Opponents of Belize’s policy of selling passports have long criticized the practice as an open invitation for tax dodgers, drug dealers, money launderers and even terrorists to find a safe haven on these all too friendly shores. Tonight it appears more certain than ever that those criticisms are well founded. A News Five investigation has […]
Police are investigating a murder in Belize City over the weekend which bears a striking resemblance to the murder of Punta Gorda teacher Pio Coc in August. On Saturday night, a wife watched as five men chased her husband and his brother before shooting her husband twice. Like Pio Coc, he also bled to death […]
While the friends and family of Oscar Perez try to deal with his brutal slaying, residents of Orange Walk were stunned this weekend by the equally shocking and senseless murder of two employees of the Ministry of Health. On Friday night, just after ten o?clock, Hipolito Muy and Orlando Reyes were beaten to death by […]
What could have been a major emergency when two buses collided and one wound up in the Belize River, somehow resulted in only minor injuries Saturday afternoon. The incident occurred shortly before three o’clock p.m. at mile eight and a half in front of the Brazilian Consulate. Witnesses told News Five a car coming from […]
Early this morning, firefighters were called to Eyre Street in Belize City after smoke was seen coming from the rear of the wooden PAHO/WHO building. Fire officials were able to get control of the fire before it could spread to the rest of the office but at news time tonight, the cause of the fire […]
It may not have produced any flames, but the action was hot and heavy at Saturday night’s official opening of the Princess Casino. Since the “soft opening” two weeks earlier the rows of shiny slot machines have been supplemented by a number of blackjack tables and roulette wheels. Despite warnings from cabinet that only U.S. […]
And finally in crime news, police have detained one man and are looking for another in connection with a burglary in Independence Village. Abdul Sarraj of Savannah Road reported that someone broke into his house sometime between January twentieth and twenty-second and stole sixty-one thousand dollars worth of cash and jewelry.
A man wanted in connection with a shooting on Central American Boulevard has been arrested. Deshawn Nunez has been charged with attempted murder, use of deadly means of harm and grievous harm in connection with the shooting of Mark Banner on the seventeenth of January. Banner alleges that Nunez approached him at the corner of […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley, welcoming you to this fresh brew of Sports Monday. Grigamandala had only one option yesterday at Dangriga. Beat the San Pedro Dolphins or miss the BFL playoffs. It’s as simple as that. Of course in Belizean football right now nothing comes easy. In the opening moments of yesterday’s game Malahi […]
