Just before six this evening, a shooting took place at the corner of Berkeley Street and East Canal in the old capital. From what we have been able to gather, there are two victims, thirty year old Maurice Neal, a welder, and ten year old Denesha Cadle. Neal man was smoking cigarettes he had just […]
SpeedNet and Belize Telemedia executives penned their signatures to a major accord this afternoon. Last year in the height of a telecom war, B.T.L. removed Smart from its international circuits claiming that there was no valid agreement to host SMART. SMART went to court and finally today an interconnection agreement was signed at the offices […]
All week we have been reporting on the shooting of a Guatemalan which the Belize Defence Force maintains happened on this side of the border and east of the Adjacency Zone in the Chiquibul area. Representatives from the B.D.F., the Guatemalan Armed Forces and the Organization of American States met on Wednesday in a quarterly […]
The Bar Association on Thursday issued a press release in which it maintained its firm opposition to the Ninth Amendment even after the government had agreed to certain concessions with the Churches. This afternoon the Attorney General, who has not been heard from any at all, issued his own press release styling himself as the […]
The government has agreed with the churches to trim the language in the controversial ninth amendment bill that has to do with a bar on the courts. But there is still concern that the amendment can have far reaching implications because it gives parliament supremacy over the constitution. Our question to the viewers this week […]
An early morning fire has left one man without a roof over his head and his sibling without his main source of income. The two men lost everything when the blaze devoured the two-storey building on Caesar Ridge Road. The brothers are turning to the public for assistance. News Five’s Andrea Polanco reports. Andrea Polanco, […]
A ten day visit by the International Monetary Fund ended on Thursday and a statement has been released by the Mission Chief for Belize, Gerardo Peraza. It starts with the news that in comparison to other Caribbean countries, Belize has weathered well the global economic crisis. The IMF reports an increase in the country’s output […]
Mexican transportation giant ADO begins its long distance bus runs to Cancun and Merida from Belize City tonight. Although the excursions are part of a marketing research being conducted by the company an official launch remains pending. In the meantime, the runs are being tested to ensure the quality of service that ADO will be […]
Courts Belize, the giant furniture store has added five more students to its annual scholarship program. For fourteen years, Courts has been awarding bright students from across the country with the opportunity to go to a high school of their choice. News Five spoke with Marketing Officer, Rochelle Tucker, who says that today’s recipients are […]
The energy was flowing on Thursday night on Dolphin Street as Southside Masqueraders displayed their colorful water-themed costumes and gyrated to soca beats. The band is one of the biggest senior bands for this year’s grand road march on September third. They have been practicing for months and are just about ready to put on […]
A warden was killed and two inmates were left paralyzed after a prison bus overturned on the northern highway on May twenty-seventh. Twenty-four year old Dean Davis and twenty-nine year old Crispin Moreno, who are both remanded on Murder charges, applied for bail due to their medical conditions and the cases had very different outcomes […]
Belize City contractor, twenty-six year old Patrick Menzies, also filed a bail application in the Supreme Court today. Menzies was charged on August second with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Wounding for allegedly hitting Police Constable Delwin Casimiro with his car. Justice Troadio Gonzalez granted him bail of fifteen […]
Sonia Harris is in Belize on vacation but her holiday became terrifying after two encounters with the Gang Suppression Unit (GSU). Harris says that on Sunday she was on Supaul Street and witnessed the GSU harassing some young boys. She also claims that the GSU was verbally abusive and tried to take her camera. Harris […]
If you haven’t made your weekend plans as yet, and if you’re looking for good food and great ambience, Safiyyah features a favorite dining sport where all the potential stars and starlets go to eat. That’s right, this week on What’s Happening, Safiyyah ventures on Marine Parade Boulevard to Celebrity Restaurant. [Feature on Celebrity Restaurant…]
