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Senator given three months suspended prison sentence

It’s a court of law frequented by many Belizeans but its cases rarely make it onto the evening news. No longer. A family court proceeding that was today resolved in magistrate’s court has ramifications for the law, politics, and the media. In the ruling U.D.P. Senator, newspaper editor and talk show host Audrey Matura Tillett […]

Seventy-one year old man killed in traffic accident

A man is dead after a fatal traffic accident in Corozal Town yesterday morning. Seventy-one year old Gregorio MagaƱa of Ranchito Village was riding his bicycle around ten thirty when he was allegedly knocked down by a 1998 Land Rover with Guatemala license plates. Police say it was driven at the time by thirty-two year […]

San Joaquin money changer robbed

A money changer of San Joaquin Village in the Corozal District was robbed this morning by four men. John Teul reported that around 6:54 he was held up at gunpoint by masked men dressed in full black. Even though Teul handed over two thousand dollars, the robbers reportedly fired shots at him but missed. The […]

Courts hands over $50,000 check to Serious Cash II winner

What would you do with over forty thousand dollars if someone handed it to you? Well, tonight the winner of the final Courts Serious Cash Two Draw is thinking that question over very carefully. Camille Estell picked up her check this morning. The lucky winner told News Five how she found out she had won […]

Courts donates to Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund

If that is not enough Courts Belize Limited news, this morning the Belize Red Cross was also at Courts to collect two checks which will assist the victims that suffered from the wrath of Hurricane Mitch. Sherlette Lopez says that because of the great concern for victims in Central America employees and management decided to […]

Min. of Education considers extending teachers’ retirement age

This morning the Ministry of Education and representatives from different ministries of government as well as teachers, principals and non-governmental organizations got together to develop recommendations for a ten year Education Sector Strategy. One of the main objectives of the seminar is to review the development and delivery of education services in Belize. News Five […]

Family members of dead inmate say he did not kill himself

Because there have been incidents in which prisoners have been murdered in their cells in the Hattieville Prison, one of the most infamous just this past November, people are naturally skeptical when they hear a prisoner has been found dead. Yesterday, another inmate died and for the first time it was an inmate of the […]