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Baby Jaguars face Costa Rica in final match of UNCAF U-16 tournament

The UNCAF Under-sixteen Tournament has wound down to its final match with Belize facing Costa Rica tonight.  Despite winning only one of four games thus far, the Baby Jaguars have played well considering the odds stacked against them.  The Football Federation of Belize says that Belize has shown marked improvement since its last outing to […]

Hitler video redone about to reflect sentiments on city streets

There is a video that has gone viral on the internet in the past few days. Actually, it is adapted from a scene from a 2004 German movie named “Downfall” in English, and originally named Der Untergang in German. It revisits the last ten days of Adolph Hitler’s life and eventual suicide in his Berlin […]

It is getting ugly at UB…President Cary Fraser goes on leave

Five presidents and seven provosts in thirteen years….that is the track record of the national university at its top two positions since its inception in 2000. And as it stands tonight, the national university is about to lose its current president, Doctor Cary Fraser. Fraser, a Guyanese national, took over from Corinth Morter-Lewis back in […]

Minister of Education speaks on burning issues

Earlier today, we caught up with the Minister of Education at an award ceremony for top national students who bested the CESC and CAPE. We’ll have that story coming up. The Minister of Education used the occasion to address burning issues including the situation up north where there is a threat of strike by cane […]

Faber makes huge announcement: high scorers to be compensated more

But there was an announcement by Minister Patrick Faber that students and parents will be pleased to know. The award for the Open Scholarship has been upped by a hundred and fifty percent and as for the prof and tech scholarships, the top recipient will also benefitting substantially.   Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “Each […]

BSCFA to meet with Deputy Prime Minister

Back to the sugar industry….With the opening of the new crop season in the sugar belt fast approaching and a threat of strike by cane farmers looming in the days ahead, a round of meetings is scheduled for Friday between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and the Deputy Prime, Gaspar Vega and the chairman […]

Livelihood of Maypen villagers threatened by flood

Incessant rains in the past weeks have inundated most of the country, resulting in serious damage to infrastructure, including roads and bridges. In various parts of Belize the damage is more deeply felt because of areas which are prone to floods. One of those areas is the Belize River Valley, which acts as a natural […]

Baby Jaguars take on Central American powerhouse, the Honduran U-sixteen team

The Baby Jaguars are tonight facing Central American powerhouse Honduras after falling to Guatemala in a devastating three-one loss on Wednesday.  As the UNCAF Under-sixteen Tournament enters its tenth match, Belize is holding on by a thin thread if it intends to clinch third place in the regional competition.  After all it would have to […]

CSEC and CAPE top scorers are honored

The spirit at the gymnasium at the University of Belize was uplifting today; present were sixth formers from junior colleges around the country and the occasion was the award ceremony for the winning CSEC and Cape students. Aaron Stock who bested the CAPE is away but his mother stepped in reminding the students on his […]

Minister Lisel Alamilla addresses UN Meeting on Climate Change

A Belize Delegation currently in Warsaw, Poland for a UN Meeting on Climate Change joined with other small and developing countries and walked out of the meeting in protest, bringing a dramatic pause to the Conference. Belize like other small, developing states are demanding that industrialized countries honour their commitment to reduce pollution and to […]

Gardenia village says that someone beheaded his horse

A horse was killed and beheaded by an unknown person or persons in the village of Gardenia early this morning. The horse belongs to Gardenia resident Leslie Moody, who says that the animal is usually tied in his yard. But just after four this morning he found the horse’s body lying on the highway. He […]

Promoting regional economic growth through F.D.I.s

Representatives from nineteen countries that make up CAIPA are currently meeting in Belize. The organization promotes foreign direct investment in the region and at its current annual general meeting it is banking that economic growth in the region will be stimulated by the private sector. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports.   Isani Cayetano, Reporting The […]

Forget the word diet…it is all about clean eating in Healthy Living

Christmas is right around the corner and we know that the last thing you want think about is a “diet”. But for those immersed in the fitness world diets are passé. The new catchphrase in the fitness world is “clean eating” So tonight, we talk with health and fitness coach Ed Williams to help us […]

Crop Season in jeopardy, cane farmers stand firm on threat of strike

Five thousand three hundred sugar cane farmers from the Orange Walk and Corozal Districts are determined to go on strike as early as this coming Monday, November twenty-fifth. That is the day on which the mill at the Belize Sugar Industry will be ready to start production in the new crop season, but a strike […]

Will the mills at B.S.I. be churning with no sugar cane to grind?

But did the BSCFA miss an ideal opportunity to sit at the negotiating table? As we told you, a meeting was set for Tuesday, Garifuna Settlement Day. At the meeting were representatives of B.S.I. and corporate executives from the ASR Group. Today, B.S.I. issued a release chiding BSCFA for its absence. According to the release, […]

Deputy Prime Minister meets with B.S.I. and A.S.R. to diffuse tension in sugar industry

Executives from the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association were purposely absent from a meeting on Garifuna Settlement Day. With the clock ticking, this afternoon, C.E.O. Joey Montalvo of B.S.I. and ASR Vice President, Ricardo Lima met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Gaspar Vega.  The purpose of the meeting was to urge the […]

Vega asks for B.S.I. and BSCFA to come back to discussion table

As we said, the BSCFA has threatened that it will not make deliveries at Monday’s start of the next crop season if its request to receive a percentage of the profits realized from the use of bagasse in energy cogeneration is not met.  That warning, says Vega, should be taken seriously in light of what […]

Are farmers entitled to part of the proceeds from the sale of bagasse?

Tonight’s question is: Do you believe farmers are entitled to part of the proceeds from the sale of bagasse? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.

The Baby Jaguars face Guatemala in UNCAF Games

The UNCAF under-sixteen tournament continues tonight in Belmopan with the Baby Jaguars taking on team Guatemala.  It’s a hugely anticipated game that is starting shortly at the F.F.B. stadium in Belmopan. That match is anticipated to draw favorable attendance since both countries have a football rivalry going.  In the opening series, Belize beat Nicaragua two-one, […]

Has Carey Fraser stepped down as president of UB?

Today, News Five received multiple reports that University of Belize President, Doctor Carey Fraser, had left office. Fraser has written a letter to Prime Minister Dean Barrow indicating that he will be leaving office at the end of the academic year, June 2014. In that letter, Fraser criticized the Board of Trustees for its micro-management […]

An Orange Walk man is on life support following a gas tank explosion

An Orange Walk resident is tonight on life support following an explosion of a butane gas tank at Camp ten of the Shipyard Community. On Tuesday morning around eleven o’clock, thirty year old Danny Ponce was assisting a friend, who works for a butane company, was injured when a tank they were filling exploded. The […]

17 year old shot in the leg

A minor is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds he received on Monday night. Seventeen year old Wilbert Cecil Gabourel was shot to the left leg sometime around nine-thirty p.m. as he was walking towards a shop located on McKenzie Street. According to Gabourel, as he approached Brown Street, he heard three gunshots and noticed that […]

Man freed of indecent assault charge after 9 years

A man who was accused back in 2005 of molesting an eight-year-old child in the city is free tonight. The mother of the child claimed she caught him partially nude in a room alone with the child who appeared frightened. Ervin Borland late this evening walked a free man from the Supreme Court on a […]

All Aboard: Belize in Motion through the Years Exhibit is launched

On display at the Museum of Belize is a historical journey of the evolution of transportation in Belize. The exhibit includes archival information such as photographs and items that show the transformation and development of all forms of transportation. It goes back to the Maya civilization to how technology has changed the industry in present […]

2 local tour companies clinch Princess Cruise Awards

Two companies involved in the tourism industry were honored by a major cruise line this morning. Both Bacab Eco Tours and Chukka Tours were cited by Princess Cruise Lines for the high end service they offer for the Horseback Safari Ride and for the Xunantunich Maya Ruin Marimba Tour. Duane Moody was on the Princess […]