A ten month old child and a forty year old woman lost their lives in a fatal road traffic accident earlier this evening on the George Price Highway near the Mile Eight Community. A News Five team was caught in the middle of it all as they were heading back into the city from an […]
And two people lost their lives on Sunday morning in a fatal traffic accident in Belmopan City. The victims have been identified as Kimberly Griffith and Elmer Avila. Griffith is known in her Corozal Town for her hand crafted jewelry business and her efforts to teach others the trade. Recently she and the Director of […]
In another horrifying incident of domestic violence, a woman and her daughter were killed at their home in San Ignacio over the weekend, and her son was taken by his biological father. Tonight Bryan Castillo and the boy are on the run, and may have already crossed over into Guatemala. News Five’s Paul Lopez has […]
Police have since issued a wanted poster for Bryan Castillo. Assistant Superintendent Fitzroy Yearwood briefed the press via zoom on police’s investigation so far. ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communication Director, Belize Police Department “Police responded to a scene on Zericote Street. This is where inside a room they found the motionless body of the females […]
There was a murder in Belize City on Sunday night. Miguel Zaiden was stabbed multiple times while he was out socializing with several others on Racecourse Street. Despite attempting to ride away on his motorcycle, Zaiden collapsed and was transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he later passed away. According to Assistant Superintendent […]
The decomposed remains of a male person was discovered in the Belize River near Iguana Creek on Saturday afternoon. The unidentified body was lodged in a bamboo patch. It has since been taken to the Central American Health Science University where a post mortem examination has been scheduled. It is the police department’s hope that […]
A mother is tonight desperately trying to find answers following the death of her son over the extended holiday weekend. Maria Rios, a resident of Rhaburn Ridge, Belize District, was expecting a visit from her son, Daniel, who had called sometime earlier on Saturday to inform that he was traveling by bus en route to […]
History was made on Saturday night when Belize’s very own Destiny Wagner was crowned Miss Earth 2021. It is a big step for the pageant industry in Belize because as a country we have only managed to place once, and that was way back in 1979 when Sarita Acosta competed in the Miss Universe pageant. […]
Five Belizean musicians are now signed to Universal Music Group. Area Representative for Mesopotamia and former Bad Boy Musician Shyne Barrow flew into Belize last week with Senior V.P. at U.M.G., Steven Victor to sign these contracts. In a press statement Shyne said “All the artists I signed, Supa G Martinez, Stig Da Artist, Ty […]
Tourism represents forty percent of G.D.P., forty percent of employment opportunities for the workforce and the vast majority of investments in Belize come via tourism investments. Tourism also injects a bulk of the foreign exchange used for the purchase of imported goods. On Saturday, one point two miles of paved road was officially launched in […]
There is more development coming to another tourism destination in the Stann Creek West division. Placencia is getting a new polyclinic. Tourism Minister Anthony Mahler says that that community needs an adequate medical facility to serve visitors and residents alike. Anthony Mahler, Minister of Tourism & Diaspora Relations “Health services are important. People want […]
On Saturday there was a Special Sitting of the House of Representatives. It was no ordinary day of House business, however. Instead, young people from all over Belize became the parliamentarians, introducing an act they would like to see become an actual law, to protect children from the adults who seek to corrupt them and […]
As the government tries to keep Belize open for business, it continues to push for vaccinations to keep COVID infections and deaths low. But when an announcement was circulated recently requiring all public officers to take the jabs by December fifteenth in order to protect themselves, it was met by a degree of resistance. Today […]
Belize is making it easier for U.S. visitors with the new direct flights by Alaska Air from Seattle, Washington. These will connect tourists on the U.S. most northwestern seaboard to Central America twice a week. The inaugural flight coincided with the November nineteenth festivities and ceremonial drumming was held at the Seattle airport and upon […]
While there is much to celebrate about getting two more flight with tourists per week to Belize, the Belize Tourism Board has also been marketing the country to other location within the United States. Following the ceremony on Friday, News Five asked Minister Mahler what other areas we are looking to, to attract more tourists […]
Today at the Scouts Association of Belize headquarters in Belize City, Governor General Froyla T’zalam was installed as the patron of the organization following the retirement of former G.G. Sir Colville Young. Her first act was to sign off on the appointment of Doctor Erasmo Franklin as the interim Chief Scout. That post was left […]
This week, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital became the topic of controversy that ended with KHMH Board member, Dr. Fernando Cuellar, reportedly resigning from that post. Cuellar has not responded to our requests for an interview on the matter, but his abrupt departure comes two days after the Minister of Health and Wellness, Michel Chebat, […]
