One suspect has been arrested and the charge will likely be murder… as the man he allegedly attacked has died in a Chetumal hospital. According to Orange Walk police one of a group of men who allegedly raped a twenty-one year old woman and killed her eighteen year old friend, Salvadoran Roberto Herbert, was arrested […]
Two of five inmates who escaped from the Belize Prison Authority’s Youth Enhancement Academy last Thursday night, have been recaptured. Eighteen year old Stuart Jones was brought in to the Academy in Ladyville on Saturday and twenty-year-old Fransico Vasquez was recaptured today. The three still at large are: twenty-three year old Glenford Baptist who is […]
A Belize City man was killed on Monday afternoon on the Coastal Road when the truck he was driving overturned. According to police, twenty three year old Alfonso Avila was transporting diesel to the Citrus Company of Belize around three thirty yesterday afternoon, when upon reaching a curve at mile thirty on the Coastal Road, […]
A sixty-four year old man from St. Paul’s Bank was crushed to death in an accident on Saturday morning. A police report says Basil Thompson was about to clear a knot in the rope that was being used to move a wooden house, when the loader pulling the house rolled forward and pinned him against […]
Closing arguments in Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel’s libel suit against former San Ignacio Town Mayor Marconi Matus and People’s United Party Chairman Jorge Espat ended late this evening in the Supreme Court. The trial, which opened on Monday, heard testimony from eight witnesses, including the Prime Minister and two of his bodyguards. Today, defense attorney […]
In other political news, both the People’s United Party and the United Democratic Party have postponed upcoming public gatherings due to inclement weather. The U.D.P.’s “Double Victory Celebration” scheduled for tonight will now be amalgamated into the party’s July twelfth special national conference at Bird’s Isle, while the P.U.P.’s “Five Years is Five Years” mass […]
The nineteenth CARICOM Summit opened this evening in St. Lucia. Among the Heads of Government slated to be on hand was Belize’s Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel, although in pictures down linked via satellite this evening the Belize P.M. was nowhere to be found. The meeting is expected to further the integration process and take concrete […]
Summertime can mean both joy and boredom for many Belizean children. Some are fortunate to go away for their vacation, while thousands of others are left behind, often with little to do. Thanks to St. Mary’s Church, however, for the past eight years Belize City kids have been engaging in organized activities and touring some […]
Belize is no stranger to missionaries as they’ve been coming and going to and from these shores for just about as long as their more famous contemporaries, the pirates. But arriving today at the Philip Goldson International Airport was not your usual band of bible toting strangers. These ladies, as their name suggests, are coming […]
He’s one of the hottest performers on the punta rock scene but many Belizeans know more about the music than the man. News Five’s Arreini Palacio caught up with Aziatic last week as he recorded his latest CD in Belize City. Aziatic, Musician “I constantly try to get stuff out, you know. That is what […]
