A statutory instrument was passed on January seventh. SI, number seventeen of 2012 extended the period for registration from January tenth to January twentieth. The period for verification of new registrations, however, was not extended so the effect of the SI is that the verification period has been but in half. With the mass wave […]
There’s news tonight that the contract of the Ombudsman, Cynthia Pitts, will not be renewed. Pitts is currently winding down her reports and is clearing her office in Belize City. According to reports, she provided the usual interest to renew her contract but that was not done by the government. So for now, there’s no […]
Is reading on the decline? Well, the Literacy Unit of the Ministry of Education and UNESCO are teaming up to encourage school children to pick up a book. Hundreds of books were handed over today to twenty-six schools from the Belize and Stann Creek Districts. News Five’s Delahnie Bain was on hand. Delahnie Bain, Reporting […]
There’s some exciting news new tonight involving a St. Joseph Student, Kastanea Cruz, who has now moved on to St. Catherine Academy High School. Cruz has placed third in the forty-second World School Children’s Art Competition, held recently in Taiwan. Artworks from several Belizean schools were submitted via the National Institute of Culture and History […]
In this newscast, we often carry pleas for financial assistance for persons who can’t afford medical attention. Well tonight, a Belize City man is in need of assistance, but it’s not financial; twenty-eight year old Ellis Ortiz needs blood. Ortiz was stabbed over the weekend and remains hospitalized at the KHMH. His sister, Annette Diego, […]
There’s another Belize City man that needs assistance. Twenty-one year old Jermaine Elijio has been diagnosed with a serious heart condition and is in need of urgent surgery. Elijio has been hospitalized for about a month and he is now referred to the US to correct his heart defect. His father, James Elijio, came to […]
Last year, Belize formally recognized Palestine as an independent and sovereign state. It did not sit well with Israel, but relations have remained constant. There are various initiatives, including scholarships, a waiver of visas fees and a technical cooperation program in the push to strengthen diplomatic ties between the Jewel and Israel. But seldom have […]
Most of us realize that it is important to have an annual checkup but not all of us follow through. If one of your resolutions for 2012 included getting healthier; then there’s no better time to start than now. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting In Belize the range of screening tests now available are far better than […]
Turning to other news, on Tuesday the Public Utilities Commission said it had not received any objections to the proposed six point one-four percent reduction in electricity rates that it announced earlier in the month. Well today, B.E.L. stepped in line and announced that the P.U.C. is not to expect any objections, but it wants […]
The body of a Belize City man was found on the Burrell Boom road on Tuesday night. Burthen Garoy left his house on Cemetery Road at about six-twenty and less than an hour and half later he was executed. The motive is not known, but an attempt had previously been made on Garoy’s life. So […]
On Tuesday News Five reported on an incident that involved three women, two Guatemalans and one of Honduran nationality. They alleged sexual misconduct by members of the Belize Defense Force and the Belize Police Department. The Honduran National claimed that she was raped on January fifteenth when she arrived in Belize via an illegal crossing […]
In the north, Corozal police are investigating an early morning kidnapping in Concepcion Village. Shortly before six o’clock a group of five armed, masked men entered the home of twenty-nine year old Marleny Cawich; she was bound and taken hostage. But the kidnappers left behind her newborn baby and a ransom note demanding money from […]
Forty nine year old Valda Bodden has been living in Belize for twenty-three years and she has five children born in Belize. So you would think that Bodden, a sanitation worker of BML, would qualify for citizenship. But even in the recent mad rush to naturalize hundreds of immigrants that included Guatemalans, Bodden didn’t make […]
There are over five thousand new voters on the electoral list. From what is known, at least a thousand immigrants received citizenship in the past two weeks to be able to get on the voters list for the upcoming elections. Today, the Elections and Boundaries Commission was put on notice that the Revising court will […]
For a second time, the panel of jurors was discharged from the case of B.D.F. sergeant Emerson Michael. On January fifteenth, it was discovered following testimony that one of the jurors was acquainted with two crown witnesses in the case. The matter was brought to the attention of the judge and the initial panel of […]
With the costs for conventional medical treatment skyrocketing, many in rural communities are turning to traditional healing. Locally, the practice is rooted with the Mayans so NICH today gathered traditional healers from the Cayo, Toledo, and Belize Districts as part of activities of the Maya Calendar. News Five’s Delahnie Bain found that there is a […]
The Belize Rotary Club has teamed up with the Clovis Rotary Club of New Mexico for an ambitious and exciting project. At Old Belize on the Western Highway, the assembly line is long; hundreds of wheelchairs are being put together for donation to deserving persons with disabilities. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. According to the […]
Heavily armed officers conducted a search of a vehicle and retrieved two handguns in the Ladyville area. The handguns were real but the exercise was a simulation in which the cops are receiving training on how to manage a checkpoint. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting A stop and search conducted by police […]
The Public Utilities Commission announced a reduction in electricity rates of six point one-four percent on January twelfth; that won’t be final until the end of the month. But this morning, another pre-election gift was formally announced. It’s a reduction in water rates despite a two point two million dollar loss to the government controlled […]
The rate reduction to take effect in February, according to Avery, is sort of a slap on the wrist for BWSL which did not implement approved investments. Except for the islanders in Caye Caulker, the reduction in your water bill depends on consumption, but it represents an average drop of a little more than seven […]
As we mentioned previously, the Public Utilities Commission announced a six point four percent decrease in electricity rates earlier this month, which amounts to a drop of about three cents per kilowatt hour on the light bills. Following the announcement, B.E.L. was given until January twenty-seventh to protest that decision but so far there have […]
There’s dissention in the ranks at the police department. It stems from a raid at the Curassow Street home of thirty-nine year old Police Corporal Gino Peck and his wife Loretta. The couple was busted over the weekend with a significant quantity of ammunition. They were charged with possession of unlicensed ammunition and were due […]
There is a disturbing report coming from Punta Gorda and it could mean big trouble for Belize Defence Force soldiers and police officers. An investigation of sexual abuse is underway and today police were deployed to the Jalacte area where the incident reportedly took place. On Monday, a twenty-three year old Honduran national reported to […]
Brian Sears is the American missionary of Somerset Kentucky, who was charged with Committing an Unnatural Act against three brothers in Sarteneja village, Corozal. Up to the time of his arrest, Sears was a member of Victory Christian Fellowship in Somerset. But the police believed he used religion as a ruse to gain the trust […]
Kraal Road is a well known hot spot, but it has been most uneventful since a truce was reached between numerous gangs last year. The government is spending close to a million dollars to keep the peace, but there was a flare up this afternoon between the Gang Suppression Unit and the Kraal Road affiliates […]
