One man is dead and two others are in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight following a traffic accident on the Northern Highway. News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Seventy-nine year old Oswald Young, affectionately called “Daddy”, was on his way home when the vehicle he was travelling in as […]
The Belize Communications Workers Union has given the Minister of Labour the mandatory twenty-one days notice of industrial action against Belize Telecommunications Limited and has instituted a work-to-rule, effective Monday. At issue is the firing of three workers in the stores department, with the union claiming that the B.C.W.U. was not properly consulted as required […]
A Dangriga man has been arrested after he burnt down a house belonging to his family. According to police, forty year old Luis Lambert set fire to a residence on Ganey Street around nine this morning. The house had been the subject of a longstanding dispute between Lambert and his brother, Fitzgerald, who reports that […]
Two Guatemalans are in police custody tonight charged with the illegal possession of Mayan artefacts. According the police reports, around eleven o’clock this morning they stopped a green Ford Escort at a checkpoint between miles seventy-one and seventy-two on the Western Highway. A subsequent search the car, led to the discovery of a number of […]
Riddle me this, News 5 viewers. Why was today’s session of the D.F.C. Commission of Inquiry like a Belize City gangster style shooting? Answer: Because nobody saw or heard a thing. Janelle Chanona explains. Janelle Chanona “The day’s first witness was former Vice Chairman of the D.F.C. Board of Directors, David Courtenay. Like his former […]
Government officials, public, and private sector representatives participated in a one-day forum today designed to increase efficiency. According to organisers, the session entitled: E-Governance and National Information Communications and Technology describes how the internet can be used to access important data and services. Myrtle Palacio, Director, Office of Governance “In the development of I.C.T. in […]
A small European country has awarded a Belizean children’s group with forty thousand dollars. Through the San Marino Permanent Mission to the United Nations, “My Neighbours and Me” based in Lake Independence was recognised for its extraordinary contribution to children. Today the group’s director Herbert Wiltshire told us how the money will be used. Herbert […]
This morning residents of five villages in the Stann Creek District took part in a march for the environment. The event, organised by the N.G.O. Friends of Nature included the participation of students and residents of Independence, Placencia, Seine Bight, Hopkins, and Monkey River. The villagers say they want to make their feelings known about […]
It’s a school that is no stranger to bad luck … but today the administration, faculty, and students of Belize City’s Salvation Army Primary were counting their blessings. News 5’s Kendra Griffith reports. Barbara Lino, Principal, Salvation Army School “The children from Salvation Army School are very, very poor kids and many of them will […]
