Those are serious matters with far reaching implications, but on a lighter note, KTV Duets premiered at the Bliss on Tuesday night and as previously promised by the producers, the show comes with new twists and surprises. The first group of eight duos had their debut performances before a live audience and a panel of […]
Tragedy has landed again at the front door of Delia Lewis. Lewis is the mother of a cyclist Maurice Usher who was hit in a terrible traffic accident last Friday night that sent him in coma. Usher was driving a motorcycle, heading to Belize City from his family’s farm when he collided with a bicycle […]
An aircraft belonging to Tropic Air suffered a blowout soon after landing at the San Pedro Municipal Airstrip this afternoon. News Five spoke with Tropic Air’s Johnny Grief, who says the plane pulled up to the terminal and almost came to a complete stop, when it experienced a flat tire. The passengers exited the plane […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions is appealing the sentences handed down to three Colombian nationals who pleaded guilty to a slew of charges on June twenty-eighth. Twenty-seven year old Alberto Bedoya, thirty-seven year old Hernan Dario O’Quendo and forty-two year old Yeney De Jesus Echavaria Manco were caught in Independence Village with fifty-three parcels of […]
Earlier today the Ministry of Sports announced that a delegation from FIFA will be in Belize on July nineteenth. The release says that it received a letter from the international football authority saying that the delegation comprises FIFA Executive and Emergency Committee member, Rafael Salguero; CONCACAF Executive Member Ariel Alvarado and UNCAF President, Rafael Tinoco. […]
Attorney Godfrey Smith’s Marine Parade Office was targeted by thieves on September ninth, 2010, but the six culprits were caught on surveillance cameras and the arrests were swift. Fredrick Waight, Jose Caliz, Charles Neal, Michael Fairweather, Kareem Gladden and Mark Alamilla were charged and pleaded not guilty to Burglary. But when the matter came up […]
Former village council chairman Walter Gillett, who was accused of embezzling money from Gracie Rock Village Council’s Atlantic Bank account, was today acquitted of four counts of obtaining property by deception. The forty-one year old appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to answer charges that he withdrew a total of nine thousand, eight hundred dollars from […]
We have been following their journey to the Special Olympics since they left Belize in mid-June for Athens, Greece. Today they’re back in Belize boasting bronze medals after playing teams from Chile, Singapore and Indonesia. The boys who are intellectually impaired have been training for over a year with the hopes of bringing home a […]
The ministry of education has joined forces with two international organizations for a mega summer camp. The camp sites are throughout the city and well over a thousand primary and high school students and teachers have signed up. The camp deals with financial literacy and News Five’s Jose Sanchez visited one of the ongoing camps […]
They belong to the same party, that’s the People’s United Party and both can possibly be described as high profile soldiers. But there’s bad blood between Winston Smiling and Steve Nembhard over thousands of dollars that Nembhard reportedly owes Smiling. Despite promises to pay, Nembhard had not and so Smiling went to court. But Nembhard […]
It’s finally here; one of Belize’s most highly anticipated family shows in the summer months. KTV Duets opens with a bang and with many surprising new elements. With contestants from all over the country, this season looks like it’s going to totally exciting and highly competitive. This year the duos will have to sing their […]
The line-up for the opening show includes eight couples from Belize City, Corozal, Orange Walk and from Placencia. They will be bringing it on as the first round of competition kicks off live at the Bliss. As we said, it’s a whole new season, with a new format and surprises that will wow the audience. […]
Duets opens tonight and that will be followed by the grand opening of the annual film festival at the Bliss on Friday. This year a number of new activities have been incorporated so if you are a moviegoer, a writer, lover of comedy or you want to venture into film production; there’s something for you […]
An article by Kiplinger.com, an online American personal finance magazine has named Corozal Town on its list of eight great places to retire outside of the US. The writers paid close attention to the cost of living and health care services in each destination and consulted experts in travel, tourism and overseas retirement before compiling […]
Late last year, a chartered plane, coming from Haiti, landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport in what turned out to be a major immigration scandal. The passengers were originally passed off as Japanese, but it was later discovered that they were in fact Chinese nationals believed to be using Belize as a staging point […]
Now to a tragic story from the community of Jalacte in the southernmost reaches of the Toledo District. It involves a family feud over the weekend that left a twenty-two year old woman dead and police are on the hunt for her brother-in-law. Rafael Ack, a Guatemalan national, became involved in a verbal altercation with […]
From our checks, government has not yet filed an appeal at the Caribbean Court of Justice, as Prime Minister Dean Barrow said he would, against the June twenty-fourth ruling by three justices of the Court of Appeal, declaring that government’s acquisition of Telemedia back in August 2009, was unconstitutional, null and void. Ten days later, […]
The National Sports Council met on Saturday and unanimously voted not to register the Football Federation of Belize. Notwithstanding, the second leg of competition between Belize and Montserrat in a World Cup 2014 pre-qualifying series is set for Sunday in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The NSC decertified the Football Federation of Belize, but FIFA has […]
A new report on the financial status of Belize has been written by a well known Financial Advisor of Oppenheimer and Company Incorporated. Carl Ross, the Managing Director of Investments at Oppenheimer has just concluded research on the ongoing fiscal strength of the economy in light of recent nationalizations that have sent the national foreign […]
It rained over the weekend and parts of the south are threatened by flooding. The National Emergency Management Organization has issued an advisory on water levels and as you can guess, the temporary crossing at the Kendal River is one of the areas of concern but according to NEMO, it is not yet flooded. The […]
But there is some good news. If you live in rural communities, it is becoming easier to access dental services. The Ministry of Health has received a number of mobile units that will be deployed throughout the districts to provide services to children, seniors and just about everyone. And since for many it is difficult […]
In May we reported on a Buttonwood Bay resident who was busted after he swindled over two thousand dollars from three persons by claiming he was selling land for Minister Anthony “Boots” Martinez. Well, two more victims have surfaced and forty-four year old William Lopez was back in court today on two counts of Obtaining […]
Two couples were charged today in connection with a burglary at Saint Agnes Primary School in La Democracia, which occurred on June thirtieth. Twenty-three year old Rafael Burns, his girlfriend, twenty-three year old Miriam Bladden, twenty year old Lydia Martinez and her boyfriend, twenty-four year old Andrew Clarke were arraigned on a single count Handing […]
Earlier we told you about a woman that was murdered down south in Jalacte. There’s another death to report and it involves a toddler. On Friday evening, one year and seven month old Ashley Rivas was found in a bucket containing a small amount of water at her house in Valley of Peace. The guardian […]
A party on Friday night was allegedly crashed by police. A group of young men at the party, taking place at a house on Justice Street say that police physically attacked them. The victims allege that the police were involved in an incident on Freedom Street with two other young men and shortly after they […]
