When Prime Minister Said Musa returns to Belize on Sunday, a welcoming committee will not be waiting. Many people, from all sides of the political spectrum, including his own party, will be looking to the P.M. for an explanation of recent bizarre developments regarding the Government guarantee of the Universal Health Services debt at the […]
He was a member of one of Belize’s most prominent political families, a successful businessman, and as former Deputy Chairman of the D.F.C., was a key witness in the recent Commission of Inquiry public hearings. Tonight we regret to report that David Courtenay is dead. Sometime around five this morning, Courtenay lost control of his […]
Tonight we also regret to announce the death of former Belize City mayor, deputy speaker of the House, and Collet area representative Remijio Montejo, Sr. Montejo died just after ten on Thursday night at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. He was fifty-six years old. Montejo fell gravely ill several months ago and was later diagnosed […]
Belize City police have confirmed the identity of a man found dead on Belcan Bridge early Thursday morning. According to investigators, the corpse is that of Giovanni Martinez, a resident of Coney Drive. And while cops know who he is, tonight they are still trying to figure out how Martinez died. Because he had a […]
A boating accident on the Lighthouse Reef Atoll earlier this week has prompted calls for improved navigational aides. According to the Belize Port Authority, around ten on Wednesday night, their officers were informed that a catamaran had run aground on the reef near Halfmoon Caye. The thirty-eight foot sailing vessel named Sun Jam, is registered […]
The Department of Environment has released its findings into the Crooked Tree fish kill. According to the report, dissolved oxygen levels were really low in Black Creek where it enters into the lagoon, south of the causeway, and in the northern section of the lagoon. Today News Five spoke with Advocacy Manager at Audubon, Tanya […]
Earlier in this newscast, we announced the untimely death of former mayor and area representative Remijio Montejo due to brain cancer. According to the World Health Organization, cancer was responsible for the death of more seven and a half million people worldwide in 2005. And while statistics are hard to come by in Belize, for […]
Every day, there are as many as one hundred and fifty landings at the P.G.I.A. But as News Five’s Jacqueline Godwin reports, a significant investment by the Aviation Department should make every one of those arrivals that much safer. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting For the first time in Belize, planes flying above our skies will show […]
The high political drama surrounding government’s unauthorized payment of a private loan was not the only conflict taking place in Belize this week. On the prosperous north coast of Belize City, irate residents and an ambitious developer were locked in a war of words over the neighbourhood’s future. News Five’s Janelle Chanona was there. Cecil […]
