It may not be the biggest or brightest, but for many people Ro-mac’s Supermarket on Albert Street remains the place of choice to fill the kitchen cupboard. Earlier this week, however, the forty-five year old business changed owners as it was purchased by the Santiago Castillo Group. News Five could not confirm the terms of […]
After twenty years as Superintendent of Prisons Bernard Adolphus is retiring. Adolphus told News Five he has submitted a letter to government for early retirement because although he has enjoyed his work he believes that it is time to move on. Adolphus said that during his career at the prison he most admired those offenders […]
While the children are enjoying their Easter vacation, the teachers are meeting in Dangriga at the twenty ninth Annual Teachers Union Convention. The Prime Minister Said Musa, who addressed the gathering, said that technology will be a crucial ingredient for meeting the challenges of the coming century. He says to help put computers in the […]
A veteran of the old semi-pro is back in Belize to take part in the new semi-pro. Kevin Siroki who played for the Belmopan Bandits in 1997 is now teaming up with the B.T.L. Nets for the 1999 basketball league. Siroki played high school and college basketball and coaches college basketball in his hometown. He […]
If you were somehow lucky enough to run across the book “Journey On” by Nelita M. Doherty last year and enjoyed reading about the history of the Garifuna people, you’ll be pleased to know she has published two more books in the series. Doherty tells News Five that “Aba Wama,” which is suitable for readers […]
Encouraging the elderly to remain active is the emphasis of this year’s World Health Day. Belize is joining 191 countries around the globe in observing the day and holding special activities this weekend. The highlight will be a walk for seniors. According to the Ministry of Health the average life expectancy in Belize is between […]
In every field there are those people who persevere year in, year out never expecting to be singled out for their accomplishments. For these people getting the job done is reward enough. But it’s always nice to be noticed and today as part of World Health Day the Ministry of Health asked several of its […]
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She was murdered on March twenty second and today the man who was a suspect from the day she disappeared was charged with her death. Michael Williams was formally charged this afternoon with the murder of twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic. At a press conference at the Raccoon Street Police Station, Commissioner Ornel Brooks […]
Of course the case cannot rest on circumstantial evidence alone and Commissioner Brooks indicated that tests on Jackie’s body indicate she was immobilized at the time of her torture and murdered by a combination of alcohol and drugs. Ornel Brooks, Commissioner of Police “From our forensic laboratory findings the laboratory scientist has established that the […]
Hours before the police press conference rumors were flying that the attorney for Mike Williams, Kirk Anderson, might himself be arrested. According to Assistant Inspector Eli Salazar, who went to Anderson’s office this morning, William’s common-law wife Julie Staine claims that Anderson told her to get rid of clothing Williams was wearing when first detained […]
While today’s press conference was called primarily to announce the break in the Jackie Malic murder case, Commissioner Brooks was also grilled by the press on other subjects. One was an allegation that two of Brooks’ most aggressive investigators, Simeon Alvarez and Eli Salazar, on Thursday afternoon detained a naturalized Belizean, Dr. William Willitts and […]
When confronted with Lumor’s allegation at the press conference Commissioner Brooks defended the actions of his men and the process left many in the audience wondering how far the credibility of the police force could be stretched. Dr. Willitts, he said, never bothered to mention that he was a Belizean. Ornel Brooks, Commissioner of Police […]
Yesterday morning while everyone was returning home from a long Easter vacation a twenty-two year old mother of two boys Sheryl Barrow was almost killed by her former common-law husband Louie Gentle. According to a family member and an eyewitness Gentle had previously threatened Barrow and was ordering her to go home with him that […]
Seven men have been arrested and charged with the murder of Chinese businessman Lee Yun Chong which occurred last Monday night on Jasmin Street. This morning David Sutherland, Carlos Escalante, Alex Goff, Elvis Rosado, Ashton Belgrave, Jerry Usher and Francis Pollard Jr. were formally charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, grevious harm, […]
A young woman drowned over the weekend off Sarteneja in the Corozal District. Police say twenty four year old Ana Patt of San Narciso was in a Mexican skiff which capsized about five hundred yards from shore Easter Sunday evening. Ten others in the boat were rescued but Patt failed to resurface. Her body was […]
Two young men are dead after a holiday traffic accident in Orange Walk on Saturday. Twenty four year old Javier Castellanos and 3 passengers Delroy Cecil Caliz, twenty-two; Ricardo Alamilla seventeen and eighteen year old Ryan Casimiro were travelling on the San Estevan Road after five p.m. when something apparently went wrong with their Mazda […]
A man met bail today after being charged with the indecent assault of a twelve year old. The girl reported to police that around seven o’clock Good Friday she was at her aunt’s house when Roberto Cardinez Lozano who lives in Conch Shell Bay touched her on her leg close to her vaginal area. The […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to another serving of Sports Monday. We take you immediately into the early morning of Holy Saturday for the start of the 71st edition of the annual Cross Country Cycling Classic and it’s always a spectacle to see over a hundred riding off in search of fame and […]
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A man was shot to death and his wife chopped with a machete in their shop on Monday night. Today police made several arrests and say they are bent on dismantling a ring of criminals which planned and executed the terror on Jasmin Street. Ashton Belgrave, Arrested “They put me against him innocently. I no […]
Shortly around six this morning Ruben Crawford a tour guide of Crooked Tree Village made a gruesome discovery. He found a partially decomposed body of a man floating in the Crooked Tree Lagoon. The man, who is of a dark complexion, has been identified as one Melvin “Bogo” Rhaburn, a fisherman of Carmelita Village. According […]
Another man has been arrested and remanded to Hattieville Prison after he allegedly molested two minors in his neighborhood on Monday March twenty ninth. This time the children were only five and seven years old. Thirty eight year old Michael Reneau of number forty Plues Street in Belize City was picked up by police on […]
Two days after the police detained Michael Williams for a second time in connection with the brutal rape and murder of twelve year old Jackie Fern Malic, the police have still been unable to make an arrest. And in fact, police are now saying that due to the extremely sensitive nature of the case no […]
A man whose name is well known to basketball fans has been arrested for drug trafficking. Clinton “Pulu” Lightburn was taken into custody after he reportedly attempted to evade a B.D.F./police checkpoint at the junction of the Burrell Boom Road and the Northern Highway Wednesday night. Police say Lightburn’s red Isuzu Trooper was observed coming […]
