He is accused of chopping his drinking partner to death four days ago. Now San Ignacio police are asking the public’s assistance in their efforts to recapture accused murderer Melvin Salazar who managed to escape over the weekend. On Thursday Salazar of Santa Elena was arrested and charged for the crime of murder following investigations […]
Four children from Orange Walk Town are recovering after being knocked down Sunday by a drunken driver. Authorities say the children, ages six, nine, ten and twelve years old, were walking on the sidewalk on the main road through town when a white Chevy Nova ran off the pavement onto the sidewalk, hitting the children […]
A fire over the weekend in a congested Belize City neighbourhood destroyed a house, but quick action by the National Fire Service prevented what could have been a far greater disaster. News 5’s Patrick Jones was on the scene and files the following report. Patrick Jones, Reporting Smoke from the early afternoon fire covered a […]
It took a while but after several delays the Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Belize Tourism Industry Association to proceed with its application for judicial review of the Carnival Cruise Port contract. B.T.I.A. president Lucy Flemming explained the implications of the decision. Lucy Flemming, President, B.T.I.A. ?We were heard by the Supreme […]
He was a staunch supporter of the United Democratic Party and its forerunners…and tonight the institution known as Shubu is no more. Shubu, whose real name was Wilfredo Brown, passed away at his Tigris Street home around one o’clock this afternoon. His caregiver for the last three years, Joy Young, told News 5 that the […]
Almost one year after it opened its doors in Belmopan, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre has reached a major milestone towards sustainability. The Government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi last week pledged four hundred thousand U.S. dollars to cover the Centre’s operational budget for 2005/2006, with an option for extension to five years […]
Fifty-one year old Noel Escalante is best known for his photographic displays but today this tax auditor from the Belize Tourism Board is fifty-seven thousand, five hundred dollars richer after becoming the latest lotto jackpot winner. Escalante told News 5’s Jacqueline Woods that although his numbers played on December eleventh, he did not find out […]
At times it seemed that NICH was flogging a dead horse–or perhaps Ramsey’s dead mule–when it tried to promote the revival of Brukdown music by means of a competition. But on Friday night the doubts were laid to rest as the new Bliss reverberated to some fine old beats. This morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening I?m James Adderley with this pre-Christmas dish of Sports Monday. The defending National Secondary Schools Basketball Champion Delille Academy of Stann Creek and the new Belize City champion, St. Michaels College both arrived at the finals of the National Basketball Tournament staged at over the weekend at the People?s Stadium […]
