If you’ve been watching international news reports lately, you would have seen that the world price of oil has been steadily increasing so it’s no surprise that those hikes have trickled down to local gas stations … but just because you saw it coming doesn’t make it any less painful. Brace yourself. Premium is now […]
It’s a crime that will probably become common as the cost of fuel and butane continues to skyrocket: the theft of those basic commodities. In this case however, a Belize City delivery truck driver has been arrested and charged for trying to rip off his own boss. According to the management of Gas Tomza Limited, […]
A Belize City mother and daughter awoke horrified early Wednesday morning when two masked men entered their home and held them up at knifepoint. According to fifty-three year old Bernadette Gomez, she and her daughter Alexis were asleep in their Lizarraga Street home around one Wednesday morning when a pair of thieves broke in through […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed yet another life. According to police, around four on Thursday morning they responded to reports that a car had turned over near the Kontiki Gas Station just outside San Ignacio. When cops arrived they found a badly damaged Mazda car and the body of a man […]
A container truck reported stolen late Monday night has been recovered in Belmopan. According to police reports, the forty-foot container truck had been emptied of its cargo and abandoned on George Price Boulevard. The vehicle was stolen after a bizarre series of events on Monday night. According to the twenty-one year old driver Edson Moh, […]
He’s known for his work at Youth for the Future and more recently, as head of the Government Press Office in the Said Musa administration. But tonight Nuri Mohammed is accused of being something else: a weed smoker. According to police, a mobile patrol spotted a Mercedes Benz car on a dirt road off the […]
Road rage seems to have fuelled an argument between two motorists and has landed one of them behind bars. Police reports are that around seven on Thursday morning, taxi driver Cecil Gill and Belize City businessman Bert Vasquez Haylock got into a fight on Vernon Street. After a few choice words between the two, Gill […]
He’s been at the helm of the country’s flagship hospital for the past eight years, but tonight Dr. Alvaro Rosado says he’s been wrongfully terminated as Chief Executive Officer of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. According to Rosado, in mid-January, he signed a one year renewal contract with then board chairman Israel “Pie” Marin to […]
For six decades Gann’s Rest House served an important social duty but over those years, wear, tear and theft left the institution a little more than a shack. But tonight we’re happy to report that there’s renewed life at number sixty East Canal. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has more. Kendra Griffith, Reporting More than four […]
Tomorrow a group of Belizean teachers will travel to Atlanta, Georgia to take part in the Anglican Diocese Annual International Reading Association conference. The five-day event will have the participation of more than twenty thousand Anglican teachers from throughout North America and the Caribbean. The purpose of the meetings is to review new strategies on […]
Bright and early on Saturday morning chess players and fans from across the country will gather in Belmopan to participate in the first annual Belize Chess Olympiad. According to organizer Ian Anderson, the event is being coordinated through the Belize National Youth Chess Foundation to highlight the game as a fun and intellectually stimulating activity. […]
By reputation, he’s head of one of the largest family business empires, he can rock a mic and he and his bike are never far apart. But this week Santino Castillo announced that he’s pulling out of cycling as an elite sponsor. Before you can say “Again!?!?”, you should know that Castillo told News Five’s […]
Over the years we have consistently received comments from viewers/readers expressing their difficulty with our transcriptions of certain quotes in stories in which the speakers use Kriol. The common complaint is that such transcriptions are difficult—if not impossible—to read. The other side is that putting broad Kriol into proper English destroys all the flavour of […]
Due to a scheduled power outage, the station will be off the air from seven a.m. to two p.m. on Sunday, May fourth.
