Today police have another murder on their hands. The incident occurred sometime after ten on Friday night at a house on Juliet Soberanis Street in the Belama Phase One area. When police arrived on the scene, they found twenty-four year old Calvin Young, also known as Kelvin Young, dead, with knife wounds to the back, […]
Gender based violence is a subject often talked about in Belize…unfortunately because it’s so often practiced. The latest outrage occurred on Saturday night in Belize City. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting Tonight this young mother of two little boys is recovering from stab wounds she suffered at the hands of her estranged […]
Tonight Punta Gorda police are looking for the driver involved in a deadly hit and run accident on the Southern Highway over the weekend. Reports are that around two-thirty on Sunday morning the P.G. football team was returning from a game in Belmopan but as the driver approached the Big Falls Bridge, he spotted the […]
Seven men are missing at sea tonight having gone on a fishing trip and failed to return. Magistrate Richard Swift, Derrick Escobar, Ismael and Abner Quiros, Egbert “Nick” Nicholson, Ealon Reyes and Gustavo Briceno left Belize City aboard a twenty foot Mexican style skiff around nine Sunday morning en route to their usual fishing grounds […]
The controversy over oil exploration in Toledo’s Sarstoon-Temash National Park has largely been a battle for the hearts and minds of the area’s residents, waged between the oil company, U.S. Capital Energy, and the community group SATIIM. While SATIIM has grabbed the headlines with press conferences and a successful lawsuit against the government, over the […]
The winners of the regional media awards sponsored by the Pan American Health Organization have been announced and a story by News Five’s Janelle Chanona has been singled out for recognition. Janelle’s 2006 stories on the closing and subsequent reopening of Kenji Bakery by Health inspectors earned the F.A.O. award for best television news report. […]
It was an event that may not have registered with many Belizean households but over the weekend, Guatemalan national elections ended with Social Democrat Alvaro Colom topping the polls. The fifty-six year old beat his rival, retired general Otto Perez Molina, with fifty-two point seven percent of the vote to Perez’s forty-seven point three. News […]
Familial relations aside, today Minister of Foreign Affairs Lisa Shoman commented on the implications Colom’s victory could have for Belize. Lisa Shoman, Minister of Foreign Affairs “I think we have to congratulate Guatemala on a very peaceful outcome of an electoral process. I think they’ve held an election that was fairly calm and people have […]
On Friday’s newscast we previewed the upcoming Diwali celebration by Belize City’s East Indian community. Well, last night in the Corozal Free Zone Hindus from Northern Belize got together for their festivities. Here’s how it went. [Highlights from the Festival]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’ve logged on to this thing we call Sports Monday. Week VI of the RFG Cup Tournament brought the surging Suga Boys Juventus of O.W. to the M.C.C. Grounds for its scheduled shoot-out with the defending champion F.C. Belize who find themselves struggling to get into the top four […]
