Turning to the courts, despite testimony by a paralyzed victim who had to be rolled into court on a portable bed, a jury was today unable to reach a verdict in the case of twenty-three year old Marvin Cruz Reyes. Reyes was charged with Attempted Murder for allegedly shooting twenty-six year old Kareem Wright. The […]
Stay in school: it’s the advice given to most students, but in numerous cases the reality is that many students are academically strong and motivated, but are held back by financial constraints. And after a 2006 report from UNICEF revealed that a high percentage of students in the Jewel don’t even make it through primary […]
While some were celebrating education grants, others were occupied in summer camps. This morning, News Five’s Delahnie Bain, found out that a sporting camp in the south side is attracting a large number of eager participants between the ages of eight and fifteen. Delahnie Bain, Reporting The Lake Independence Field is the venue for the […]
There have been widespread protests in Honduras since a coup de etat ousted President Manuel Zelaya to Costa Rica on the twenty eight of June on the eve of a referendum that would gauge public reaction to amend the constitution which does not allow Presidential re-election. Opposition leaders allege that the referendum was ultimately aimed […]
We start tonight’s newscast with the confirmation that the swine flu or the Influenza A H1N1 has spread to Belize. At news time, the Ministry of Health is confirming that results from CAREC today indicate that there are five cases of the influenza in Belize. The cases are all from the Corozal district and are […]
On Friday we reported that government had reversed approval of surveys given for three parcels of land in the Swallow Caye Sanctuary just off Belize. According to the Ministry of Natural Resources, there was not due diligence in the internal checks when the surveys were approved. But tonight there are fresh reports about part of […]
The already cash strapped City Hall will have to cough up close to one hundred grand to one of its former employees in a case that goes back to 2007. This morning Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh ruled that the Belize City Council has to pay former City Administrator, Sharole Saldivar almost ninety-three thousand dollars. This […]
Turning to the three week old dispute between the Belize Medical and Dental Union and the K.H.M.H. Board, Cabinet met today with the board and later with the Labour Commissioner Ivan Williams, who agreed to one last effort to settle the crisis. It is not known whether the doctors will accept this offer. And one […]
The private sector is joining the chorus to end the chaos at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry today sent out a release urging central government to resolve the dispute between the K.H.M.H. administration and the Belize Medical and Dental Union. The Chamber says the matter should be addressed […]
Four persons were murdered between last Friday and Monday morning. A young man from Orange Walk and three Belize City residents were viciously killed during the three days and no charges have been filed against anyone in the four homicides. However, police are following leads in two cases. Police have detained two men for questioning […]
While reporting on the three Belize City murders on Monday, News Five encountered some residents who have had a rocky relationship with the police. One resident of North Creek claims that he almost lost his life last Sunday at the hands of an officer but he was too afraid to report the incident to police. […]
Emotions ran high in court today as twenty-six year old Kareem Wright, who is paralyzed from the neck down, was wheeled in on a bed to testify against the man who allegedly tried to kill him. That man is twenty-three year old Marvin Cruz Reyes and he appeared in the Supreme Court today to be […]
In Punta Gorda meanwhile, some four hundred plus volunteers from across the country are taking part in the Annual Volunteer Battalion Camp organized by the Belize Defence Force. The camp is preparing the new soldiers for combat. On Monday News Five travelled to Punta Gorda for the opening of the camp and the training of […]
If you’re not up for the military camp, a sporting camp might interest you. The Belize Basketball Federation and UNICEF today launched a youth program for basketball enthusiasts across the country. The youth camp being held under the theme “Ballers for Life” caters to both males and females, between the ages of ten to seventeen […]
The process of renting a vehicle seems simple enough. And if you can afford it; you pay a daily rate, take the vehicle, and return it at the end of the signed contract. But it appears, one Dangriga man didn’t quite grasp that concept and has left Dangriga Auto Rental one vehicle short. Manager, Michael […]
In an update to the continued crisis in Honduras, the deposed president Manuel Zelaya met today with the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton in Washington. It is the first high level meeting with the US since the June twenty-eighth coup de etat which ousted Zelaya. The big news to come out of that private […]
The CARICOM Development Fund is a mechanism established in 2008 under the revised Treaty of Chaguaramas to provide technical assistance and financing in respect of the CSME. For the past two days, representatives from the C.D.F. are in Belize consulting with stakeholders to find out the areas in which Belize is being affected by the […]
We reported on Monday that Belize has handed over the rotating six month chairmanship of CARICOM to Guyana. At the four-day summit over the past weekend attended by the PM, there were several pressing regional issues tackled by the Heads of Government. At the Philip Goldson International Airport on Monday, the PM said that steering […]
If you have Morgan Heritage tickets then hold on to them because Promoters for the band say they are ready to come back to the Jewel after their concert was postponed due to the H1N1 scare. There has been some confusion about the validity of tickets purchased when the band was first scheduled to take […]
Over twenty thousand persons packed the Staples Center arena in California while millions around the world watched the final farewell for the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. MJ’s gold-plated casket was on stage while fans and family grieved in the audience and at home. The service was attended by many celebrities including: Kobe Bryant, Spike […]
It was a bloody weekend in which criminals took over the streets. Four persons were senselessly murdered; three of the homicides took place in the Southside of Belize City in close proximity. In the other, a young man was slain in a village in the north. News Five’s Jose Sanchez took to the dangerous streets […]
Earlier Sunday night another Belize City resident was murdered. But in this case the victim was inside his home when he was shot. Twenty-eight year old Barrington Gentle had a tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend but they had moved in together in January on Courtenay Crescent in an area behind the Berger Field. According to […]
Not far away, a former police constable was killed on Friday night on Central American Boulevard. Thirty year old Clarence Leslie was a former cop and well liked in his neighborhood. According to relatives, Leslie left his home on to buy chicken from Li Chee Restaurant. But he didn’t get far and was gunned down […]
The weekend’s fourth homicide occurred in the north of the country in August Pine Ridge, Orange Walk early Sunday morning. This time it is believed that alcohol abuse triggered the brutal incident in which an eighteen year old young man was dead after partying the night away. Police are on the hunt for his good […]
While the criminals in the weekend’s four murders are still on the loose, the long arms of the law have caught up with a suspect in a murder that occurred on the evening of February twenty-sixth. Back then a fist fight between two teens ended fatal when sixteen year old Daniel Soto was killed while […]
