Heavy rainfall in Southern Belize has caused rising waters and conditions are expected to worsen with an approaching tropical wave. Today News Five’s Marion Ali sat with Chief Met Officer Ramon Frutos to find out what to expect. Marion Ali, Reporting The experiences of Tropical Storm Arthur have left most Belizeans wary of present weather […]
A freak accident in the Toledo District has claimed the life of an elderly woman; the victim, seventy-six year old U.S. citizen Carolyn Albridge of Georgia, U.S.A. Police say around nine this morning Albridge was being driven back to Cuxlin (CUSHLIN) Ha Resort, two miles off the main Southern Highway on the Puppet (Papi) Show […]
Wilfred Elrington, Attorney General “We are not going to apply that ruling in a broad way over all the other Indian villages in Toledo because there’s a criterion for them to be able to have the status which they are claiming and that has got to be established before the court.” Those were the words […]
Reliable reports reaching News Five are that Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie will get the green light from Belmopan to be the new Ombudsman. McKenzie is expected to replace former Ombudsman Paul Rodriguez, whose contract expired prior to the February elections. McKenzie, a trained attorney, rose through the ranks of the judiciary and was named Chief […]
It started as the Committee to Oust Michael Ashcroft and following a demonstration of a few hundred to test their muscle, COLA has evolved into Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action. At a meeting this weekend the organisation elected former Prison Superintendent Bernard Adolphus as President. He is joined by six others, who will serve […]
The father of three children who died in last week’s fire in Belmopan has been charged. This morning thirty-six year old Francisco de Jesus Ruedas was arraigned on three counts of Manslaughter by Negligence in Belmopan Magistrates’ Court and was remanded to prison until August fourth. Around ten-fifteen Thursday night a fire broke out at […]
Tonight police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a car and a boat which were reportedly stolen. According to twenty-three year old Allison Cuthkelvin, some time between eleven Saturday night and one-thirty Sunday morning someone stole his Toyota Corolla from in front of Putt-Putt bar on Newtown Barracks in Belize City. […]
Two mothers in the Corozal District have filed assault reports against their sons. According to thirty-eight year old Irma Castillo, she was at her home in Halls Layout around seven-forty Friday night when her son Francisco Vasquez tried to stab her. About an hour later in the Village of Libertad, Carmen Carter alleges that her […]
A case of he said, she said has landed before the courts. Fifty year old Bernard Bowen is accusing thirty-three year old Aloma Pike of robbery, while she is claiming Bowen made a false report against her. According to Pike, Bowen refused to pay her twenty dollars as agreed for her sexual favours and so […]
The City Council has promised that an improvement to life on Belize City’s streets will come in a month’s time … but as News Five’s Ann-Marie Williams found out, we’ll just have to wait and see. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting The rains are coming down and it’s four days shy of four months since the Belize […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Father’s Day Cycle Classic finally got staged by the Belize Cycling Association yesterday featuring the Elite and the junior classes. Here are the thirty-two elite riders blasting off for the eighty mile run from the Benque Viejo border station en route to the finish […]
