Two Belizean Mennonites were killed Wednesday morning in what amounted to a massacre in Guatemala’s Peten. Fifty-two year old David Thiessen and his twenty-eight year old son, Abraham Thiessen, were among nine people murdered and seven injured when the two vehicles in which they were driving were ambushed by a group of armed men firing […]
The trial of brothers Adrian and Robert Hertular now underway in Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord’s court, took a turn this morning, when defence attorney Simeon Sampson made a submission that Lord should remove himself from the case. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams, who has been following the proceedings, spoke to special prosecutor Fred Lumor and attorney […]
A suspect has been arrested in a brutal robbery which occurred Tuesday night in Corozal. Nineteen year old Kirk Belisle, also known as “Small,” of Tigris Street in Belize City, has been charged with aggravated burglary for an incident in which an elderly Chinese couple were assaulted and robbed. Seventy-eight year old businessman Samuel Lowe […]
Many Belizean importers are still literally waiting for their ship to come in. The ship in question, The Atlantis, remains stuck high and dry on the edge of the harbour channel near English Caye. The cargo vessel, which runs to Belize weekly from Miami, went aground early Monday morning after its rudder became stuck due […]
Two officers from Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are in Belize advising the government on how to make Hattieville Prison operate more efficiently. Lieutenant Robert Hudson and Captain John Vander Horck have been in the country only a few days but they say that there are areas clearly in need of improvement. John Vander Horck, […]
The much touted N.H.I. pilot project, most recently scheduled to start on Monday, July second, has once again been put off. A Social Security Board press release stated that southside Belize District residents will be able to access primary care from four clinics. However, two of them, the Belize Family Life Association, on Central American […]
On Tuesday News 5’s cameras followed health inspectors as they visited a number of Belize City groceries and confiscated damaged and stale dated products they said were a danger to consumers. Today Jose Sanchez spoke to a number of large wholesalers to find out where these suspect goods originate. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Two of Belize’s […]
