There is a new head coach for the senior male softball national team. On Saturday, the executive council of the Belize Softball Federation named veteran softball player, Nelberth Flowers, to head the team. Flowers has a long trajectory in the sport and has played for the jewel in several regional games. He was a member […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we certainly welcome you to this issue of Sports Monday. As the Belizean nation gets ready for the Holy Saturday Cross Country event, the Belize Cycling Association continues to present even more races in an effort to prepare its athletes for prime time. So we looked in on Saturday’s […]
The human tragedy continues to grow in the island of Haiti as rescue workers work around the clock to save persons trapped under the rubble caused by Tuesday’s earthquake. Relief efforts are underway but the extent of human loss and destruction is still unknown. The tragedy has touched everyone in what is being considered as […]
The death toll so far from Tuesday’s earthquake stands at forty thousand. But at least another hundred thousand are feared dead. The news has triggered one local student to try to make contact with a close family in the island. Misty Williams says that since the quake shattered most parts of Haiti she has had […]
The three people displaced by the earthquake are Rochelle and Nerland or Stephanie Estiverne and their mother, Michelle Jubaum. Meanwhile, one of many church groups that have initiated fund-raising efforts for the earthquake victims is the Central Bible International. Our camera caught the group, headed by Pastor Nelson Juarez, as they began the relief drive […]
The price of fuel went up in the first week of the year and now it’s cooking gas that’s going up… and it’s no minor increase. In fact, the price per hundred pound cylinder of butane is taking an alarming ten dollar jump beginning Saturday. What’s worse is that it follows a seven dollar increase […]
The owners of one of the oldest colonial buildings in the city are tonight looking for shelter. The Eusey family has lived at their downtown home for generations, but now the building is a safety hazard and at least a part of it has been torn down. News Five Jose Sanchez has this story. Jose […]
It’s the first reported shooting for the year…the victim is twenty-four year old Kyle Edwards of a Reggae Street address in Belize City. Around six-thirty on Thursday night, while Edwards was riding on West Canal, a lone gunman on bicycle, fired several shots at him. Edwards was injured to the arm, shoulder and head and […]
Approximately three hours later, another Southside resident, twenty-year old Giovanni Abraham was also admitted at the K.H.M.H. suffering from a stab wound to the abdomen. Abraham was injured in an altercation with eighteen year old Mark Usher at the corner of Dykes and Fabers Roads. ASP Jones says that Usher has since been detained. Asst. […]
And in the courts, a citrus farm manager of la Democracia was charged today for hiring nineteen Central Americans who did not have employment permits. Thirty-three year-old Ray Ogaldez, of the Hummingbird Citrus Farm was escorted to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court by Immigration Personnel where he appeared before Magistrate Kathleen Lewis. Ogaldez pleaded not […]
The Belize Defense Force is trained to defend the country and to assist in the maintenance of order, but through the Embassy of Taiwan, some soldiers got training in combat skills to defend themselves. Twenty-nine survived the rigorous taekwondo training at Price Barracks. Delahnie Bain was on hand for the closing of the course. Delahnie […]
A.C.C. students who earned more than eighty percent in their first term grades were recognized for their academic performance today. The Anglican Cathedral College says it is also a way of motivating other students to improve their scores. The top scorer, a first year student, was granted a scholarship for the remaining years of study […]
The end of year statistics from the police say there is a decrease in crime, but the residents are living in a time when they feel more unsafe than ever. And it is because of the crime situation in Belize, particularly in the old capital, that DJ and Promoter Lindbergh “Lindy D” Arnold decided to […]
Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize? Well activities haven’t fully recovered from the holidays but I do have some activities that you may be interested in attending. This Saturday marks the beginning of an Institute of creative arts workshop. In this workshop they will be giving lessons on Public Speaking as well […]
Stories of death and devastation continue to pour in from Haiti where a powerful earthquake struck the island flattening its capital, Port au Prince. Relief supplies are beginning to arrive and aid workers are experiencing a difficult time reaching those in need and trapped under the rubble. Latest reports now put the death toll at […]
Up north, Corozal police have teamed up with their Mexican counterparts to investigate a burglary at a store at one of the shopping plazas in the Corozal Free Zone. And while the incident occurred over the Christmas holidays, it is only now being reported and both Free Zone and police authorities are no closer to […]
The traffic inconvenience is a minor sacrifice pedestrians and motorists seemed prepared to endure in exchange for better streets in the old capital. That is what News Five discovered when we visited three of the areas that the Belize City Council said earlier this week it would upgrade. Work is well underway on Wood, Johnson […]
And on Regent Street, a building sitting at the corner with South Street is in danger of collapsing. Its owners, the Eusey Family, are fighting its demolition because that would leave them homeless. Last Thursday, the city engineer informed the Belize City Council of the imminent collapse and that portion of South Street was blocked […]
An audit of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA) in July of 2009 pointed to gross mismanagement and irregularities. That resulted in a suspension of the B.S.C.F.A.’s certification for funding from Europe, known as FLO-CERT and Certification for Development. Millions of dollars were put on hold that would have otherwise benefited farmers and the […]
There is also resolution to a conflict that erupted last Thursday at the Fort Street Tourism Village when nearly seventy tour guides were suspended from operating on the compound. Five cruise ships docked this morning and the hustle and bustle returned to the village in full swing. The difficulties arose from violations to a standing […]
The king of brukdong Wilfred Peters sat down with William and I last December on Open Your Eyes as a featured guest of the 2009 Brukdong Competition. But his health has been failing and Mister Peters has been hospitalized for the past two weeks. Peters, a diabetic, was admitted to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital […]
There were two robbery attempts today. The first reportedly occurred before nine this morning on busy Albert Street and was aimed at a couple of German tourists. It is reported that two youths on bicycles held up the tourists at gunpoint but did not steal anything. The second attempt occurred around two this afternoon at […]
A late night fire on Iguana Street Extension in Belize City gutted a small wooden bungalow. The building was owned by Brukdong King and Legendary music Icon, Wilfred Peters, who is recovering in the hospital and rented to a tenant identified only as Lisa. When the fire broke around eleven-thirty Wednesday night, Lisa was not […]
The issue has been brewing for weeks in the Deep South where environmental groups and the San Pedro Columbia community are mounting opposition to the proposed construction of a dam. The site is the Central River that runs through the Columbia River Forest Reserve and the Bladen Nature Reserve, two core conservation areas. One organization […]
In news from the courts, a well-known and popular tailor of New Road in Belize City finally had his day for a charge of fondling a fourteen year old primary school girl back in June of 2009. It took months for the case to come to trial, but today fifty one year old amputee, Angel […]
