The police internal affairs has launched an intensive investigation into the shooting death of Brenton Sabal in Dangriga. Sabal was shot by P.C. Javier Perez, after Perez alleges that Sabal attacked him with a knife. However, family and friends say that Sabal was murdered, as he ran away. Today, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods travelled south […]
In continuing with this week’s crime spree, this afternoon robbers were at it again. This time, however, it was Northern Transport Bus Station on Magazine Road in Belize City. According to police press officer, G. Michael Reid, about 1:30 a guy rode up on bicycle, went to the cashier and put a gun in her […]
Police were not so lucky down south, however, as a Dangriga gas station was robbed early this morning. Marcos Romero, a thirty-eight year old Honduran, says he was working at the Valley Road Texaco Gas Station, when around 2:30 three dark skinned men, all armed with guns, attacked him. Romero told police that he was […]
Police have detained a suspect and the white Ford Escort used in the drive-by shooting of Mark Medina on Tuesday. Police say Medina, seventeen, was standing on Yabra Road near Wesley College when the car drove up and shots were fired by one of the passengers known only as Kareem. The bullets caught Medina in […]
The business community is reaching out to the Police Department to assist in its crime fighting effort. Today the department received a fully loaded computer and printer courtesy of the Belize Chamber of Commerce. General Manager Kevin Herrera in handing over the equipment this morning to Senior Superintendent Crispin Jeffries, said the community does have […]
The XIX National Medical and Dental Congress, which affords local doctors and specialists a chance to upgrade their medical education, opened this morning at the Radisson. President of the B.M.D.A., Dr. Robert Coye, says several international physicians are also presenting papers at the event. Dr. Robert Coye, Pres., Belize Medical and Dental Assoc. “This congress […]
The Rotary Club of Belize today received two cheques to aid in its public outreach programmes. The first donation of sixteen thousand dollars was received by President-elect Kay Menzies from the past president of the Grand Cayman Rotary Club, Eddie Balderamos. Eddie Balderamos, Past Pres. Grand Cayman Rotary Club “It’s my country and we wanted […]
Just about every Belizean family has probably lost a loved one to cancer. In the past, such a diagnosis was a source of shame, forcing many patients into silence, but thanks to people like the late Juliet Soberanis, the word cancer is no longer taboo. In October of 1999, News 5 reporter Janelle Chanona interviewed […]
It may be a bit early for the Christmas crime season, but that didn’t stop robbers and thieves from making their presence felt last night and this morning in Belize City. The criminals, who met with varying levels of success, are being pursued by police…and in one case, a suspect was chased by a very […]
Two other heists occurred last night in Belize City. Sometime after closing hours, ambitious thieves broke into the office of Bravo Motors on the Western Highway. They managed to remove the company’s safe, but apparently that’s when their luck ran out. According to Bravo manager Eddie Bouloy, that safe was recovered in the yard…unopened. According […]
A teenager is lucky to be alive after being wounded in a drive-by shooting this afternoon in Belize City. Reports are that Mark Medina, seventeen, was walking on Cemetery Lane around 2:30 when a white car with five occupants slowed down and a single shot was fired, which caught him in the back of the […]
Over three thousand, three hundred pounds of cocaine, the proceeds of Belize’s biggest drug bust, were destroyed by police early this morning. The heavily guarded operation was carried out at sea with the white powder dissolved in salt water and sent to sleep with the fishes. The drugs were confiscated on the morning of October […]
Prime Minister Said Musa has met with British officials to discuss assistance in the wake of Hurricane Iris. According to a government release, Musa held discussions with Secretary of State for International Development Clare Short, and Dr. Dennis McShane, the foreign office official in charge of Latin American Affairs. While in London the Prime Minister […]
A number of activities commemorating Cancer Awareness Month had to be cancelled because of Hurricane Iris, but the annual Cancer Walk, from Ladyville to Belize City, will take place this Saturday. The Belize Cancer Society will provide free transportation in an effort to encourage people to come out early that day and enlist in the […]
A cadre of social workers and allied professionals have decided to pool their resources and experiences to better address issues relating to social work in Belize. Some two hundred individuals have been invited to the inaugural meeting of the Social Work Association of Belize, which is taking place this evening at the Chateau Caribbean Hotel. […]
For all those people holding their breath as the ping-pong balls reached their final resting place on last night’s Lotto draw, there is good news and bad news. The bad news is that you didn’t win the hundred thousand dollar jackpot. The good news is that nobody else did either…so you’ll get another chance this […]
Along with the Image factory, the Mexican Cultural Centre on the Newtown Barracks is one of the few places in Belize with a near constant stream of art exhibitions. The latest show to open at the centre features the works of a Mexican painter and News 5’s Jacqueline Woods dropped by to check out his […]
They had been spared the ravages of a hurricane for so long that few Mayan villagers in Toledo had any idea what to expect on the night of October eighth. Today, with thousands still homeless, none will ever forget those two hours of terror. This morning the nucleus of the area’s indigenous leadership offered their […]
Assistance in the wake of Hurricane Iris continues to arrive. Taiwanese Ambassador Charles Tsai presented a cheque for fifty thousand U.S. dollars today to the Government of Belize, while in Ladyville OAS Country Representative Kenrich Texel presented a container of supplies valued at twenty-five thousand U.S. dollars, courtesy of the Pan American Development Foundation. For […]
With the domination of U.S. television news by the growing threat of bio-terrorism and the apparent detection of anthrax spores at postal facilities outside the United States, it was only a matter of time until concerns were raised in Belize. And while no one here is about to panic, authorities are not oblivious to the […]
In crime news, what would normally be considered a major drug seizure, has, in the wake of the October ninth record cocaine bust, been relegated to just another police report. On Tuesday, cops stopped a taxi in Benque Viejo and found three parcels of coke weighing a total of six pounds. Arrested and charged with […]
Social Security techniques including health, financing of pension systems and management are topics being discussed at a three-day Social Security conference underway at the Radisson. The fifth high level seminar is being attended by over twenty-five delegates from the Belize Social Security Board, the Central American Council of Social Security Institutions and the International Social […]
Ground breaking ceremonies for a two-storey multi-purpose building took place this afternoon on Central American Boulevard. The ground floor of the building will be used for the Port Loyola Library, the first service of its kind to be offered to that community. According to Area Representative, Dolores Balderamos Garcia, the facility, which will be managed […]
Viewers of this newscast are aware that Belize’s contractors are working hard just to keep up with the demand for educational facilities. But despite the growing number of new buildings, the fact is that not all schools are created equal. This morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on hand to witness an attempt by one […]
The madness may not match that surrounding the Powerball craze in the United States earlier this year, but if you’ve been around a Lotto outlet today, you may have noticed some excitement in the air. For the first time since the game reopened a year ago, the jackpot has reached a hundred thousand dollars. That […]
