality. In mid April, a jury was unable to reach consensus for verdicts against twenty-two year old Rene Morente and co-defendant Carlos Granillo. Both Morente and Granillo had […]
High speed police chases are the kind of stuff you normally see on North American news channels but that’s exactly the scene that played out in Belize City this afternoon. Details are sketchy but reports to News Five are that around three this afternoon a woman was getting out of her car when two armed […]
In other dramatic news, an explosion on St. George’s Caye has left a caretaker in critical condition. Forty-eight year old Alburn Stevens is hospitalised with second degree burns to eighty percent of his body following an incident around seven on Sunday night. According to Therese Plunkett, it appears that a leaking gas tank caused the […]
Meanwhile, police still have not made any arrests following Monday evening’s kidnapping, robbery and murder. Official investigations have spanned several communities in Belize and Guatemala. However, police say that all three of the suspects are believed to be Belizeans who had been following the movements of their victims for some time. On Monday evening twenty-two […]
Earlier this week we highlighted the case of Financial Intelligence Unit versus the Belize Bank for suspicious banking transactions. But tonight a report conducted three years ago apparently found another institution in violation of the same law. News Five has obtained a copy of a Central Bank report dated October 2005 which examined FirstCaribbean International […]
Three weeks after Tropical Storm Arthur claimed five lives and caused more than fifty million dollars in damage, life in the Belize and Stann Creek districts is slowly returning to normal. The devastation has highlighted the extreme vulnerability of coastal communities like Gales Point and Mullins River, who are still cut off by road because […]
It never made it to the police blotter, but a diving incident in Belizean waters has left a Canadian tourist critically injured and hospitalised since April. According to an article from the Cyber Diver News Network, on Friday, April eighteenth, sixty year old Denis Turcotte and his son Alden arrived in Belize to dive. But […]
They’ve been hitting the books for more than a year now and this week primary and high school students from across the Belize District faced off in a science competition dubbed the “Quiz Bowl”. According to organisers, the event is part of an educational outreach programme initiated by Marine Scientist, Dr. Caryn Self-Sullivan and the […]
One week ago Belize Energy Workers Union and Belize Electricity Limited launched a public battle in the media, with both sides accusing the other bad faith. BEWU threw the first punch, accusing B.E.L. of being greedy and unethical for wanting a rate increase. The union also went on to allege that C.E.O. Lynn Young refused […]
It was not the biggest demonstration to ever hit the streets of Belize City but today’s protest had significant implications because it was against the country’s most powerful businessman. News Five’s Marion Ali reports on the war that has been declared against Michael Ashcroft. Marion Ali, Reporting This afternoon an estimated three hundred people took […]
And while protestors were chanting his name in the streets, attorneys representing Michael Ashcroft’s Belize Bank continued to do battle with the Government of Belize over the Venezuelan millions. When we left the courtroom of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh at six on Tuesday evening, the case had climaxed with the questioning of Governor of the […]
While Pleming was upstairs arguing that matter in the Supreme Court, Eamon Courtenay was representing the Belize Bank downstairs in the Magistrate’s Court. The Bank has been charged with seventy-nine counts of money laundering in connection to a series of deposits made by Belize Telecommunications Limited between 2004 and 2005. The Bank has pled not […]
Lois Young was also busy today as she was part of proceedings in the Court of Appeal. Young is asking the high court to grant her leave to appeal the Chief Justice’s decision to grant judicial review on the proposed amendments to the Referendum Act. Viewers will recall that the C.J. denied that same application […]
And in unrelated news from the foreign affairs front, there are startling reports coming out of Belmopan tonight which indicate that the top British diplomat’s mission to Belize has come to an abrupt end. According to our sources, British High Commissioner, John Yapp, who arrived in Belize last August on a three year assignment has […]
Following initial reports on Tuesday, tonight the position on flour has been clarified. The controlled cost of bread increased by twenty-five cents today and bakers will now have to pay the same eighty-five dollars per hundred pound sack like the rest of us. However, the biggest problem facing consumers is not the price tag of […]
One of the last things you wanted to hear today was that the world price of petroleum shot up again. Oil is now retailing for a one hundred and thirty-six U.S. a barrel, up two bucks from last night. The trickle down effect is of course higher prices, in fuel in the first instance, which […]
There is little to new to report in the ongoing investigations into Monday evening’s kidnapping, robbery and murder off the Coastal Road. Investigators have recovered the missing Caterpillar bulldozer and tow head that twenty-two year old Emigdio Gomez and twenty-seven year old Cornelius Schmitt were in charge of when they were ambushed by three armed […]
Traffic accidents are hardly rare in Belize City but two people were lucky to have survived a collision on Princess Margaret Drive this afternoon. Details are still sketchy as police investigations continue but News Five understands that around noon today a Nissan car driven by Lee Fung Shen collided with a Rav-4 SUV driven at […]
Since April, utility companies have been turning the streets of downtown Belize City inside out in an effort to upgrade their systems before CitCo begins its much anticipated paving project. But progress has not been painless and both pedestrians and motorists have been subjected to the inconvenience caused by blocked roads, congestion and a very […]
Books by Belize authors have increased over the years but literary works by local writers is still very much an untapped artistic medium. However, this week, Belizean American Ian Vasquez made a special pilgrimage home to launch his first novel. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kendra Griffith, Reporting With a crowd of relatives, friends, and […]
