About thirty-four million dollars is being spent on road works in the Old Capital. Today, Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley, along with the Taiwanese Ambassador launched another project to complement the ongoing infrastructure works, as well as the aesthetics of the downtown area. The official renovation of the Commercial Center is taking off immediately and […]
Sanitation has been in the news incessantly, with the B.M.L. situation threatening to blow up and out of control. A very timely intervention by Prime Minister Barrow in the form of a financial bailout saved the day. It’s not the first time the PM has provided some serious cash assistance to the Belize City Council, […]
Today, we can report that there is no give in the impasse between ASR/BSI and the B.S.C.F.A. Cane farmers have instructed the B.S.C.F.A. to ask for intervention from the Sugar Industry Control Board, which is government’s entity in the industry. The B.S.C.F.A. has done so. But the Prime Minister has stated that he is reluctant […]
A Belmopan mother was holding her three month old son when she and her family were held up at gunpoint by an armed man. It happened on Tuesday afternoon when the Guity family was preparing to leave the river located in the Riviera area in the outskirts of the capital. According to twenty-eight year old […]
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, on a working visit to Belize, called on Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington at his Belize City office this morning, where agreements were signed to formalize bilateral relations between Ecuador and Belize. Before now, neither countries had any formal ties with the other. So, the purpose of the mission […]
In the absence of an extradition treaty between Belize and Ecuador, thirty-nine-year-old Christian Ebanks, also known as Floyd Ebanks Jurado, wanted in that country for murder, remains a free man. In mid-May, Ebanks made headlines when he was remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being found in possession of an unlicensed firearm. He was […]
Earlier in the newscast, we reported that the Belmopan Bandits have been replaced in the 2014-2015 CONCACAF Champions League. That is news is followed by more bad news because up until today, the national team that is set to participate in the 2014 UNCAF Tournament in September, has been functioning without a coach. As incredible […]
Phase one of the infrastructure program in Orange Walk Town is underway, including paving of the Belize/Corozal Road, sidewalks and drainage. It’s a huge project, about four miles of road from one end of town to the other. It’s also been a long time in coming, much to the frustration of residents and the municipal […]
Mayor Bernard is so happy about the road work that he’s not even making much noise about the infamous San Antonio Road. U.D.P. contractor of choice, Imer Hernandez, who happens to be the nephew of Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, has gotten the two-million-dollar contract to pave the stretch of road. It’s not the first […]
If you can sing it, bring it, goes into semi-final round tonight live at the Bliss Institute beginning at nine p.m. At this stage of the competition, the challenges for the performers are getting way tougher. To win the grand prize, the finalists have to BRING IT on stage with a ten thousand dollar performance […]
As anger continues to build, police have spoken for the first time since Saturday’s shocking execution of the sporting legend, Ernest “JawMeighan” Meighan. But they have still not been able to crack the case as to why the beloved cyclist was murdered. Was it related to the fatal stabbing of Chryslin Gladden or the murder […]
While a connection is yet to be established between the Saturday morning murders of Raheem Crawford and Ernest Meighan, police have detained several persons of interest. News Five understands that Crawford’s pre-dawn execution was the result of an ongoing feud between two Belize City gangs. The twenty-year-old was waylaid while riding a motorcycle on Gibnut […]
San Pedro police are tonight continuing their investigation into the grisly murder of fifty-seven-year-old Santiago Trapp whose remains were unearthed from a shallow grave in the Basil Jones area, approximately fourteen miles north of town. The officers, accompanied by coast guard personnel, initially responded to information of a fire at a fishing camp belonging to […]
There were four murders reported over the weekend between Saturday and Monday morning…two in the city, one near the eight miles community and one in San Pedro. Well today, the police are adding one more to the already growing list of homicides…it means that as many as five persons were killed over the past weekend. […]
And our question for tonight is: Police top brass has blamed the media for the perception that crime is out of control, do you agree? 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 […]
Tonight one man from Belmopan is in Police lockdown and another is in the morgue following a traffic accident on Monday. It happened about eight miles off the George Price Highway near the Green Tropics Compound. Both men, Marcelo Reymundo and Yeymi Saquic, are employees of that company and were heading home when the accident […]
A couple of students from Colombia University in the United States are in Belize putting off a timely three-week program targeting youths between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. The first two weeks of the program focuses on intensive workshops for thirteen participants and the final week will involve school tours to provide leadership workshops […]
After spending eleven plus years behind bars for a murder, Jamie Dawson learnt his fate today. He’s twice been tried for the December 2002 murder of Maurice Neal which took place at the Bismark Club in Belize City. In his first trial in February 2004, he was found guilty but that conviction was overturned and […]
Tonight, two-fifteen year old friends are on remand at the Wagner’s Youth Facility located on the compound of the Belize Central Prison until their next appearance in court on September twenty-ninth. Both were charged for allegedly having sex with a thirteen year old girl last Friday in Belize City. This afternoon, the duo was escorted to the […]
A British national on vacation in Caye Caulker is alleging that she was raped by tour guide Jaime Rosado early Saturday morning. The female, whose name we cannot mention, told Caye Caulker Police that she and six friends went to a private island off Caye Caulker on Friday with a tour guide they called Captain […]
The body of a retired American national was found floating off Caye Caulker just before three p.m. on Monday. Police are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination, but they do not suspect foul play in the death of sixty-two year old Drury John Craig. The elderly man was living in a forty-five foot yacht […]
On Monday’s newscast, News Five told you about Tyrone Davis, wanted for a frightening home invasion in Crooked Tree in July. He’d been on the run since then, but was captured in Belmopan where he was hiding out. Davis is the second fugitive to be captured in Belmopan. In May, Edwin Paula, charged with robbery […]
Fugitive Edwin Paula was charged for robbery for his role in a brazen jacking on the UB campus in Belmopan in 2013. On and off the campus, students have become easy targets for robbers. Recently Belmopan Police were forced to step up operations after a series of sidewalk robberies, and with school opening next week, […]
In the aftermath of the heartbreaking loss of champion cyclist Ernest ‘JawMeighan’ Meighan, there have been overwhelming expressions of sympathy to family and friends, as well as the wider cycling community. On Monday, we reflected on fond memories of the two-time Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Champion. His colleagues celebrated his many achievements both on […]
Opening at the Bliss tonight is the play, the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, better known as Hamlet by actors from the Shakespeare’s Global Theater Company of London. The theater company is on a world tour which began in April of this year in the honor of Shakespeare’s four hundred and fiftieth birthday. The […]
