When we received word on Tuesday that a group of men had shot and wounded a twenty three year old Mennonite woman as she drove through Spanish Lookout on Monday night, we were immediately reminded of the brutal May second murder and mass robbery on the Hummingbird Highway. Today News Five’s Patrick Jones traveled to […]
Another baby has died under tragic but all too familiar circumstances in Belize City. Police report that at around five Tuesday evening twenty four year old Ivoney Copius of Queen Charlotte Street was informed by her neighbor, Denise Underwood, that Ivoney’s son, fifteen month old Richard Gentle, had fallen into a bucket of water at […]
The body of a missing man has been discovered in Cayo, apparently the victim of a suicide. On Tuesday afternoon San Ignacio police were called to the Gallo Blanco area where they found the badly decomposed body of Mainor Shershante hanging by a rope from a tree. It awaits a post mortem at the San […]
In another case in which the post mortem has been completed, it has been determined that Rafael Aquino, whose body was found Monday in Dangriga, died of a blood clot on his brain.
Until now Belize’s National Basketball team has been the only game in town. No longer. The first of their five CARICOM opponents arrived this morning, equipped with both first division college and semi pro experience. The eleven member male team from the Bahamas has been working out for the past two weeks and News Five’s […]
Managers of drug prevention and mental health programs from thirteen Caribbean countries are taking part in two training workshops in Belize. The first of these sessions started today at the Radisson Fort George Hotel. The four-day workshop, which is being hosted by the National Drug Abuse Control Council, is part of an education program for […]
We’re all familiar with the saying, “Empty crocus sack kyaahn stand up.” That proverb’s equivalent wisdom in the world of education is that “a starving student can’t learn.” This morning I found one Belize City school that’s taken on the task of filling that empty crocus sack with some healthy food. There was good reason […]
