Where there is smoke there is fire. The City woke up to a dull haze this morning that drifted across the district. Residents choked from the odor and the smoke that is coming from forest fires that have been raging in western Belize for weeks. The heat and the pollution covering the district are unbearable […]
While it is expected that the smoke shrouding the district will clear up, there are health implications involved. Persons with allergies, asthmas and similar conditions are advised to avoid exposure to the smoke. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting The smoke from the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest fires has drifted from Cayo to […]
Last week Friday, the P.M. introduced a slew of controversial; some would say draconian, anti-crime legislation in the House of Representatives to address the deepening crisis in law enforcement. This week, the Police Ministry reacted with a release claiming that crime had actually dropped by seven percent this year compared to the same period last […]
Government is introducing tough new legislation to battle crime which the police say is down. Do you feel that the streets are safer even though the number of murders is up? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send […]
Since March of this year, a community of squatters has been setting up houses in an area where the government is building a bridge that will span the Lake Independence area to Belama Phase Two. The police soon moved in and evicted the squatters but the south side of the Chetumal Bridge is now swelling […]
The HIV/AIDS programme of the Ministry of Health has evolved as treatment and education about the disease also refocuses. The statistical data shows that Belize has documented a decrease in new HIV infections. The dip has held steady since a plateau in new infections was reached in 2008. The stats show a fourteen percent decrease […]
You’ve seen Emerson Guild on this station numerous times, speaking as the local coordinator of the Venezuelan Mission Miracle initiative. But tonight, fifty-seven year old Guild is behind bars on charges of Aggravated Assault with a Firearm. Guild was arraigned in the courtroom of Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and he pleaded not guilty to the charge. […]
Also in court, a Lebanese businessman is claiming that he was swindled out of hundreds of dollars by twenty-nine year old Herman Tzib. The alleged incident occurred on April fourteenth, but police didn’t detain Tzib until this morning and he was arraigned for Extortion in the Belmopan Magistrate Court before Adolph Lucas Junior. According to […]
Everyone agrees that something has to be done to rein in crime, but there is mixed reaction on sweeping constitutional amendments proposed by Prime Minister Dean Barrow in the House last Friday. The preventative detention bill has been especially controversial because some believe that giving the cops authority to detain persons for up to twenty-one […]
Whether or not crime is down, the man at the head of the Police Force, Crispin Jeffries, will stay in place for another year. The government has extended his contract for twelve more months until a successor is hired. According to information available to News Five, even after a new COMPOL is installed, Jeffries will […]
Today over thirty members of the Business Youth Trust from around the Caribbean gathered at the Radisson Fort George Hotel for the opening Ceremony of the Caribbean Regional Conference. The event, which brought together mentors and young entrepreneurs, is geared at highlighting the work of the organization and future plans. As a part of the […]
Belize’s northern neighbor is extending higher education opportunities to over a dozen locals. México is offering fifteen scholarships at the various campuses of CONALEP University. According to the Press Officer at the Embassy of Mexico, prospective candidates can visit the Mexican Embassy or the Ministry of Education for more details about the opportunity. Marcelino Miranda, […]
In news from the Cabinet, we note that the Prime Minister is heading on Thursday to a Heads of CARICOM summit in Guyana. The Minister of Education, Patrick Faber and the Deputy Prime Minister, Gaspar Vega, will fill until the prime minister returns on May twenty-fourth. Cabinet today also endorsed a recommendation by Minister of […]
Shortly after three this afternoon, Egzine McFoy was driving on the Northern Highway in her Nissan Pathfinder, which she had just insured and licensed, when the vehicle began smoking. McFoy says she exited the vehicle but even the efforts of the fire station could not put out the blaze and the vehicle was completely destroyed. […]
There’s good news and bad news out of Chicago. First to the bad, a Belizean who got mixed up in the drug trade became the victim of a kidnapping and a cruel beating back in 2006. According to an article on the Indiana Post-Tribune website, the case began in the U.S. District Court in Hammond […]
Now for the good news, a family from Dangriga is taking Chicago by storm with their Belizean cuisine. Rhodel and Yolanda Castillo opened a restaurant called Garifuna Flava in June 2008 and it has gotten rave reviews from patrons, in newspapers and television networks. But it gets better; the Belizean dishes will be introduced to […]
Tonight, family, friends and the cycling community are grieving the immeasurable loss of young Ariel Rosado. The twenty-eight year old was killed in a terrible traffic accident just before midnight on Saturday. It happened at the roundabout near SMART when Rosado and his cycling friend Marlon Castillo were heading into the City. Rosado, a National […]
There was another traffic fatality involving a Toyota Tacoma pickup over the weekend. This time tragedy struck on the Hummingbird Highway, between miles forty-two and forty-three. On Sunday, Balmore Hernandez was driving from Armenia Village to Belmopan and was accompanied by nineteen year old Suzette Mossiah at around nine p.m. Hernandez lost control of the […]
A day before the traffic fatality involving Ariel Rosado, there was another loss of life. Dwight Warrior was executed while he was in a van along with two friends. One bullet caught him in the head. His family and friends are at a loss as to who would want the young man dead. News Five’s […]
Kenroy Young was once the UN Youth Ambassador, but he is also distinguishing himself as a career criminal. Since 2008, he has been in court on several theft related charges and currently has a case of forgery pending in the Supreme Court. Today, the twenty-two year old added one more offense to his growing rap […]
There are reports coming out of Cayo of a stabbing incident involving Nelson Pinelo. Police have not reported it in the daily blotter, but Pinelo is said to have been at a party when an uninvited guest crashed the gathering on the Bullet Tree Road. The party crasher left, but returned and allegedly stabbed Pinelo […]
Police Constable David Griffith, he’s the officer who was in the middle of a controversy following the death of Teddy Murillo a little over a year ago. Well on Friday night he was shot in the leg in Punta Gorda Town where he’s been stationed since the Murrillo killing. But tonight police say that investigations […]
The convention season is in full swing and on Sunday, five P.U.P. hopefuls brought out their supporters in the Cayo Central division. With four hundred and ninety-one votes, Collet Montejo was named the new P.U.P. Standard Bearer when the voting ended. It is his first foray into electoral politics and if you’re not from the […]
We’ve reported so far in this newscast on numerous crime-related incidents, but there’s one positive story tonight involving the state of food and nutrition in Belize. A Western School walked away today with ADM Belize Mills Secondary School Nutrition Quiz. Eight schools took part and today’s first, second and third place schools will now form […]
A forty-seven million dollar agreement was signed between the government and CISCO Construction Limited on February twenty-eighth for the paving of twenty-three miles of the Southern Highway, leading to the Guatemalan border. Funds for that project are expected to be provided through a loan from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, the OPEC Fund […]
