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Foreign prisoners deported to ease prison crowding

Problems at the prison have been at the forefront of this newscast for more nights than we care to count…and tonight is no exception. The only difference is that in this instance officials are taking actions which they hope will prevent problems in the future. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Two years ago there were just over […]

Two charged in teen abduction

There’s good news and bad news in the case of missing teenager Delene Loria. The good news–at least for the Loria family–is that two men have been arrested and charged in the case. They are thirty-one year old Adelito Canul and twenty-nine year old Rangel Canul, both of Santa Clara Village in Corozal. The pair, […]

Popular pawnshop founder dies after beating

One month after fifty-six year old James Lemott Sr., founder of JL’s Quick Loan was found unconscious at his home, the man who coined the phrase, “Money in Minutes” has died. Lemott was found on June nineteenth unconscious in the downstairs of his split level home on Benbow Street in Belize City. His daughter Gayle […]

Floods recede in Cayo, Toledo still wet

The residents of San Ignacio, Santa Elena and other communities along the Macal River are breathing easier this evening, as it appears that floodwaters, which threatened to cause extensive damage, are receding. These pictures taken by the Government Press Office late Tuesday afternoon show the river after it had already crested and was beginning to […]

Citrus co. chief talks about pollution

On Tuesday we reported on a citrus spill which occurred in the North Stann Creek River for the second time in one month. Mayor of Dangriga, Cassian Nunez told News Five that although the Water and Sewage Authority exercised quick and effective damage control, the dead fish and lobsters retrieved from the river and the […]

Musa, Swasey, Gordon exhibit at Image Factory

It started back in 1992 with a millennium anticipating exhibition entitled “Minus Eight”. Eight years later, having now reached “Zero”, the hyper active minds at the Image Factory are not only older, wiser and wealthier, their art is actually coming together. News Five’s Arreini Palacio dropped by to see what was new. Yasser Musa, Artist […]