About the only comfort Said Musa and the P.U.P. could take from today’s press conference by Dean Barrow was that it took place on Friday, a day when many Belizeans are more interested in happy hour than the evening news. And speaking of happy hour, that’s not a bad way to describe the mood of […]
Police have charged two Belize City men in connection with a jacking last month. Seventeen year-old Raymond Heusner and twenty-two year old Elliot Heusner, both of Tigris Street, are charged with the robbery of seventeen-year-old Jevon McKenzie. McKenzie told police that around eight on the night of Friday, January seventeenth, he was about to enter […]
Two children are safe tonight after they narrowly escaped possible injury and at the very least a good dunking in the Collet Canal. Reports are that the boys were playing inside a Nissan pick-up, whose pan was filled with oranges. The vehicle, which was parked facing the canal, suddenly nudged forward and plunged into the […]
It may have fit conveniently into the government’s campaign for re-election, but politics aside, residents of one Belize City neighbourhood may sleep better tonight thanks to an increased police presence. News 5’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting If you’ve travelled Faber’s Road Extension, then you cannot miss the bright yellow and green bungalow. The […]
In different circumstances it’s a story that would have been headline news. But with the nation in the middle of a rough and tumble election campaign, and hopes for a quick settlement of the Guatemalan claim only a distant memory, bulletins from the Foreign Ministry no longer receive top billing. Perhaps, however, they should…as today […]
It didn’t take long for News 5’s generous viewers to respond to a mother in need. Following last night’s story on Larna Flowers and her twenty-two pounds of joy, the phone immediately began to ring. The result was a substantial amount of supplies that will help the newborn twins get off to what we hope […]
She sang her heart out last night…and with good reason. Belizean Lisa Tucker was competing for a hundred thousand dollar prize in the finals of the CBS programme Star Search. But as beautifully as Lisa sang, her opponent Tiffany Evans delivered an unbelievably inspired performance that earned her a perfect score and a victory from […]
It’s the rematch of a race fought in 1998. At that time the People’s United Party managed to take back a seat that had once been thought completely safe for the U.D.P.. What happens in Port Loyola this time around is being closely watched by observers on all sides… including News 5’s Jacqueline Woods. Jacqueline […]
