Residents of the St. Martin de Porres area are benefiting from computer literacy thanks to a program spearheaded by the Belize Police Department with assistance from the Samuel Haynes Institute for Excellence. The program was launched this afternoon and a group of women were the first to enroll in classes being provided by a community-based […]
The Belize City Council, in association with Body 2000 and the Diabetes Association, launched its Get Moving Belize program on Monday. It’s an initiative created to get citizens more aware of their bodies, and the benefits of being healthy. The partnership with the Belize Diabetes Association is important, because the disease, dubbed the silent killer, […]
Today is recognized globally as World Cancer Day and for the rest of the week a campaign will take place to increase cancer knowledge and eliminate misconceptions about the deadly disease. Locally, the Belize Cancer Society started activities under the theme, “Cancer Facts Can Save Lives-Power Up!” The society says is geared up to educate […]
Last December, the Elections and Boundaries commission said no to a recall petition for the Cayo Northeast Constituency. Elvin Penner, the disgraced former minister of state, was found to have issued a passport to a South Korean fugitive. But a recall was turned down because the commission took issue with a number of signatures by […]
Mayor Darrell Bradley is back in town and let’s just say he is not ecstatic about insinuations that his Council treated employees of the Security Department unfairly. The posts of thirty-six employees of the City Council were declared redundant via letter on January twenty-third. The redundancy came about as a result of the privatization of […]
A Canadian businessman was chopped multiple times as he and his two year old daughter headed to his business in Benque Viejo del Carmen. He is the third Canadian to be a victim of violence in recent months, the two others were murdered and the weekend incident has raised alarm bells for the Canadian and […]
On Friday Corporal Gino Peck, long-time intelligence cop assigned to Precinct Two, was sentenced to fines totaling six hundred and fifty dollars. Peck was convicted last Monday of possessing prohibited and unlicensed ammunition, following a search of his home by the Gang Suppression Unit in 2012. As he awaited sentencing Friday, top brass of the […]
GSU boss, Marco Vidal, has come under scrutiny during and after the trial and sentencing of Corporal Gino Peck. The search on the home of Peck on January twenty-first 2012 was conducted by members of the Gang Suppression Unit. And since the current top brass of the Police Department are saying this case should never […]
Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl Lyn Vidal has also responded to queries into the Peck case following trial and sentencing. Following mitigation pleas on his behalf, Peck was fined for the ammunition offences, as opposed to being confined. The decision by Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith was taken after the D.P.P. pointed out to Peck’s […]
Last Friday, a tragic boat accident on the Crooked Tree Lagoon, involving two Coast Guard boats, claimed the life of twenty year old Benjamin Gentle Junior. Eight others, all high school students, were injured and rushed either to the Northern Regional Hospital in Orange Walk or the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City with […]
The charred vestiges of a passenger van near mile twenty-five on the George Price Highway was a spectacle for onlookers traveling the stretch of road around two o’clock this afternoon. While we have not been able to ascertain the cause of the fire, News Five understands that a commuter bus traveling towards Belize City from […]
Benque Viejo del Carmen has been without the service of an ambulance for several months now, reportedly because the vehicle which was donated to the clinic by the embassy of Italy a few years ago, has been confiscated by Guatemalan authorities. News Five has attempted to confirm the story; however, we were unable to get […]
Forty-three-year-old Ana Foster, a domestic of Sittee River, was murdered near the outskirts of the village at the start of the weekend. On Thursday morning, Foster set out on bicycle to a residence off the Southern Highway, before proceeding to Dangriga where she was to meet her son and his wife. Her nude body was […]
A Belize City man pleaded guilty to Wounding before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith after he allegedly beat up his ex-common-law wife. Sixty year-old Wilbert Humes admitted to causing injuries to Karen August and this morning, while he pleaded guilty to wounding, he displayed remorse for his action. Humes was very emotional when he pleaded […]
Two Guatemalans nationals, thirty seven year old Cristobal Jesus Marroquin and twenty-nine year old Mauricio Garcia Bolo were detained over the past weekend for illegal entry. They were caught after they exited a bus at the Novelo’s terminal in Belize City. This morning, the duo appeared before Magistrate Leslie Hamilton and was told that because […]
The Occupational Safety and Health Bill has gone through a first reading in the House and still has some way to go, including public consultations, before it is approved and becomes law. But this morning, Fabrigas had an early start and became internationally certified by the International Organization of Standardization for being compliant with health […]
Basketball will be back this coming Friday and we will be carrying it live on this station. The series is dubbed the National Elite Basketball Tournament and will feature eight teams from across the jewel including San Pedro and Belmopan. As for the players, some seasoned and well-known, others are new, but the Belize Basketball […]
The Belize City Council will be teaming up with the Body 2000 Fitness Club and the Belize Diabetes Association to get citizens in shape. It’s an initiative which gets underway on Tuesday and makes use of facilities in different parts of the city. This morning, the council launched the Get Moving Belize program at the […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Belikin Cup finals blasted off inside the MCC Grounds yesterday as FC Belize hosted Belmopan Bandits to kick off Game 1 of the home and away series for the 2014 edition of the PLB title. Both team had struggled earnestly to arrive at this […]
