A clash over unpaid rent between a landlord and tenant has left the Belizean-American landlord in trouble with the law. Sixty-two year old Rachel Middleton appeared before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton on Tuesday and was read two charges for Aggravated Assault with a Machete and Harm to fifty-eight year old Gregory Brackett. According to Middleton, Brackett […]
The umbrella organization for environmental NGOs launched a new logo this morning. The attractive design is simple put captures the mission of the Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage in respect of offshore oil exploration. The design is the work of John Ical, a graphic designer. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, […]
In response to complaints over the past month that services provided by Bowen & Bowen have not been exactly up to standard, the company today sent out a strong, but rare release addressing what it refers to as a perceived shortage of product. The release, signed by Bowen & Bowen President and C.E.O., Michael Bowen, […]
Six years ago, the Garifuna Collective and Andy Palacio ruled the world stage with the album Watina, which was hailed as one of the greatest world music albums of all time. And now the group plans to make history again with the launch of its second album entitled Ayo, a tribute to Palacio. That launch […]
Group B of Be the Next Superstar captivated the crowd at the Bliss Institute on Tuesday night. The show started with an opening number by the ever popular Ascenthium Band, the 2012 Superstar champs who wowed the auditorium with renditions of Bon Jovi’s Wanted Dead or Alive and Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar On Me. […]
The Christian anti-gay movement has gone on tour of the country to promote the message that persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender should not enjoy the same rights as heterosexual men and women. The movement gained some momentum when LGBT poster boy Caleb Orozco took on the Attorney-General in a legal battle to […]
On the economic front, the Statistical Institute of Belize (S.I.B.) is reporting that Belize’s economy grew by two point four percent in the third quarter of 2012 when compared to the corresponding period in 2011. That places the growth rate for the first nine months of 2012 at five point eight percent. The biggest improvement […]
The Orange Walk Town Council is preparing to take contractor Imer Hernandez to court. Hernandez is the nephew of Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, who was paid by the government to pave San Antonio Road. It did not happen. And when queries were presented to the Ministry of Works, there was a media blackout and […]
Wouldn’t the 2008 elections have been a very dynamic time if the candidates did not give handouts and wear their colors and found a meaningful way to encourage citizens to vote? Perhaps a debate between the politicians would have shown what they really knew about issues that the country is facing. Currently on a visit […]
The Belize Jaguars, the national football selection, is leaving the country on Friday to the United States. The team will participate in the Gold Cup and its first game will be played against the United States in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday night. The Football Federation of Belize has raised most of the money needed for […]
A Belize City fisherman is free tonight after he was acquitted of charges of Kept Firearm and Kept Ammunition. Twenty-five year old Victor Foreman Junior of Belize City was allegedly caught on August second, 2011 in possession of a point twenty-two Smith and Wesson brand nine millimeter pistol along with nine live rounds of ammunition. […]
But while one man is free, another is heading to jail. A week ago, thirty-four year old Derrick Sanchez, a resident of the Ladyville area was found guilty of kidnapping a Belize City taxi driver whose vehicle was hired in July 2011. Today, Sanchez, who has a long rap sheet, appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas […]
A recent report published by the Ministry of Health on tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections indicates that HIV has become a concentrated epidemic among men who have sex with other men. A Behavioral Surveillance Survey conducted in 2012 reveals that a little under fourteen percent, or the equivalent of fourteen male homosexuals to […]
There are silent killers that affect our region: HIV/AIDS, diabetes and cancer are among the top causes. But there is a particular cancer that is affecting young women that are part of the productive sector. News Five Isani Cayetano reports on the efforts to combat the cancer that is spread through sexual transmission. A […]
A speed boat carrying eight passengers may be drifting in Belizean waters after it was reported missing off the coast of Roatan, Honduras. On Saturday, the group left the mainland en route to the Bay Islands for an evening of recreation but never made it back. It has been over fifty-six hours and there are […]
The long anticipated Season Two of Be the Next Superstar, resumes shortly at the Bliss. The show got underway last Tuesday and taking the stage tonight will be ten hopefuls from Group B who will be making their debut in this season’s show. The line-up includes sensational performances in song, dance and drama with each […]
It was a violent weekend in the Cayo and Belize districts. We start with this story of two cousins from Santa Elena in the Cayo District who were shot and killed on Saturday night during a failed attempt to rob a Chinese supermarket. Police say the men approached a security guard stationed outside the store, […]
In Belize City, just before nine o’clock on Friday night, a Belize City man was shot and killed on Neal’s Penn Road, not far from where Michael Bucknor was killed about twenty four hours earlier. Twenty-five year old Ashli Garnet died on the spot from gunshots that hit him on the forehead and abdomen. The […]
But while police are still looking for one person known to them in connection with the murder of Garnet, another has been charged for the murder of sixty-one year old Michael Bucknor. His nephew, twenty year old Sydney Bucknor Junior, was arraigned in court late this evening. Bucknor was shot once to the back of […]
There is other crime news from the Cayo district. A U.S Missionary is in coma tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after a armed attack on Saturday night. Vicky Weaver and her husband were returning to the Valley of Peace over the weekend when armed men fired at their vehicle. Pastor Dan Weaver was […]
Tonight, there are persistent, but unofficial reports that planes believed to be Mexican military aircrafts were in Belizean airspace on Sunday. News Five has been told that the planes were picked up by radar, but the pilots refused to respond to communications and requests for identification. Today, News Five contacted the control tower and were […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is winding down what he has dubbed his quasi-official visit to London, which included an audience with the Queen and Prince Charles and meetings with high level government and business officials. Barrow’s visit, even if quasi-official, also attracted the attention of the media and the Prime Minister had a sit-down with […]
The Belize Jaguars is in its final preparations for football matches to be played against the national teams for the United States, Cuba and Costa Rica. The three games will be played in Portland, Oregon; Salt Lake City, Utah and Hartford, Connecticut. The team leaves the country at the end of the week and it […]
Many believe that the government should do more to fund the country’s first national team to play in the Gold Cup. But last week, Minister of Sports, Herman Longsworth, indicated that the government has gone as far as it could to help the F.F.B. when he said, “We believe that it is the responsibility of […]
A man who pleaded guilty to stealing his stepdaughter’s purse got a lucky break today when he was fined and ordered to perform community service rather that jail time. Fifty-one year old Glen Miller was found with the purse in his possession after his step-daughter reported that she had put it down on a table […]
