While some of the Toledo District’s police officers were detailed to Black Creek, another was being arrested for disgraceful conduct. Thirty-five year old constable Cesar Tzib, based in Punta Gorda, has been charged with aggravated assault and discharging a firearm in public. The arrest is the result of an incident on Sunday night in the […]
It looks a lot worse than it was, but that isn’t to say the accident could not have been deadly. This afternoon on the Western Highway this new Suzuki Vitara flipped over near mile thirty-three. The driver, O.A.S. representative in Belize, Kenrick Texel, told News 5 that he lost control of the vehicle as it […]
We can’t blame viewers if they’re a bit confused. Having recently observed Earth Day on April twenty-second, we are now asked to celebrate today, June second, as World Environment Day. Hey, it’s an important subject and we’ll go with the flow…and speaking of flow, this year’s theme focuses on the sea. Patrick Jones reports on […]
And while students were learning about Belize’s marine environment, twenty miles to the west, folks in Bermudian Landing were showing News 5’s Jacqueline Woods the latest developments at one of the country’s most popular inland wildlife attractions. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It took only two weeks for fourteen students and a professor from the United States […]
Leilah Pandy ?Leilah Pandy, twenty-three; Miss Belize.? That was about as much as we got to see of Miss Belize, Leilah Pandy, at last night’s Miss Universe pageant in Quito, Ecuador. Pandy, who by all accounts represented the country splendidly, was passed over by the judging panel for reasons known only to themselves. In all […]
Please note that tonight’s newscast is shorter than usual due to the need to begin our broadcast of the Miss Universe pageant live at 7:00 Central Standard time.
There was no bloodstain on the street, no hysterical witnesses, no signs of violence on her body–in fact, there is no body…and thirty-seven year old Astrid Perera is not legally dead. But the Belize City businesswoman, who disappeared almost a year ago, is widely believed to have been murdered. The question is: by whom? News […]
It may not have been a big fire, but its prime location could have made it a costly one. News 5’s Patrick Jones reports on last night’s near disaster in downtown Belize City. Patrick Jones, Reporting Fire officials rushed to the scene at number fifty-one Albert Street around eleven forty-five last night. When they gained […]
As I speak, eighty of the planet’s most attractive young women are gathered backstage in an auditorium in Quito, Ecuador. Thickly covered in makeup, balanced precariously on high heels, their heads crammed with memorized greetings, dance steps, and answers to questions they have yet to be asked, the participants in tonight’s Miss Universe pageant are […]
