A power outage this afternoon caused almost four hours of inconvenience to the entire city at the peak of the work day. While of late there have been frequent scheduled power outages around the country, today’s power failure was accidental. According to the Belize Electricity Limited, the outage occurred at one-fifty-four this afternoon when a […]
CARICOM leaders of the fifteen member regional group meeting in Belize are on a mission to discuss and develop measures to mitigate the global financial and economic crisis, deliberate the status of trade agreements with the European Union and Canada, and continue the implementation of the Single Market and Economy. Those heavy topics will be […]
The heads of government spent the morning huddled in a caucus meeting, discussing the upcoming Summit of the Americas in April and the global crisis. This afternoon Assistant Secretary General of CARICOM, Edward Green, updated the press on the overall objectives of the conference and outcome of the meetings. Edward Green, Assistant Secretary Gen. “What […]
The media was invited today to the Queen Street Police Station, the venue for the destruction of the most recent cache of illegal weapons. And while this time there were no hand grenades, among the eighty-six firearms were high caliber weapons including an M-sixteen, a sixteen gauge shotgun, and also home-made pen guns. Marion Ali […]
With some guns now destroyed, local authorities are looking at a patent from regional legislations to use phone intercepts to help curb planned and organized crime. When Commissioner of Police, Gerald Westby, held a news conference earlier this week, he expounded on just how they intend to use this new option without violating people’s right […]
The Belize Defence Force received a handsome addition to its fleet of vehicles and supply of equipment. The donation from the United States government was today handed over at Price Barracks by the US Charge’ D’Affairs, A.J. Diffily and in attendance for the presentation, were the top ranks of the B.D.F., other soldiers and the […]
While at Price Barracks, News Five also spoke to Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo, about the most recent grenade attack targeted at the Comptroller of Customs, Gregory Gibson. Perdomo says that there are no significant leads as yet but the investigations continue and the grenade might have come from a spill over from violent […]
The incident occurred late last year but it is only now that the long arms of the law have caught up Wyatt Anderson who is now facing murder charges of his sister’s boyfriend. Twenty-eight year old Anderson of North Creek was charged today with the murder of Robert Brown. A little after midday on November […]
Grocery stores are robbed on a regular basis, but the investigation of a robbery in Cayo proved to be more interesting than the crime itself. Thirty-three year old Wen Fen Zhui, the proprietor for First Stop Grocery Store and restaurant in Santa Elena Town, was the victim of the robbery. Zhui reported to the cops […]
A resort’s bank account was almost drained of close to ten thousand dollars on Tuesday, but quick thinking by a bank employee aborted the theft. On March tenth, Jerome Augustus Arnold went to the Albert Street branch of Atlantic Bank to cash a cheque valued at nine thousand eight hundred dollars issued to him by […]
Last night a Belize City man became the latest victim of a drive by shooting. At five after eight on Wednesday night, nineteen year old Calvin Palma of Baracat Street was standing in a yard on Nurse Findley Crescent when the incident occurred. A car was passing by from which a man known only as […]
And turning to the Magistrates’ Court, today thirty year old Jose Castellanos, also known as ‘Chapas’, was charged with Burglary. The jury of six men and three women deliberated for over two hours and while the verdict was not unanimous, Castellanos was found guilty by a seven to two majority. Justice Adolph Lucas deferred sentencing […]
High school students flocked to the Belize City Center for the much anticipated final competition of the third annual Math Olympiad and for the first time the winner hails from the Cayo District. The finalists representing all six districts were tested for best speed and accuracy in line with the mathematics curriculum of secondary schools. […]
Owners of small businesses often want to grow their company and reduce spending. Not an easy feat, but today a program designed to streamline small and medium sized businesses was launched at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. The Inter American Investment Corporation (I.I.C.), an institution affiliated with Inter-American Development Bank, released the project named Innovative Small […]
People often wonder what is the ultimate expression of love, and before you go soul searching for a complex response, the answer is before you. It is simple and the act is literally priceless. Tonight Healthy Living explores the importance of donating blood. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting Doctors spend years educating themselves learning how to save […]
