Reactions of kids Student #1, Holy Redeemer School “My parents told me not to go in their cars if they tell me they want to go drive, that they will go and pick you up.” Student #2, Holy Redeemer School “They tell me not to take things from other people. Just wait until somebody comes […]
A little girl, who should have spent this afternoon doing her homework and talking to her friends, was instead eulogized at the church across the street from her school. Jackie Fern Malic’s murder, so similar to the October slaying of Sherilee Nicholas, who would have been celebrating her 13th birthday next week, has sparked feelings […]
For their part, despite intense pressure to find the killer, two days after the gruesome discovery of Jackie Fern Malic’s body police say they do not yet know for certain who killed the young girl, or why. According to A.I.P. Simeon Alvarez, Head of the Criminal Investigations Branch, they have detained two men for questioning. […]
Yesterday police urged parents and teachers to work together to protect the children and monitor their behavior. Today News Five spoke with some teachers, all of whom reacted strongly to the brutal murder of this young St. Ignatius Student who is so much like the students they work with everyday. Lavern Andrewin, Teacher, St. Luke’s […]
Some shoppers had just stopped in to pick up a few items before heading home, but they and the staff of Extra House on Church Street were held up and robbed at gun point on Thursday evening around 6:15. The five men, masked and armed with handguns and shotguns, then fled the scene with the […]
One license is still in effect but the other must be renegotiated. These were the findings of a committee appointed to review logging practices in the Columbia Forest Reserve. The committee report found that the felling being carried out by the Toledo Atlantic International Limited was having a negative impact on various rural communities. It […]
No doubt you’ve seen an attractive new building by the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Well tonight, the Social Security Board is inaugurating its new Belize City facility at the corner of Princess Margaret Drive and St. Joseph Streets. The ten thousand five hundred foot structure was designed by Mitchell-Moody Associates with work carried out by […]
The winner of this week’s Lotto draw claimed his prize this afternoon. Isabel Perez of Guinea Grass Village, Orange Walk took home twenty one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars of the twenty-five thousand dollar prize after taxes. Perez won the Lotto after choosing the correct numbers: 9, 11, 19, 28 and 31. According to […]
Tonight G. Michael Reid comments on the comments made last week by News Five’s own Hyacinth Latchman when she responded to one of G. Michael Reid’s Last Words. Space does not permit a recap of both their viewpoints, but suffice it to say, there’s definitely a gender gap “I missed my seventy five dollars last […]
