It’s a crime that until recently was covered by a curtain of silence, but rape in Belize has become too common and too big a problem to be hidden or ignored. Yesterday afternoon three fourteen year old boys became the latest to answer for their alleged transgressions as they were charged with rape in San […]
The luxurious live-aboard dive boat capsized on the night of October eighth, 2001, as Hurricane Iris lashed the southern port of Big Creek. By the time the wind subsided, the Wavedancer’s dead numbered twenty, including two Belizean crewmembers: Brenda Wade and Eloisa Johnson. Tonight word from Miami is that a lawsuit filed by the twenty […]
Her name, along with that of hospital C.E.O. Alvaro Rosado, was forged on a number of cheques that added up to the massive theft of over two hundred and eighteen thousand dollars from the K.H.M.H.. At the time the scam was made public, Joan Anderson-Lord, the hospital’s former accountant, was no longer living in Belize. […]
Colombian cocaine may be the international drug runner’s narcotic of choice, but that hasn’t discouraged Belize’s law enforcement authorities from busting an occasional marijuana plantation. On Wednesday a police operation in the Stann Creek District resulted in the discovery of a pot patch two miles south of Red Bank Village. Don’t ask us how they […]
Over the next few years it is expected to overtake citrus as Belize’s largest export. Earlier this week News 5’s Jacqueline Woods visited a shrimp farm near Ladyville where the latest harvest was being processed for shipment. What she discovered was that not only is production growing, but that the market is becoming more diversified. […]
The field of medicine has made tremendous strides in recent decades, and Belizeans benefit everyday from those advances. But many treatments that are routine in North America and Europe are still not available in Belize. And that gap sometimes results in painful choices. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Seventeen-year-old Kenisha Usher is critically ill at the Karl […]
As senior citizens continue to enjoy their week of special recognition, we at News 5 pay our own tribute to those Belizeans whose accomplishments and contributions lasted well into their later years. Although no longer with us today, when News 5 met him in 1994, Michael Nembhard was still amazingly active. Rudy Castillo, Narrator He […]
