Over the weekend the night sky was filled with billowing smoke and a blaze of red as fire burned its way through two buildings in Belize City and threatened several others. News 5’s Rick Romero was on Gabourel Lane on Saturday night to capture the dramatic images, and today Marion Ali joined the fire fighters […]
Tonight a twelve year old boy is in guarded custody after being arrested and charged for sex crimes committed against his seven year old sister. According to police, the little girl reported that more than once during the month of September, her older brother had sexual intercourse with her. A medical officer has since examined […]
A traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway over the weekend has claimed the life of a Hope Creek villager. According to the cops, around 4:00 p.m. on Friday, twenty-nine year old Jose Amilcar Garcia was riding his bike near mile eight and a half when he was run over by a bus. The driver, fifty-seven […]
Meanwhile, police are investigating the death of a construction worker in Belize City. Reports are that around ten-thirty this morning the body of nineteen year old Hector Roberto Medrano was found inside a house at number sixty-six thirteen Police Street. Police sources tell News 5 that the cause of death is suspected as strangulation as […]
Hundreds of frustrated telephone customers suffered through most of the day as efforts to call Belmopan, Benque Viejo and all points in between proved fruitless. According to sales representatives of Belize Telecommunications Limited, sometime after eleven this morning, a fibre connecting Belize City and the west malfunctioned. Technicians were immediately dispatched to remedy the problem […]
In other news from the west, today, the border station in Benque Viejo got a much needed face-lift. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods and Rick Romero hit the highway this morning and filed this report. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Every day, authorities estimate approximately fifteen hundred people legally pass through the western border into Belize. So this […]
On this, the eve of Garifuna Settlement Day, intensive preparations continue for the long list of cultural activities planned for tonight and tomorrow. And just in case you’re one of those people who won’t be able to make the trek to Dangriga and other points south, the Belize City branch of the National Garifuna Council […]
The second International Dance Festival may be over, but the work required to bring Belize’s level of dancing on par with global standards continues. According to local experts, the event has shown the Belizean society what the world of dance can offer our youths. Marion Ali has more. Marion Ali, Reporting Dancers and their choreographers […]
Several Belizean school children are hundreds of dollars richer tonight…their reward for making insurance interesting. Over a hundred and thirty budding poets and artists spent hours painting posters and writing rhymes as part of Regent Insurance’s “Protecting Belizean Businesses” competition. This morning, the winners and their teachers picked up cheques valued at a total of […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked on to this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The mad rush to make the four team playoffs in the Belize Premier Football League continues unabated with five weeks to go before the blade of elimination officially falls. Yesterday’s clash at the M.C.C. Grounds found the Builder’s Hardware […]
