Jason Canto was in court on Tuesday, jointly charged with his father, Mario and mother, Lovinia for keeping an unlicensed nine millimetre pistol that his father subsequently claimed ownership of. Twenty-six year old Jason, along with both of his parents, would have been remanded in custody but the charge against him and his mother were […]
It may sound like plenty money, but a one million dollar grant will be shared by six organizations and will be spread over the next three years. The Dutch funding agency, HIVOS International, has traditionally been supporting the Alliance Against AIDS, Haven House, the Toledo Maya Women’s Council, the Toledo Cacao Growers Association and WIN-Belize […]
It’s the time of year for Easter bunnies, chocolates and other goodies. And like previous years, they are going like hot cross buns for Good Friday. News Five went looking today for the choices that will suit your pocket and make both the young and the not so young happy at heart. Marion Ali, Reporting […]
Hot cross buns – they are a fixture on just about every menu for Good Friday. But if you’re a little behind on getting your recipe together, we have some help for you from the ladies at HACILK Bakery in Belize City. The family of bakers featured on our morning show, Open Your Eyes, has […]
The murder of two Belizeans on the Guatemalan side of the border is under investigation by authorities in Melchor de Mencos. On this side, the cops say they have little information and no motive in the weekend murders. The first victim was from the village of Succotz and the other was from neighbouring Benque Viejo […]
Two Belize City youths were shot on Monday night on Kraal Road, and while they will live to see another day, the frequency of teen related crimes has become the subject of our nightly news headlines. On March twenty-sixth, sixteen year old Sharife Smith was murdered and his friend, also sixteen, was arrested on a […]
There was some drama in court today when a mother, father and son were remanded into custody on charges of Keeping a Firearm without a Gun License. The mother, fifty-three year old Lovinia Canto, fainted when she heard that she, along with her husband, forty-nine year old Mario Canto and their son, twenty-six year old […]
Immigration Officers have been cracking down on illegal immigrants and a number of cases have recently come before the courts. In the most recent case a Honduran Vendor, who had permission to enter the country, was in the Magistrates Court for overstaying her welcome. Thirty-three year old Maria Ramos arrived in Belize on September twenty-ninth, […]
The Fire Department is short of over fifteen thousand dollars in cash tonight. Assistant Fire Chief, forty-five year old Ted Smith, reported to police that between March twenty-third and April fifth, a manila envelope containing the money was stolen from a filing cabinet in his office at the fire service station headquarters on Cleghorn Street. […]
There is an update to report in the fatal traffic accident on Sunday in which four members of the Acosta family from the village of Cristo Rey perished. News Five learnt today that the condition of the five survivors has improved, fifteen year old Seidy and Joycie Acosta are now in stable condition at the […]
The four day Easter weekend is almost upon us and while many persons have prepared their itinerary of where to visit and what they will wear, the same attention has not been given to their automobiles. To ensure safety and in light of the recent fatalities caused by tire blow-outs, News 5 Jose Sanchez spoke […]
We last heard from him in the House of Representatives for the 2009-2010 budget debate. And one of the major issues brought up by Freetown Area Representative, Francis Fonseca, was the absence of a clear crime control strategy. Since the issue of crime is dominant in the media, when Fonseca took the couch on Channel […]
Graduation season is a couple of months away for schools but some twenty-five officers of the Belize Defence Force of the Light Engineer Company had an early start. The officers received certificates after completing a three month course at ITVET which is part of a multi-million dollar venture funded by the United States Military Liaison […]
‘When Disasters Strike Safe Hospitals Save Lives’. That’s the theme of this year’s World Health Day Symposium and the message that resonated at this morning’s opening ceremony as medical facilities begin to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season and other disasters. According to the Director of Health Services in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Michael […]
If you’re taking the public transportation system over the coming holidays you’re urged to be patient because since the new bus schedules were approved in October last year, there have been many complaints about blatant glitches in the system. These range from buses not leaving on schedule, late arrivals at destinations, and overcrowding. There have […]
Our Saturday afternoon live show, Masters of the Floor, has now reached semi final stage. The best dancers of Group A and B emerging from eight weeks of the competition are now in a final group that will compete for the next four weeks until the master of the floor is decided through text voting. […]
Last Wednesday three persons died in a horrible accident on the Northern Highway near Carmelita Village. And tonight five days later, the Highway has claimed the life of four more persons caused again by a tire blow-out. The latest tragedy occurred shortly before six on Sunday evening, and it involved a family from the village […]
The twenty-ninth murder for 2009 happened just before seven-thirty last Friday night on the boundary between the Collet and Port Loyola Divisions as the old capital continues to be plagued by the highest number of homicides in the jewel. Friday night’s murder was carried out by one man who opened fire on a group of […]
And there are two more murders to report tonight that also occurred over the weekend, but this time across the western border in Melchor de Mencos. Details are beginning to come in and Benque Viejo police have confirmed that two Belizeans were shot dead in separate incidents in the neighboring town. The first victim, twenty-two […]
In other crime news, two men were shot in Belize City at about five thirty p.m. on April fourth. Twenty seven year old Terry Felix and twenty three year old Edward Thompson were standing in front of Excelsior High School on Faber’s Road when they were shot by a lone gunman. Felix’s mother, Therese was […]
The Best Bake Bakery opened only three months ago on Western Avenue in Belize City and already it has been hit by robbers who made off with over four hundred dollars when they held up the bakery. Owner of the recently opened bakery, Zebedee Peterson Junior told News Five that the incident occurred around two […]
And in the north, a driver was robbed of ten thousand dollars when he had concluded deliveries in the city. The incident happened last Thursday at about seven fifty p.m. when twenty five year old Calbert Castillo, a driver for Amelio Ahmad and Son Company Limited on fifth Avenue, Corozal Town parked his truck inside […]
There is good news coming from the Belize Poultry Association tonight and it is just in time for Easter. In a meeting of egg producers last Friday, it was decided that since production has improved, the price of eggs is going down with immediate effect. If you purchase eggs individually you may not see the […]
It has been six days since former Prime Minister, Manuel Esquivel, was flown to Miami, Florida for medical attention following a traffic accident on the Western Highway. And shortly before nine this morning, the sixty-nine year old senior financial advisor to the government, begun seven hours of surgery for facial reconstruction at the Jackson Memorial […]
And we turn to immigration matters. There are ongoing investigations in two cases involving nationals who use Belize as a spring board to the United States. The first case involves eight Chinese nationals—seven men and one woman—who arrived on a direct chartered flight on the Cuban airline, Aero Caribbean on March twenty-sixth. The initial reports […]
