The details are sketchy, as the tightly knit community of Spanish Lookout is not known for aggressively telling its stories, but News Five has confirmed that an attack was carried out last night on a Mennonite woman by a gang of armed men. At around eight o’clock Monday night twenty four-year-old Nellie Plett was driving […]
A major disaster was narrowly averted in Belize City this morning as a crane collapsed at the site of the Swing Bridge renovation. Around eleven thirty one of two cranes currently working on the project, buckled under the weight of a thirteen hundred pound wrecking ball that was being used to break up the bridge’s […]
A one-month-old baby has died in Belize City. Twenty one year old Denise Flowers of North Creek reported to police that on Saturday night she fed her daughter Neicha and put her to sleep around eleven thirty. When she next saw the infant at six thirty Sunday morning she was not moving. Neicha was rushed […]
A Dangriga man has also been found dead, under even more mysterious circumstances. Forty two year old Rafael Aquino was discovered by police at five forty-five Monday morning lying in a hammock under his house on Vincent Street. A cut wound had been inflicted on his right ear. After being taken to Dangriga Hospital he […]
Training for police prosecutors form around the Caribbean continued yesterday at the Fiesta Inn, with the instruction moving out of the classroom and into the courtroom. A total of forty-one regional police prosecutors took part in the mock trial that involved the fictitious case of Sarah Cummings and Marcia Henry. The two women were caught […]
After several weeks of secrecy the Belize men’s selection for the upcoming CARICOM basketball championships was unveiled late this afternoon at City Centre. News Five was on hand for the event and our reporters have just returned from the gym. A dozen giants descended on the Belize Civic Center this afternoon to play ball. The […]
While the players are eager to start the action, the coaches and administrators are also looking forward to hosting Belize’s first major regional sporting event. Patrick Jones, checked to see if they’re ready. When the tournament tips off on Friday night, organizers say the team carrying the blue, red and white will represent the best […]
