One of Belize’s most wanted criminals has today been scratched from the list. Victor Sanker an accused murderer who had escaped from Hattieville on August twenty-fifth, was killed in the village of San Antonio after a shootout with police. According to a police press release, officers from Corozal were called to San Antonio around two […]
While police may have one less accused murderer to deal with, tonight the pressure is building to clear up a major scandal within the Police Department itself. At the center of the mess is the Eastern Division office of C.I.B. where sources inform News Five that several high ranking cops are under investigation for the […]
In other crime news four Belize City men have been charged in connection with a drive by shooting. Eighteen year old Norris Leslie told police that around eleven thirty on the night of September twenty-first, while standing at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Mahogany Street, two shots were fired at him from a […]
Five days ago it was the northside… today it was the southside’s turn to feel the heat of a fire. And while this morning’s blaze was less costly than Saturday’s disaster, it still left two families without a place to call home. The fire started shortly before nine this morning and totally destroyed a two-storey […]
A familiar name has won the prestigious Belize Open Scholarship for 1998. Vonetta Hyde, a recent graduate of S.J.C. Junior College, received the highest ranking of any Belizean student on the University of Cambridge advanced level exam taken in June. As such she has been awarded by the government a full university scholarship covering all […]
When any new government comes to power one of the first things it typically does is announce plans to reform the civil service. Belize is no exception to this rule and today the minister responsible for public officers got together with his top employees to talk and to listen. News Five’s Patrick Jones was there. […]
It is not the best known volunteer organization in Belize, having lived for many years in the shadow of its larger American cousin, the Peace Corps. But Britain’s Voluntary Service Oversees, better known as V.S.O., has been quietly doing good deeds here for four decades. Today they paused to do a bit of celebrating. Since […]
(incomplete on yesterday’s newscast) He may be working himself out of a significant portion of his portfolio, but Minister of Tourism, Broadcasting and Information Mark Espat has reaffirmed his government’s manifesto pledge to divest itself of the Broadcasting Corporation of Belize. In a press release issued on Tuesday the ministry announced the appointment of a […]
