Ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan), Benjamin Ho arrived in the Jewel last Thursday and on Monday presented his credentials to the Governor General to Belize. It is the second time in twenty years that Ho has been deployed on diplomatic mission and since 1998; it is his first trip back to Belize. Ambassador […]
Each year, through the sponsorship of the Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), approximately two hundred volunteer groups from various universities in Taiwan are sent abroad to assist communities in public and private sector initiatives. On Sunday, for the fourth year consecutively, a group of twelve students from the National Tsing Hua University in […]
Germany recently beat out Argentina to emerge victorious in the 2014 World Cup – a dream of football federations across the world and certainly one for Belize. Every journey has to start somewhere, and the Football Federation of Belize is partnering with FIFA to provide expert training for coaches across the country. German football instructor […]
F.F.B. President Ruperto Vicente says that FIFA has already approved the plan which will focus on youths and their coaches. It’s a long term project, but the road to the World Cup has to start somewhere. Currently Belize’s Under-twenty selection is playing in the UNCAF championships in El Salvador and has lost the first two […]
It is summer so camps are popping up all over the place. By all accounts one of most popular is organized by the Belize Defense Force and hundreds of youths register to participate. They are learning a number of disciplines from taekwondo, to jungle survival and football and then there is music. Duane Moody was […]
If You Can Sing it, Bring it! The song competition gets underway at nine, live from the Bliss. While the stakes are high for the performers, tonight’s theme is not unfamiliar because many top recording artists started their careers on this genre of music. They have sung disco and in this round of competition, when […]
At this time a search party is combing the area of Freetown Sibun near Hattieville looking for Chairman Kevin Carcamo. Carcamo is employed as a linesman by an oil company doing geophysical work and on Sunday he set out to work but has been heard from since. The search party includes residents of the village, […]
The mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of sixty-two-year-old Alfonso Manzanero, a retiree of Belmopan, has raised more questions than answers for his grief-stricken family. On Sunday morning, Manzanero was reportedly driving his silver Mitsubishi SUV when he lost control of the vehicle and landed in a ditch not far from his Nanche Street address. Police […]
There was another fatal road traffic accident early Sunday morning, this one in the Orange Walk district. Forty-three year old Remijio Botes was allegedly killed instantly when he lost control of his vehicle at the entrance to San Jose Village. Police haven’t released any official information, but News Five understands that Botes works at B.T.L. […]
A caretaker of Cotton Tree Village lost his life at the start of the weekend when he drowned inside a fishpond at Fresh Catch Farm in La Democracia on Friday evening. Fifty-seven-year-old Thomas Garcia, a Guatemalan national, reportedly went swimming in one of several freshwater pools when he submerged and did not resurface. According to […]
A fire swept through a wooden house on Friday night; in its wake three families were left homeless. All indications are that the blaze erupted in the upper flat of the building when a young child was playing with a lighter; it quickly spread throughout the entire building. Fortunately, there was no loss of life, […]
There is no sign of flexibility in the current bagasse impasse between B.S.I. and the B.S.C.F.A. Cane farmers met in San Roman, Corozal District, on Sunday to decide on a way forward where the payment for bagasse is concerned. With the farmers opening request at ten dollars per ton, and BSI refusing to back away […]
Between the end of 2012 and April 2014, several employees of the B.S.C.F.A. collaborated to steal money from the association. They did it by targeting the payroll system and paying themselves increased salaries. It was a prolonged scheme, to the tune of about seventy-eight thousand dollars stolen in just over a year. On Sunday, the […]
The long arms of the law caught up with a minor and another resident of San Pedro. It all started with a shooting and ended with an arrest for drug trafficking. Police today charged thirty-year old San Pedrito resident Juan Menjivar with drug trafficking, discharging a firearm in public, uncustomed goods and possession of money […]
Last week Wednesday, a prison inmate was stabbed in the prison grounds but it was not fatal. After concluding the investigation, another inmate, twenty year old Giovanni Ramirez was charged with wounding Jamal Ariola. Ramirez appeared before Senior Magistrate, Sharon Fraser for arraignment and he pleaded not guilty and was remanded to the Belize Central […]
Last Friday, thirty-nine year old Keith Staine came to News Five studio with a bruised-up face and forty-five stitches to the head. Staine claimed that his wife, forty-four year old Nathalia Wade, handcuffed him and bound his legs before hitting him multiple times to the head and face. Well today, the Muslim couple appeared in […]
Gun violence in the city continued over the weekend, but luckily no one was injured in either of the shootings. Around ten-twenty p.m., the thirty-four-year-old driver for Election and Boundaries reported that he was driving a government-issued Great Wall Wingle pick-up truck on West Collect Canal, but as he reached its junction with South Street, […]
In other news…Inter-American Development Bank’s President Luis Alberto Moreno was in the country briefly today. He met in Belmopan with Prime Minister Dean Barrow during which the bank’s activities, portfolio as well as future projects were discussed. The Bank is shifting its focus and targeting education, tourism, transport, trade and tax policies. According to […]
Three men have been charged for the kidnapping and murder of seventy-one year old Ramon Cervantes Sr., and Police are actively hunting for another man, Manuel Castillo. The body of Cervantes was found on July fifth, buried in a shallow grave. He had been beaten to death. Three days after, the men arrested for the […]
The heinous, cold blooded murders of Ramon Cervantes Sr. and Sonia Abac have shaken the community of Orange Walk, and are grim wake up calls that safety and security in the tight-knit municipality cannot be taken for granted. While the families of those murder victims struggle to return life to some semblance of normal, Cervantes […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and here’s the sporting news. Belize opening game Thursday at the UNCAF U-20 Football Championship was very disappointing as our boys took a 6 – zip beating from El Salvador. While our team is locked in this football struggle we’ll hold our tongue until this tournament concludes and our […]
There are thirteen more days to go in the month, but July has already turned out to be a bloody one. There have been nine murders so far and early this morning, another was added to the growing list of violent crimes. The body of a preacher, Oscar Lambey, was found on the grounds of […]
Police made a major bust at around three o’clock this afternoon that will provide some relief to residents in the city. Officers retrieved an Israeli-made military type assault rifle from bushes in an abandoned lot on Faber’s Road Extension, an area which we told you on Thursday night is quickly becoming a hot spot for […]
Going into the weekend, the Belize City Police Department conducting a crack-down in the city of what is known as quality of life crimes due to a wave of violent shootings and murders. Across the city, and along main thoroughfares, police and B.D.F. have been deployed to monitor any violation of the laws—whether petty or […]
The following story is about what is known about woman fum fum. A Ladyville resident came to our studios to allege that his wife of one year handcuffed and beat him up badly on Thursday. While we could not reach Natalia Wade, thirty-nine year old Keith Staine claims that they had a quarrel in the […]
