The media houses have gotten together to try and get the message out to kids and parents to “Watch Yu Back, Anybody Could Be Jack” and today when it was reported that a Belize City student had gone missing, people came forward with information. The 13-year-old’s schoolmates from St. Mary’s told their teacher the girl […]
19 year old Phillip Jones Tillett, who is considered armed and dangerous, remains at large after he escaped from police custody at the Queen Street Police Station. Tillett was serving a 20-year sentence for manslaughter after he was convicted of shooting Wei Tao Jhiang on Mahogany Street on November 6th, 1997. Tillett was being held […]
Early this morning, News Five got a press release from Police Press Relations Officer Christy Castillo regarding allegations that police acted inappropriately while at the scene where Betty Rudon had been beaten. Castillo says the internal investigation, includes statements from the eyewitness to the attack, Ilma McCann, as well as the two officers involved. Statements […]
A student of Holy Ghost School in Dangriga collapsed during football practice and died on the way to the Southern Regional hospital on Thursday. The teacher Howard Melendez reported that around 4:45, he was training both his male and female teams when 15 year old Monique Castillo fainted. A post mortem is scheduled for Saturday.
A Prison Officer and two inmates from the Department of Corrections have been charged with drug trafficking after an incident Thursday at the Youth Enhancement Academy. During an anti-drug operation at YEA, prison officials reported seeing the inmates, 28 year old Robert Liang and 40 year old Leonardo Caretello picking up a bag and taking […]
Red Tilapia fingerlings cultivated at the Fisheries Department hatchery was released on Thursday at the Beaver Dam Aquaculture Sweetwater Zone on the Western Highway. The fish were imported from Taiwan and are a sample of an expected 150,000 babies that will be purchased at the end of May for a three pond experiment. Project owner […]
In keeping with a city sister relationship, this week, Belize City is playing host to the Mayor of Evanston, Illinois. Lorraine Morton says her interest in Belize was stimulated by the Lighthouse Rotary Club in Evanston, which wished to help educate Belizeans about safer traffic guidelines. She formed a committee and unlike the “working committees” […]
We all want smoothly flowing traffic in the city, but then again, part of the excitement of Belize City life is having to deal with the street side vendors, cars and trucks that stop where ever they feel like it and bikes and pedestrians dodging in and out. For the past 20 years or so, […]
