The cost of living may be up but there is good news tonight that will bring some relief to consumers. And if you didn’t run out and full your tank when fuel prices plunged on November fourth, you may want to drive down to the nearest gas station and do just that because fuel prices […]
There is a third murder to report this week. Shortly before ten last night, forty year old Egbert Broaster of Mohammed Ali Street in Belize City was pronounced dead at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after a single stab wound to the right side of his chest turned fatal. According to a report from the […]
And in news from the courts, twenty-four year old Kareem “Homes” Williams of Supal Street is currently behind bars for robbing a man of his cell phone and money. The incident occurred sometime after seven Wednesday night when twenty-nine year old Bernard Timmons was driving on Supal Street and Williams stopped him and offered to […]
Also in court, a Security guard who was charged with Drug Trafficking a few months ago is today relieved of the charge. On April eleventh, the police searched an apartment building on Flamboyant Street and they saw Eldon Thomas running out of the building into some bushes in a vacant lot. When the police searched […]
He stabbed two sisters to death in cold blood and now a doctor has declared him fit to stand trial after spending more than two years in prison awaiting trial. Ryan Horne is accused of brutally stabbing the Esquivel sisters, seventeen year old Rosa and eighteen year old Sandra without any apparent provocation while they […]
And at news time, a youth is receiving medical treatment in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight after he was shot by an ex-police constable shortly after five this evening. Kareem Barona was reportedly shot in the leg in the height of the traffic rush hour on the Belize City Swing Bridge after he tried […]
Meanwhile, on the diplomatic front, it’s the countdown to the signing of the compromis or special agreement in Washington DC this coming December eighth, which would land the Guatemalan claim to Belize before the International Court of Justice in the Hague. The agreement will be inked by Foreign Ministers Wilfred Elrington of Belize and Haroldo […]
Belize’s Coastguard was established back in 2005 to protect the integrity of our waters. It has bases at Hunting Caye, San Pedro, and its current headquarters is at the Williamson Hangar at the airport. A new headquarter is currently under construction at Belizean Beach at mile five on the Western Highway. To bolster its relatively […]
Belize today assumed the mantle of the rotating Presidency of the National Parliaments of Central America and the Caribbean Basin. Local President of the Senate, Andrea Gill, officially took over the post from Guatemala during a ceremony this morning. The event took place at the Radisson Fort George Hotel in Belize City. It marked the […]
Five hundred and forty five residents of Douglas, Orange Walk District, will spend Christmas at home. The residents were removed from the village because of a threat of diseases following the recent floods from Tropical Depression sixteen. The National Emergency Management Organisation says that the quarantine will be lifted on Saturday and a clean-up of […]
The hurricane season of 2008 closes on Sunday November thirtieth and what a season it has been for Belize. It affected the lives of thousands in the Jewel. The season lived up to the predictions of heightened activity. 2008 is considered one of the top ten hurricane seasons and opened with a bang on the […]
They got a hero’s welcome today. Four students who represented Belize at the Nutrition competition in St. Kitts and Nevis landed at the Phillip Goldson International Airport this afternoon. On hand to receive them were classmates, friends and representatives from the Ministries of Health and Education and ADM Belize Mills. This is the first time […]
Words may not always capture what artists want to say. So if a picture captures a thousand words then the body captures millions. The Belize Dance Company brings life to the expressive arts. Tonight is the first of a three day concert that the dance company is performing, and the concert is being commemorated in […]
Worked hard this week? Well, it is now time to unwind and there is plenty to do around town. Safiyyah has a complete run-down of weekend activities… Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize. This weekend the Belize Dance company will be presenting their new performance entitled “Tribute”, a tribute to Beverly Smith. […]
Two grenades, one in September and another as recent as a few days ago, have surfaced in the streets of Belize City. The matter has landed a black eye on the British Army Training Support Unit Belize, BATSUB. Tonight its Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Peter Germain, admits he cannot explain how British-issued grenades found their way […]
A family of ten is tonight homeless after one of its own set their home on fire. The blaze started shortly after eleven this morning at ninety-two Antelope Street Extension and shortly after one person was arrested for arson. By the time News Five arrived on the scene; firefighters had already contained the fire, but […]
Four top tourism destinations got a boost this morning when the Ministry of Tourism, Belize Tourism Board and Inter-American Development Bank unveiled a thirty million dollar sustainable tourism development project. The five-year plan has four components: strengthening industry governance with new legislation and structure; planning and zoning; re-energizing the industry with jumpstart initiatives; and expanding […]
There has been a positive change of heart by G.O.B. The Ministry of Education today announces that it will be picking up the tab for previously announced increase in fees for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations. Parents had complained to the ministry that the hike for the May to June 2009 exams would have […]
Youth Business Trust received a generous donation on Wednesday from Belize Telemedia Limited. Chairman of Telemedia’s Executive Committee, Dean Boyce, handed over a cheque for fifteen thousand dollars to Treasurer of the Board of the Youth Business Trust, Joe Habet. The handing-over took place at Telemedia’s Annual General Meeting at the Radisson Fort George Hotel. […]
For months they were asleep, but now there’s no shortage of news from P.U.P. and the internal fighting between the old and new guards of the Opposition party. The last salvo has come from Francis Fonseca, who was defeated by John Briceño at the leadership fight in March and who is seen to be aligned […]
Darren Banks is no stranger to the law and he was recently charged jointly with Steven Zelaya for two counts of Attempted Murder. When he appeared in the court of Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie for trial this morning he was acting strangely. Banks was speaking incoherently, saying strange things including that he was seeing snakes […]
Also in the courts, two Bengali men were fined two thousand dollars each today after they pleaded guilty for Failure to Comply with the Condition of their visitor’s permit and overstaying their welcome in Belize. Twenty seven year old Fokrul Amin and twenty-six year old Sanu Miah, two immigrants from Bangladesh, came to Belize on […]
And in the north, a mother is in shock and mourning the sudden death of her son. This past Wednesday morning at eight, Alicia Alamilla went to the home of her son, twenty-nine year old Ishmael Urbina in Orange Walk and when she entered the kitchen, she found him in a standing position, leaning over […]
In last night’s newscast we reported a shooting on Carmen Street in Santa Elena, Cayo in which two persons were shot. And tonight there is another report that a third individual was shot on the same street just minutes before. Eighteen year old Christine Dawson was walking with a friend at about eight-thirty p.m. on […]
It’s a health problem faced by at least eighty-five percent of the population. In severe instances medical attention is required but in other cases, it can be dealt with at home. Healthy Living this week looks at this common ailment. Marleni Cuellar Reporting It may not be a life threatening disease. It may not even […]
