This afternoon, two suspects police believe were involved in the murder of twenty-five year old Kenneth Swazo on Tuesday night in San Pedro Town were transported by boat to Belize City. San Pedro police strongly believe twenty-three year old Nathaniel Forman of Belize City and eighteen year old Alejandro Edwards of San Pedro were the […]
Tonight Cayo police are looking for a suspect wanted for questioning in connection with a late night murder on Wednesday. According to authorities, around ten that night residents living along the road to Cristo Rey Village heard the echo of several gunshots. When police arrived the following day to investigate, they found the body of […]
A teenager accused of attacking a student along the Lord’s Bank Road has been arrested and charged. Police say eighteen-year-old Kareem Williams was the young man who walked up to a girl on Monday morning around eleven, hit her in the face with a handgun, and then stole her two gold chains. Williams was subsequently […]
On Wednesday morning more than thirty bus passengers trying to cross the Belize River found themselves trapped on a runaway ferry. News 5 understands that just after ten yesterday morning, the operator of the Young Gal Ferry in Cayo saw a huge wave of floodwater coming towards him. The wave picked up the ferry, with […]
The controversy over the introduction of larger tenders to better serve the cruise ship industry is back in the news. Having incited boat owners and taxi drivers to block David Gegg’s attempt to bring in some big Catamarans, Tom Greenwood, President of the Belize Cruise Ship Industry Association, now finds himself on the receiving end […]
It’s the height of summer vacation and as the next two stories demonstrate, some students are keeping busy. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting There was paint on just about everything in the room after close to thirty children accepted the challenge to refurbish two classrooms at Excelsior High School. The boys and girls no doubt will have […]
While camps for children in Belize City and district towns are a staple of summer vacation life, kids in rural areas are often left out of such programmes. But not this time, as News 5’s Patrick Jones found out this morning. Patrick Jones, Reporting Fifty-nine children ages five to fifteen from Hattieville Village are wrapping […]
Our favourite NBA player is once again on the move. Milton Palacio, a four-year league veteran and one time leader of Belize’s CARICOM champion national team, has been signed by the Toronto Raptors. The six foot three inch point guard, who has played for the Grizzles, Celtics, Suns and Cavaliers in the NBA, was a […]
It is an architectural bright spot in a city largely devoid of attractive modern buildings. That alone would qualify the Mexican cultural Institute for praise…but over the last ten years it has been the activities inside the innovative structure that have proved the wisdom of its creators. Janelle Chanona, Reporting In 1993, the Government of […]
Today, as four men were charged in the kidnapping of Percival Flowers, speculation increased that what went down at St. Paul’s Bank on Monday night did not take place in a vacuum. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has been working the case and finds that some widely spread dots are beginning to form a recognizable picture. […]
San Pedro police are looking for two suspects who held up an American couple inside their home and killed one of their local friends. The drama unfolded around eleven on Tuesday night. Two men wearing nylon stockings over their faces went through a window and entered the home of Daniel and Sarah Lekas, located three […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a Corozal man. According to police, thirty-two year old Albert Gentle was driving his Toyota Camry south from the Mexican border around ten on Tuesday morning when, between miles eighty-five and eighty-six, he ran into a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction. Gentle […]
Meanwhile, in another investigation, Cayo police have charged twenty-year-old Patrick Gordon of Belize City with the crime of robbery. Gordon was the man chased down by alert citizens after he allegedly jacked a truck driver, who had just made a delivery of chicken in Santa Elena.
Today a group of health professionals graduated from a series of classes that will hopefully leave residents of the Belize District with an improved level of care. The eighteen community nurse’s aides, who hail from fifteen different villages, completed a thirty-hour certification course in home nursing, which was conducted by the Belize Red Cross in […]
Dressed in black and white, they are probably the most visible symbols of law enforcement in Belize City…and while they don’t carry guns, the sight of a traffic officer getting ready to write a ticket has been known to induce fear–not to mention anger–in even the toughest driver. This morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods saw […]
Watching the television news, listening to the radio and reading the newspapers, we often get the feeling that the negative forces facing our society are formidable, if not invincible. But fortunately, not everyone is ready to give up. Today I travelled to the village of Lord’s Bank where an enthusiastic group of teenaged girls were […]
They say that alls well that ends well and by that standard an early morning kidnapping and shooting has ended very well indeed. But for a while things were touch and go as some determined and well armed bad guys tried very hard to settle what appeared to be an old score. Percival Flowers, Kidnap […]
In another crime that was quickly solved, reports from the Cayo District indicate that public-spirited citizens chased after a pair of robbers and managed to send one to jail. According to police, around eleven this morning two men jumped a truck driver for Quality Poultry who had just made a delivery at a shop along […]
Yesterday they were being sought for questioning; today two men have been detained by police pending charges of murder. The pair is alleged to have shot to death Dean Belisle on Monday afternoon at his Lavender Street home. As is the usual practice, the names of the detained suspects have been withheld by police until […]
A coordinated effort by police, prison officers and B.D.F. soldiers, has turned up an ingenious assortment of jailhouse weapons. The raid on Hattieville prison at five this morning came as a surprise to inmates, who looked on as each cell was searched from top to bottom. The action comes in the wake of an increased […]
And in news from the judicial side of law enforcement, a Toledo man has been convicted for the crime of carnal knowledge of a child. Valentin Bolon of San Antonio Village was on Monday found guilty in the Supreme Court sitting in Dangriga and sentenced by Justice Troadio Gonzales to fifteen years in prison. His […]
Every year the United Nations Development Programme issues its Human Development Report, an attempt to quantify the development of the world’s nations by measuring life expectancy, education, and standard of living. Belize has traditionally ranked near the top of a middle range of countries and this year is no exception. Out of one hundred and […]
B.T.L., our sole functioning phone company, is no stranger to the news…usually due to controversy over rates and issues of competitive regulation. But today it was the corporate giant’s turn to display the silver lining of monopoly capitalism. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from the Placencia Peninsula. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It may have taken almost […]
A quarrel over drugs or other illegal activity appears to be the motive behind the nation’s latest violent homicide. The shooting today in Belize City took place in broad daylight…and News 5’s Patrick Jones reports from the scene. Patrick Jones, Reporting The early afternoon murder has left the Riverside Community in shock, trying to figure […]
Police tonight are investigating another murder, but time is not on their side. This afternoon they were called out to an isolated spot on the road leading from the Southern Highway to the resort of Kanantik in the Stann Creek District. There they found a human skeleton, believed to be decomposing for at least several […]
