Tragedy has landed again at the front door of Delia Lewis. Lewis is the mother of a cyclist Maurice Usher who was hit in a terrible traffic accident last Friday night that sent him in coma. Usher was driving a motorcycle, heading to Belize City from his family’s farm when he collided with a bicycle […]
An aircraft belonging to Tropic Air suffered a blowout soon after landing at the San Pedro Municipal Airstrip this afternoon. News Five spoke with Tropic Air’s Johnny Grief, who says the plane pulled up to the terminal and almost came to a complete stop, when it experienced a flat tire. The passengers exited the plane […]
The Director of Public Prosecutions is appealing the sentences handed down to three Colombian nationals who pleaded guilty to a slew of charges on June twenty-eighth. Twenty-seven year old Alberto Bedoya, thirty-seven year old Hernan Dario O’Quendo and forty-two year old Yeney De Jesus Echavaria Manco were caught in Independence Village with fifty-three parcels of […]
Earlier today the Ministry of Sports announced that a delegation from FIFA will be in Belize on July nineteenth. The release says that it received a letter from the international football authority saying that the delegation comprises FIFA Executive and Emergency Committee member, Rafael Salguero; CONCACAF Executive Member Ariel Alvarado and UNCAF President, Rafael Tinoco. […]
Attorney Godfrey Smith’s Marine Parade Office was targeted by thieves on September ninth, 2010, but the six culprits were caught on surveillance cameras and the arrests were swift. Fredrick Waight, Jose Caliz, Charles Neal, Michael Fairweather, Kareem Gladden and Mark Alamilla were charged and pleaded not guilty to Burglary. But when the matter came up […]
Former village council chairman Walter Gillett, who was accused of embezzling money from Gracie Rock Village Council’s Atlantic Bank account, was today acquitted of four counts of obtaining property by deception. The forty-one year old appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to answer charges that he withdrew a total of nine thousand, eight hundred dollars from […]
We have been following their journey to the Special Olympics since they left Belize in mid-June for Athens, Greece. Today they’re back in Belize boasting bronze medals after playing teams from Chile, Singapore and Indonesia. The boys who are intellectually impaired have been training for over a year with the hopes of bringing home a […]
The ministry of education has joined forces with two international organizations for a mega summer camp. The camp sites are throughout the city and well over a thousand primary and high school students and teachers have signed up. The camp deals with financial literacy and News Five’s Jose Sanchez visited one of the ongoing camps […]
They belong to the same party, that’s the People’s United Party and both can possibly be described as high profile soldiers. But there’s bad blood between Winston Smiling and Steve Nembhard over thousands of dollars that Nembhard reportedly owes Smiling. Despite promises to pay, Nembhard had not and so Smiling went to court. But Nembhard […]
It’s finally here; one of Belize’s most highly anticipated family shows in the summer months. KTV Duets opens with a bang and with many surprising new elements. With contestants from all over the country, this season looks like it’s going to totally exciting and highly competitive. This year the duos will have to sing their […]
The line-up for the opening show includes eight couples from Belize City, Corozal, Orange Walk and from Placencia. They will be bringing it on as the first round of competition kicks off live at the Bliss. As we said, it’s a whole new season, with a new format and surprises that will wow the audience. […]
Duets opens tonight and that will be followed by the grand opening of the annual film festival at the Bliss on Friday. This year a number of new activities have been incorporated so if you are a moviegoer, a writer, lover of comedy or you want to venture into film production; there’s something for you […]
An article by Kiplinger.com, an online American personal finance magazine has named Corozal Town on its list of eight great places to retire outside of the US. The writers paid close attention to the cost of living and health care services in each destination and consulted experts in travel, tourism and overseas retirement before compiling […]
