Three young men were charged this afternoon in connection with Tuesday’s shooting of eleven year old Stacy Williams. Eighteen year old Mark Sutherland, his twenty one year old cousin Stuart Sutherland and seventeen year old Norris Leslie have been jointly charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, dangerous harm and use of deadly means of […]
Police in Orange Walk have had less luck in finding the persons responsible for the brutal slaying of forty eight year old Indian businessman Bherumal Punjabi. Punjabi was strangled and robbed Wednesday evening on the San Roman Road, his throat pierced by a stalk of cane. Officers told News Five that while they are looking […]
Also in Belize City members of the Montes family were adding the final touches to funeral arrangements for their son John, whose life ended violently last Saturday evening. But suspicious circumstances surrounding the affair were never far from their minds. According Irma Vernon, sister of the deceased, several eye witnesses have given the family a […]
Also buried today was former Chamber of Commerce General Manager Hugh Fuller. Fuller died of a brain aneurysm on Tuesday evening. His interment was the first at Homeland Memorial Park, the new private cemetery at mile seven and a half on the Western Highway.
With only two days left before the arrival of the M.S. Leeward, the general attitude seems to be one of watchful waiting. After an initial venting of homophobic steam an increasing number of liberal voices have been raised in defense of civil rights for homosexuals and the nine hundred or so visitors on the cruise […]
There is good news this week for the people of Trinidad and Tobago. The Amoco Trinidad Oil Company has announced a record petroleum find some thirty five miles southeast of the main island. Company officials say that the discovery, which they estimate at between forty and seventy million barrels, is the biggest in twenty five […]
The Christmas spirit evaporated long ago; January was short on both money and fun… But don’t worry, February is almost here and some colleagues of ours on Freetown Road have an idea. Brian Mossiah, Project Coordinator, Love F.M. “And don’t forget the feeding program starts on February second where we will be in Punta Gorda, […]
They are endangered throughout most of their range but in Belize the West Indian Manatee has always thrived. At least until recently. Tonight there is one less in the community and at least one man is getting suspicious. Pepe Garcia, the President of the Belize Audubon Society, had just taken out his boat for a […]
News Five commentator G. Michael Reid rarely enters the murky waters of Belizean politics and when he does dip foot, it is not without first checking carefully for sharks, jellyfish, sea urchins and other perils of the sea. Finding, for the moment at least, that the coast is clear, he decided to go for a […]
