Police are on the lookout for a man who shot and killed twenty-two year old Emort Jefferson Michael sometime between nine and ten Tuesday night. Police say Michael, who lived on the third flat of a three storey wooden building at the corner of Cleghorn and Mapp Streets, had just returned home and was about […]
Medical authorities still don’t know how a young woman whose body was found on Sunday died and there do not appear to be any leads in the case which appears to be a murder in Ladyville. She has, however, been positively identified as Samantha Gordon of Belize City. Today News Five spoke with Samantha’s mother […]
In hurricane relief news, the Banana Growers Association of Big Creek announced today that it has sent twenty-five thousand dollars in food and medicines to the Honduran Embassy to be dispatched to Hurricane Victims. Belize Sugar Industries Limited has also donated a total of ten thousand dollars to the relief effort. B.S.I. has given seven […]
The Governor General of Belize Sir Colville Young donated cricket gears today to Nazarene High School as well as Gwen Lizaraga High School. Other high schools countrywide will soon be getting their own cricket gear to bring back the sport which used to be the second most popular in Belize.
There are big changes ahead for several government departments which had formed the Ministry of Culture. The Department of Museums, the Department of Archaeology, the Belize Archives Department, the National Arts Council and the Belize Library Service will become divisions of the National Institute of Culture and History. Also included will be a new body […]
While humans were busy moving to higher ground during the Mitch threat, one dog was refusing to budge. She waited patiently at the Boom cutoff standing guard over a bag of baby clothes that may have been dropped by her owners. After the storm, when it was noticed that she was still there waiting for […]
At this time last year, before the month of November became the time to remember Mitch, Belizeans were collectively looking forward to Garifuna Settlement Day on the nineteenth. This year, the event hasn’t been getting its usual, or well deserved coverage and News Five would like to do something about that. So, tonight we invite […]
