A traffic accident last night in Santa Elena, Cayo has left one man dead. According to police reports the incident happened shortly after eight o’clock at the junction of the Western Highway and Carillo Puerto Avenue in the town. Thirty-two year old Peter Garcia told police that he was driving his truck towards San Ignacio, […]
A Belize City teenager is hospitalized in serious condition after she was shot in the abdomen. According to police reports sixteen year old Keiva Leslie was shot by another teenager, Kenrick Nuñez. Police say the two had apparently been in a relationship which was going sour. Nuñez it is reported, went to Leslie’s home on […]
Over the next few days the Department of Corrections will be under the close scrutiny of prison authorities from across the region. Belize is host this year for the annual meeting of Superintendents of Prisons of British dependent territories. As News Five’s Patrick Jones reports, although Belize is not a dependent territory, it stands to […]
An eight-week training program in food processing started today in the Orange Walk District. Forty young women from the villages of San Antonio, San Roman and Santa Cruz will spend the next two months learning how to process fruits into jam and vegetable into pickles. According to the implementing agency, the Ministry of Agriculture and […]
When most people celebrate their birthday it is usually done in the company of family and friends at a party or other festivities. But the People’s United Party is not like most people and on its forty-eight birthday, proved once again that it’s an institution that is not afraid of breaking with tradition. Instead of […]
