If you have been trying to explain to younger people that a dollar seemed to stretch further or things were simply less expensive “back in the day,” and they didn’t believe you, well now you have some evidence to back up your stories. Figures shared by the Statistical Institute of Belize today showed that since […]
Belize’s economy grew in the first ten months of this year, compared to the same period of 2020. That has been the line that the government has been sticking to since it took austerity measures to salvage what was left of the economy as a result of COVID and what it dubbed as reckless spending […]
The dire financial situation of the government’s flagship hospital, the Karl Heusner Memorial, is public knowledge. But today the Chairman of the K.H.M.H. Authority, Doctor Andre Sosa, provided some background context. During an appearance on Channel Five’s Open Your Eyes, he explained that while the K.H.M.H. did get thirty million dollars in government subvention, the […]
For her part, the K.H.M.H.’s Chief Executive Officer, Chandra Nisbet Cansino says the hospital is a key component of the Ministry of Health and any funds that come to them, are for the people who use this public facility. Chandra Nisbet Cansino, CEO, KHMH “In a lot of cases, for instance the first wave […]
Police officers Nelson Middleton, Elmer Nah, Delwin Casimiro and George Ferguson have been granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of forty thousand dollars each. The four were arraigned on November eighth in connection with the landing of a drug plane on the Southern Highway near Bladen, as well as the seizure of twenty-three bales […]
Seven-year-old Darwin Castillo has been safely reunited with his mother and family. Earlier today police confirmed that Guatemalan law enforcement located the child in Melchor de Mencos. A relative told News Five that he is in good health and without any physical injuries. Late this afternoon, Noticias de Peten was reporting that his father, Brian […]
A police officer for more than a decade, Police Constable Kieron Carlos lost his life while driving home from work on Tuesday morning. Carlos reportedly lost control of his motorcycle and collided into a concrete wall between Miles fifty-nine and sixty. A large culvert is situated in the area where he crashed and his body […]
As we reported on Monday, our News Five crew witnessed a fatal accident on the George Price Highway near mile nine that claimed the life of a woman and a ten-month-old baby. The child’s mother survived the ordeal and today chronicled to News Five’s Duane Moody the traumatic experience of losing both her baby and […]
Last night we told you about the Sunday morning traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway, just outside Belmopan, that claimed the life of Kimberly Griffith and Elmar Avila. Police have since arrested and charged Armando Pastrona with two counts of manslaughter by negligence, two counts of causing death by careless conduct, driving without due care […]
The lifeless body of thirty-three-year-old Lucas Robert Hoare was recovered from a cane field in Xaibe Village, Corozal District this morning. Hoare was reported missing by his sibling on Monday. According to Phillip McCauley, he heard someone over at his brother’s residence in the Sosa Layout of Corozal Town on Monday evening around six-thirty. This […]
Since the beginning of October, health officials have been seeing a dip in the number of new COVID infections in the Belize District, while other districts have shown a slight increase in their numbers. According to Deputy Manager for the Ministry of Health’s Central Region, Doctor Melissa Diaz-Musa, the numbers in the Belize District have […]
COVID deaths and COVID-related deaths: we see and hear the terms every day, but many use them interchangeably and don’t know how COVID deaths are determined and classified. News Five asked Deputy Manager for the Central Health Region, Doctor Melissa Musa to differentiate between the two. Dr. Melissa Diaz-Musa, Deputy Manager, Central Health Region […]
And while the number of infections decreases in one part of the country, there is still a stretch further that the Ministry of Health has to go before it gets the majority of the population vaccinated. Doctor Musa says the vaccinated population is currently at around forty-four percent. She explained that the vaccinations helped to […]
Three fatal accidents on three different highways in three consecutive days have claimed the lives of five persons, including a ten-month-old boy. It’s the chilling statistics of the past few days, time that was supposed to be the joyous Garifuna Settlement Day weekend and start of another workweek. On Sunday, Kimberly Griffith and Elmer Avila […]
Belize Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association has announced that the first Junior Pan American Games is set to take place in Cali, Colombia from November twenty-fifth to December fifth, 2021. Belize is sending a delegation of twelve athletes and five officials for nine different sporting disciplines. The contingent will be led by the Chief of […]
And finally tonight, we have some good news to report about the popular pediatrician, Doctor Cecilio Eck. He has had a rough bout with COVID, and experienced complications soon after he contracted the virus. He ended up on a ventilator not once but twice, much to the dismay of his fellow medical colleagues. Thereafter went […]
A ten month old child and a forty year old woman lost their lives in a fatal road traffic accident earlier this evening on the George Price Highway near the Mile Eight Community. A News Five team was caught in the middle of it all as they were heading back into the city from an […]
And two people lost their lives on Sunday morning in a fatal traffic accident in Belmopan City. The victims have been identified as Kimberly Griffith and Elmer Avila. Griffith is known in her Corozal Town for her hand crafted jewelry business and her efforts to teach others the trade. Recently she and the Director of […]
In another horrifying incident of domestic violence, a woman and her daughter were killed at their home in San Ignacio over the weekend, and her son was taken by his biological father. Tonight Bryan Castillo and the boy are on the run, and may have already crossed over into Guatemala. News Five’s Paul Lopez has […]
Police have since issued a wanted poster for Bryan Castillo. Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood briefed the press via zoom on police’s investigation so far. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communication Director, Belize Police Department “Police responded to a scene on Zericote Street. This is where inside a room they found the motionless body of the females […]
There was a murder in Belize City on Sunday night. Miguel Zaiden was stabbed multiple times while he was out socializing with several others on Racecourse Street. Despite attempting to ride away on his motorcycle, Zaiden collapsed and was transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he later passed away. According to Assistant Superintendent […]
The decomposed remains of a male person was discovered in the Belize River near Iguana Creek on Saturday afternoon. The unidentified body was lodged in a bamboo patch. It has since been taken to the Central American Health Science University where a post mortem examination has been scheduled. It is the police department’s hope that […]
A mother is tonight desperately trying to find answers following the death of her son over the extended holiday weekend. Maria Rios, a resident of Rhaburn Ridge, Belize District, was expecting a visit from her son, Daniel, who had called sometime earlier on Saturday to inform that he was traveling by bus en route to […]
History was made on Saturday night when Belize’s very own Destiny Wagner was crowned Miss Earth 2021. It is a big step for the pageant industry in Belize because as a country we have only managed to place once, and that was way back in 1979 when Sarita Acosta competed in the Miss Universe pageant. […]
Five Belizean musicians are now signed to Universal Music Group. Area Representative for Mesopotamia and former Bad Boy Musician Shyne Barrow flew into Belize last week with Senior V.P. at U.M.G., Steven Victor to sign these contracts. In a press statement Shyne said “All the artists I signed, Supa G Martinez, Stig Da Artist, Ty […]
