By any measure, it was a horrible crime, with one man dead and another badly injured after they were shot while driving in their car. But as dangerous a place Belize City can be, what happened to the Naj brothers last night–at least according to the survivor’s account–does not resemble any recent murder that police […]
Another shooting occurred on Tuesday in Belize City, but without fatal consequences. Thirty-two year old Harry Staine was shot Tuesday morning during a fight with his nephew. According to police, Staine and eighteen-year-old Kenyon Andrews, both residents of thirty-seven Wagner’s Lane, became embroiled in an argument around eight in the morning. Staine says Andrews went […]
A Belize City man, Herbert Wilshire, who’s no stranger to crime and punishment, is complaining of police brutality. Wilshire’s sister, Angela Francis, visited our studio this morning to register her displeasure with the shooting of her brother by police last night as he was apprehended in Ladyville. News 5 spoke to Francis and Wilshire at […]
Last night a team from the Forest Department combed the canals of Belama in search of the crocodile responsible for the death Sunday of thirteen year old Jamaal Swift. The government officers, assisted by crocodile expert Mark Howells of Lamanai Outpost Lodge, snared a croc, which measured between eight and nine feet in length, that […]
The controversy over bus routes that sparked the July thirtieth riot on the Tower Hill Bridge has been resolved. In a meeting today at the Ministry of Works and Transport office in Belize City, officials met with owners of both Tillett’s Bus Company and Castillo’s Bus Service. A government press release says the talks were […]
Two of Belize’s biggest corporate heavyweights today announced the award of scholarships to deserving Belizean students. The Belize Social Security Board, in a ceremony at its Belize City office, presented fifteen scholarships to high school students from all six districts. Each scholarship is valued at one thousand dollars per year, and with good grades the […]
Operations at the Philip Goldson International Airport were interrupted for a short period of time this morning as a small fire started in front of the terminal building. Lindford Rosado, the Manager of Finance and Administration at the Belize Airports Authority, says B.E.L. employees were at the airport working on a transformer when their welding […]
It’s a scary scenario that at one time or another most people have run through their minds: what would I do if I was diagnosed with HIV? For one Belize City man that fantasy became reality–or so he thought. Ann-Marie has a story that reminds us that when your life is on the line it […]
