She was an actress, dramatist, comedienne, educator, administrator and a dozen other things to do with the arts…but above all, Beverly Smith-Lopez was a uniquely Belizean personality. Tonight she is dead. Smith died of heart complications just before noon today at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, where she had been admitted since the weekend. Last […]
It was a Tuesday night of mayhem in Belize City as it appears that a group of young men went on a crime spree that included car theft, wounding and ultimately murder. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods picked up the story this morning. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Witnesses who did not wish to appear on camera say […]
As Belize City police look for suspects in the latest killing, the police departments of Guatemala and Belize are working together to solve a murder that took place about a quarter mile inside Belizean territory. According to police, around 9:30 on Tuesday morning, a contingent of Belize and Melchor police visited the area. There, they […]
Bernard Smith, an inmate at the Hattieville Correctional Facility, was shot in the leg by prison officers after he allegedly tried to escape. According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Smith, who was inside his cell at the isolation section of the institution, was engaged in a fistfight with fellow prisoner, Keith Sambula. When the […]
The big news from the south tonight is that the Citrus Growers Association has completed the deal to buy out processing company, Del Oro. The exact figures and terms of the take over will be revealed at the C.G.A.’s annual general meeting on the nineteenth of October. Speaking with Chief Executive Officer of the C.G.A., […]
In news from Cabinet, that executive body has announced its intention to upgrade the quality of the nation’s shipping registry through the enactment of new legislation. The High Seas Fishing Compliance Bill will require Belize flagged vessels fishing on the high seas to operate under much stricter guidelines. Those guidelines, developed by the Ministry of […]
A new Board will be named shortly for the Development Finance Corporation. D.F.C. Chairman Glen Godfrey confirmed to News 5 today that three members, himself included, have asked that they not be reappointed following the expiration of their two year term on September ninth. Godfrey says his appointment at the end of August as Honorary […]
The cleaning of debris from the Paslow building fire is being completed and it is expected that Queen Street will be opened to traffic as early as Thursday. No decision has been made on the building’s rehabilitation, but we were informed today that the scorched safe belonging to Magistrate’s Court has been opened. The good […]
With all the hullabaloo surrounding B.T.L.’s corporate clashes, we haven’t heard much from approaching rival INTELCO. Today that company officially inaugurated its computer centre at Saint Ignatius primary school in Belize City. The programme, which is slated to put five thousand computers in schools nationwide, is well behind its original schedule and we are told […]
More international airlines flying into Belize is good news, right? Well, yes, but as News 5’s Janelle Chanona discovered, there’s a potential downside as well. Janelle Chanona, Reporting With both U.S. Air and Air Jamaica expected to begin service in Belize in November of this year, and existing carriers American and Continental adding more flights, […]
