A climate of fear is pervading the streets of the City tonight, and it is anticipated that more violence will erupt following a slew of shootings that ended in the murder of Marques Mahler and Calvin Graham late last week. Earlier today, a scheduled anti-crime event was called off when one of the leading organizers […]
Belizeans for Justice had planned to present recommendations to reduce crime at their press conference on Wednesday. But all that is now on hold in the face of the risk to their personal security. A few weeks ago, Doug Singh was installed as the new minister of police, but the NGO is now demanding the […]
As we said earlier there is a sense of fear among City residents. One of the crime events was called off because of death threats to the organizers. And even as the family of eight year old Marques Mahler grieves and prepares for his burial, they have also been receiving threats. News Five’s Isani Cayetano […]
Just about everyone who has been downtown or elsewhere in the City has been approached by the large number of persons begging for some change. Initially that profession was confined to the homeless but that has changed significantly with unemployment and school children on vacation. Tonight we ask: Are you concerned about the number of […]
Sugar cane production decreased by twelve point six percent in the first quarter of this year, compared to the same period in 2009. But that is not the only problem plaguing the industry. Cane farmers are agitating for a general meeting of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers’ Association, and as they have in the past, […]
The defense and prosecution in the murder trial of two brothers closed their case today before Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas. The brothers, Jody and Lynton Gentle, are accused of the June sixteenth 2007 murder of Alpheus Smith who was gunned down in broad daylight on Curassow Street. Smith was shot multiple times to the […]
In the courts, forty-five year old Clinton Martin, who was caught red handed stealing cement blocks at the Caye Caulker Water Taxi Association, was today spared from going to jail after he pleaded guilty to the charge of theft. The Security Guard, Andy Martinez, reported that this past Sunday, at about two-thirty p.m., he saw […]
Well-known criminal figure, Basil Willis, who already has thirty offenses to his name, had two more charges added to his extensive rap sheet today. Willis, a resident of Black Orchid Street in Belize City, is behind bars after being accused of robbing Mexican national, Juan Villatoro. Willis, who was charged with Robbery and Wounding, pleaded […]
The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Belize’s Youth for the Future are collaborating for a special summer program at the IT-VET Campus. Participating kids from Belize City are enjoying a fusion of culture, sports and art with a touch of Taiwanese flavor. The weeklong agenda is facilitated by Taiwanese, teaching different courses. It all […]
Mexico is celebrating two hundred years of independence and the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican revolution. And our northern neighbours will be holding numerous cultural events throughout the year on this side of the border. One such event comes up on Wednesday evening, with the visit of the Quintana Roo Classic […]
Get ready for the red carpet because it’s time for the annual film festival. Beginning tonight and for the duration of the festival, only on this station, catch the Belize International Film Festival TV show. In partnership with our friends from NICH, the shows will be aired weeknights after the news. View the trailers of […]
There is this news from the region, four years ago he fell ill, subsequently gave up power to his younger brother Raul Castro, and most wrote him off because his ailing health. But on Monday in Havana, the former Cuban president Fidel Castro, appeared for more than an hour on a current affairs television show […]
Santo Domingo, the capital city of the Dominican Republic and home to the recent Centro Basket Tournament, is the oldest and continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas. In fact it was founded by Columbus in 1496 and became the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the New World. Channel Five’s William Neal and […]
