It was the kind of crime that makes us ashamed to be a member of Belizean society, if not the entire human race. Two Belize City children will not get a chance to grow up as their lives were cut short this afternoon in a hail of gunfire. News 5’s Jose Sanchez was quickly on […]
A BDF soldier who was reported lost near the Guatemalan border has been found safe and sound. Private Marvin Card became separated from his fourteen-man patrol around dusk on Friday and remained missing until today. Card, rather than try to find his way back to his base camp six kilometres inside Belize, elected to stay […]
A husband and wife are dead following a head-on collision on the Western Highway Sunday evening. Police say Howell Adolphus was driving a red Chrysler along with two other passengers: his wife, Verna Hutchinson and twenty-four year old Sherman Herrera. They were all on their way home to Teakettle Village, from a football game in […]
A Chinese grocer of Dangriga is at the Belmopan Hospital recovering from a gunshot wound, while the gunmen are on the run. Kyu Huan, twenty-five, told police that on Friday, he was in his shop, Gold Star, situated at mile one on the Stann-Creek Valley Road, when he was held up by two men and […]
And in Belize City, a gas station attendant was robbed of three hundred dollars. Around 9:00 on Friday night, Lornel Staine, attendant at the One-Stop Shell Station at the corner of Cemetery Road and Central American Boulevard, was held up at gunpoint and handed over the money. He described his assailant to police as being […]
There is big news in the energy sector, as a major hurdle has been cleared by Belize Electricity Limited in its efforts to implement the Chalillo Hydro Project. In a release dated Friday, Fortis Incorporated, majority owner of BEL, announced that it has purchased ninety-five percent of the shares in BECOL, the company that owns […]
The foreign minister of El Salvador today met with Prime Minister Said Musa. Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Avila met with the P.M. this morning in Belmopan. The primary purpose of the visit was to thank Belize for assistance provided in the wake of the devastating earthquake, which struck El Salvador on January thirteenth. Two containers […]
A Belize City woman visited News 5 this afternoon to complain of two incidents of police brutality she allegedly suffered last week. Bernadine Anderson of a North Creek address said her nightmare started when police found her two sons near her gate and decided to search them. Bernadine Anderson, Claims Police Brutality I went outside […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re in tuned to this latest version of Sports Monday. Kulture Yabra of Belize City found itself matched up against turf rivals Acros for a second Sunday in a row. Would they be able to repeat last week’s big W. We open to Hugo Ortega moving against “Butta” Ferguson […]
