At a quarter past seven on Monday night, News Five was called out to a gruesome scene at the corner of King Street and Southern Foreshore. The body of a male baby had been found floating in the drain. According to Nelson Contreras, a security guard on duty, he was alerted by some young boys […]
Police say a forty-six year old man hanged himself on Monday night at the Belmopan Police Station. Police say they found Justace Lemott, a Belizean from Ontario Village with his dread belt around his neck hanging from a window bar. According to police around nine thirty that night, prisoners who were in a cell next […]
Another major case will not be prosecuted in the courts, but this time, it is not due to lack of evidence but by the victim’s request to stop the proceedings. In February, Andrew “Papa” Brown, Winston “Taga” James, Francis Guy, James Hyde and Lionel Kelly were arrested and charged with kidnapping after Wallingford Requeña reported […]
A thirty-seven year old man has been charged with breaking into an elderly woman’s home, raping, torturing and robbing her. The eighty-two year old woman of Lemonal told police her ordeal on the night of August twenty-third when the man knocked on her door and pretended to be a young relative. When she refused to […]
Acting on a tip the police received on Saturday, August twenty-eighth, a unit was sent out to number seventy Regent Street. There in an upstairs apartment, the police found nine and a half pounds of marijuana, a scale, cigarette paper and sixty dollars in cash. Inside the room were forty-three year old Horace McClaren and […]
Tonight the police are looking for three men who held up a man and his wife inside their shop around nine Monday night. According to police three Creole men, two masked and one armed with a handgun entered Robert’s Shop at one twenty one Amara Avenue and held up the owner and his wife and […]
School children all over the country are preparing to go back to school and their teachers are working hard to get everything ready for their return. One Belize City school has enlisted the help of the Belize Electricity Board, but not to rewire the school, to paint it. B.E.L. has not only donated forty gallons […]
The disabled among us are all too often shut away from the rest of society like sources of embarrassment and shame. To try to change this way of thinking, the Special Olympics will be held in November. But in the meantime, the committee is organizing events that will get the disabled involved in outdoor events […]
With limited medical care available it is difficult for anyone with a serious illness or condition to live in Belize, but if you have hemophilia, a disorder in which the factors needed for blood to clot are missing, it is even harder to cope in Belize. But despite the high cost of the factor, and […]
It’s one of the most beautiful cayes in Belize, but it’s not being used for tourism. Every year since 1972 the Smithsonian Institute based in Washington D.C. has sent between thirty to ninety scientists to this tiny island on the reef to study everything from sea worms to sponges to mangroves. Two years ago a […]
