Twenty-one year old Jason Williams, who was on remand at Hattieville Prison, was scheduled to appear in Magistrate’s Court today, for a shooting incident in 1999. Instead he was escorted to the court and charged with the murder of his cellmate Raymond Flowers on Saturday. Flowers received a deep knife wound to his right armpit […]
While the investigation into the death of a wounded prisoner continues at the K.H.M.H., News Five has learned that the investigation into the deaths of two infants which occurred at the hospital five months ago is still not complete. What’s more, the doctor in charge of those cases, Lavel Reyes, is still on suspension, with […]
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Britain’s defense department spent the last two days in Belize and is now heading for Guatemala with meetings with the new President Alfonso Portillo. Minister Peter Kilfoyle held a press conference this afternoon at British Army Training Support Unit Belize, BATSUB at Price Barracks this afternoon. He reviewed […]
A two-year-old died in a traffic accident on the Punta Gorda/San Antonio Road on Monday night. Police say a truck carrying cement and driven by Felipe Conrad Munoz of Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala collided with a van driven by William Vellar of Forest Home Village between miles three and four around seven p.m. Two-year-old Darrel […]
Streetside shootings seem to be the headlines again with one over the weekend and another on Monday evening. Coincidentally both were sparked by disputes over women. The latest incident has left twenty-two year old Mark Derrick Banner in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound to the back. Banner was shot around six […]
A resident of King’s Park has been charged with a stabbing at a Belize City nightclub. Thirty-six year old Joseph Robateau of Sixth Street has been charged with dangerous harm after twenty-three year old Jason Adolphus was stabbed in the abdomen during a fight at Miami Nites on Central American Boulevard early Sunday morning.
Here at News Five, we love a good controversy, so when we heard that members of the Toledo Eco Tourism Association and other members of the P.G. tourism industry were getting on a bus and heading for the Belize Biltmore Plaza to stage a “protest” against the Belize Tourism Board we thought there would be […]
If you are a female between the ages of twelve and twenty-five and love to play ball then you might consider becoming a member of the Millennium Female Football Club. According to Adelma Broaster, a footballer and a club member, they want to strengthen female football in Belize. They are looking for females who are […]
Prime Minister Said Musa’s trip to Guatemala City last week to attend the inauguration of the new president marked a chance for a new chapter in Belize Guatemala relations. Since independence in 1981, the issue of the Guatemalan claim to Belize has receded in public mind and in recent years, the issue has arisen only […]
