Officials from the Customs and Excise Department have launched an intensive investigation into the mysterious disappearance of the contents of a twenty-foot container which was destined for the Commercial Free Zone in Corozal. The container entered the country through the Ports of Belize Limited on Monday and it was later transferred to the neighboring Customs […]
While customs officials are looking into the puzzling loss of cargo en route to the Commercial Free Zone another investigation is currently underway at the Port of Belize Limited where a pilot boat used to transport stevedores to cargo ships off the coast has been reported missing. It is unclear when the boat went missing […]
Turning to the hottest and most watched Tuesday night television show, what started out as an entirely new concept for a local live production, culminated with a bang on Tuesday night at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts. Fourteen persons were selected from as many as seventy who auditioned from around the country late […]
So what’s next? A reality wedding. The couple who won the bid for Channel Five’s new show: from Yes to I do, Channel Five Will Follow You – was announced at the KTV Latino grand finale last night. Forty couples entered the competition, five were short listed but it was Julio Escalante and Vanessa Ramos, […]
There have been many incidents of sexual exploitation and violence against children and teenagers in recent days. We asked the question “Do you support a curfew for teenagers?” Those participating on our E-poll generally supported the notion of imposing a curfew. One viewer expressed “We need to get back our country and we need to […]
Belize City has few parks, and by all accounts only one is frequented by families every weekend and that is the BTL Park on Princess Margaret Drive. To fulfill a campaign promise, Mayor Moya Flowers delegated one of her councilors, Dean Samuels, to find a way to pay for a beach to be placed along […]
Back in 2008, Osman Mitchell was shot as he was on his way visit his child. The trial into the shooting was finally set to begin today in the Supreme Court, but there was an unexpected twist when Mitchell informed the court that he wanted to withdraw charges of attempted murder, use of deadly means […]
A police raid at a residence on West Canal on Tuesday yielded a makeshift firearm and two rounds of live ammunition. The bust led to the arrest of five persons who were at the house. At about a quarter after six Belize City police, conducted a search of the property which netted a homemade shotgun, […]
A Guatemalan woman who has lived in Belize for over ten years has been caught in a scam against the Social Security Board. Twenty-two year old Mirna Ramirez has been making claims from SSB for her son, but she tried to collect twice by using two different names. On August fourteenth 2009, Ramirez submitted a […]
There were no reported shootings or murders in the city on Tuesday night possibly because everyone was tuned in to KTV Latino. However, the police have been busy keeping marijuana off the streets. Thirty-eight year old Mark Higinio of Banak Street, Dangriga was charged for eighty four point five grams of cannabis which was found […]
The Belize Audubon Society is one of the environmental groups that works all year round to promote sustainable development and preservation of the country’s resources. You may want to dust off your canvas or photos of nature, because as part of its public awareness campaigns, the Audubon has devised several activities for May which are […]
It’s another milestone for the tapir we have come to know and care for over the years. And what’s a birthday without a party? April, is among the first animals at the Belize zoo, so the occasion was marked with a birthday bash. As we have over the years, News Five’s Delahnie Bain headed to […]
Representatives from various organizations and government ministries in the Caribbean are on a working visit to Belize to discuss effective leadership in the fisheries sector. The catch is decreasing and so is the livelihood of many people who depend on small scale fisheries. Leaders in the industry are taking a critical look at improving the […]
Their job is to keep the peace and restore law and order to the community, but today the Police Department was engaged in another form of public service. The Yarborough Community Policing Unit held its first ever open day at the Cumberbatch Field on Caesar Ridge Road. The event, according to Sergeant Dehanne Williams, the […]
The annual month of activities focusing on cancer awareness has traditionally been held in October in honor of the founder of the Belize Cancer Society, Juliet Orosco Soberanis. But this year cancer month is being observed in May in hopes of better weather. The events are a means of spreading information and promoting prevention and […]
Wilfred Peters is known for old time classics such as Solomon Gyah and the more recent hits like Run Mister Peters Run. Earlier this month the King of BrukDong Music celebrated his seventy ninth birthday. His peers have been acknowledging his contribution to the development of his unique musical genre all month long. The National […]
On Monday we reported that two of five fishermen from Jamaican had been rescued after they were lost for more than month at sea. Anthony Hibberd and Jason Noble set sail in the Gentle Breeze from the Old Harbor Bay in Jamaica in mid March and were found on Sunday off the coast of Mexico. […]
Another inmate flew the coop on Monday night shortly after seven o’clock. Edgar Roberts, a resident of Independence Village, who is not considered to be armed and dangerous broke free from cell number forty-three in the Medium Security Section of the Hattieville Prison by smashing a lock and exiting the building unnoticed. Roberts is described […]
There has been an arrest for the murder of Orange Walk resident Josue Velasquez. On Monday, Orange Walk Police charged nineteen year old Pablo Diaz, a laborer of San Lazaro Village for Velasquez’s murder. Velasquez’s body was found on March seventh in a drain off a feeder road with multiple chop wounds. Before he died, […]
Close to six hundred and fifty persons polled on last Friday’s question on whether or not they felt that their personal safety is more at risk. As many as ninety percent who voted thought so. In tonight’s newscast we focus on children given the number of violent incidents affecting their well being. The question is: […]
A number of business establishments in the city got surprise visits today from the GST Department and the Bureau of Standards. The spot checks were to determine if the businesses were properly implementing the tax increase. News Five’s Jose Sanchez found out who passed the test and got the reaction from customers. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
As part of the campaign promise for re-election last year, the Belize City Council promised to bring back the beach at the seafront of the B.T.L. Park along Marine Parade. But how would the cash strapped council, which has been ailing in the past year to pay its garbage collection debt, build a beach which […]
The Citrus Growers Association and Citrus Products of Belize Limited have been embroiled in a bitter legal battle that has left a lingering and sour taste in the citrus industry. It has spilled out of the court and onto the pavement earlier this year when hundreds of workers in the industry protested against CPBL on […]
On Monday, News Five aired the story of Kainie Manuel, the former reporter of the San Pedro Sun who is in trouble with the law for theft of forty-five thousand dollars from her former employer, the San Pedro Sun and its owners, Ron and Tamara Sniffin. Manuel admitted to making the mistake and she also […]
A businessman who was partying with two men he met at a local bar on April twenty-second was robbed of his car, a 2000 gold Jeep Cherokee, and a thousand dollars in cash. The two men are nineteen year old Omar Espat and twenty-seven year old Pedro Pena, a supervisor at Ready Call Centre. They […]
