Orange Police and the Orange Walk community are grappling with an escalating, internal gang war. Another Back-A-Town Gang associate was gunned down in broad daylight this morning. Twenty-one-year-old Jose “Duffy” Medina was fatally was executed as he rode his bicycle just a few feet away from the house he was renting off Mahogany Street. A […]
The Paz family in San Pedro Town has received confirmation of the death of forty-nine-year-old Jose Milo Paz. The veteran pilot and aviation pioneer died in a plane wreck in the mountains in Panama sometime on October seventh. While the news of his death had been widely reported, the Paz family was hopeful until today. […]
An elderly man is recovered at the Southern Regional Hospital following an explosion in San Isidro Village in the Stann Creek District. On Wednesday evening around six-twenty, Bella Vista Police were called out to the village where a vehicle was seen engulfed in flames at Garcia’s Butane Gas Depot. Sixty-five-year-old taxi driver, Jose Morales, was […]
Independence Fire Department personnel responded to the explosion, which occurred approximately nine miles away from the station. On arrival, they spotted the thirteen-seater van completely destroyed by fire, but they sprung into action to extinguish the blaze. But according to Deputy Fire Chief, Benisford Matura, the information they’ve gathered so far does not indicate whether […]
While Morales is lucky to be alive, the situation could have turned fatal. The incident has brought into focus the need for safety measures to be exercised at butane gas depots. So who is liable in this case? Morales or Garcia’s Butane Gas Depot? That’s what the media asked Deputy Fire Chief Benisford Matura today. […]
Two minors are behind bars tonight for the murder of San Ignacio teenager Bobby Garcia. Charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder were levied on the under-aged high school duo from the west on Wednesday. Garcia was stabbed multiple times inside a temple at the Cahal Pech Archaeological Site where a visitor found his […]
A twenty-six-year-old Belama resident was charged for the attempted murder of Thomas Ferguson. The nineteen-year-old Arlington Drive was targeted last Friday while talking to a friend a short distance from his house in Belize City. Ferguson was shot twice to the stomach and back and remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. Police say that they believe […]
The Belize City Council says that today it returned the two-thousand five hundred dollars in cash that was left on the desk of City Administrator Stephanie Garbutt. Deputy Mayor Oscar Arnold says that it was a matter they were dealing with internally, but after a letter sent to Chinese Businesswoman Tung Wang Huang of a […]
Preparations are underway for another round of discussions in the days ahead, as the twenty-one day notice given to Port of Belize Limited inches closer towards expiration. The impasse between discontented waterfront workers and the management of the docking facility persists, despite a number of meetings over the past week in an effort to break […]
President of the Court of Appeal of Belize, Justice Manuel Sosa, was among seventy alumni of the University of the West Indies who were honoured at the University’s seventieth anniversary of service and leadership across the region. The judge is conferred on the “University’s most outstanding alumni, who have excelled in their fields of endeavor.” […]
Two Belize City students will be moving on to the National Father Marion Ganey Quiz competition, which takes place on November twenty-third in Cayo. The duo beat other students from the Belize District with their impressive knowledge of the credit union movement as well as financial literacy. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, […]
A five-day course on lifeguard training is winding down at the Young Women’s Christian Association in Belize City. Taking part are women from the police department and the Belize Coastguard. The initiative is part of a human rights project which seeks to empower the women and teach them a skill they will rely to save […]
The sixteenth annual conference of the Organization of Caribbean Utility Regulators is being hosted by the Public Utilities Commission here in Belize City. Across the region, stakeholders in telecommunications, information and communications technology, water and sewerage, and several other related utilities have gathered at the Biltmore. They are discussing a variety of matters, including a […]
In respect of information and communications technology, there has been a shift toward the use of mobile applications such as Whatsapp and Snapchat. According to Riviere-Smith, regulators are encouraging teen users to become developers and monetize their use of those platforms. Kathleen Riviere-Smith, Executive Director, OOCUR “Teens are using Whatsapp and Snapchat. They’ve moved […]
On Tuesday we reported on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change one point five Report. It spelled out a serious warning for the Caribbean and the rest of the world. Today, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center, known as the five C’s, issued its own release to echo the warning that Caribbean leaders need […]
There was thunderstorm activity on Wednesday night over central and northern Belize, while other parts of the country experienced winds of about thirty miles per hour and heavy rainfall. The system, according to the National Meteorological Service, developed as a result of Hurricane Michael that hit southern Florida earlier. Today, we spoke with forecaster Angelia […]
In San Antonio Village, Cayo, a women’s group exists which aims at empowering women and preserving the Yucatec Mayan culture by teaching visitors how to make handmade tortillas and pottery. It is taught through attention-grabbing presentations of traditional Mayan practices of pottery and tortilla making. The media was taken to visit the group as part […]
Earlier today, Miss Universe Belize, Jenelli Fraser made an appearance on the KTLA Five News. The recently crowned beauty ambassador will be representing the Jewel in the 2018 Miss Universe pageant on December sixteenth in Thailand. Fraser has been in the Los Angeles since September thirtieth where she is in training as part of her […]
A unique fundraiser is taking place this weekend. In this instance about a hundred persons are camping out at the Memorial Park throughout the night to experience what it is to be homeless. The event is being organized by the Welcome Resource Center that caters to the City’s homeless persons as a way to bring […]
