We are always hearing stories of how the police can’t respond to emergency calls because there’s no fuel for their vehicles. Now we know why. Police constable Leroy Kerr, the man given the responsibility to authorise fuel orders for the department, is being accused tonight of operating a monumental scam that defrauded government of over […]
Belize City police say they are still trying to find out how twenty-eight year old Lyjon Franklin may have broken into the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts, but that has not stopped them from charging him with the crimes of Aggravated Burglary and Handling Stolen property. The break in the case came after authorities […]
A convicted murderer has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. On May thirtieth, a jury found twenty-four year old Wayne Martinez guilty of the stabbing death of forty-five year old Reno Castillo. His brother, twenty-seven year old Morris, was also accused of the murder but was acquitted of the crime. […]
With the long delayed construction of a new access road to the dump on the Western Highway it appeared that Belize City’s garbage problems were–if not solved–at least eased. But a recent decision by the Belize City Council suggests that there are more significant changes on the way. Wayne Usher, Councillor, Sanitation “Let us give […]
Starting this weekend, Belizeans will have the opportunity to travel non-stop to one of their favourite destinations abroad … although they’ll have to wake up early to make the flight. Around six-thirty on Sunday morning Delta Airlines’ inaugural flight from Los Angeles will land at the Philip Goldson International Airport. The service will be offered […]
Last week on this newscast we alerted holders of Visa cards that the charges on their foreign purchases were being inflated by one percent and that every U.S. dollar they spent was costing them a total of two dollars and eight cents Belize. Tonight we’ve got news for all credit card holders who have been […]
Two Belizean artists have been selected to receive prestigious awards by the World Music Expo, WOMEX. Andy Palacio and Ivan Duran will be officially honoured during a ceremony scheduled to be held in Sevilla, Spain in October. The international organisation credits Palacio with putting Garifuna music and culture on the world map. Since 1995, the […]
It’s Reef Week in Belize and institutions and activists from home and abroad are focussing on our marine attractions even more than usual. Today an impressive group of over fifty professionals gathered in Belize City to look at a strategy that aims to convince decision makers that protecting the coastal zone is more than just […]
The word means “higher” in Latin, but the secondary school called Excelsior has never quite lived up to its name. Reputations are not etched in stone, however, and as News Five’s Kendra Griffith discovered, the winds of change are blowing through this once troubled south side Belize City institution. Kendra Griffith, Reporting Today the faculty […]
