When we last left cycling, the sport was steeped in controversy as allegations of doping were being hurled against the country’s most successful team. However, investigations would later reveal that there was no evidence to substantiate the claims, so in the face of legal action the accusers had to apologize for their public condemnations. That […]
Separate assaults on women have left one man behind bars and another on the run. According to police, around eleven on Wednesday morning, San Pedro residents Josela Panti and her common law husband Christopher Matura started to quarrel. But the argument turned physical and Panti is now accusing Matura of beating her into unconsciousness. But […]
A purse snatching rarely makes the headlines, but when Belize City residents band together to catch the thief, it’s time to stop the press. Police reports are that twenty-seven year old Billa Marquina was shopping at a boutique on Cemetery Road when a man grabbed her bag and took off. But pedestrians on the street […]
In the last month, we’ve reported that armed robbers have been targeting delivery crews around the country. Tonight, yet another hold-up has deprived a Belize City business of more than six thousand dollars in cash. According to twenty-two year old Madisco employee, Joel Young, around three-thirty on Thursday afternoon, he was on Goldson Avenue in […]
An escaped convict who turned himself into prison officials has been sentenced to an additional year behind bars. When thirty-five year old Gilbert Requeña appeared in court this morning, Magistrate Dorothy Flowers specified that the extra twelve months will run consecutively, which means instead of just serving eighteen years for manslaughter, Requeña is now facing […]
N.H.I., for administrators, those three little letters could mean a political dream come true or another government scheme turned nightmare. But as News Five’s Marion Ali confirmed today, the Ministry of Health is convinced the plan must, and will, work for the benefit of all Belizeans. Marion Ali, Reporting More than two years after the […]
Recovery efforts continue at sea for an American man missing now for more than a week. News Five has confirmed that on December twentieth, thirty-five year old dive master, Corey Monk, an instructor on the Florida based liveaboard Nekton Pilot, accompanied several divers on a night dive off Long Caye on the Lighthouse Reef Atoll. […]
It is six months overdue, but in the entertainment business, the show must go on, which is why organisers of a weekend concert are eager to start the music. The gospel singing is set for Saturday night at the Bird’s Isle and is a New Beginning Productions event featuring Belizean Michael “Mikal” Evans and Bahamian […]
It is a landmark of the old capital, but like most Belizean schools, to survive Wesley College must use creative means to garner financial support for its programs. Tonight News Five’s Kendra Griffith takes a closer look at the institution and how it continues to break new ground in education. Kendra Griffith, Reporting 2007 marked […]
