Tourism statistics for 2013 are out and the Belize Tourism Board is boasting a significant increase in the number of overnight and cruise arrivals. There were a total of two hundred and twenty-three thousand, five hundred and ten visitors who disembarked at the Phillip Goldson International Airport last year, with almost twenty-nine thousand arriving in […]
There is currently civil unrest which has resulted in numerous casualties in Venezuela, as troops mass to quell anti-government protests. Normally, while that would be cause for interest and commiseration it wouldn’t enter the realm of serious concern locally. But there is, not least because the entire infrastructure works being carried out today are being […]
Violent protests continue to rock Venezuela, where the government is coming under heavy pressure from opposition parties. But according to news reports, even as the unrest continues, a rift between the two main opposition leaders has been exposed. On Wednesday, the Venezuelan Ambassador spoke about the uprising, tonight he tells us about the Petrocaribe Agreement […]
Child Stimulation Month is celebrated in March. This year’s theme is: “Where our future begins”. Many parents are known to focus on the formal education of their children; but development begins at home and the experts agree that the first few years of a child’s life is the fastest period of development. This week’s healthy […]
The People’s United Party wants former Minister of State Elvin Penner to be held criminally liable for his role in the Won Hong Kim passport scandal. Just as vehemently, the United Democratic Party has shielded Penner from any criminal scrutiny. The P.U.P. tried the recall petition, and that was blocked by the Elections and Boundaries […]
The P.U.P. chose this less travelled route of seeking a writ of Mandamus because the party has maintained that it has exhausted all other options, legal and political. But is there another option? At a press conference last week Prime Minister Dean Barrow scoffed at the P.U.P. plan to seek judicial review, saying their case […]
Two men were shot on Tuesday night as a surge in urban warfare grips the City. On Tuesday night following the funeral of Supal Street’s Tarique Cadle who was murdered last week, a spray of bullets was unleashed at seven men hanging out at Armadillo Street, not far from where Cadle once lived. When the […]
Last Friday, we reported on the laying off of fifty-seven workers at the Golden Princess Casino in Corozal. Employees of the gambling den were let go in the wake of a decline in business near the Belize/Mexico Border. Today, there are more persons without jobs up north to add to the unemployment lines. News Five […]
The Statistical Institute of Belize held its second press conference for this year. Today, S.I.B. released the figures for G.D.P. and inflation rate. In short, S.I.B. confirms that the basket of food rose sharply in 2013 as compared to 2012; by as much as four percent. But to get to the grocery stores transportation costs […]
All eyes will be on the Supreme Court on Friday, as the P.U.P. fights for judicial review and the government fights to protect the man in the center of an ongoing immigration scandal. That is one angle of attack on Penner, but there is still the matter of the recall petition which was blocked […]
Back in January 2011, Kraal Road gang leader, Raymond Gentle, aka “Killa”, was executed at his jobsite in Belize City while he and his co-workers were building a wooden structure. Today, the person accused of the violent execution saw his trial by judge come to an end. He is twenty-year-old Corwin Bennett, and he will […]
Shane Budram is no stranger to the courts or police. The thirty-seven year old street figure has been before the court on a slew of charges; he was back today to face a charge of Kept Ammunition Without A Gun License. But Budram escaped jail time when he was told he had no case to […]
Two persons were gravely injured in separate traffic accidents in the past three days. The family of sixty-three year old Jose Elmer Villanueva is today standing vigil at the K.H.M.H., praying for the recovery of their loved one. Villanueva was seriously hurt on Tuesday when he fell out of a moving bus as it […]
Another family from the Belize District is at the K.H.M.H. tonight, praying that thirteen year old Earl Ishmael Flores will hold on to life. Flores is from the small community of Buttercup just outside Burrell Boom, and on Sunday afternoon he was knocked down near his home by a vehicle which did not stop, […]
Traffic fatalities are inevitably a part of the annual mortality rate every year. Casualties of road traffic accidents often perish as a result of speeding or drunk driving. While there was a twenty percent reduction in 2013, a total of fifty-one persons died on the country’s highways. The month of December, in two consecutive years, […]
The Venezuelan government is bracing for more protests which have now spread to the capital, Caracas. The United Nations, as well as the Pope speaking from the Vatican, has called for peace. The government today organized a peace conference inviting the opposition which is also organizing a women’s rally led by congresswomen, Maria Corina Machado, […]
The Venezuelan Ambassador says that the opposition is fueling the uprising and accuses the US government of throwing its full support behind the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD or when translated, the Democratic Unity Roundtable. According to Perez Marcano the United States is protecting its business interests in Venezuela, but it will not be […]
Just before news time this evening, several shots rang out in the Queen Square area, approximately a block away from the Raccoon Street Police Station. Two Belize City youths were hit by what is described as a barrage of bullets, as they stood in a yard near the Wesley Upper Primary School. Details are sketchy […]
Corozal Police are investigating a broad daylight robbery which occurred in the Commercial Free Zone on Monday morning. It happened in the parking lot of the Fabrica de Mayoreo, and when it was over, two men had escaped with just over two hundred thousand dollars, or one point two five million pesos. The money was […]
Belize’s star striker Deon McCauley, one of only three athletes to score eleven goals during the qualifying stages of competition leading up to the approaching FIFA World Cup, has found a new home in professional soccer. McCauley, on the heels of a recent victory with the Belmopan Bandits, as champions of the Premier League of […]
While the Belmopan Bandits, the Football Federation of Belize and his teammates on the Belize National Selection celebrate the success of one of their own, Deon’s father, David ‘Manu’ McCauley, himself an established local athlete, says that accomplishment is a mere stepping stone in his son’s career. FOR VIDEO CLICK HERE. David ‘Manu’ McCauley, Father […]
A post mortem examination on the body of Thomas Ferguson Sr., who succumbed over the weekend to an injury received on December seventh, 2013, confirms that he died of complications resulting from the stab wound. Ferguson was stabbed once to the chest by his nephew Oliver Peters, following a bitter dispute over title to a […]
Last Friday, the Golden Princess Casino located at the Northern border closed its doors. The news was immediate cause for concern, particularly so because reports were that as many as one hundred and thirty Belizeans had been laid off. Today, News Five has gotten confirmation on the actual figures, which are not as high as […]
In Monday’s newscast, we reported on the shooting of twenty-one year old Computer Technician, Andrew Augustine. While Augustine remains hospitalized, police believe the alleged gunman was twenty-three year old Stephon Anderson. And late this evening, the Ebony Street resident was charged and arraigned before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. An unrepresented Anderson was slapped with […]
Tanya McNab, a Belize City resident, was robbed at knife point in December 2012 by a man who stole her handbag valued at two thousand dollars. Her bag contained her equally expensive two thousand, five hundred dollar phone and other personal items. But ultimately it was the phone that assisted in the capture of her […]
