The Social Security Board was jacked just before the close of business on Monday afternoon. The heist, carried out by two armed gunmen who held up the SSB offices on Princess Margaret Drive, is still baffling the police. As News Five reported, the two culprits entered the building through a back door and approached two […]
The fiscal budget for the upcoming financial year was announced on Monday and we are still doing the math on a number of issues in the sixty-one million dollar deficit budget. Firstly, we look at the issue of income tax. Prime Minister Dean Barrow was obviously pleased to say that those persons earning less than […]
In our review of the budget for 2010/2011, we also came across a significant decrease in capital investment. At budget time last year, PM Barrow boasted that his government’s spending on capital investments, that is in roads, bridges, classrooms and other job-creating projects, would “lift up the nation”. Well, a more chastened Barrow has had […]
In our newscast tonight, we are starting a new segment that will enrich the daily news package we bring to you. To make the news more interactive, at the end of the first segment we will posing questions that impact the economic, political and social fabric of the country. Viewers can send their comments to […]
Still on the budget, Prime Minister Dean Barrow on Monday announced what was widely expected, that he would raise taxes in light of a new budget deficit in the region of sixty-one million dollars. Government is expecting to raise about one hundred and nine million dollars in the additional taxes, a figure that pales in […]
On Thursday last week News Five reported that a barge ran aground eight miles north of San Pedro Town. The extent of the damage is still being determined, but News Five has learned that the barge which was stuck near Blue Reef Resort was removed in three sections on Monday. No one has claimed ownership […]
The language used in the House of Representatives on Monday by Prime Minister Dean Barrow in a feisty exchange with the former Prime Minister Said Musa, resonated on the airwaves this morning and has been the topic of conversation around many tables since they were uttered. Generally, people were rattled and find the “j” word […]
Someone played a nasty joke on Belize Rural North Area Representative Edmund Castro when they broke into his office in Sandhill on Monday morning and placed a freshly slaughtered hog’s head on his secretary’s desk. While the prank may have been on the minister he did not find it very funny and in an interview […]
On February twenty-third of this year, police officer Derrick Gideon and two others were charged with the kidnapping of San Pedro resident, Juan Perez. Gideon, a police officer, was charged along with Juan Cus and BDF Private, Justin Casimiro. This morning Gideon appeared before Justice Michelle Arana to apply for bail on the grounds that […]
Last Wednesday it was headline news when Doony’s Store in downtown Belize City was held up at gunpoint and three thieves took away a gun and a cell phone before escaping. And tonight police have charged two of three youths in connection with the hold-up. Those charged with Conspiracy to Commit Robbery are twenty two […]
A man lies critically wounded after he was shot on Monday night in Belize City. The incident occurred around nine o’clock near the complex building in Lake I. Police Press Officer, Sgt Fitzroy Yearwood says that the weapon has been recovered. In the meantime the shooting victim is fighting to stay alive at the Karl […]
Doctors gave him only a five percent chance to survive a shooting, but he beat the odds and is now back at home. Ahmad Nah was hospitalized since February twenty first and finally last week, when he had made progress, he was released to go home. News’ Five Delahnie Bain met the young man at […]
Lending a helping hand, that’s what the students of the University of Belize are doing to assist one child care center in the City to mark World Social Work Day. The two day project will not only give the Dorothy Menzies Centre a new face lift, it will also provide the children with some needed […]
Have you found that special someone that you want to share the rest of your life with and have a unique story to tell about how you met or popped the big question? Well listen closely because Channel Five is giving you the chance to score the wedding of your dreams with our newest reality […]
In 2007 the documentary film “Three Kings”, which features Belizean musicians Paul Nabor, Wilfred Peters and Florencio Mess, made its debut at the Princess Theatre. It has since been a part of the international film festival in Belize. It is also the work of Katia Paradis, who spent four years journeying with the musicians to […]
