GSU police have seized almost a pound and a half of powder cocaine from the streets of the Old Capital during an operation conducted this evening. At around four o’clock, a team of officers was called out to an area of Sittee Street where they conducted a search inside a boat. In the interior of […]
A Corozal along with a Belize City man is tonight out on bail after they were arraigned for drug trafficking. Both were busted on Tuesday with almost four and a half pounds of weed in the Port Loyola area of Belize City. Just before midday, a patrol on Louise Bevans Street, in the south side […]
Courts Dare to Dream Scholarship program kicked into gear today for eight students from across the country. They received four-year scholarships to high schools which the company says is part of their corporate responsibility to give back to the community. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting Do you want to be a […]
The Meso-American Reef Leadership Program is an initiative that promotes leadership towards the conservation of the reef which is shared by Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. Annually, the program brings together a cohort of conservationists and field professionals in the areas of tourism and the environment to look at projects currently in place to tackle […]
This afternoon, Belize City police took to the streets to acquaint themselves with residents of the Port Loyola, Driftwood Bay and Palm Grove communities. The weekly meet and greet took place earlier today and News Five caught up with a team of officers led by Eastern Division South Commander Marco Vidal in the vicinity of […]
Life will become easier for the residents of May Pen, Belize District. After a decade of waiting, they finally got their wish. The community will now be able to travel to other villages through a sturdy new bridge that was opened this morning. It is welcome news for students, who have had to walk bare […]
Early on Monday night, thirty-one-year-old Phillip Michael Samuels was stabbed and killed. Samuels was hanging out with a group of friends at an apartment on Boots Crescent, Belize City when he was stabbed once to the chest. Witnesses say that Samuels intervened in a fight in which a man hit a woman, and that decision […]
While police continue to look for a Belize City resident in connection with the recent murder of Phillip Samuels, Regional Commander for the Eastern Division South jurisdiction, Superintendent Marco Vidal says that they are also seeking suspects in the murder of Hammond Lemoth. Lemoth succumbed to multiple gunshot injuries last Thursday, almost two months after […]
Superintendent Vidal also addressed the puzzling disappearance of forty-nine-year-old Mark Pollard who vanished approximately two weeks ago without a trace. The well-known man left his house on Peter Seco Street, Belize City, for his routine morning exercise to the Haulover Bridge and back. Surveillance cameras captured him running up the Phillip Goldson Highway, but never […]
The bail application for David and Anke Doehm, the American couple charged with cruelty to late thirteen-year-old daughter Faye Lin Cannon, will be heard at the Supreme Court on Friday. Attorney for David Doehm, Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, confirmed this afternoon to News Five that he and Anke’s attorney, Senior Counsel Ellis Arnold, have filed their […]
News Five has confirmed that the Senate Special Select Committee is taking a different tack for its hearing on Wednesday at the National Assembly in Belmopan. For the last two weeks, four Ministers of Government have been testifying about their activities in relation to the Immigration Department. Now for the first time, the Committee is […]
A team of young athletes is destined for Honduras in the weeks ahead to represent the Jewel in the Under-fifteen CODICADER games. Their attendance however, does not exempt Belize from facing sanctions in the near future, since the outing had been scheduled ahead of government’s recent announcement that it cannot afford to host the Disability […]
In 2016, under the direction of Minister of State Elodio Aragon Junior, whose responsibility at the time included sports and culture, the National Sports Council spent in excess of four hundred thousand dollars in hosting the CODICADER Games. This time around, expenses would be considerably less since only two disciplines will be featured in the […]
The Belize Bank is sending sixteen more students to school this year. Through its scholarship program, both high school and sixth form recipients will not have to worry about the costs of books and tuition – and they will also be supported with mentors. This is the sixth year the Belize Bank is assisting students […]
Going to the States anytime soon? It’s the season for Belizeans to travel to the United States of America on vacation and getaways. But you’ll want to be at the Philip Goldson International Airport in Ladyville at least two hours early. A notice from the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation reports that additional security […]
There’s a ten thousand dollar bounty on Vildo Westby’s head. He’s the man wanted for the murder of Felix Ayuso Junior that happened on San Pedro in February of this year. Twenty-eight-year-old Westby is considered armed and dangerous and is described as five feet seven inches in height, weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds […]
It may have flown quietly below the radar at the beginning of the month when officers within the Belize Police Department were being transferred to various positions, but the Gang Suppression Unit is now under the control of a new top cop. As of July first, the GSU welcomed Superintendent Andres Makin as its new […]
Belize City resident, Keith Middleton, the ex- boyfriend of a woman attacked with a screw driver, is spending his first night on lock down at the Belize Central Prison after he was denied bail this morning for two criminal offenses. Middleton appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann-Marie Smith for the offenses of aggravated assault with a […]
Remember American Global University School of Medicine? Four years ago it was fighting to clear its name from allegations that its educational activity was fraudulent and its degrees not worth the paper they were printed on. The story faded from TV screens and newspapers, but today it was revived because of new information and concerns […]
The Inter-American Development Bank, the primary source of multilateral financing in Latin America, is partnering with the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry to provide solutions to development challenges within the business community. On Monday evening at the Biltmore Plaza, entrepreneurs from across the private sector attended a presentation by representatives of IDB. While the […]
The IDB is also making loan facilities available to local businesses, presumably at favorable and equally competitive terms as other lending institutions. While the proposal is fresh on the table, Aikman says details are yet to be confirmed in respect of an acceptable payment plan. Kim Aikman, CEO, Belize Chamber of Commerce & Industry […]
Belizean artist Rachel Heusner who lives in Tobago is hosting a two week exhibition inside Sarina’s Café on the ground floor at the Bliss. Heusner has been painting for over twenty-five years and has a collection of art pieces that dates way back to the mid 1980’s. This year, she is back home with a […]
At this point in time, Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley is on the outside looking in at City Hall. He has not put his name down to run for a third term and it appears his run as chief municipal administrator may be over. The strain of getting along with eleven different personalities has been […]
Belizean artists and their music will be at the heart of tonight’s karaoke at the Bliss Institute where another round of competition will take place in this summer hottest television show. That’s the theme for KTV the Remix, which starts at eight-thirty. Unfortunately, two performers will not return on stage, nine have survived and will […]
Belize City voters will head to the polls on August twenty-seventh to elect the ten city councilors and one mayoral candidate to represent the United Democratic Party at next year’s municipal elections. The U.D.P. has won the Belize City Council four straight times since 2006. But their chances at a fifth term have gotten somewhat […]
