For most Belizeans, travelling to the U.S.A., even with a pure heart and a valid visa, can be an intimidating experience … and since September eleventh, 2001 it has–quite understandingly–become more so. But picture yourself about to display your passport to the U.S. immigration officer at the airport. You’re nervous but not worried, because you’ve […]
Another Belize City primary school has been broken into. This time it was the turn of Saint Luke Methodist on Mahogany Street. According to police, the thieves took seven hundred dollars in cash and eight cell phones being held for students. They entered by prying out a set of burglar bars and breaking an aluminium […]
Allegations of theft against hired housekeepers are not unusual but it is rare that evidence is found to confirm the suspicion. In this case thirty-five year old Dawn Myers has some questions to answer, as when her employer noticed a gold chain and set of earrings missing from her home, she made the rounds of […]
With all the acquittals, withdrawals and nolle prosequis in recent sexual assault cases, it comes as almost a shock to learn that a rapist has actually been convicted. He is forty-five year old Kent Francis of Belize City. This afternoon a jury of four men and five women found him guilty of Rape, Aggravated Burglary, […]
The Belize Defence Force has sixty-two new soldiers. News Five was at their passing out ceremony this morning at Price Barracks and here are some sights and sounds. Cordel Hyde, Minister of Defence ?Today marks a special occasion, sixty-two young men and women have endured the rigors of training and have become men and women […]
While Johnny Briceño addressed the soldiers in his role as Deputy Prime Minister, he put on his Minister of Natural Resources hat to comment on the oil situation. Viewers may recall that several months ago government raised the income tax on profits from petroleum exploration from twenty-five to forty percent. At the time the directors […]
And while he was in front of the microphone we couldn’t help but ask the Deputy Leader of the People’s United Party his reaction to the latest public opinion poll by SPEAR. Johnny Briceño ?Certainly, the polls we need to give it serious consideration. We cannot dismiss it. What is important for us as a […]
On yesterday’s newscast we looked at problems caused by rain in the Belama Phase Four area of Belize City … but those obstacles were minor compared to the situation News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin found this morning following a night of heavy precipitation. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Belize City was inundated after three inches of rainfall fell […]
In years gone by youngsters who fell behind in school were officially classified as “slow learners.” A less sensitive term often applied in Belize was “duncey.” But doctors and educators worldwide have learned that the roots of childhood learning problems go much deeper than simple labels. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Francisca Tzalam Ch?oc, Toledo, […]
