An Isabella self-professed psychiatric clinic caregiver was busted with over five pounds of weed scattered under his home and thirty cannabis plants at his farm in the Belize River Valley area. Owen Baptist was arraigned this morning before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton for Drug Trafficking and Cultivation of a Controlled Drug. Baptist agreed with the statement […]
A man who pleaded guilty to theft and possession of a pipe was spared jail time for those offences, but tonight he is still behind bars because of an old unpaid fine. Fifty-eight year old Alden Trapp appeared before Magistrate Clive Lino today. He was charged for stealing a keg from Louis Herrera, and additionally […]
The University of Belize-Office of Student Affairs today presented the recipients of this year’s Student Athlete, Barton and UB Alumni scholarships. The students were selected based on academic and athletic capabilities and are from all over the country. The scholarships cover a period of one year and are renewable. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports. […]
Belize has seen the departure and return of the U-sixteen football team from the Copa Nacional Gladiadores Merida and the Jaguars from the Gold Cup. Another set of athletes hopes to bring back gold to the jewel. A group of female soft ballers departed from the Philip Goldson International Airport this morning. The national team […]
On Thursday, you heard the private sector express concerns about the upcoming Belize Expo Marketplace which is scheduled to be held on the same day that the equally popular Carnival road march will take place. Both events are planned for September fourteenth and both have huge support. The private sector says it stands to crowd […]
The national song competition takes place this Saturday night at the Memorial Park and you can catch it live on this station. The lineup includes a return of defending champions as well as top performers in the music industry all hoping to walk away with titles in the different categories. Duane Moody caught up with […]
Samer Akil Rada, the Venezuelan-Lebanese businessman whose name is associated with the seizure of eight hundred and eighty pounds of cocaine destined for the Corozal Free Zone, is back in the headlines. It is reported that he is the subject of an investigation being conducted by the Financial Intelligence Unit. News Five has been reliably […]
There were thirteen motions raised in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, two of any significance. One was passed, and the other fell on the floor. But those procedural House matters have taken second place to the very heated debate which characterized the session. And a vicious attack on Belize Rural Central Area Representative Dolores […]
The Sitting was mostly a stone-throwing exercise, but amidst the taunts, heckling and jeering there was a brief moment of agreement between members on different sides of the House. It came over a presentation on the proposed Norwegian Cruise Lines project by member for Toledo East Mike Espat. He listed out some of the concerns […]
A Chukka Tours bus ran over a Park Ranger this morning at the Nohoch Che’en National Park, located at the Caves Branch Outpost off the George Price Highway. Eyewitnesses told News Five that the Ranger, identified only as Jeremy, was manning the checkpoint at the entrance to the Park when he was run over by […]
There were over a dozen bills passed in the House of Representatives on Wednesday. You wouldn’t realize that since most of the day was spent discussing a Caribbean Court of Justice ruling. But among the bills was one concerning flour which was passed and allows for the free importation of flour. Anyone could import flour […]
As it stands tonight, both the popular Expo Belize Marketplace and the Carnival Road March have been scheduled for the fourteenth of September. Now both events attract huge crowds and are an integral part of the national celebrations calendar. This is giving rise to unease in the private sector who believe that the carnival will […]
Western Regional Health Manager Pearl Ellis has assured News Five that the situation at the old site of the San Ignacio Hospital has been cleared up. The shocking images of vials filled with blood, used needles and syringes, discarded vials of medicine have caused great concern in the Ministry of Health. That concern is certainly […]
Former politician, Alejandro Vernon, in his capacity as chairman of the Toledo Alliance for Progress, has come out as a proponent for oil exploration in the south. TAP, as it is otherwise known, is a collective formed by the National Kriol Council, the National Garifuna Council and the East Indian Council which was registered in […]
U.S. Capital Energy has been awarded a contract to explore for oil in the Sarstoon Temash National Park. For several years, the co-manager of the park, The Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIIM), had gone to the courts, but their actions had only delayed the oil company. SATIIM is no longer the co-manager of […]
The Catlin Seaview Survey is organized by the University of Queensland and promoted by the Catlin Insurance Company. It is a global campaign and a race against time to study coral reef. In the Caribbean reef health has declined and that is why the marine scientists from the group have targeted the region. So far […]
Fifty-three year old Stephen Slusher is tonight serving his first night of a five-year jail term after pleading guilty to burglary. The resident of Jane Usher Boulevard was accused of entering the home of Maria Manzanero on Central American Boulevard on Wednesday and stealing a twenty-five pound gas tank valued at a hundred and fifteen […]
The members of the House did manage to get some of work at Wednesday’s House meeting. The government is borrowing over ten million dollars from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB). The project is intended to reduce vulnerability of youth and children to crime and gang membership in Collet, Lake Independence, Pickstock and Port Loyola areas […]
In a last snippet of Wednesday’s House meeting, the remarks by minister Finnegan against Dolores Balderamos Garcia was not the only startling occurrence in the House. During his attack on Former Prime Minister, Said Musa, the current Prime Minister Dean Barrow made an unusual declaration that because he’s the longest standing member of the house, […]
You probably already know of the annual Unsung Heroes Program which recognizes persons who selflessly serve their communities. That is a well known community programs initiated by CIBC First Caribbean Bank. The Adopt-a-Cause Program is another which is shared among all seventeen countries across the Caribbean in which CIBC First Caribbean Bank is located. The […]
The results of a recent survey of close to two thousand women and children show that women of reproductive age are deficient in Folic Acid and there is a low level of Vitamin B-twelve intake. The Ministry of Health, back in 2008, decided to conduct a micro-nutrients baseline survey to measure the impact of nutritional […]
The House of Representatives had not met for five months, but it did this morning in Belmopan. Several motions were introduced but the primary business had to do with a recent ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice in which the court found that a settlement deed signed by the former Prime Minister Said Musa […]
Another hotly debated motion was presented by Cayo Central Representative, Julius Espat. It dealt with the changes to the composition of the Public Accounts Committee. Prime Minister Dean Barrow last Friday called the motion idiotic; saying he will rain fire and damnation on it. And today, before the House of Representatives, the motion was rejected […]
Earlier in the newscast, the motion presented by Julius Espat for changes to the PAC was denied. News Five spoke to the Espat after the speaker rejected the motion. Espat was surprisingly optimistic and intends to bring back his motion as many times as it takes to get it passed. Jose Sanchez “There were […]
Cordel Hyde and Mark Espat held two of the strong P.U.P. seats in Belize City. Espat and Hyde bowed out at the eleventh hour of the 2012 General Elections and many P.U.P. insiders blamed them for the loss of the elections. In a previous House Meeting, Minister of Housing, Michael Finnegan called them home and […]
