There have been a few false alarms raised over the last several weeks, but today we can unofficially declare that the 2005 dry season has come to an end. A light overnight rain over the north and central parts of Belize developed into heavy showers during the afternoon to bring welcome relief to an area […]
The results are in… And while educators will need a few days to analyze their implications, the students are just happy that the waiting is over. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spoke to some of this year’s top performers in the Primary School Examination. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Belize Elementary School Standard Six student Lilian Shen has […]
It doesn’t exactly come as a surprise, but today Moody’s Investors Service, following the lead of Standard & Poor’s, announced a downgrade in Belize’s credit ratings. The drop covers a number of categories, including the foreign currency ceiling, lowered to B3 from B2; the foreign currency deposits, reduced to Caa1 from B3; and the general […]
The carnage on the nation’s roads continues, this time with the death of a truck passenger in the Cayo District. Forty-nine year old Edmundo de Jesus Montoya lost his life this afternoon when he fell out of a pickup between miles sixty-five and sixty-six on the Western Highway. Driver William Swan told police that he […]
A father is behind bars tonight, accused of raping two of his own children. According to court reports, the girls, ages twelve and thirteen, told their mother that on several occasions over the last eight months, their thirty-six year old father had sexual intercourse with them. The twelve-year-old says he had sex with her in […]
This week a notorious bad man was sentenced to five years in jail for an attempted robbery gone really wrong last October. On Monday, twenty-seven year old Wayne Castillo told the court that on October twenty-second 2004, he walked into the Maya Tortilla Factory located at the corner of West Canal and Water Lane. He […]
And if you think the attempted robbery was strange, listen to this item. Eight defendants, jointly accused of drug trafficking, were acquitted today in the court of Magistrate Dorothy Flowers due to weak evidence. It seems that on November ninth a police patrol visited a yard on “T” Street in Port Loyola where the group […]
This morning Belize Telecommunications Limited launched the newest addition to its high-speed internet service: wireless access. Dubbed “Hotspots”, B.T.L. customers can now connect to the web in designated zones without the benefit of an umbilical cord. The company says the service will initially be available only at the Great House in Belize City and at […]
Is there someone in your life who has dedicated his or her time or sacrificed money and resources, just to make things easier for someone who needed help? If you do and you would like to say thanks, then you can submit that special person’s name in the effort to find FirstCaribbean’s Regional Unsung Hero. […]
On Yesterday’s broadcast we broke the news of a drilling rig searching for petroleum in the area of Spanish Lookout. Today News Five’s Patrick Jones returned to the site where the project’s directors were joined by officials from Government. As the bit prepares to once more bite through the Cayo clay, Jones reports that optimism […]
