When the village of Bermudian Landing is mentioned on this newscast it is usually in connection with cricket, a sport which thrives in the green pastures of the Belize River Valley. Tonight, however, it is the emerging national pastime of homicide that has the area in the headlines. News Five’s Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, […]
Police are looking for three women following an attack they believe stemmed from an old beef. The incident ended in a stabbing that has left a fourth woman in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Twenty-one year old Teresita Vivas reported to police that she was walking on Church Street around seven on […]
The Belize Farm Centre on North Front Street in Belize City was the target of an armed hold-up around eleven this morning. While the lone gunman didn’t hurt anyone, he did fire a shot which struck the ceiling. The incident has left employees and customers terrified and the manager trying to figure out how he […]
A trip to many of Belize City’s most popular supermarkets has confirmed what shoppers have been saying for several days. No rice no deh. The problem apparently lies in that by now familiar phenomenon of skyrocketing prices for diesel fuel and other agricultural inputs. The mechanised farmers of Blue Creek say they approached government three […]
In regional news, a TACA Airbus 320 carrying one hundred and twenty four passengers and crew slid off the runway at Toncontin International Airport in Tegucigalpa Honduras around eight thirty local time this morning and broke into three parts, killing five people. The plane was on the last leg of a scheduled route from Los […]
Reports just in from the Stann Creek district indicate that an accident on the Hummingbird Highway may have resulted in a fatality. Reports reaching News Five indicate that a towhead truck and pickup collided around mile twenty-five, north of Middlesex Village. The badly injured driver of the small pickup was said to be unconscious and […]
Belize City police will no longer work their beats solely on foot as they’ve stepped up their patrols to include two wheels. It’s all part of a new initiative called precinct policing. Today News Five spoke with officer commanding Eastern Division, Assistant Superintendent Allen Whylie, at the handing over ceremony. Asst. ComPol Allen Whylie, O.C., […]
The dry season came to an apparent end this week and a tropical depression which promises to dump some four inches of water overnight on the old capital will have no mercy on the repair work being done on Albert and Regent Streets. Deputy Mayor Anthony Michael says while a little rain is okay, too […]
On last night’s newscast leader of the Opposition John Briceño offered his reaction to Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s first hundred days in office. Tonight the conversation turns to Briceño’s own performance after two months at the helm of his party. John Briceño, Leader of the Opposition “The new executive has been working very hard. We’ve […]
Belize has long been regarded as home to the region’s largest population of those curious creatures known as manatees. And while many scientists have documented that prolific presence, the public does not always gain access to that information. Today marine scientist Caryn Self-Sullivan shared her years of research on manatees in the waters surrounding Swallow […]
When we last left the battle between the Fort Street Tourism Village and Brown Sugar Marketplace, F.S.T.V. had ten days to rebuild the boardwalk that they had broken or face charges of contempt. This morning when the parties appeared in court, Brown Sugar reported that they were satisfied that the F.S.T.V. had complied with the […]
Today was a big day for the nation’s military as a new Minister of National Security welcomed new recruits and their new boss. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from Price Barracks in Ladyville. Kendra Griffith, Reporting This morning the B.D.F. soldiers were at their sharpest as they assembled to commemorate the passing out of recruit […]
