A twenty-two year old man has been charged with murder following an incident in Independence Village on Thursday night. According to police, twenty-nine year old Larry August and twenty-two year old Clayton Forman got into a misunderstanding on Disco Street around eleven-thirty that night. During the dispute authorities say Forman pulled out a pen knife […]
A fourteen year old girl has been arrested and charged for attempted murder, maim, and use of deadly means of harm after she chopped off a woman’s finger. Information is sketchy, but News 5 understands that on Thursday evening Celia James was at a home on Freetown Road speaking with another woman when the young […]
It is the place just about everyone stops when they get to the nation’s capital…And today a new and improved market, with a new name, the “Friendship Plaza”, was inaugurated in Belmopan. News 5 was there. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today Belmopan residents witnessed the opening of their brand new market. The six hundred thousand dollar […]
Next month, the National Lands Advisory Committee will be holding a symposium as a follow-up to its nationwide consultations. These were held to obtain the views of the public on issues of land allocation, acquisition, and the formation of a Land Distribution Policy. A synthesis of the meetings with landowners, real estate agents, farmers, community […]
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Environment, Johnny Briceno, gave the keynote address at a conference on Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change in Trinidad earlier this month. His topic was “Policy and People Issues in Regional Climate Change.” News 5 was provided with some excerpts and comments he made to the press following the […]
The Mexican Embassy is inviting the public to a free concert Saturday night at the Bliss featuring a youth orchestra from Quintana Roo. The Orquesta Sinfonica Juventil has been a part of the Quintana Roo School of Music since 1994 and has performed in Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Campeche, as well as their home state. […]
Alumni of the Belize Technical College have embarked on an ambitious project to bring together past graduates of the institution before it was amalgamated into the University of Belize. Adele Ramos, herself a past student of Technical, is doing some of the leg work for the reunion effort and today she told News 5 that […]
Food, glorious food. Belizeans certainly love their food. So it was no surprise that there was an enthusiastic response to B.T.B.’s “Taste of Belize” training session. Today Patrick Jones got a chance to sample the fruits of their labour. Patrick Jones, Reporting They are not unaccustomed to the heat of the kitchen, but these sixteen […]
