At a quarter past seven on Monday night, News Five was called out to a gruesome scene at the corner of King Street and Southern Foreshore. The body of a male baby had been found floating in the drain. According to Nelson Contreras, a security guard on duty, he was alerted by some young boys […]
Police say a forty-six year old man hanged himself on Monday night at the Belmopan Police Station. Police say they found Justace Lemott, a Belizean from Ontario Village with his dread belt around his neck hanging from a window bar. According to police around nine thirty that night, prisoners who were in a cell next […]
Another major case will not be prosecuted in the courts, but this time, it is not due to lack of evidence but by the victim’s request to stop the proceedings. In February, Andrew “Papa” Brown, Winston “Taga” James, Francis Guy, James Hyde and Lionel Kelly were arrested and charged with kidnapping after Wallingford Requeña reported […]
A thirty-seven year old man has been charged with breaking into an elderly woman’s home, raping, torturing and robbing her. The eighty-two year old woman of Lemonal told police her ordeal on the night of August twenty-third when the man knocked on her door and pretended to be a young relative. When she refused to […]
Acting on a tip the police received on Saturday, August twenty-eighth, a unit was sent out to number seventy Regent Street. There in an upstairs apartment, the police found nine and a half pounds of marijuana, a scale, cigarette paper and sixty dollars in cash. Inside the room were forty-three year old Horace McClaren and […]
Tonight the police are looking for three men who held up a man and his wife inside their shop around nine Monday night. According to police three Creole men, two masked and one armed with a handgun entered Robert’s Shop at one twenty one Amara Avenue and held up the owner and his wife and […]
School children all over the country are preparing to go back to school and their teachers are working hard to get everything ready for their return. One Belize City school has enlisted the help of the Belize Electricity Board, but not to rewire the school, to paint it. B.E.L. has not only donated forty gallons […]
The disabled among us are all too often shut away from the rest of society like sources of embarrassment and shame. To try to change this way of thinking, the Special Olympics will be held in November. But in the meantime, the committee is organizing events that will get the disabled involved in outdoor events […]
With limited medical care available it is difficult for anyone with a serious illness or condition to live in Belize, but if you have hemophilia, a disorder in which the factors needed for blood to clot are missing, it is even harder to cope in Belize. But despite the high cost of the factor, and […]
It’s one of the most beautiful cayes in Belize, but it’s not being used for tourism. Every year since 1972 the Smithsonian Institute based in Washington D.C. has sent between thirty to ninety scientists to this tiny island on the reef to study everything from sea worms to sponges to mangroves. Two years ago a […]
A two-year-old boy drowned in Punta Gorda over the weekend after falling into a pit latrine. Nelia Pop told police around five p.m. on Saturday, August twenty-eighth she was inside the house when she heard splashing outside. She went into the latrine ten feet from the house and saw her small son, Felipe Shol struggling […]
A suspect in a drive-by shooting was himself shot by police officers attempting to take him to the station. Twenty-one year old Marlon Budd, who has already appeared in Magistrate’s Court and was released on bail today, was wanted in connection with the shooting of a sixteen year old on Central American Boulevard around four […]
Another fire in the North Front Street area, this time on Sunday August twenty-ninth, has destroyed the upper floor of one family’s home. According to Nurse Gaynel Collins she was at home around ten a.m. that morning when she heard a sound like breaking glass coming from upstairs. When she investigated, she found the house […]
Amid the wave of disconcerting child abuse reports, there has been one positive report. The Scout Association of Belize announced on Saturday that it will not tolerate any incidence of child abuse, specifically within the organization itself. Ava Pennill, the Director of Youth in the Ministry of Human Development, Women and Youth, says the move […]
How would you like to win a trip to see manatees in their natural habitat? Well, if you design the winning logo for the Belize Marine Mammal Stranding Network you and a friend could be on your way, and have your design on bumper stickers all over Belize. The Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute, […]
Four Belizeans will pursue post-graduate degrees and courses of study in the United Kingdom this academic year under the British Chevening Scholarships Program. Lorna McDougal, the Executive Director of the National Organization for the Prevention of Child Abuse, NOPCA will work towards a Master’s degree in International Child Welfare at the University of East Anglia. […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this serving of Sports Monday. The mountain bike community under the leadership of “Popular Fat Boy” Spain out did themselves with a presentation of a monster race yesterday that is bound to go down in history. The president himself is assisting with the registration […]
In April, Harold Bradshaw Ringold on behalf of his employer Larry Addington, owner of Caye Chapel Ventures Resort, gave the Police Department sixteen brand new Ford pickups worth one point two million dollars to help them fight crime. Recently Ringold was back at the police station, not to give another donation but to report a […]
A boat stolen in Dangriga is believed to be heading towards Honduras and its owner has launched a media blitz to try and recover it. Since the theft occurred in front of Jungle Huts Resort early Thursday morning, Arthur Usher has asked radio and TV stations to alert the public. So far several fishermen have […]
The controversy over the dismissal of two high profile murder cases earlier this month continues. Last night on “One on One with Dickie Bradley,” guests Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord and Director of Public Prosecutions, Adolph Lucas said it was not uncommon for cases prepared by the police be thrown out for lack of evidence. The […]
A welder from Dangriga is the winner of Wednesday’s sixty-five thousand dollar Lotto draw. Omar Chiu says he was at home when he received a phone call from a friend who told him of his good fortune. Chiu, who has been buying Lotto ever since the game started, says his girlfriend picked the lucky numbers […]
With everyone on the lookout for hurricanes and tropical storms, it’s an appropriate time for the Red Cross and U.N.D.P. to continue their disaster preparedness workshops in the rural areas. On Saturday August twenty-eighth village leaders of southern Stann Creek District will attend a one-day session in Independence. So far five hundred village leaders in […]
The Belize Arts Council invites you to view the sculptures of Vilma Romero of Corozal Town. Romero is best known for the statues she produces from cement, sand, water and gravel. While this is not the first time her works are being exhibited, it is the first time she has been invited to participate in […]
Garifuna artists will gather at Dangriga’s Why-Not Island for a benefit concert for legendary Garifuna musician and composer, Bernard Maxwell Williams, better known a “Gabaga.” The Gabaga Relief Fair is in appreciation for his lifetime contribution to Belizean music and is intended to raise money to provide him with food, shelter and medical care. Participating […]
The Prime Minister Said Musa was the guest of honor at the New York City Council this morning and spoke with Belizeans living in that city about the first year of his government. The Prime Minister and Attorney General Dickie Bradley then met with Senior Council member Jose Rivera. The Attorney General also swore in […]
