You will already know that the campaign for Mayoral office is on because the two contenders, incumbent Mayor Zenaida Moya and Deputy Mayor Anthony Michael, have both been making the rounds in the media and on the streets. The race got off to an ugly start and it only promises to only get nastier. So […]
Controversy seems to follow the Football Federation of Belize and the man at the centre of the storm is its President, Dr. Bertie Chimilio. The allegation this time has come from the past coach Palmiro Salas who coached the Belize team to a win in round one of the qualifying games of the FIFA World […]
Placencia residents say that by and large they have been keeping the coastline and environment clean and have been diligent in their garbage collection and disposal because a healthy environment is what keeps bringing the tourism dollars to the area. But in the past few weeks there has been a pile of garbage washing up […]
News Five has taken three of the top prizes in the 2007 Caribbean Broadcasting Awards. Reporter Marion Ali and cameraman Rick Romero were cited for producing the region’s Best News Feature for their story “March Against Violence” which aired in October of last year. Winning the award for Best Investigative Reporting as well as Best […]
In programming news on Channel Five, the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing will be aired live on this station at five-thirty tomorrow morning. Channel Five will be carrying the feed from the Caribbean Media Corporation which will be following our regional athletes as they perform in Beijing for the duration of the […]
And in other positive news from this station, we hope you have noticed the new look of our studios. We have updated the set to look bold and newsy showing a mosaic of hundreds of stories we have covered over the years in all aspects of life in Belize. We additionally subtly silhouetted the name […]
This is a story of two boys, Anthony and Manlee, both born with severe heart defects whose lives were saved by the generosity of the Belize Rotary Club and its partners. Anthony, the first born brought joy to the family but his heart defect took the family on a painful journey and then there is […]
It was a busy time on Albert Street today in the height of commercial activity, when two robbers brazenly jacked Doony’s Store. Police responded soon enough after reports of the heist, but up to news time, no arrests have been made in this latest City jacking. News Five’s Marion Ali has more on this story. […]
A young woman, who had been in prison since 2005, was freed of a murder charge this afternoon by a jury of six women and six men in the Supreme Court. But the jury found her guilty of the reduced charge of Manslaughter, on a count of eleven to one. The woman, Yanira Escobar, will […]
Things got dramatic at Court this afternoon when the press was ordered out of a hearing before the Appeals Board of the Central Bank in which the Belize Bank is appealing to stay an order by the Central Bank to return twenty million dollars gifted to the government of Belize by Venezuela and Taiwan. The […]
If you have been following the news, you would have heard loud noises that Telemedia and the cable company C.B.C., have colluded to cut off cable services from communities on the western highway and parts of the southern highway. Well that’s one side of the story, and today Telemedia fired back with a release of […]
Consultations on the proposal to expand the Senate have been held countrywide and before this can become law the Constitution will have to be amended. But before this can take place, the N.G.O. community is organising to elect their first representative to the expanded senate which will grow from twelve to thirteen members. This morning […]
The Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute was designed to support the sustainable use and planned development of Belize’s coastal resources through increased knowledge and the building of alliances for the benefit of all Belizeans. And while its scope spanned the length of the country, its budget did not stretch far enough to keep its […]
He is no stranger in the field of education with experiences that span forty years and now J Alexander Bennett, has put together a well researched book of the many challenges and advances in our education system. It is a book that is a good source of reference that documents the evolution of the educational […]
The spectacular opening ceremony for the 2008 Summer Olympics will be held at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, China this Friday and in Chinese culture, the number eight is associated with prosperity and confidence, so the ceremony is scheduled to begin at eight p.m. on the eighth of the eighth month of the year. […]
While the Reina De La Costa Maya Pageant is to be held this Thursday night in San Pedro, the contestants were invited to spice up the week by participating in a special mini pageant. Last night Fido’s Courtyard hosted the eight delegates in what they call La Reina Fido’s Bikini Competition. The winner is Miss […]
It’s a story that made the headlines in May; it involved a grenade which killed Darren Trapp and injured eleven other persons when it exploded on Mayflower Street. And two months later, another grenade has been taken off the streets by the police with help from a well-known but unlikely source. The grenade was turned […]
In robberies reported by police, burglars had their eyes over the weekend on the law offices of an attorney and former Minister of Government. Sixty-four year old Hubert Elrington told police that sometime between six on Sunday evening and eight Monday morning thieves broke into his law office on the upper flat at the corner […]
Sometime around two-thirty yesterday afternoon James Pugh, a seventy-seven year old retiree found his untimely death in the waters of Caye Caulker. It is believed that Pugh went sailing along the shoreline of the caye when his sailboat overturned and he was not wearing a life jacket. Nearby fishermen recovered his body from the waters. […]
Twenty year old Warren Dominguez appeared in Magistrate’s Court today to answer charges of Aggravated Assault. The alleged victim, Heather Foreman, reported that between the hours of nine and nine-thirty on the night of the thirteenth of July she was shot at several times as she stood on the corner of Vernon and Mayflower Streets. […]
A Ladyville man, who pleaded guilty last week to uncustomed goods comprising tomatoes and sweet peppers, faced additional charges today in Magistrates’ Court, this time from the Belize Agricultural Health Authority. On July twenty-second Jose Quintero was fined thirty-five thousand dollars after he pleaded guilty for the possession of over eleven thousand dollars worth of […]
It is the basis for an ongoing battle between the government and Telemedia, and it is over the payment of business taxes. When we checked this afternoon, Telemedia had made payment of two point two million dollars in taxes to the government for the month of May that were due today in compliance with an […]
Reports to News Five this afternoon confirmed that the Kendall causeway in southern Belize is again under water and impassable tonight after heavy rains over the weekend. The causeway had to be closed last Friday but by Saturday morning it was opened again to vehicular traffic. Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Works, Cadet […]
Late this afternoon Belize Natural Energy issued a release which clarifies an earlier statement made by the oil company. According to B.N.E., one of its tankers ran off the road near Mile sixteen on the Hummingbird Highway, and turned on its side. Original reports indicated that there was no oil in the tanker, but this […]
Most Belize City residents know of Little Melchor, but today News Five received notice that Little Melchor will be no more. The property at the corner of George and Orange streets that is occupied by mostly Central American traders has reportedly been acquired by businessman Hans Bhojuani who apparently has new plans for the lot. […]
