They won’t take centre stage at the Bliss but today participants in a unique art course were recognised for their accomplishments over the last ten months. In September, fourteen inmates of the Hattieville Prison enrolled in an outreach class offered by Saint John’s College. Today the men officially graduated from the class and according to […]
When Belize Electricity Limited made its annual rate application, the company said skyrocketing oil prices mandated a thirteen point four percent increase in the price of power. The P.U.C., in an initial decision that may have had more to do with politics and public opinion than math, said an emphatic no to any rise in […]
As we’ve highlighted throughout our coverage of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Arthur, the loss of the Kendal Bridge across the Sittee River resulted in significant hardship to the shrimp, banana, citrus, construction and oil industries. Those investors have played a key role in relief efforts to open the road as soon as possible […]
Stronging someone’s bicycle is a common crime in Belize but what puts this particular incident on the news is that last night it was a group of young ladies that relieved a man of his bike. According to police, twenty-two year old Jose Hernandez was riding on Lakeview Street around seven-thirty when he stopped because […]
A Belize City man is tonight cooling his heels in prison after being busted for burglary. On Tuesday police responded to reports of a break-in at a home on Thomas Vincent Ramos Street in Belama Phase Two. According to police and court records, between eight twenty-five a.m. and eleven twenty-five, someone entered the home of […]
Two men who were on remand on a joint murder charge were today freed … and then rearrested. The case against sixty-seven year old Belizean Adrian Ascencio and Guatemalan, twenty-seven year old Ostilio Garcia, arose from the killing of Jose Armando Perez whose body was discovered buried in a shallow grave on January sixteenth, 2006. […]
Details are lacking but reliable reports reaching News Five indicate that a high school student is missing and believed drowned. Seventeen year old Clive Rivers, a student at St. John’s College, went swimming with friends this afternoon at Isabella Bank on the Belize River following this morning’s CXC exam. He is said to have disappeared […]
The Princess Hotel and Casino has donated half a million dollars to the Government of Belize for a programme to help young Belizeans. This morning Prime Minister Dean Barrow took possession of four cheques valued at a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars each and post dated for June through September. According to a government press […]
The Belize Police Department is seventy men and women stronger tonight following passing out ceremonies in Belmopan this morning. The recruits of squad eighty-four were officially welcomed into the ranks by Minister of National Security Carlos Perdomo, following six months at the training academy. According to valedictorian Hermain Campos, the new police officers are eager […]
We always hear about the nation’s declining literacy rate and the trend away from reading in favour of TV and video games. Today, News Five’s Marion Ali visited one school in the Belize District that’s actually doing something about it. Marion Ali, Reporting These displays depict the tools used in the lower division at Burrell […]
Every year top finishers in the Primary School Examinations point to the support of teachers and their parents for their exemplary performances. And while this year was no different, tonight students from a village in the Toledo District are being hailed as poster children for an online education program that has, in just one year, […]
In the run up to elections in February we heard a lot about large numbers of immigrants lined up to receive Belizean nationality presumably to be followed by voters cards. But, as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, the road to citizenship is heavily travelled all year round. Kendra Griffith, Reporting On Wednesday, Supreme Court Commissioner […]
Public consultation: the practice has become part of the lexicon of modern governance, right up there with the twin mantras of transparency and accountability. But if the past is any guide, the benefits of public consultations have been mixed, with the effort being more important than any knowledge or consensus achieved. That having been said, […]
It has just been posted on the internet and we hesitate to comment too extensively without reading all seventy-eight pages … but the report of the Independent Expert appointed to evaluate B.E.L.’s application for higher electricity rates has been submitted to the Public Utilities Commission. A quick glance indicates that while rate increases are recommended […]
The wheat that Belize Mills, the bakeries, and much of the nation have been waiting for, finally arrived today and is being made into flour as I speak. The first shipments Thursday morning will go to bakers across the country, many of whom had been forced to shut down due to the shortage. With regard […]
A road mishap in Corozal has resulted in the death of an infant. Police reports are that around four forty-five on Tuesday afternoon, fifty-four year old Gloria Hall was driving a van from the Santa Elena border towards Corozal when at the same time twenty-three year old truck driver Marcelo Villamil was towing a forty-foot […]
Police have formally charged a suspect in Sunday’s armed robbery on Freetown Road. Twenty year old Steven Chuc was arraigned on a count of Robbery when he appeared in Magistrate’s Court this morning and has been remanded to Hattieville Prison until July ninth. His alleged accomplice, twenty-one year old Marvin Bradley, will be charged later […]
For many people, in-laws are a pain in the neck, but on Monday one such relative took the term literally. According to a police report filed by nineteen year old Dennis Mai, around eight o’clock on Monday night his brother-in-law, Nelson Diaz, came to their house. Mai says when Diaz began arguing with his mother, […]
In some more positive news on Belizean young people, we are happy to report that on Saturday a team from Youth for the Future, including counselors and social workers, travelled to Hope Creek in the Stann Creek Valley. They provided emotional support to families affected by the massive floods, distributed food and clothing and held […]
It’s well into its second decade and by all accounts the words are not getting any easier. That’s the report from Orange Walk where News Five’s Marion Ali followed the stiff competition in this year’s National Spelling Bee. Marion Ali With the proper spelling of the word forsythia, twelve year old Zaneen Pott of Guinea […]
The latest episode in our long running drama surrounding basic food items focuses once again on flour. We are informed by Belize Mills Limited that the long awaited shipment of wheat from Guatemala’s Pacific Coast port has finally arrived at the border and efforts are being made to clear the truck convoy through customs as […]
Shakeups in the police high command are nothing new so the latest shuffle, the first since the U.D.P. government came to power in February, does not necessarily have political significance. But the new postings are far reaching. New Five’s Janelle Chanona has the run-down. The first big change will see Assistant Commissioner of Police Allen […]
Two months after he was gunned down on Castle Street, police have charged a fisherman for the murder of Christino Madrill. Today twenty-one year old Marvin Bradley was formally arraigned in Magistrate’s Court and has been remanded to Hattieville Prison until July ninth. As we reported on Monday night, investigators say the break in the […]
Tonight the family of Belize City attorney Ellis Arnold is in mourning following the shooting death of his son in the United States. According to media reports from Chicago, around six-thirty Monday evening twenty-six year old Brandon Arnold was filling his car with gas at the corner of Touhy Avenue and Sheridan Road when a […]
She was a rising star on the local music scene who sought fame and fortune abroad. Instead, Cayo’s Maria Reimer finds herself in a Canadian jail, charged with the armed robbery of six Winnipeg Credit Unions. Reimer, who sang under the single name of Maria, moved from San Ignacio to Canada where she married and […]
