A Belize City woman who should have been able to concentrate on burying her mother has instead spent the last two days dealing with this tragedy and the vandalism of her home. Jean Williams told News Five today that while she was tending to funeral arrangements police officers ransacked her home on Racecourse Street looking […]
She clung to life for twenty-four hours, but today Yang Lee Chan died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital from the gunshot wound inflicted by a cold-blooded killer. Lee Chan was shot in the forehead during a robbery at her family’s shop on Freetown Road just before noon yesterday. Area residents say they only heard […]
Charges have been dismissed against a man whose stepdaughter reported he tried to have sex with her. News Five was told yesterday by the Criminal Investigations Branch that thirty-four year old Jose Martin Flores, had been charged in connection with the incident on March 19th. However, in Magistrate’s Court yesterday Magistrate Herbert Lord dismissed the […]
A well-known Mennonite businessman from Belmopan Meno Penner, seen here in last year’s Ruta Maya canoe race, has been reported missing. News Five was unable to get confirmation from police, but Penner’s wife told us this evening that her husband failed to return home yesterday evening. She says that the family is very concerned because […]
Earlier this month two Guatemalans were deported after illegally cultivating land in the Chiquibul National Park. This week the Ministry of National Security has announced another incident of cultivation on Belizean territory, this time near the Sarstoon River. The Ministry says on March ninth a B.D.F. patrol discovered two plantations of beans and corn, which […]
The Belize Arts Council will offer music classes to the general public starting April tenth to June twenty-sixth. We visited the Arts Council this afternoon and found out more about the classes. Luis Chan, Belize Arts Council “The music classes are free first of all. And it’s an invitation to all ages and for beginners; […]
He addressed a packed Bliss Institute on Monday and today anthropologist, literary critic and linguist Dr. Ivan Van Sertima spoke to enthralled U.C.B. students in his final presentation in Belize. The professor from Rutgers University has lectured at more than one hundred universities in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, South America and Europe. He […]
The volunteers were only in their village for a month, but what they leave behind will last for many years. Today News Five went to Rancho Dolores which is not only looking to enhance tourism, but to preserve its past in a new information center. Today, boys and girls of Rancho Dolores Primary School and […]
