In the courts, Kareem Hamilton, Steven Armstrong and Carlos Matura, were committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court on April sixteenth of 2012 for three separate sex offenses. In the first case, twenty-four year old Hamilton was arraigned on the fourteenth of June of this year for Committing an Unnatural Crime. It is alleged […]
He spent fifteen days behind bars at the Belize Central Prison, but today, B.T.L. employee, forty-five year old Bernard Bent was spared from doing more jail time. Bent was remanded on December first when he pleaded guilty to a charge of grievous harm after he physically abused his girlfriend, twenty-six year old Kendra Henkis on […]
More than one hundred of Belize’s brightest primary school students, selected by the Mexican Embassy, travelled to Chetumal on Thursday to visit the new “Yook’ol Kaab” Planetarium and the Museum of the Mayan Culture. The students, ages ten to thirteen years old, were treated to a fun lesson on astronomy and Mayan culture. At the […]
But other students did not make it to Chetumal. A van carrying thirteen persons ran off the road early Thursday morning as it made its way from Punta Gorda. The passengers included five students along with their parents and teachers who were en route to Chetumal to take part in a cultural presentation. But at […]
The Barrow Administration has embarked on a Christmas Assistance Program. It is providing cash to ministers for their constituents countrywide. While the Prime Minister did not confirm the dollar amount being issued to each area representative, he attested today that the disbursal of funds, believed to be in the area of forty thousand dollars per […]
There were happy faces today on children from three institutions who were gifted with an assortment of wares just in time for the Christmas. The goods were collected in the US and delivered today in Belize City. News Five’s Delahnie Bain was on hand. Delahnie Bain, Reporting Barrels of goodies were delivered to the Dorothy […]
We start tonight’s newscast with a story on the economy. It is safe to say that at this of the year consumers traditionally spend more. But for months commercial banks are turning down fixed deposits because requests for loans have gone down considerably. The local banks fear that they will have to pay interest on […]
In the past month we have reported on turmoil within the rice industry in the north. The soaring cost of local production and the lack of demand on the domestic market have driven several producers, including Uncle John’s Rice, to close their doors permanently. But while grain growers in Blue Creek are suffering from poor […]
The future of the Belize Math Olympiad is still hanging in the balance tonight. We reported on Wednesday that the Social Security Board’s decision to change the requirements of entry into the competition was turned down by the Belize Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (BAPSS). In October, S.S.B. informed BAPSS that students in first […]
The annual general meeting of Belize Telemedia Limited is being held tonight at the Princess Hotel. And if you choose to believe the government appointed directors, the company’s profits for the year have increased by thirty-eight percent. That’s a whopping profit or a whopping lie. We ran the numbers by accountants versed in that industry: […]
Crimes of theft, including robbery and burglary, are usually rampant during this time of year. The crime statistics released show a huge increase in burglaries since the beginning of the year. The Christmas season has become synonymous with an unabated increase in jackings and break-ins. On Tuesday night around seven-thirty, Sergio Ceballos, a Belize City […]
In the courts, a brawl among several women on Hibiscus Street almost increased the murder statistics when Judean Brown was stabbed multiple times to the back, neck and behind the left ear. Judean still bears the scars of that fight and struggled to speak as she testified in court today against twenty-four year old Kaycia […]
While Kaycia Fuller has been convicted, the trial against eighteen year old Ibrahim Smith is set to begin. Smith allegedly shot sixteen year old Shenelle Reyes while playing with a sixteen gauge shotgun on November sixteenth 2010. Due to the circumstances surrounding the tragic fatality, he was charged with Manslaughter and not murder. At the […]
On Thursday, the GSU unearthed a nine millimeter pistol and ammunition on a search at the home of Emmerson Trapp on Pelican Street. In the early hours of this morning, between one and five a.m. when most people were asleep, the unit was out in full force in a joint operation with the K-9 Unit […]
In the past couple years, there have been an unusually high number of international fugitives being caught in Belize. News Five reported on many of those captures, but one wanted man whose arrest went under the radar was sixty-five year old Robert Widdowson, a resident of Texas who was on the run for over twenty […]
With many families feeling the economic pinch, Christmas won’t be the same for the children. The Belize Red Cross, however, threw a party for a number of deserving children to put laughter in their holidays. They were picked from various schools and aside from the food and games, they went home bearing gifts. News Five’s […]
Operation Milagro has been around for a few years, it’s an initiative by the Venezuelan government that provides free eye care for needy Belizeans of all ages. So far hundreds have traveled to Caracas to undergo surgery. As a way of thanking those that collaborate in putting the program together, the Venezuelan Embassy today hosted […]
A Belizean teen has received life saving surgery oversees and the case is so touching it made on international news. Thirteen year old Riley Armstrong is now receiving physical therapy sessions that are giving him a new chance at leading a normal teenager’s life. Riley was born with severe scoliosis, a condition that would almost […]
Earlier this week, America’s First Lady, Michelle Obama, helped to break the world record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period. It was a part of her Let’s Move Initiative which promotes physical fitness and healthy eating for children. Health and Wellness have become a priority worldwide. In Belize, 2011 has […]
There is a report tonight that is not good news for high school students. It involves the future of the highly anticipated Belize Math Olympiad (BMO) in which the brightest high school students look forward to test their math skills and endurance in the highly competitive contest. For months, the Belize Association of Principals of […]
For weeks, there has been widespread speculation that the Belize Bank would be moving in to take over the Port of Belize, owned by businessman, Luke Espat. The reports have been greatly detailed, from heated encounters to the naming of a receiver. While on another assignment today, News Five put the question of whether a […]
There is an official royal visit in the making; these occasions are usually planned well in advance and executed with high protocol. The British royal family will embark on a global tour in 2012 as part of Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The announcement went viral today and according to a report in the United […]
The Chiquibul Forest covers four hundred and thirty-seven thousand acres, which is about seven point seven percent of the entire landmass of Belize. This area encompasses the Chiquibul National Park, Chiquibul Forest Reserve and the Caracol Archaeological Reserve; all protected areas. The national park, however, has come under unrelenting plundering by organized, illegal loggers who […]
Outgoing president Alvaro Colom made it official in Guatemala today that a referendum on the Guatemalan dispute with Belize would be held within two years. Colom’s remarks were contained in a press release from Guatemala’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the release, a meeting held on November twenty-eighth, between Guatemala and Belize decided that […]
The crime statistics for the period January to October are out. According to the Belize Police Department’s release, the number of murders at the end of October stood at one hundred and twelve, a small increase compared to one hundred and six during the same period in 2010. For the crimes of rape and carnal […]
