Doctors gave him only a five percent chance to survive a shooting, but he beat the odds and is now back at home. Ahmad Nah was hospitalized since February twenty first and finally last week, when he had made progress, he was released to go home. News’ Five Delahnie Bain met the young man at […]
Lending a helping hand, that’s what the students of the University of Belize are doing to assist one child care center in the City to mark World Social Work Day. The two day project will not only give the Dorothy Menzies Centre a new face lift, it will also provide the children with some needed […]
Have you found that special someone that you want to share the rest of your life with and have a unique story to tell about how you met or popped the big question? Well listen closely because Channel Five is giving you the chance to score the wedding of your dreams with our newest reality […]
In 2007 the documentary film “Three Kings”, which features Belizean musicians Paul Nabor, Wilfred Peters and Florencio Mess, made its debut at the Princess Theatre. It has since been a part of the international film festival in Belize. It is also the work of Katia Paradis, who spent four years journeying with the musicians to […]
There’s a packed newscast tonight and we start with the budget presentation in the House today. The fiscal year closes at the end of March and the budget’s performance for 2009 to 2010 was poor, and don’t hold your breath because the coming year promises to bring new and additional taxes. In the current financial […]
But while the economy did fare off well, the 2010 to 2011 budget comes with new tax measures. Hardest hit is an almost five percent business tax imposed on electricity, meaning B.E.L., which soon afterwards caused a blackout, and a two point five percent increase in sales tax, which means that coupled with the two […]
But Barrow said it’s not all doom and gloom. The Poverty Assessment Report indicated that more Belizeans are poor. So naturally, increased taxes will push employed individuals into a category of the working poor. So to appease one section of the electorate, Barrow intends to exempt anyone earning less than twenty four thousand dollars a […]
The Prime Minister read a list of goods from which he intends to remove import duties. The list includes: cooking oils, luncheon meat, potted meat, macaroni and cheese dinner, and cereals. The P.M. also said that the government would remove General Sales Tax on similar items. But if you don’t intend to eat canned goods, […]
Earlier we reported on the budget for the new financial year and the additional taxes that will be imposed. But the House meeting would not be over without the usual dose of mudslinging. And as it has in the past, the arrows of Prime Minister Dean Barrow were slung again at his predecessor, Said Musa. […]
While the Barrow Administration presented its third annual budget before the National Assembly, Belizeans continue to prepare for inevitable tax increases in what will be an overall difficult financial year ahead. According to the Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño, the VAT man is back. In speaking with News Five, Briceño gave his rapid response […]
The appeal of Belize City businessman Dean Fuller was dealt with today before a three-member panel of judges at the Court of Appeal. Fuller was represented by Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay and attorney Ashanti Arthurs Martin. In November of last year Supreme Court Justice Oswell Legall ruled against Fuller and his companies Omni Networks and […]
Late this afternoon, the latest robbery was reported. It took place at the offices of Social Security Board in the city. The thieves were on time for the mid month payments that follows pay day. News Five’s Marion Ali has the details on the most recent robbery of a yet undisclosed amount of money. Marion […]
And we’ve heard about the hog head for various cultural practices – the hog head dance, the baked hog head and there’s the pig snout which is taken from the hog face and soaked in brine to season that pot of beans. Well it seems that someone thought Minister of State in the Ministry of […]
Sentencing was reserved for this morning in the case of twenty-three old Theophelia Brakeman after Magistrate Sharon Frazer found her guilty of grievous harm. The wait was worth her while because the mother was spared from going back to the Hattieville Prison. According to Fraser the few nights Brakeman spent in jail gave her an […]
And the Chief Magistrate heard the preliminary inquiry in the case of twenty six year old Leroy Kerr, a former police officer. Kerr was accused of stealing one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars worth of fuel from the government between the period of November of 2006 and April of 2007. The allegations were that […]
In the margins of today’s House meeting, we caught up with Juan Coy, the Minister of State, in the Ministry of Human Development and Social Transformation. Coy was in the news recently for reports that he ejected Bartolo Teul, one of his ardent campaigners, from a meeting at Big Falls in Toledo. Teul claimed that […]
It’s a growing tourist destination, but over the weekend Placencia Village was the location of an inferno that demolished four buildings. At about three-thirty on Saturday afternoon the village volunteer fire team received reports of the blaze and when they arrived at the scene the first building was engulfed in flames. The strong wind caused […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s your weekly dish of Sports Monday. Week five of the Caribbean Motors Cup brought Paradise Freedom Fighters to the M.C.C. Grounds as they took aim at F.C. Belize who has climbed up to second place in the standings at this juncture. Five minutes in the host team looks […]
Minister Juan Coy was suspended as a Minister of state for six months when he was accused of ordering the B.D.F. to allow contraband beer from Guatemala into Belize. That was last year; he has since been re-instated, but his troubles are far from over. Last Sunday a verbal confrontation between Coy and a campaign […]
A barge ran aground on the reef Thursday night. This is the second vessel this year to have damaged a portion of the reef. The barge, thirty feet by twenty three feet, is lodged near the Blue Reef Resort. Because of the battering waves, the barge has turned on its side and is believed to […]
A Honduran national who was standing on the shoulder of the Northern Highway in the vicinity of Mile three, was killed during the lunch hour in the heavily trafficked area. Ronaldo Portillo died instantly when he was hit by an SUV heading into the City as he waited for his brother. News Five’s Delahnie Bain […]
While Ronaldo Petillo was hit by a vehicle as he waited for his brother, twenty-seven year old John Weibe died in a traffic mishap as headed to the home of his sister. Weibe, a mechanic, lost control of his motorcycle as he rode on loose gravel on B Lane in Spanish Lookout. He ran into […]
Earlier in this newscast we heard from Bartolo Teul who was thrown out of a public meeting by heavily armed police at the orders of Minister of State, Juan Coy. Teul claims the elected official grew irate when he raised concerns about the way he was running things in the south. Another issue which Teul […]
An international conman who was caught in Belize last year February was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday. Forty-four year old Milos Gaspar received his current sentence in Kansas but he has left traces of his deceit across the entire Atlantic Ocean. His modus operandi was to rent a mobile home or a […]
A shooting victim remains under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after Thursday’s botched robbery of an Atlantic Bank security guard. The brazen incident happened shortly before three o’clock at the Atlantic Bank Collet Agency at the corner of Magazine and Cemetery Roads. Another suspect remains at large but the third accomplice, eighteen […]
