There is controversy surrounding the death of two B.D.F. soldiers allegedly killed when a car plowed into them over the weekend. According to the Belize Defence Force, the car, driven by Alexander Tillett, a mechanic of Camalote ran off the road, near the Warriehead Bridge hitting four of their soldiers, Corporal Valerio Shal, Private Bernard […]
A shootout at the Western Border has left a Guatemalan man dead. Police say nineteen year old Gustavo Adolpho Gonzalez a laborer from Barrio Los Flores, Melchor was shot and killed four hundred meters from the Belize border early Saturday morning. Police say Guatemalan authorities had alerted them that a suspect in a shooting in […]
Mark Stuart, the man accused of killing his Hattieville Prison cellmate, was today formally charged with murder. Police have apparently cut a deal with the two other residents of cell forty-one, Albert Broaster and Leroy Flowers, in which they will testify that Stuart stabbed Osmani Guerra to death last Tuesday night. In return for their […]
The way has been cleared for Belize to export rice to Mexico. According to a government press release, a three day meeting in Mexico City between Belizean and Mexican officials has resulted in an agreement for phytosanitary certification of Belizean rice so it may enter the Mexican market. The negotiating team, led by Minister of […]
In his wrap up of Police Week last Friday, Minister of National Security Jorge Espat announced a number of changes and improvements to the Police, B.D.F. and Immigration Departments to deal with the crime problem. Among these is the appointment of a Strategic Security Review Committee to recommend a national policy for Belize’s defense and […]
A resident of Nurse Findley Crescent, thirty-seven year old housewife Sharon Franklin never thought when she purchased four quick pick tickets she would be making her way to the bank this morning a winner. Franklin says when she checked the winning Lotto numbers Saturday night she discovered the five numbers her daughter had written down […]
It was as dramatic a finish as this station’s annual “Gimme Five” promotion has ever witnessed. After several tries without success American Airlines manager Luis Alpuche and host William Neal finally combined to get a winning entry on the line. Here’s how it went on Friday night. (dialing and ringing of phone) Cherry Sedassey, Winner’s […]
The Broadcasting Corporation of Belize officially went off the air at noon today. Two other stations, LOVE FM and KREM Radio have signed contracts to purchase the transmitters and transmitting systems for two B.C.B. broadcast frequencies at a cost of about one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars each. They will also rent tower space on […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s a fresh serving of Sports Monday. We take you out immediately to the Ring Road at capitol city Belmopan where the Alphius Williams World AIDS Day Cycle Race has attracted forty-two riders for the 9:30 a.m. blast off on Sunday and well… they’re off. Coming out of Belmopan […]
The code of silence for three prisoners suspected of murdering their cellmate Tuesday night did not last long as police report that two of the inmates have fingered the third as the man who attacked and killed Osmani Guerra. Today I visited Hattieville Prison to get some background on the crime. It is still not […]
Crimes of uncommon brutality were not confined to Hattieville Prison, as police report that once again the Placencia Peninsula was the scene of violent armed robbery. Two Belize City men, twenty-four year old Cecil Jones and twenty-two year old Glenn Stevens, are in custody for a crime spree they allegedly went on in the wee […]
Details are sketchy but police in Ladyville report that early this morning they were called to a home on Marage Road where they found a twenty year old woman lying on the ground naked outside her house. She was tied up and suffering from cuts and bruises to her face and arms. To make matters […]
Tomorrow the seventh annual Barefoot Music Festival gets underway at the City Centre. This year’s show is entitled Payday. Public Relations Officer for the D-Revelation band, Paul Flowers tells us more about the grand tour and new compact disc. Paul Flowers, Public Relations Officer, D-Revelation “The Payday tour started from Los Angeles in August. It […]
The recent rains may have played havoc with the streets and the lives of Belize City residents but one positive result is that the trees and shrubbery planted in public places has never looked better. Based on the success of a volunteer effort on St. Thomas Street some young people looked to duplicate the feat […]
For many drivers in Belize City the last few months have been something of a shock, as due to the closing of the Swing Bridge they have been forced to endure, for the first time, that phenomenon known as the “traffic jam”. In tonight’s Last Word News Five commentator G. Michael Reid explains why, even […]
Police and prison officials continue to investigate the murder of a locked down inmate at Hattieville prison Tuesday night. Today a postmortem revealed that twenty-five year old convict Osmani Guerra of Orange Walk died as a result of strangulation caused by several stab wounds. Authorities believe that Guerra was killed by his three cellmates: Albert […]
The big news is supposed to come Friday night at the annual banquet marking the end of police week, but today’s Belize Times offered a general preview of what National Security Minister Jorge Espat has in mind for the force’s future. Among the expected announcements is a plan to significantly increase the number of police […]
While matters of internal security weigh heavily these days on the shoulders of Minister Espat, this morning he took time out, along with the Prime Minister, to tour the facilities of our chief ally in the nation’s external security. The headquarters of the British Army Training Support Unit in Belize, BATSUB for short, may only […]
The Belize City infrastructure project may have given a facelift to some parts of the old capital, but the sight of abandoned and decaying buildings, both large and small, continues to blight the urban landscape. How much longer these derelicts will be allowed to stand is a matter now being taken up by authorities. The […]
While this morning the Prime Minister and his Minister of National Security toured the headquarters of the British Army training facility near the airport, the real work of BATSUB takes place far out of sight of most Belizeans. In January of 1995 News Five’s David Reid got a rare peek behind the scenes. David Reid, […]
It was not a pleasant way to die. At around 9:45 Tuesday night a warden making his rounds at Hattieville prison came across the severed arm of a man lying on the ground in front of cell number 16 on the lower floor. He found the rest of the body, that of 25 year old […]
While there is no shortage of crimes that need both solving and preventing, the police force is entitled to put in some time on projects that are not considered classic law enforcement. As activities continue for Police Week Hyacinth Latchman found some officers reaching for paintbrushes instead of billy clubs. Supt. Yolanda Murray “We have […]
While the police were making a civic minded at the shelter, not far away a group of Belize City children were making a statement of their own. Belize City students took a stand against child abuse by wearing yellow ribbons and tags to school today. The activity is being observed to remind the community that […]
Outside of the cayes and exposed coastal areas, the greatest damage caused by Hurricane Mitch in Belize was the wear and tear on public shelters. Today, the government of Canada donated 54 thousand Belize dollars, which will be used to make repairs and replace broken equipment in eight schools used as shelters in the Belize, […]
In its weekly cabinet briefing government today reported that there will soon be some changes in store for the University College of Belize. An inter-ministerial task force has been charged with the task of transforming UCB into a full-fledged University of Belize, with its main campus shifting to Belmopan. The task force will receive inputs […]
