The political chest beating over who controls a narrow strip of prime property near the BelChina Bridge continued today but the venue of the battle shifted from the dusty roadside to the cool air of the Supreme Court. Acting Chief Justice Troadio Gonzales granted the government an injunction which restrains the United Democratic Party or […]
You generally only hear about teachers mobilizing when there is a wage dispute, but today teachers and staff of the Belize Teachers’ Training College and members of the Belize National Teachers’ Union staged a protest against something of much greater concern: murder. News Five met the protesters on Princess Margaret Drive. Three Toledo teachers were […]
A week after the murder of taxi driver Mariano Gomez in San Ignacio, Cayo police have charged a Guatemalan with the killing. Gomez’s son told police a Hispanic man hired his father to take him to Branch Mouth on the night of August 5th. When Mariano Gomez failed to return, his son went looking for […]
A man who turned himself into police following the beating and subsequent death of Talbert Lamb earlier this week was charged with murder today. Virgil Batty went to police on Wednesday in the company of his lawyer Lutchman Sooknandan. Police are still seeking several other suspects in connection with the incident on the night of […]
A man carrying a computer was hit by a car this morning as he crossed Newtown Barracks in front of the Sandlighter’s Promenade. Francis Wagner of Independence was on his way to Business Computer Systems around 9:30 a.m. when a car driven by 18 year old Omar Venegas which was heading towards Princess Margaret Drive […]
In previous newscasts, we highlighted the problems Trinidad and Tobago has been having with sabotaged fiber optic cables. The cuts to the cable affected their airline computers, communication with the air traffic control tower, bank transactions and private phone lines. Could Belize’s fiber optic cables, B.T.L.’s main link to voice, data, television waves and other […]
Lack of resources is often blamed for the state of Belize’s health care system. But sometimes people die not because of a lack of equipment or staff, but because the medical team didn’t communicate with each other or even worse, simply didn’t care. Tonight News Five brings you a story of two women whose experiences, […]
