Family and friends gathered at the Holy Redeemer Cathedral this afternoon to celebrate the life of media personality, Richard Michael Nicholson. Mike Nic, as he was fondly known, was ailing for some time and passed away last Sunday at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. His final farewell was a solemn occasion; the thanksgiving service for […]
Chickenpox affects both children and adults. It can be life threatening but there are many ways to lessen the severity of the infection. A weak immune system, however, can lead to the more severe cases. There also many myths about chicken pox that a pediatrician will clarify in this segment of Healthy Living. Marleni Cuellar, […]
Allegations of negligence are commonplace among the nation’s health posts and hospitals, but tonight there is a bizarre case under investigation. The report is that ants were feeding on an elderly patient at the Northern Regional Hospital. A visiting relative of another patient claims that she and a friend detected a swarm of ants feasting […]
Cardiologist John Gough and gastroenterologist Irvin Gabourel, both distinguished Belize City doctors, are tonight free on police bail. As we reported on Tuesday night, hours earlier, the two doctors squared off in an all-out public fistfight at the northern border. Earlier today both men were charged for disorderly conduct after being treated and released from […]
There is a major change to report about the future of Excelsior High School. For weeks parents, teachers and students of the high school have vociferously resisted a proposal by the Ministry of Education to relocate students and shift the focus the school. That would have meant that teachers and students would have been displaced […]
We have reported about new legislation that will allow for electronic wiretapping of telephone calls. The government claims its one of the measures that can help to weed out criminal elements. But there is also the fear that the privacy of many persons will be at risk. On Tuesday we asked our viewers if they […]
The family of a newborn child is in desperate need of assistance. Last Tuesday, Dina Ortiz gave birth to her second child, a baby girl at the Northern Regional Hospital. The joy of birth was short-lived since the child was born without an esophagus. It’s been eight days and the child is in desperate need […]
There’s another sad story about a baby tonight. San Ignacio police are looking for a babysitter from Cayo after a two year old baby boy allegedly suffered burns while in her care. News Five has confirmed that a doctor has classified the burn wounds as Harm. The incident allegedly happened in San Ignacio Town and […]
Forty-six year old Kirk Daughtry, an American national and his crewman twenty-six year old Enrique Alvarez of Mexico were both arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today for immigration and maritime offenses. Both men lawfully entered the country by sea on June twenty-second through San Pedro Town and claimed that they would depart the […]
We reported on Tuesday that News Five’s Isani Cayetano was robbed as walked home from our studios on Coney Drive this past Monday night. Cops were quick to connect the dots and Cayetano’s laptop computer was recovered by the following day. This morning, twenty-one year old Kevin Faber was charged with Handling Stolen Goods because […]
A mother fears the worst but is hoping for the best in the case of her missing son, twenty-four year-old Leon Torres, a construction worker of Tigris Street. According Cherry Moss, the last time she saw her son was on Friday but since then she has found out that he spent the night at the […]
We know that eleven thousand primary school age students are not in school and as many as sixty percent are not in secondary schools. The others will make it to the classrooms in the next few weeks when the school year opens. At one Belize City high school, classrooms opened since the beginning of this […]
You may not know the name Rudy Youngblood, but you may be aware of his works. In 2005 Youngblood made his film debut in Spirit: The Seventh Fire. He was then cast as the lead role in the film, Apocalypto, which grossed over one hundred and twenty million U.S. dollars. In that film he appeared […]
It was an explosive situation in the west over the past weekend when reportedly drunken B.D.F. soldiers clashed with civilians. From what we have gathered, two soldiers were looking for two alleged ‘contrabandistas’ who had just crossed the river. The men eluded the soldiers and that’s when they allegedly took out their frustration on residents […]
Our news reporters frequently cover stories about armed robberies, an all too common offence. But on Monday night, News Five’s own Isani Cayetano experienced, firsthand, being held up at gunpoint. Cayetano left the newsroom at our Coney Drive headquarters at about a quarter after seven. He did not get too far and on Princess Margaret […]
Word to News Five this evening is that two prominent Belize City doctors, John Gough and Ervin Gabourel, are getting medical treatment at the Corozal Hospital following an all out brawl at the Belize/Mexico Border earlier today. Police confirmed that Gabourel was changing currency before departing the country when he was approached by Gough who […]
This past Friday, the government introduced a Bill in the House entitled Interception of Communications Act which will allow security personnel to eavesdrop on telephone calls. The new piece of legislation will surely be hotly debated before it can become law because not everyone agrees that it will only be used to monitor criminal activity […]
It was devastated by Hurricane Dean three years ago but the papaya industry is now well poised to recover. Set in the north, Fruta Bomba has been exporting about a hundred thousand tons of the fruit on a weekly basis to the United States and Canada. It is a main source of employment for hundreds […]
The Auditor General’s Special Report on the Issuance of National Land Leases and Titles between September 2007 and February 2008 reveals numerous questionable transactions in the Ministry of Lands. As we have reported, in the majority of the cases, lease and purchase applications were approved without the recommendation of the Commissioner of Lands and Survey. […]
Oceana Belize is known for its opposition to offshore drilling in Belize. Its Vice President, Audrey Matura Shepherd, has joined a voyage that is tracking the British Petroleum oil spill throughout the gulf. The Oceana team is aboard the vessel called the Latitude. Matura Shepherd spoke to News Five via phone with an update on […]
The incident goes back to June nineteenth, 2009, when a nine mm pistol and forty live rounds of ammo were found in a Rodeo SUV in which two Guatemalans were traveling on the Western Highway. The men claimed they were returning to Peten, Guatemala when police detected the vehicle as it pulled off the highway […]
Twenty year old Randine Flowers, a housekeeper of St. Thomas Street, is tonight accused of stealing jewelry from her former employer. Ruth Jaramillo reported to the police that a five hundred dollar, fourteen carat gold ring with a diamond and a three thousand dollar fourteen carat gold bracelet with diamonds had gone missing from her […]
Search efforts lasted almost a full two days for a seventeen year old Gwen Lizarraga Student, who drowned on Sunday afternoon in the Camalote area. Rudyford Thompson Jr. went swimming with three friends and is believed to have suffered a cramp in the leg. Friends tried to help him, but the current was too strong […]
The crime situation as everyone already knows is out of control. The fact that the murder conviction rate being below ten percent, places citizens under siege. Last Friday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow introduced a bill in the house that will not only increase penalties for violent crime but also target gang members and empower the […]
In related news, sexual exploitation and assault of children are offences that have been on the rise over the past few years. But the penalties that accompany crimes have not deterred the criminal element from carrying out their acts. So, now one agency that champions the rights of children is trying to see if it […]
