Around this time of the year, politicians, priests and everyone in between publish or broadcast a New Year’s message. While the statements are acknowledged, few become newsworthy. But as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, this year the Prime Minister has dropped a bombshell on the Belizean people. Prime Minister Said Musa
Tonight the family of a Belize City entrepreneur is keeping vigil at the K.H.M.H. after their loved one was caught in the cross fire of another violent eruption in what police are calling a turf war. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin has the disturbing details. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Tonight twenty two year old Carlos Barrera is […]
Just as police began to investigate the shooting incident at the corner of George and Dean Streets, detectives received word of a stabbing incident in another part of southside Belize City. When officers arrived at the scene, they found twenty-seven year old fisherman Barrington Logan better known as Barry gravely injured. He was rushed to […]
In court news, a resident of the Cayo District accused of attempted murder is tonight a free man following the conclusion of his trial in the Supreme Court. According to court reports, just after six on Thursday evening, a jury of his peers found twenty-eight year old Henry Baptist not guilty of the attempted murder […]
He bid Belize goodbye earlier this week but it seems law enforcement officials were determined to keep Kirk Anderson in Belize as long as possible. According to our sources, around noon today, the former Director of Public Prosecutions was about to get on an American Airlines flight but apparently when he got to the counter […]
In news from the citrus industry, a press release today has announced that the sale of almost half the company is a done deal. According to the Citrus Growers Association, following two separate decisions in the Supreme Court, on Friday December twenty-second, forty-six point five nine percent of the shares of Citrus Products of Belize […]
Before dawn on Monday morning cycling fans will follow the pedal by pedal action of the Krem New Year’s Day Cycling Classic from its departure at the Santa Elena border in Corozal all the way to what promises to be a dramatic finish in Belize City. One man sure to be on the sidelines is […]
Adele Ramos has made a name for herself as a journalist but tonight we preview her latest attempt to conquer the world of a recording artist. Kendra Griffith explains. Kendra Griffith, Reporting On Saturday, poet Adele Ramos will be releasing not one but two debut CDs. The first is entitled Red Graffiti. Adele Ramos
If you’ve ever been on Albert or Regent Streets after five, it’s hard to miss the huge flock of birds that congregate at Battlefied Park. And as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, it’s a situation that is both ugly and unhealthy. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Every night hundreds of blackbirds descend on the downtown area, roosting […]
