We begin tonight’s newscast with a developing story in southern Belize where school children stayed home today and it had nothing to do with the H1N1 virus. Classes were interrupted in response to a call from the B.N.T.U. following the assault of a primary school teacher by a parent at the Solid Rock Academy. Jose […]
And from the south we go to the west, where new regulations imposed late last month on foreign bus companies traversing the Jewel are now affecting local tour operators. Guatemalan buses are under a number of restrictions when coming into Belize, and are now only allowed to drop off passengers at the Phillip Goldson International […]
While there are no local confirmed cases of the Influenza A H1N1, there are reports today that the deadly flu is moving dangerously close to Belize. In a midday status report, the Ministry of Health said there are three confirmed cases in neighbouring localities in Calderitas in the outskirts of Chetumal, Carrillo Puerto, a stop-over […]
The umbrella for Non Governmental Organizations APAMO, has been vocal of late regarding the management contracts of reserves around the country. The issue became paramount when SATIIM was denied renewal of its management contract of the Sarstoon Temash National Park after it raised concerns of seismic testing within the area. APAMO says it was quick […]
In the Supreme Court, a jury of seven women and two men deliberated for about two hours today before they found thirty-nine year old taxi driver, Levi Jackson, guilty of raping a thirty year old mother of four. The trial Judge, Justice Oswell Legall, adjourned sentencing to this coming Friday to give Jackson, who appeared […]
There were two murders and an attempted armed robbery over the past Labour Day weekend. And tonight, Officer in Charge of the C.I.B., Superintendent Julio Valdez told News Five that the Department is working on some leads, but there have been no arrests yet. The first incident occurred last Thursday when twenty-seven year old Ryan […]
A post mortem is scheduled for Wednesday morning following his death at his home in Willow’s Bank Village on Monday night. Police say they are treating the matter as a sudden death since fifty-seven year old Garnett Brown had no history of medical problems. But according to Brown’s common-law wife, they were conversing outside their […]
A shooting incident early this morning left a Belize City teenager with a gunshot wound to his thigh. Around twelve-thirty a.m., nineteen year old Kenroy Michael of Kraal Road was on Albert Street heading home when upon reaching at the junction with Dean Street he noticed that two men were following him. Michael says that […]
The fire at the City Council dump site has been extinguished but still burning garbage was the cause of the city’s latest blaze. A house at the end of Jane Usher Boulevard was gutted this morning after the trash that had accumulated nearby ignited. The Fire Department responded to a report of a garbage fire […]
A bartender of San Pedro Town was today fined ten thousand dollars after he pleaded guilty to trafficking over three pounds of marijuana. Twenty-one year old Kareem Gonzalez pleaded guilty in the Corozal Magistrate’s Court after he was apprehended on south end, Corozal on Monday afternoon. Police say the weed was found in a grey […]
The Biltmore Plaza was the venue for the last of a three-step HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy program. It is a product of the Labour Department in collaboration with the National AIDS Commission aimed at providing information on the development and implementation of workplace policies. Following the Focal Point and Behaviour Change trainings held in the past […]
In neighboring Mexico, the epicenter of the A H-One N-One flu, it is estimated that tourism will fall as much as forty percent this season. And while in Belize there are no confirmed cases of the deadly virus, the country continues to be on alert. News Five’s Marion Ali headed to the P.G.I.A. today in […]
