The San Pedro community has been left devastated by one of the most ferocious fires in the island and elsewhere in the country. The blaze erupted at about two-forty-five this morning at a two storey house in the Escalante subdivision. The wooden upper flat of the house was completed gutted. Trapped inside was a family […]
As the hellish fire raged, the community formed a bucket brigade to assist the Fire Department to fight the uncontrolled blaze. The fire trucks ran out of water but another most disturbing factor that contributed to the loss of life was that there was only one flight of stairs to the upper flat. There was […]
The response to the devastating fire has been fast as residents come together at this difficult time. The Town Council, Belize Red Cross San Pedro Branch and NEMO have all teamed up to assist the surviving fire victims. Four persons were killed, two injured and six others displaced when the structures they called home were […]
For the fourth time in less than two years, the all-powerful Ministry of Natural Resources has a new leader. At the start of today’s Cabinet meeting in Belmopan, Prime Minister Dean Barrow broke the news that Corozal North area representative, Hugo Patt, was moving up as the new minister of Natural Resources. A press release […]
The Opposition People’s United Party, like the rest of the nation, says it wants answers as to why Doctor Barnett is “being demoted,” in favour of “relatively junior” Hugo Patt. In a release this evening, the P.U.P. reminded that according to Prime Minister Barrow, Barnett, a former Financial Secretary and vice-president at the Caribbean Development […]
Twenty-one-year-old Ryan Rhaburn was arrested and charged along with two others on October thirtieth, 2017, concerning the robbery of a pawnshop in Belmopan a few days earlier. Rhaburn was arraigned on a single count of abetment to commit robbery for his alleged role in the heist. Since being released on bail, however, he has reportedly […]
Rhaburn’s mother, who also asked not to appear on camera, makes some very bold claims against members of the police department. Likewise, Shari Lopez accuses the owners of the pawnshop of having the G.S.U. officers on their payroll in an attempt to shakedown borrowers who are either delinquent or have defaulted on their debt. She […]
Deputy Commissioner of Police Chester Williams, who has viewed amateur footage of the incident, tells an entirely different story of what transpired. He goes as far as stating that the G.S.U. officers used necessary force since Rhaburn clearly was resisting arrest. The family contends that he is being harassed and profiled. DCP Williams, on the […]
Eighteen-year-old Rudolph Welcome has been remanded to the Belize Central Prison after being arraigned for the near-fatal shooting of Eugene Henderson Junior over the weekend. On Saturday night, the twenty-three-year-old Burrell Boom resident was shot to the right side of the face whilst sleeping on a sofa at a relative’s house in Roaring Creek. It […]
She was not in court today, but twenty-three-year-old Aracely Cahueque could find herself back in front of a Belizean court, if the Court of Appeal finds that she must face another trial for abetment to murder. Cahueque was the alleged mastermind behind the evil plot to behead the nineteen-year-old Raylene Dyer and abduct her newborn […]
A pair of Belize City teenagers has been remanded to the Central Prison in connection with the armed robbery of Moon Grocery Store on Coney Drive, located up the street from Channel Five. Eighteen-year-old Rikish Rhaburn of Amara Avenue and nineteen-year-old Kentroy McKoy, of Cleghorn Street, were read three counts of robbery before Magistrate Khadeen […]
A homeless man caught stealing inside a clothing store on Albert Street avoided jail today. But forty-four-year-old Denroy Ingram is not out of danger yet as he must find two hundred dollars to pay the Magistrate’s Court by the end of August. On Monday, owner of Juanita’s Outlet, Joseph Hoy, was alerted by his wife […]
Minister Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez is going into retirement and right about now he is observing the persons who are interested in replacing him for the U.D.P. in the Port Loyola Division. Over the past couple months, a number of names have been thrown around, including former City Councillor Dean Samuels and former Lake-I U.D.P. standard […]
There has been at least two fish kill in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. Back in May, hundreds of dead fish including permit and bonefish surfaced on the Boca Del Rio Beach. And about a week ago, dead fish surfaced on the lagoon in San Pedro Town, including snappers and barracudas. Local authorities on the island […]
June is fisherfolk month and a number of activities are being held across the country to engage fishers on the state of the industry. Today, the Second Annual Women in Fisheries Forum was held in Belize City, under the theme “Working Towards Zero Hunger with Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries.” The purpose of the forum is to […]
Earlier today, forty participants, including clients of SBDC Belize and Export Belize, both units of BELTRAIDE, attended a workshop to strengthen the capacities of policy makers, business development organizations and business owners in developing and promoting business continuity planning. It is a key strategic mitigation measure in the event of a disaster. News Five’s Isani […]
Over the past century, around four hundred languages have gone extinct and most linguists estimate that more than fifty percent of the world’s remaining six thousand five hundred languages will be gone by the end of this century. And while languages are dying, many others are endangered or threatened, most being in the Americas. Back in 2003, […]
