One week after fuel prices jumped by more than fifty cents at the pump, Belmopan has announced a four dollar increase in the price of butane. The new rates take effect on Saturday with a hundred pound cylinder selling for a hundred and twenty-two dollars in Belize City, one twenty four in Belmopan and San […]
Many motorists are simply waved through a police checkpoint but on Thursday there was something about the three men and a woman travelling in an Isuzu Trooper that made officers stop and take a second look. And it was a good thing they did. According to police, inside the vehicle they found one point nine […]
Meanwhile officers manning the Sand Hill checkpoint had a find of their own as police say inside forty-three year old Edmundo Burke’s vehicle they found twenty-five cartons of uncustomed cigarettes. The DJ brand smokes, valued at twelve thousand five hundred dollars, were immediately seized and Burke was arrested. The accused appeared in Magistrate Court this […]
In an update to the mysterious jacking of a container truck more than a week ago, late this evening Comptroller of Customs Gregory Gibson confirmed to News Five that an internal investigation is ongoing and has resulted in the suspension of one of its officers. According to Gibson, just after the forty-foot container truck left […]
A Belize City musician is singing “Jail House Rock” tonight after cops found an unlicensed gun in his bedroom closet. But as serious as that charge is, twenty-eight year old Ernest Young may have bigger trouble on his hands because police believe the firearm has been used as a murder weapon. Acting on a tip, […]
The assault of security guards for their weapons has become a common crime but tonight a Belize City watchman is alleging that he was kidnapped and beaten by three attackers. According to thirty year old Gregory Stamp, on Wednesday afternoon he was working at Edward P. Yorke High School when a former student attempted to […]
It’s a part of the transition process following General Elections, but this week control of a water board in the Cayo District ended in the detention of two people and allegations of political victimization. According to El Progresso Village Councillor Geraldo Garcia, on Wednesday, Rural Development Officers arrived in the Mountain Pine Ridge community accompanied […]
It’s a favourite fantasy to imagine winning millions of dollars but for one Belizean American and his wife, that dream has come true. On Thursday, seventy-four-year old Carl Bernard Hunter and his wife Diane claimed, wait for it, the ninety-seven million U.S. dollars they won in the Louisiana Powerball jackpot. In January, Hunter stopped at […]
This morning the Belize Defence Force officially accepted five new Mitsubishi pickups, courtesy of the United States Government. As we found out at the handing-over ceremony this morning, the gifts are part of the U.S. Government’s Global Peace-keeping Initiative and will form a part of the B.D.F.’s Light Engineering Company. Leonard Hill, Deputy Chief of […]
They are always one of the first organisations to respond in times of disaster and on Thursday the millions of volunteers that are the backbone of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies celebrated the birthday of their founder Henry Dunant, who established the organisation in 1863. The movement, which has been operating in […]
Organisations like the Red Cross count on volunteers and financial contributions from the business community and the public. But with everyone complaining about the high cost of living these days, resources are stretched thin. But since last September, one Belize City woman has been quietly investing in the children of her neighbourhood. Gospel Minister Suzette […]
She’s one of the hardest working women in show business and this weekend Millie Jackson will star in a special Mother’s Day concert in Belize City. News Five’s Kendra Griffith sat down with the international singer this morning for a preview. Kendra Griffith, Reporting In the over forty years that Millie Jackson has been on […]
For the past four nights, student performers have taken centre stage at the Bliss Centre to showcase their talents in music, drama, dance and poetry. Here are the highlights of those performances. [Montage of Festival of Arts performances] The secondary showcase ends tonight but the primary school performers will take over the stage from May […]
