It may have been another weekend of shootings, stabbings, jackings and carnage on the nation’s highways…but we’ll open the week with some positive news as top educators from around the region gather in Belize City. Ann-Marie has the story. Over fifty principals representing the English speaking Caribbean, all members of the Caribbean Association of Principals […]
This afternoon Attorney General Godfrey Smith handed over to Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh electronic court reporting equipment that should expedite trials in the Supreme Court. The Lanier Advocate V recorders will provide up to six hours of unattended four-channel recording and allow judges to focus on the case instead of taking notes. The Attorney General […]
On Friday night much of Belize was unable to watch this newscast–or anything else requiring electricity–due to a massive blackout…and now Belize Electricity Limited is explaining why it happened. According to a B.E.L. release the problem can once again be traced to Mexico. Around four-thirty a substation at Xul-Ha near Bacalar shut down due to […]
A suspect has been arrested in Friday’s robbery of a Western Union branch in Belize City. Police believe that twenty-two year old Jason Kuylen of Dangriga is one of two men who held up the Western Union Office on Freetown Road at Cambranes Store. Four thousand, four hundred dollars was taken after one of the […]
The search for Jason Kuylen on Friday night led to a conflict between police and a group of youths in a Southside Belize City neighbourhood. When it was all over Kuylen was apprehended but another man was wounded by what he claims was a gunshot fired from a police revolver. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods investigated. […]
In other crime news Belmopan was the scene of an armed robbery on Saturday night. Two men, one of whom brandished a pistol, held up the New Capital Restaurant for a thousand dollars in cash and then escaped. On Friday afternoon Independence Village was the scene of a similar crime, only a knife was the […]
Two people are dead and two more have been injured in separate traffic accidents on Saturday night. In Orange Walk, Juan Blanco Junior was killed after falling out of the back of a pickup truck as it drove down Riverside Street. According to the driver, Wilhem Lodge, Blanco was drunk and sitting on the edge […]
While the daily litany of media reports may sometimes make us feel that the crime problem is insurmountable, government continues to seek solutions and upgrade the quality of law enforcement. As a result of a trip last week to the United States by National Security Minister Jorge Espat, Police Commissioner Hughington Williams and Chief Forensic […]
James Adderley Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’ve locked in to another serving of Sports Monday. This weekend’s semi-pro basketball at the Civic Centre matched San Cas UB against Orange Walk Music Centre as both try to make the four team playoffs. Mark Bainton of the Super City Team shows why he is called […]
