The disintegration of two of Belize’s highest profile murder cases in the same day has left the nation in shock and law enforcement authorities with their biggest headache since last year’s killing and mass jacking on the Hummingbird Highway. With Commissioner Ornel Brooks out of the country until Monday and National Security Minister Jorge Espat […]
Somewhere between the 6th of April and the 19th of August all of Brooks’ evidence apparently developed dry rot as when the case was finally called the D.P.P. said the police file had nothing worth bringing to court. Likewise in the case of four men accused in the killing of Samantha Gordon last November. On […]
Again, the case that Salazar described so confidently in June had by August evaporated as quickly as yesterday’s rain. Today News Five canvassed the legal community and found few attorneys surprised. Bar Association President Fred Lumor says that at a recent meeting with the Acting Chief Justice, the D.P.P., Solicitor General and Deputy Police Commissioner […]
There has been no official confirmation but reports reaching News Five indicate that a British soldier has died in the Mountain Pine Ridge. The soldier is believed to have been part of a contingent of army personnel undergoing jungle training by BATSUB. He allegedly drowned in the Macal River near the Guacamallo Bridge within the […]
Most people are at home when a fire starts or hear about it shortly afterwards but this was not the case for a fire on one of the remote islands of Glover’s Reef. Twenty-two year old Christopher Kuylen was more than surprised when his insurance company, G.A. Roe and Sons, called him around nine o’clock […]
A daylight heist at a Belize City bus station has netted two armed robbers just over $600. According to the sales clerk at the Z-Line bus service on Magazine Road, just before 1 p.m. this afternoon, two young Creole men walked into the office and one of them pulled out a gun. The men demanded […]
Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with the sexual abuse of children. Fifty eight year old Leyland Tillett, a fisherman from Crooked Tree, has been charged with indecent assault after his daughter reported that Tillett had molested his eleven year old granddaughter. According to the report, the incident took place around 2 […]
If you are among those unlucky Belize City residents forced to deal with stray dogs on a daily basis, you will be interested to know that steps are being taken to get the animals off the streets and into a shelter. The members of the Belize Humane Society, junior chapter, hit the streets of the […]
On Wednesday the Guatemalans took the stage at San Pedro’s Costa Maya Festival and a new queen of the coast was crowned from Mexico. In tonight’s report Janelle Chanona is back with a look at what the Hondurans were up to. It was supposed to have been Honduras night at the Costa Maya Festival but […]
