A man and a little girl are dead following a traffic accident and the driver under investigation is the Mayor of Orange Walk Town, Ravei Gonzalez. The incident occurred around six o’clock Sunday evening near mile thirty-five on the Northern Highway. The victims are Honduran Manuel Coto and his two year old neighbour, Martita Yolanda […]
Police found his body around two-thirty last Friday afternoon not far from his home in Lord’s Bank Village. And while a post mortem examination did not determine that foul play was involved, police were asking the public’s help to identify the man. Today police reported that the deceased is forty-seven year old Stephen Jones who […]
The case of the walls at the Fort Street Tourism Village entered a new era as this morning fresh arguments began in the Court of Appeal. Lead attorney for the Village, Godfrey Smith, is appealing the March eleventh decision of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh which found that the walls denied the constitutional right of the […]
Tonight Channel 5 has a new majority owner. In a transaction completed this morning, the Belize Telemedia Limited Group acquired majority ownership of Great Belize Productions Limited, the parent company of the Channel 5 television station. This is in keeping with Telemedia’s strategic objectives “to expand the current range of services develop partnerships, and expand […]
The latest Lotto winner is a retired nurse from Dangriga. This morning, seventy-five year old Rozinel Cadogan made her way to the Tropical Gaming Company office in Belize City to collect her seventy-two thousand, five hundred dollar prize. Cadogan told News Five how she got lucky. Rozinel Cadogan, $72,500 Lotto Winner “My granddaughter was going […]
You may hear a lot about the organisation’s gala fundraising events, but today the Lifeline Foundation is in the news because of what it does with the money it raises. In this case over twenty thousand dollars for three worthy causes. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports. Kim Simpliss, Founder/Director, Lifeline Foundation “Today we are pleased […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly happy to roll out this dish of Sports Monday. So we zoom in on the Reliant Stadium at Houston Texas, United States, where yesterday the Belizean Flag is being raised in support of our National Football Team for game one of their World Cup Qualifying series against […]
