Police are investigating the death of a man who was in police custody but reportedly jumped out of a moving vehicle. Orange Walk police say they went to Guinea Grass Village early Sunday morning and arrested twenty-three year old Ivan Cruz for violating a protection order issued on behalf of his wife Senaida from whom […]
It’s still a mystery: did someone drown after falling off a Belize City Bridge over the weekend? At the time the incident seemed real enough, but now police and the public aren’t so sure. Shortly after eight, Friday night, traffic on the Belchina Bridge came to an abrupt stop as motorists and pedestrians gathered in […]
If you live in Belmopan, don’t be surprised if you hear the patter of hooves near your window. No, it’s not Santa’s reindeers come early, but the Belmopan police detachment’s new method of community policing. According to Belmopan police, hiring horses to patrol walkways and other difficult access areas of the capital is paying off. […]
Police have arrested a man for making a false statement after he reported his common law wife missing. Police say Robert Patt Jr. told them his wife Mariella Cal had left home on December fourth and failed to return by the next day. Their investigation, however, revealed that Patt had actually driven his wife from […]
The efforts of Belize’s law enforcement agencies to increase their ability to stop drug traffickers in their tracks continues over the next two weeks with a series of training courses for immigration, customs and police officials. News Five attended the opening this morning at the Fiesta Inn. Three senior U.S. customs officials are conducting a […]
The Prime Minister Said Musa this afternoon signed an agreement awarding a contract to pave a section of the Southern Highway to Meco and Santa Fe Limited. The almost twenty four million dollars for the upgrading of the approximately twenty-one mile strip from the Big Creek Port to the Bladden Bridge is being provided by […]
A fifty million dollar soft loan has been approved for Honduras by the Inter-American Development Bank for relief, reconstruction and community development following hurricane Mitch. The IDB loan, which will have a forty-year repayment term, will have an interest rate of only one percent over the first ten years and two percent after that. The […]
The Belize Electricity Company Limited’s science competition really got students involved in hands-on research. The competition ended today with an awards ceremony at the Bliss, but if you are thinking, oh no, another display of exploding volcanoes and electric lightbulbs, you’ll be pleasantly surprised. The students were much more original doing everything from making paper […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s throwing down another version of Sports Monday. The B.F.L. schedule this weekend brought about a battle for supremacy in the standings when undefeated Juventus of Orange Walk hosted the only 3 and 0 ball club in the second round: Sagitun of Mango Creek. It’s the southern guys with […]
