When Belize Electricity Limited made its annual rate application, the company said skyrocketing oil prices mandated a thirteen point four percent increase in the price of power. The P.U.C., in an initial decision that may have had more to do with politics and public opinion than math, said an emphatic no to any rise in […]
As we’ve highlighted throughout our coverage of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Arthur, the loss of the Kendal Bridge across the Sittee River resulted in significant hardship to the shrimp, banana, citrus, construction and oil industries. Those investors have played a key role in relief efforts to open the road as soon as possible […]
Stronging someone’s bicycle is a common crime in Belize but what puts this particular incident on the news is that last night it was a group of young ladies that relieved a man of his bike. According to police, twenty-two year old Jose Hernandez was riding on Lakeview Street around seven-thirty when he stopped because […]
A Belize City man is tonight cooling his heels in prison after being busted for burglary. On Tuesday police responded to reports of a break-in at a home on Thomas Vincent Ramos Street in Belama Phase Two. According to police and court records, between eight twenty-five a.m. and eleven twenty-five, someone entered the home of […]
Two men who were on remand on a joint murder charge were today freed … and then rearrested. The case against sixty-seven year old Belizean Adrian Ascencio and Guatemalan, twenty-seven year old Ostilio Garcia, arose from the killing of Jose Armando Perez whose body was discovered buried in a shallow grave on January sixteenth, 2006. […]
Details are lacking but reliable reports reaching News Five indicate that a high school student is missing and believed drowned. Seventeen year old Clive Rivers, a student at St. John’s College, went swimming with friends this afternoon at Isabella Bank on the Belize River following this morning’s CXC exam. He is said to have disappeared […]
The Princess Hotel and Casino has donated half a million dollars to the Government of Belize for a programme to help young Belizeans. This morning Prime Minister Dean Barrow took possession of four cheques valued at a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars each and post dated for June through September. According to a government press […]
The Belize Police Department is seventy men and women stronger tonight following passing out ceremonies in Belmopan this morning. The recruits of squad eighty-four were officially welcomed into the ranks by Minister of National Security Carlos Perdomo, following six months at the training academy. According to valedictorian Hermain Campos, the new police officers are eager […]
We always hear about the nation’s declining literacy rate and the trend away from reading in favour of TV and video games. Today, News Five’s Marion Ali visited one school in the Belize District that’s actually doing something about it. Marion Ali, Reporting These displays depict the tools used in the lower division at Burrell […]
Every year top finishers in the Primary School Examinations point to the support of teachers and their parents for their exemplary performances. And while this year was no different, tonight students from a village in the Toledo District are being hailed as poster children for an online education program that has, in just one year, […]
In the run up to elections in February we heard a lot about large numbers of immigrants lined up to receive Belizean nationality presumably to be followed by voters cards. But, as News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports, the road to citizenship is heavily travelled all year round. Kendra Griffith, Reporting On Wednesday, Supreme Court Commissioner […]
