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Guanacaste & St. Herman’s Blue Hole National Parks closed

The Belize Audubon Society co-manages several national parks in the country. Three facilities have recently been damaged and two of them have been severely ravaged by Hurricane Richard. While you [...]

Fall from Tower leads to death of two men

Two men, engaged in a high risk job involving the engineering and assembly of communications towers lost their lives.  Today two senior employees of Efficient Tower Services were crushed when [...]

Safiyyah’s weekend of stormy entertainment

The threat of bad weather over the weekend forced the cancellation and postponement of numerous activities. In the city and around the country, numerous events were called off due to [...]

Firearm and ammunition charges; one freed and one convicted

Separate trials concluded on Monday for two men charged with Possession of Unlicensed Firearm and Ammunition. While the charges were the same, the outcomes were very different. Tyson Ysaguirre was [...]

Fisherman attacked and hospitalized

Alvin Andrews, a fisherman of Belize City, was found lying on Wilson Street with several cut wounds to his face and body last Sunday morning, but the report did not [...]

La Inmaculada Credit Union scammed with forged cheques

A sizeable amount of money was cashed in forged cheques at La Inmaculada Credit Union in Orange Walk. On August sixth Yolanda Gomez, the manager, is said to have reported [...]

Robbers of Everyday Grocery Shop charged

Many stores are robbed every day, so it was no surprise when Everyday Grocery Shop at mile nineteen on the Northern Highway was targeted.  This morning, four persons, Aaron Bailey [...]

Hollywood actors give to kids while filming Hookup in Belize

Two US movie and television stars caused a stir at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. Patients and visitors were excited to see Brody Hutzler of soap operas such [...]

Fresh Catch now a shell of its former self

News Five’s Isani Cayetano headed to La Democracia to find out more about Fresh Catch Belize Ltd. He found out that once a powerhouse in the fish farming industry, the [...]

Channel 5 reporter Isani Cayetano robbed by gunmen

Our news reporters frequently cover stories about armed robberies, an all too common offence. But on Monday night, News Five’s own Isani Cayetano experienced, firsthand, being held up at gunpoint. [...]

Former Prime Minister takes apart the budget

In the first day of the budget debate on Thursday, members from sides of the House rose to have their say; whether it was to condemn the budget or to [...]

Safiyyah ‘s pre-Easter weekend entertainment

We’re one week away from the Easter festivities and almost everyone’s plans include a visit to the beach. So tonight Safiyyah has a special presentation on what’s hot in swim [...]

5 year old sexually abused three times; one charged

In one of the more disturbing matters before the court today, thirty-three year old Enrique Pandy of Ladyville was charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. What makes the [...]

Rainforest Seafoods wants 15 year tax holiday in Belize

Over the weekend the vessels of a Jamaican fishing company came ashore in Punta Gorda. It bore the name PG Fishing Company Limited which was born out of an agreement [...]

Cuba-CARICOM Day celebrated

Although it is not a full member of the CARICOM block, Cuba along with the CARICOM grouping is today celebrating the thirty-seventh anniversary of relations. Back in 1972, a joint [...]

Watercolor paintings of Joseph Chiang at Image Factory

There is an art exhibit of the self titled works of Joseph Chiang on display at the Image Factory. Chiang is the artist who won the design competition that resulted [...]

Andy Palacio lecture and tribute song in Belize City

He passed away two years ago, but Andy Palacio still lives in the hearts and minds of Belizeans. The artist, who placed Belize on the world music charts, was remembered [...]

African heritage organization, CABO, holds 15th AGM in Belize

Representatives from Central and South American countries and the United States are meeting in Belize for the general assembly of the Central American Black Organization also known as CABO. The [...]

World leaders tackle climate change at CHOGM 2009

In news from the region, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) wrapped up on Sunday in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The organization, primarily made up of former British colonies, [...]

Queen Elizabeth to open Commonwealth Summit in Trinidad

The Commonwealth Summit is being held for the first time in this region. It opens Friday in Port of Spain, Trinidad where the Fifth Summit of the Americas was held [...]

Legendary Parandero Paul Nabor on the road to recovery

But there is good news on Paul Nabor. He was flown to Belize City from Dangriga on Friday morning after doctors suspected he had suffered a minor stroke. But the [...]

Paranda legend Paul Nabor hospitalized

One of Belize’s musical legends remains hospitalized tonight after he fell ill earlier this week. Parandero, Paul Nabor, has graced the stage many times, both on the local front and [...]

Former Barbados PM on the recession in the Caribbean…

Owen Arthur; he is the former prime minister of Barbados who has bragging rights to record economic growth in his country during his fourteen year tenure. While he is not [...]

…And reasons to go the CCJ way

Still on CARICOM, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced on June nineteenth of this year that the Privy Council will be replaced with the Caribbean Court of Justice as the final [...]

Former Colombian President talks about tension with Venezuela

The other former leader in Belize this week was Cesar Gaviria of Colombia. Gaviria is of prominence not only for his presidency but also for the work he did as [...]