There was tough talk today coming from the Opposition People’s United Party in reaction to a convention called by the Corozal Southeast Representative, Florencio Marin, last Sunday and attended by the so called old guard of the P.U.P. And if you thought the U.D.P. was the only one fighting the old P.U.P., well think again […]
On the other side of the political fence, the issue of the salary of the Mayor had become pretty contentious just before her re-election at the convention on October fifth. Mayor Moya would not speak on camera about the matter nor would the councilors, but late yesterday the Belize City Council sent out a cryptic […]
In the justice system meanwhile, there have been far too many cases of accused killers getting off murder charges when witnesses refuse to testify; this has the public and the courts wary. In the most recent case today, however, the accused walked free and the witness spent the night behind bars. It involves the trial […]
In other court news, a retrial has been ordered for postman, forty-seven year old Rudolph Smith, a man charged with Causing Death by Careless Conduct. This evening the jury of six women and three men deliberated for almost three hours and were unable to reach a verdict in the court of Justice Herbert Lord. Smith […]
And police have made some inroads into the stabbing murder on November fifteenth of taxi driver, thirty-six year old David Gabourel. This morning, based on eyewitness accounts, cops detained two of Gabourel’s neighbours and are expected to lay murder charges against them tomorrow. Gabourel’s body was discovered beside his house at thirty-six Kelly Street in […]
In crime news, a Belize City drug store was robbed after midday on Monday. Two workers of Community Sports and Nutrition Pharmacy, at the corner of Barrack Road and Hyde’s Lane were going through a regular business day until a man, about five feet, four inches in height, slim built, with a low haircut and […]
In another case of theft, a 2006 model vehicle belonging to Channel Broadcasting Cable was stolen over the weekend. Thirty-eight year old Abelardo Olivera, a cable technician for CBC, parked the white Mitsubishi L200 pickup, bearing license plate C- 30329 on Cairo Street. The vehicle, valued at forty thousand dollars, was stolen between two-thirty and […]
And in the island of San Pedro, one man has been arrested and police are looking for another regarding the sex abuse of a fourteen year old student of Las Flores Area. Yesterday the minor reported to police that back in December 2007, eighteen year old Jose Santos visited her at home and had sexual […]
Belize topped the Caribbean in a nutrition competition. Four students representing Belize earned first place in the competition of the Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute. The team competed against thirteen countries and on November twenty-fourth Belize faced and beat Antigua and Barbuda in the final showdown. The four students representing the country at the competition […]
The Belize Red Cross also scored big today. It is the recipient of a new donation to assist flood victims of tropical depression sixteen. And this time the assistance came in the form of cash in the sum of one hundred thousand Belize dollars from the U.S. Embassy. The monies will be used in efforts […]
While the U.S. Embassy was working out the details of handing over funds to the Red Cross, a group of missionaries from Los Angeles were crisscrossing Belize donating supplies to flood victims. The pastors from the Dios International Missionary Church arrived in the country last Wednesday with a container load of medical items, school supplies […]
While flood victims are getting assistance, there is one family in desperate need whose story we found touching and we felt compelled to include it in our newscast. When we visited with forty-eight year old Hethelmae Richards and her husband Dewey at their home in Roaring Creek Village, our hearts were so moved that we […]
Around the world today activities were held to commemorate International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women… local events included a candlelight vigil in San Ignacio, the WIN-Belize torch run in the old capital, and workshops in Orange Walk, Corozal and Belmopan. Today News Five’s Kendra Griffith spoke with Women’s Department Director Icilda Humes and discovered […]
And turning to young people, developing a creative mind is a primary goal in art. And Yaoling’s Art Studio at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway, is dedicated to this prospect. The after-school program is run by Yaoling Lee, a mother of three, and she took News Five’s Duane Moody on a […]
The new bus system implemented on October nineteenth has some major wrinkles to iron out. While its objective was to improve the old system, it appears that some of the old problems of overcrowding, late arrivals and departures from terminals lack of enforcement officers on the roads, continue to plague the industry. And there are […]
