Fire broke out Thursday evening just before seven p.m. on North Front Street in Belize City, and as usual hundreds turned out to witness the spectacle and generally get in the way. But what was a night’s entertainment for some left four families homeless. News Five was at the scene. The sky was covered with […]
No sooner had the National Fire Service finished their work on the city’s northside, then they were off to the southside to battle the flames of another fire. This time the fire which started shortly after two this morning, totally destroyed the home of forty-six year old Myrtle McKenzie at the corner of Mahogany Street […]
Dangriga police are looking for the woman who abandoned her baby in a latrine. On August twenty-fourth, Phyllis Palacio of Tenth Street reported that she had found the decomposed body of a male newborn in a pit latrine in her yard. So far police have no leads and are asking the public for assistance.
On Tuesday concerned citizens of Benque Viejo del Carmen told police they suspected a Guatemalan mason was molesting a five year old girl. Tomorrow forty-year-old Edgar Rene Hernandez Diaz will be charged in Magistrate’s Court with rape, indecent assault and wounding. Police and a social worker took the child, who was still bleeding, to the […]
On Tuesday an accident on the Western Highway claimed the life of Supreme Court Justice John Rivero. Earlier that day, however, there was another crash. Around eight o’clock in the morning fifty-year-old Harvey Logan had parked his dump truck on the right hand side of the road between miles nine and ten. Shortly afterward, seventy-seven […]
To mark the one-year anniversary of their win in the general election, the People’s United Party has announced that Friday August twenty-seventh will be a National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving. The party is urging Belizeans to participate by attending their respective churches and activities planned in each constituency. On September sixteenth, Prime Minister Said […]
Need an extra thousand dollars? Well if you write poetry and aren’t afraid to get up on stage then the first annual National Poetry Contest might be one way of getting that extra cash. Glenn Tillett from the National September Celebrations Committee told News Five why the contest was organized and why it is being […]
While many might love life on the sea, very few demonstrate their affinity like Alvero Vernon. The ex boat captain has become a shipbuilder but on a much smaller scale. He has transformed the simple elements of wood and glue into his very own works of art, using his memories to inspire his projects. He […]
Even though his office only officially opened today, Ombudsman Paul Rodriguez says he has already received an onslaught of complaints, mostly about land claims and police work. He says so far he has had few problems while conducting his investigations. Paul Rodriguez, Ombudsman “Generally good. I think most of the people, all of the people […]
