When News Five got word this morning of a dead body found off the Western Highway outside of Belize City, we immediately feared that another young girl had been murdered. That was not the case, however, as the corpse turned out to be a man. Sometime after 11:00 this morning, the police were called out […]
Seven days after twenty-six year old Dean Bowden dodged a bullet that was apparently intended for him, the young man’s luck ran out. Bowden lies in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot in the neck around 1:15, Saturday morning. Police say Bowden was riding his bicycle toward the Belcan Roundabout when three […]
A man missing since July eleventh, who was last seen carrying a container of poison, has been found dead. The decomposed body of John Mess was found Saturday four miles from Frank’s Eddy Village by his brother Hilario. A quart of Tamaron insecticide was found by the dead man’s side. No post mortem was conducted […]
Police say they do not believe that a fifteen-year old girl who is being reported in the media as kidnapped was forcibly taken against her will. Instead police say their investigation has revealed that the girl knows the eighteen-year old Jacoba Correa, the man whom the family is alleging abducted the minor. Initial reports are […]
The weekend was also a dangerous one for people on the road as two men were killed in separate traffic accidents. On Friday Reagan Montero died in a traffic accident on mile four on the Southern Highway. According to police, Montero was a passenger in a Toyota Pickup driven by Deon Dawson. The two were […]
The news reached us late, but the message is no less important. Last week citizens of Punta Gorda held a protest march through the streets of that southernmost town. What they were protesting, according to members of the Toledo Civil Society organisation, was the alarming growth of crime in P.G. and the inability of the […]
Somebody must be doing something right because for the ninth consecutive month a record number of tourists have arrived at Belize’s main port of entry, the Philip Goldson International Airport. Figures for June record 10,681 bona fide tourist arrivals for the month compared to 8,202 during the same period last year, an impressive increase of […]
Insurance regulators from offshore jurisdictions around the globe are meeting this week in Belize. The Offshore Group of Insurance Supervisors is being hosted by Belize’s office of the Supervisor of Insurance. The three days of discussions at the conference centre of Cayo’s Chaa Creek Resort feature speakers from the United States, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and […]
Young athletes, wannabe athletes and just spectators yearning to be in the game, as long as you are between the ages of eight and thirteen there may be a solution to the summertime blues. This morning the National Sports Council started it’s second annual sports camp and News Five’s Arreini Palacio was there. Arreini Palacio, […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and I’d like to welcome you to this edition of Sports Monday. The Belize District Basketball Association championship series moved into game two Friday night at the City Centre with Kulture Reggae boasting a 1-zip lead. For G.A. Roe Gap a win would push them into a decisive game three […]
