The growing problem of criminals with guns is one which Belizean society has faced for a good while…and it now seems that not even the closed world of the prison system is immune. This morning during a routine search of cells at Hattieville, an inmate apparently used a homemade gun to fire a shot at […]
Police have not made any arrests in last week’s brutal murder at the Cahal Pech Maya site, but at least they have a motive and a prime suspect. Sources in the police department indicate that the killing of twenty-year old caretaker Geoffrey Mas was not a robbery gone bad, but was in fact an execution. […]
While San Ignacio police have not made any arrest in the Geoffrey Mas murder, Belize City police have been making progress in another killing that took place the same day. On Friday, police arrested eighteen-year old Gilroy Wade Junior, of number six South Creek and charged him with the murder of Azrin White. White was […]
Police have arrested and charged a Guatemalan man for a murder last week in Belmopan. Normando Garcia, of San Martin Village, was formally charged for the killing of nineteen-year old Julio Guzman on July twenty-third. Guzman was found bleeding profusely from machete wounds in a drain between the villages of Maya Mopan and Salvapan and […]
A weekend shooting incident in Belize City, has left two men wounded, one seriously. Twenty-three year old Jerry Bush, and eighteen year old George Mathews were walking on Bocotora Street when a man rode up next to them on a bicycle and fired several gunshots at them. Bush was struck by bullets in the left […]
An apparent hit and run on the Northern Highway has left a Corozal man dead. On Friday night around eleven, the body of Gregorio Jimenez, a mason of Alta Mira area, Corozal Town, was found on the highway between miles eighty-five and eighty-six. He was lying face down with multiple injuries to his head. The […]
Police conducted two successful anti-drug operations over the weekend that resulted in the destruction of nearly five thousand marijuana plants. On Saturday , the police ventured seven miles northwest of San Pedro Columbia Village, in the Toledo District. The mission started at 8:00 a.m. and by 3:30 p.m. they found and destroyed a marijuana plantation […]
“Show me the money” was a line made famous by Tom Cruise in his film portrayal of sports agent Jerry Maguire. Prime Minister Said Musa may not be as wealthy as the Hollywood star, but that did not stop him from being shown some big money today in Belmopan. Taiwanese Ambassador Charles Tsai, on behalf […]
This afternoon, Donna Pech walked into the offices of St. James National Building Society and received the keys to her brand new house. Pech won the house on Saturday in the financial institution’s first anniversary grand raffle. A single mother of four children, Pech said the house could not have come at a better time. […]
They dropped the remote, disconnected the Nintendo, and made their way to the Southern Foreshore to create their own artistic realities. Today’s show on the grounds of Belize City’s House of Culture is the result of a program to motivate students during their summer holiday. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Their interests and talents were varied. The […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and you’re strapped in for another ride on Sports Monday. The bodybuilding community presented the annual Mr. Belize bodybuilding contest Saturday night at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. And as you can see folks, the sport has brought back the many fans. In the novice class Edwin Ramirez of San […]
It was a meeting of the House of Representatives that will not be remembered for the electricity of the debate or the length of the deliberations. Indeed, with Dean Barrow and Michael Finnegan both out of the country, it was left to Cayo West’s Erwin Contreras to man the lone opposition seat for the session’s […]
Ralph Fonseca was not the only minister with the nation’s health on his mind this morning. A sobering report on the nation’s war with AIDS was presented by Minister of Human Development Dolores Balderamos Garcia…and the news from the battlefield was not good. Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Minister of Human Development “HIV/AIDS has already begun to […]
The minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office responsible for Britain’s relations with Belize has concluded a three-day visit. During his visit, John Battle met with the Prime Minister and other high level officials. Before departing, he spoke to the press at the British High Commission in Belmopan. John Battle, British Minister of […]
An anti-drug operation in the Orange Walk District has resulted in the shutting down of a major marijuana plantation. Between 5:00 and 7:00 Thursday morning, police raided an area near San Carlos Village and discovered a field they say contained ten thousand cannabis trees between four and five feet in height. The weed was destroyed […]
Late this evening, News Five received a report that a foetus was found floating in the South Creek in Belize City. When our crew got to the scene, the police had just picked up the foetus, believed to be a boy, and transported it to the KHMH morgue. Elvis Lewis, who witnessed the gruesome discovery, […]
A prisoner who escaped from Hattieville has been recaptured. On Tuesday evening police corralled Enrique Martinez in the Salvapan area of the nation’s capital. Martinez, who had been serving a three-year term, had escaped in May.
Another runaway prisoner was rounded up on Thursday, but the events, which followed his captured have overshadowed his original and subsequent crimes. Twenty-five year old Randolph Miller, who was serving a twelve-year sentence for aggravated burglary, escaped from Hattieville Prison on July thirteenth. On Thursday, the inmate was captured by the police in a house […]
If you’re looking for something to do in Belize City this weekend and already blew your paycheck at the movie theatre, don’t worry as there is no shortage of low cost entertainment. On Sunday the Belize Tourism Board is organising what they call a Downtown Carnival Fete. The idea is to help clean up the […]
To celebrate its one-year anniversary, St. James National Building Society is going to give away a house to one of its members. The society will be holding an open house at the site of the newly built bungalow in the Belama Phase Three area. St. James’ Frank Ramclam was proud to give us the details. […]
“Doorstep Tales” is the latest reading programme that will be launched by the National Library Service. The one-hour activity for children between the ages of five and thirteen will be held the last Saturday of each month at the Turton Library Centre on North Front Street. What makes the project interesting is the fact that […]
When an anxious viewer called this morning to report that a Guatemalan warship had just docked at the Fort George, I must admit that we were a bit skeptical. But after arriving at the scene there could be no doubt. The question was, what on earth was it doing here? News Five’s Jose Sanchez found […]
The weapon may not pack the wallop of the Utatlan’s twenty-millimetre cannon, but its possession could land a well-known Belize City building contractor in jail. Fifty-five year old Carlos Barillas was home alone, when around 11:15 Wednesday morning, acting on a tip, the police pulled up at his King’s Park residence. The tip turned out […]
If you’ve traveled to the states or around the region recently you would have noticed that the departure tax at most foreign airports is far higher than that prevailing at home. No longer. Citing increased costs for improved infrastructure, the Belize Airports Authority today announced that the departure tax at the Philip Goldson International Airport, […]
The Belize Social Security Board is back in the news once again. This time it’s proud to say that it will soon be launching its newly improved Social Security Card to the public. If you have already taken your picture and signed up, then on August first, you can walk right into the Social Security […]
