It’s a dish that is on the dinner table every Sunday in almost every household, rice and beans. And at the request of our viewers, Healthy Living brings back this segment on the pros and cons of this favourite Belizean dish. Marleni Cuellar Its midday and its rice time in Belize. Like most Belizeans, I […]
The infamous bodega in Jalacte in southern Belize has finally been removed. It took two months, but tonight the illegal bodega is no more: that’s the word coming from the Ministry of National Security. According to a press release issued this afternoon, a joint military operation was carried out under the watchful eye of the […]
When last we checked about the official audit of the Belize City Council’s books by the Ministry of Local Government, we were told it was still not ready. And while the wheels of bureaucracy appear to be churning slow to deliver on the audit called for by one of the councilors, Mark King, last year […]
We have reported that businessman Archie Lee has been spending plenty time before the courts with more than fifty charges laid against him for licenses for his businesses. And now, as a result, Lee is thinking of closing down his restaurant and convenience store and going into retirement. This is if his latest appeal to […]
The issue of communal land rights for the Mayas is back on the radar. The Toledo Cacao Growers Association yesterday sent a stinging press release, distancing itself from the Mayan Leaders Alliance and the Toledo Alcades Association. Today they followed up with two releases signed by heads of households on behalf of over four hundred […]
Dangriga police are investigating what appears to be the murder of a woman. Acting on a tip, on Tuesday cops visited the Barrier Reef, thirteen miles east of Glovers Reef where they discovered the body of a woman of Hispanic descent. The unidentified corpse was in a state of advanced decomposition and could not be […]
And we turn to the courts, last Thursday a jury found twenty-year old Robert Gillett not guilty of Manslaughter, but convicted him of a Burglary charge… and today Gillett received a sentence of eight years for that offence. Before Justice Adolph Lucas handed down the ruling, he heard mitigation pleas from Gillett’s attorney, Anthony Sylvestre, […]
And yet another person has been fined ten thousand dollars for Drug Trafficking. The latest culprit is twenty-four year old Steve Arnold, a resident of Ladyville, who was today found guilty of the crime. Arnold’s charge arose from an incident on August twenty-third 2008. Police report that they were on mobile patrol on Main Street […]
St. Martin de Porres is one of the neediest schools in the City that for years has not been able to participate in the primary school competitions due to lack of proper sporting equipment. But their luck turned today when they received some well-needed equipment donated by the National Sports Council through its assistance programme. […]
And in other donations, Wesley Lower School on Albert Street in Belize City, which has an enrollment of five hundred and fifty students, also got lucky today when P.U.P. Albert Area representative Mark Espat and his Albert Action Committee made a donation to the institution. Espat, accompanied by P.U.P. Albert City Council candidate Jacqueline Welch, […]
And while some schools are benefiting from assistance, students from across the Belize District were testing their math skills in the secondary level Belize Math Olympiad. The competition started in Orange Walk and is a test to the math curriculum in high schools. And in the Belize round today at the City Centre, thirteen high […]
A new exhibit called “Tierra Anegada” has been installed at the Institute of Mexico. It highlights twenty-six works of the deceased Jesus Urbieta, a native of Oaxaca, Mexico. Urbieta won several international awards including the Grand Golden Palette Award at the twenty-sixth International Painting Festival of the Grimaldi Museum in Cagnes, France. News Five’s Jose […]
It’s a project that has been under the microscope since late last year due to environmental concerns. The South Beach project on San Pedro Town is back in the news today and it is not getting rave reviews. This time it is because the over one hundred construction workers, in a preemptive strike, took to […]
During last Wednesday’s consultation in Belize City, Prime Minister Dean Barrow made the announcement that the budget presentation to the House of Representatives would be on February twenty-seventh. But tonight News Five has confirmed that the House meeting has been pushed back to March sixth, just two days after the municipal elections and cutting it […]
In other economic news, the global crisis is affecting all financial sectors and reports in the international media are that it has hit home with the Inter-American Development Bank. Internal documents reveal that in 2008, the institution’s investment portfolio lost an estimated one point nine billion dollars. The losses are estimated to be ten to […]
When we checked today we were told that the contentious core sampler machine, which brought the sugar industry to its knees in a twelve day strike earlier this month, has been dismantled at the Tower Hill mill at the B.S.I. compound. Over a million dollars were invested between the cane farmers and B.S.I. in acquiring […]
The Mayan Leaders Alliance and the Toledo Alcalde Association have been the driving force of the Maya Land Right’s lawsuit over communal land rights. While it appears that there has been a united front by Mayans in regards to the case, a release written by Armando Choco, the manager of the Toledo Cacao Growers Association […]
It is four days now that Archie Lee’s Shopping City Convenience Store and Restaurant on Central American Boulevard has been closed for business. And according to the proprietors, the losses incurred as of today stand at thousands of dollars and continue to grow. Nine workers have also been sent home. Friday night’s closure is the […]
A resident of the Youth Cadet Corps is in big trouble, not only with his parents with but the law. According to reports from the Family Court, today the teen was arraigned on charges of Attempted Arson after he tried to set the building’s bathroom on fire. Around eleven-thirty on Friday the staff at compound […]
A woman has been fined ten thousand dollars for trying to sneak weed into the Hattieville Prison. On Monday twenty-one year old Janet Bernard was busted with just over two ounces of weed when she was searched by a prison officer. The illicit drug was found inside a plastic bag tucked into Bernard’s tennis shoe. […]
Jackie’s Supermarket on Dolphin Drive in Belize City was robbed last night. Forty-two year old Jian Xianey Zheng, the proprietor of the store, which is located in the yard behind Golf Hotel, said that on Monday at approximately seven p.m., he was inside the supermarket along with his wife and his brother when three customers […]
A twenty-three year old man of Unitedville Village in the Cayo District has been arrested for having sex with a minor. On Monday, the fifteen year old girl and her mother, both of Unitedville, reported the incident to police. The girl said that sometime in January, she had sexual intercourse with her boyfriend and a […]
The Social Security Board opened the 2009 Belize Math Olympiad on Friday at the multipurpose building in Orange Walk Town. This is the third annual competition and two regional tournaments, the North A and B, were held. The North A regional match saw the participation of Muffles College, Orange Walk Technical High School, King’s College, […]
Every February Rich Grimm of Tsunami Skydivers packs up a group of adventurers from all over the world and heads to Belize. The expedition lasts about a week and one of the features they engage in is skydiving over La Isla Bonita. News Five was on time to witness a few of the landings today. […]
It’s a wholesome youth show that is geared for the entire family and it is live right here on Channel Five. We are talking about the new dance show, Masters of the Floor from the Street Lights to the Stage Lights which is now debuting. The season is thirteen weeks long, and each week one […]
