It was a particularly brutal killing in a part of the country where brutal deaths are not all that uncommon. But tonight police have in custody two men whom they say are responsible for the murder of Indian businessman Bherumal Punjabi. Punjabi’s body was found last Wednesday night in a canefield off the San Roman […]
In a follow up to a story we ran yesterday, twenty one year old Deon Smith is tonight on his way to Clinica Carranza in Chetumal for further treatment. Smith, who was shot in the face by a policeman playing Russian Roulette early Saturday morning, was to have been flown out on a Wings of […]
The proliferation of broadcasting licenses over the last decade has meant a corresponding increase in the number of tall metal towers that now dot the skyline of Belize City and nearly every district town. But what goes up can also come down… as residents of Partridge Street almost learned the hard way. Earlier today, if […]
It may have been sunny and bright today but that didn’t stop people from hauling out their flannels. Northers are not common this time of year but what made this norther special was that it was blowing from the southwest. Patrick Jones explains. If the answers to life’s questions were, quote-unquote, blowing in the wind […]
The environmental organization Greenpeace reports that the British flagged freighter “Pacific Swan” has entered the Caribbean Sea with a controversial cargo of nuclear waste. It is scheduled to transit the Panama Canal on February sixth, on its way from France to Japan. CARICOM and several Latin American nations have protested the shipment and Greenpeace has […]
On Monday evening officials gathered at Hattieville Prison to formally dedicate the latest addition to the chronically overcrowded facility. News Five’s Patrick Jones discovered that it wasn’t only the prisoners who are short of space. While Prison authorities have been working steadily to improve living conditions for close to nine hundred inmates at Hattieville, today […]
It was one of the most tragic stories this station has ever reported: an innocent little girl, playing in her yard, suddenly struck down by a gunshot. Over the last several days, however, the story has become a happy one. As I discovered this morning, the victim is making a remarkable recovery. Looking at eleven […]
