The last time we told you about Baby Daniel Estell he was waiting in a Los Angeles Hospital for his family to come up with funds to pay for a life-saving surgery. The eight-month old urgently needs a liver transplant and the cost is well over the hundred-thousand-dollar range. While the family was appealing for […]
He died at the age of twenty two, and his death has been shrouded in mystery and unanswered questions for the family, but they are not about to put his memory to rest. Today Eder Alamilla’s dream of helping children to discover their hidden artistic ability, lives on through his family who has held annual […]
Safiyyah’s coming up in a few minutes. But there’s one program that will be happening in Belize City on Saturday morning that will be one third entertainment, one third giveaway, one third healthy, and one hundred percent for your benefit. The Belize City Council in collaboration with Speednet’s Smart and the Belize Diabetes Association will […]
This year’s La Reina de la Costa Maya hails from Guatemala. She beat seven other contestants on Thursday night but there is plenty more activities happening this weekend in the Costa Maya Festival that is underway at La Isla Bonita. Safiyyah has the rundown on that international event along with a stress-free Friday night at […]
A businessman, the co-owner of the Hungry Money located on North Front Street, was found lifeless when the restaurant opened for business this morning. His body was found on a chair with financial documents nearby. Business was not doing well and bills were mounting. Employees report that Mario Varacalli had said he intended to take […]
Lord Ridge caretaker, Russel Neal, was well loved. According to friends and family members, he was a kind man. Testimonials were given by others whom he gave shelter when they were homeless or money from his pockets when they were hungry. That is what Melanie Belisle, Neal’s girlfriend said today following his murder on Tuesday […]
On Wednesday News Five broke the story about a body that was found in the Belize River Valley. The discovery was made around four in the evening in an overgrown area of Scotland Half Moon Village. The residents of the village have not reported anyone missing and do not believe the dead person was a […]
The cops believe four men were on their way to murder a high profile person when they were busted inside a blue Crown Victoria taxi in front of the Shell Gas Station in Ladyville on Monday night. At the time, the taxi was loaded with high powered weapons and ammunition. After three nights in lock […]
Back in 2008, the Kendall Bridge in southern Belize was washed away by Tropical Arthur. A causeway was built as a temporary measure but whenever the rains cause flooding, the south of country is inaccessible. There is now word that it will take another two years for a new bridge to be put in place. […]
There is word that the Belize City Council today lost one of its most active sports activists and security guards. Leroy Martinez, who played on the Council’s football, softball and basketball teams, was reportedly rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital this afternoon after he started to suffer from respiratory problems. Doctors tried to revive […]
Since the Kendall Bridge was washed away by Tropical Storm Arthur in the first week of June 2008, travelers in the area have been waiting for the replacement bridge. A gift of a temporary bridge by the US government in October of 2008 did not fit and the government had to install a temporary causeway. […]
We first broke the story last week regarding the decision of FirstCaribbean Bank to place Fresh Catch and Wood Depot into receivership. Not many details have been available but most business people we spoke with said they understood that Fresh Catch was having financial problems for some time, but that they expected that things would […]
The Coye family: Melanie Coye, her husband James Gerou; parents Michael and Marlene; brother, Jude and two employees have been accused by the Financial Intelligence Unit of laundering one point five million dollars. Since their business, Money Exchange International Limited was closed down, the family says it has been surviving over a year without any […]
The trial in the 2008 murder of Mirna Sanabria concluded today and one of the co-defendants left the courtroom a free man while the other was hauled back to prison. Earlier in the week, a no case submission was made on behalf of the co-defendant, twenty-six year old Sherman Anderson. Justice Troadio Gonzalez upheld that […]
Turning to trade, negotiations for a CARICOM/Canada Trade Agreement go back to 2007 and are now in the second round. Today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade held consultations in Belmopan and Belize City on the several aspects of the agreement which will hopefully lead to the opening of new markets in Canada. […]
Earlier in the newscast we told you that the new Kendall Bridge will take another two years to build. And Just in case you were wondering about the other promised project, the City’s Poverty Alleviation Project, well we also got an update about it today. The project was unveiled in March 2007 to rehabilitate the […]
Three weeks ago the Belize City Council announced its plans to open a new cemetery at mile thirteen on the Western Highway. The need for a new burial site has been obvious for a few years now since space at the Lord’s Ridge cemetery has run out. The proposed graveyard in the outskirts of Hattieville, […]
In news from the region, he is a well known face in the Caribbean, the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). Edwin Carrington is also a recipient of the Order of Distinction given by Belize. Carrington has indicated to the heads of government that he is leaving the job at the end of this year. […]
Another unidentified body was located today around four o’clock this afternoon. Residents of Scotland Half Moon Village, a remote community in the Belize River Valley, have not reported any missing persons within the past few days but late this afternoon the usually quiet community was buzzing with word of a possible abduction and murder. The […]
The other murder happened in the old capital. The Lord Ridge Cemetery will be the final resting place for the man who took care of the graveyard for a decade. Fifty-eight year old Russel Neal was killed at his home by a gunman who fired the shots through the window. Police are questioning his ex-wife […]
On Tuesday night, we broke the story that police had made a major bust involving a blue Crown Victoria taxi. The incident happened on Monday night at the Shell Gas station in Ladyville but was not reported until today in the daily police blotter and from details now available, the car was loaded with an […]
Belmopan police still need your help in identifying another body that was found on Wednesday morning in the west. The cops still have very little to go by, but it is known that during the post mortem today, three slugs were removed from the body of the Hispanic man. Those slugs have not yet been […]
There are also only a few leads for police in the fatal hit and run incident on Monday night. Police are following reports that a white container truck traveled through the area when the incident occurred. Sixty-four year old Francisco Albeño was struck from behind by what witnesses say was a heavy duty truck traveling […]
As we invariably do, tonight’s newscast began with the story of another murder. It is the third so far for this week and the month is just four days old. Crime is the number one pressing problem that the government has to solve. A long term initiative, Restore Belize, was unveiled by the government back […]
Residents of Ladyville are sounding alarm over what appears to be an environmental hazard that has been affecting aquatic life in a private pond on the Bowen & Bowen bottling compound. The massive fish kill has led to an investigation being launched by the Department of the Environment and the Public Health Department but according […]
