A Friday evening press conference is not the best way to get your story out…but then again maybe that’s the idea. Minister of Health Jose Coye and his top lieutenants spoke to the media this evening to give their explanation of how a baby from Punta Gorda went into the Southern Regional Hospital for routine […]
Failure to quickly clear up some of the finer points of the proposals to end the Guatemalan claim is threatening to scuttle the plan’s bipartisan support. On Thursday, the thirty-day deadline for the United Democratic Party’s conditional endorsement of the proposals expired and this morning, the U.D.P. issued a statement to the press expressing concern […]
A resident of the Cayo District has been hospitalized after being attacked with a machete. Eighteen year old Thydes Blancaneaux, a resident of Cotton Tree Village, remains in a stable but critical condition at the Belmopan Hospital. Around 5:30 on Thursday evening, Blancaneaux was chopped in the head after he became involved in an argument […]
Over fifty-five thousand dollars worth of equipment and supplies have been stolen in a major heist at Spanish Lookout. Police investigations reveal that the thieves gained access into Reimer’s Feed Mill by using a heavy duty jack to break open the store’s main entrance door. They made off with a Ford pickup filled with farm […]
While the debate over capital punishment has Attorney General Godfrey Smith formally answering critics in the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in Washington, a statutory instrument has been signed in Belmopan which ensures that those murderers not put to death remain behind bars forever. The S.I., which amends the 1998 legislation establishing the parole system, […]
Earlier this week, our newscast featured a story about the Sapodilla Cayes, and in it, we listed the names of those Belizeans with leasehold rights to the islands. But while our sources had indicated that Hunting Caye was still crown land, it turns out that in part, it is private property. Since 1997, the Fuller […]
With just over a week to go before Central American Agriculture Ministers meet in Belize, representatives of the region’s health and agricultural organisation called OIRSA, got busy today. Their purpose was to review the results of a two-day technical meeting held earlier this week, as well as to discuss an upcoming ministerial meeting in Belize. […]
The sounds of good nutrition returned to Belize City today as students from four far flung high schools competed in knowledge of everything from corn oil to calories. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting It was back to back for Pallotti High School today as their team walked away with top honours in […]
Nearly every study ever conducted on the Belize Police Department has stressed the need for improved training at every level…and there are signs that those recommendations are being heeded. Last week we visited a course on crime scene management conducted by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Yesterday News 5’s Marion Ali sat in on […]
