Prime Minister Dean Barrow returned to the country on Sunday. The PM was in Miami where his wife, Kim Simplis Barrow is receiving treatment for breast cancer. Simplis Barrow was diagnosed with stage three cancer two weeks ago. She has been hospitalized at the Baptist Hospital where she has received a first round of chemotherapy […]
In Dangriga this morning a police officer was stabbed while on duty. The incident happened at the station and the accused is the ex-common-law of Delia Hyde. Kent McKenzie also known as “Ninja Mac” reportedly walked into the station armed and inflicted the stab wounds on Hyde who is hospitalized in the Southern Regional Hospital. […]
Aside from the murders in the West and north, there is another heinous crime to report this time in the south. A twenty-four year old domestic of San Pedro Columbia Village, Toledo, claims that her boss raped her on three different occasions. She has just reported the incident which allegedly happened on three consecutive days; […]
A four year old, Ethan Can was knocked down on Friday afternoon in the Village of Succotz. The infant one student was on the perimeter of his school grounds when he was hit by a vehicle driven by Andy Can, a resident of Succotz village. The infant who suffered a broken leg and injuries to […]
Jerome Flores, a paraplegic cyclist, completed his two-day ride from the capital to Dangriga on Saturday. Flores’ handlers estimated that the ride would take him six hours but when he rode into culture capital on Saturday, he finished in record time of five hours and ten minutes. Flores described his Garifuna Settlement Day Reef Ride […]
A security guard became a victim of robbery early this morning. At twelve ten a.m. Monday morning, twenty nine year old Randy Rodriguez was working the night shift at Sol Belize at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway. Two men, armed with handguns, entered the compound from the direction of the river. […]
Two foreigners received a shock when they became victims of a home invasion in Ladyville. On Sunday, fifty one year old Harold Hillger, a German with Belizean nationality reported that eleven that night, he was sitting at home with his fifty seven year old friend, Werner Woehrle, a German tourist, when two assailants entered the […]
Call centers have been growing in numbers as many overseas companies turn to the region looking for trained personnel. It is a relative new industry that has the potential of providing employment opportunities to hundreds of otherwise jobless persons. With unemployment hovering at close to twenty-four percent, BELTRAIDE has embarked on a program to train […]
The newly elected executive of the Belize Workers Union whose membership owns majority shares in the financially embattled Belize Sugar Industries Ltd. is tonight at odds with the company‘s administration over what it considers a deliberate act of union busting. On November eleventh, B.S.I.’s management reportedly issued a letter to its employees, including three recently […]
The situation in the citrus belt remains tenuous. Citrus growers are nowhere near getting paid for their produce because the Citrus Products of Belize Limited has been unable to draw down on millions of dollars it needs to meet payments. CPBL says some directors of the Citrus Growers Association (CGA) have not signed off on […]
In broad daylight on Saturday on Curl Thompson Street, a mother claims she was attacked by in the presence of her children. Sherlene Garnette says her attacker is the daughter of her common-law-husband. This morning, Alva Moody, a cashier was charged with aggravated assault and wounding Garnette with an ice pick. When twenty two year […]
Good Evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The semi-final round of the Belize District Female Football Competition got off with a bang yesterday at the Ladyville Football Field with all 4 teams seeing action. So we take you inside Game 1 of the double header that matched Caye Caulker Islanders and Hattieville […]
P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca called his first meeting of the national executive this morning at Independence Hall. The main agenda item was the configuration of his new executive. Fonseca asked the executive to authorize him to make pertinent changes. He then presented a proposal of how he wanted the new executive to look. With the […]
In 2003, Jerome Flores was working setting up cables when he fell off a forty feet post that almost claimed his life. Flores was lucky enough to survive the dangerous fall, but he was paralyzed and left without the use of his legs. Flores never gave up hope and today he remains an inspiration to […]
On Tuesday we asked our viewers for their thoughts on the ongoing exploitation of national parks. The question was on why government acts powerless in the plunder of our national parks. One; lack of resources? Two; no political will? Three; Involvement of highly connected figures? The viewers responded in this way: forty three percent polled […]
And in reference to our top story on the People’s United Party, News Five has just confirmed that Sidney Campbell has declined the post of treasurer in the PUP.
You have heard about an arsenal of weapons that went missing from the B.D.F. and earlier this week eight pieces of priceless silverware went missing from the national collection at the House of Culture. Well tonight there is another story to report of a missing item. It is not as grand as the arsenal or […]
It’s common to hear of office workers moonlighting as musicians. But have you ever heard of the radio DJ who was a burglar in his spare time? Well, twenty-seven year old More FM Disc Jockey “DJ Motion” whose real name is Kevin Lara, along with a seventeen-year-old Disc Jockey, thirty-year old Ronald Michael and twenty […]
Two feuding women, eighteen year old Shanice Castillo and Shelmadine Jones, appeared in court today after a verbal outburst left Jones with a couple stitches above her eye after she was hit with a piece of stick. On Tuesday, November fifteenth, Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer remanded Castillo to the Belize Central Prison for three nights […]
Retirement from public service does not normally qualify an individual to be featured on the news. But in our records, Doctor Michael DeShield has been a staple in our newscast dating back as far as 1998. He has a long and impressive CV that looks like this. Since 98 to last year he was the […]
The first annual DANN festival is scheduled to take place in Dangriga on Saturday. The fest is really to promote healthy lifestyles of the male population around the country. The activity is organized primarily by the Belize Family Life Association with participation from the local entertainment community. Over the last few months BFLA has been […]
History says that escaped and shipwrecked slaves settled with the Caribs of St. Vincent and merged the culture of both people. The fiercely independent people, now known as Garifuna found opposition from the British, who expelled them to island of Roatán, off Honduras. Eventually the Garifuna people migrated and reached the southern coast of Belize […]
Smart’s third generation platform, which was recently unveiled, is the latest upgrade to the company’s mobile wireless network. Its 3G system offers high speed Internet and a range of other services including Zoom Data, an information transfer package that Public Relations Manager Ian Courtenay says rivals similar services in the local telecommunications market. Today Smart […]
The high season in tourism is kicking in just as the figures for the third quarter are being released. The industry is one of the top income earners so the numbers are closely watched. The stats show that for the period July to September, there was a small increase in arrivals and overnight stays. Cruise […]
There has been a spate of sexual abuses on minors and in court today a convicted sex offender was committed today to stand trial. Forty-three year old, Lee Henkis will face trial for committing an unnatural crime at the January sitting of the Supreme Court. He is charged for committing an unnatural crime and grievous […]
