Another Belizean taxi driver has been taken down a fatal road. On Thursday August 5th, around 9:30 p.m., 46 year old Mariano Gomez agreed to take a Hispanic male to Branch Mouth, San Ignacio. When the taxi man failed to return home, his son, Denfield Gomez, also a taxi driver, decided to go look for […]
Late last month when the former S.J.C. teacher Carlos Milan, accused of the attempted rape and indecent assault of his seven year old step-daughter reappeared in Magistrate’s Court, his common-law wife filed an affidavit to drop all charges. As a result, the case could not proceed that day but rather was adjourned until October and […]
Some residents of the Otro Benque Area of Orange Walk are circulating a petition asking the police and Minister of National Security Jorge Espat to take action against two men they allege have been arrested for molesting a child and continue to harass female children in the area. The complaints seem to have begun in […]
Skimpy and expensive costumes keeping you away from carnival? Belize’s newest carnival band, TELEJAMMERS, the T-shirt carnival band, might be the solution to your problem. Organizers Sherilyn Waight and Philippa Duncan stopped by News Five to fill us in on why T-shirts might just be your ticket to kicking up in the streets without showing […]
It began with a candlelight vigil to try and mobilize the community against the murders and abuse of Belize City children. Now the effort continues with a National Ecumenical Rally to highlight the fact that child abuse is a countrywide concern. On August 15th churches from all denominations, from every corner of Belize are invited […]
If you didn’t know it before, some of those luscious lobsters we see on television commercials might just be from Belize. That’s right, about 95% of the lobsters caught in Belize end up in a Red Lobster Restaurant. Today the president and some of the top executives of the Red Lobster chain were in Belize […]
No one likes to be reminded about the panic last October when Belize City residents headed inland, or crowded city shelters to avoid Hurricane Mitch. But the experience taught us a great deal about disaster preparedness, or rather our lack of preparedness. To see where we are today and what needs to be done, a […]
