It may be a bit early for the Christmas crime season, but that didn’t stop robbers and thieves from making their presence felt last night and this morning in Belize City. The criminals, who met with varying levels of success, are being pursued by police…and in one case, a suspect was chased by a very […]
Two other heists occurred last night in Belize City. Sometime after closing hours, ambitious thieves broke into the office of Bravo Motors on the Western Highway. They managed to remove the company’s safe, but apparently that’s when their luck ran out. According to Bravo manager Eddie Bouloy, that safe was recovered in the yard…unopened. According […]
A teenager is lucky to be alive after being wounded in a drive-by shooting this afternoon in Belize City. Reports are that Mark Medina, seventeen, was walking on Cemetery Lane around 2:30 when a white car with five occupants slowed down and a single shot was fired, which caught him in the back of the […]
Over three thousand, three hundred pounds of cocaine, the proceeds of Belize’s biggest drug bust, were destroyed by police early this morning. The heavily guarded operation was carried out at sea with the white powder dissolved in salt water and sent to sleep with the fishes. The drugs were confiscated on the morning of October […]
Prime Minister Said Musa has met with British officials to discuss assistance in the wake of Hurricane Iris. According to a government release, Musa held discussions with Secretary of State for International Development Clare Short, and Dr. Dennis McShane, the foreign office official in charge of Latin American Affairs. While in London the Prime Minister […]
A number of activities commemorating Cancer Awareness Month had to be cancelled because of Hurricane Iris, but the annual Cancer Walk, from Ladyville to Belize City, will take place this Saturday. The Belize Cancer Society will provide free transportation in an effort to encourage people to come out early that day and enlist in the […]
A cadre of social workers and allied professionals have decided to pool their resources and experiences to better address issues relating to social work in Belize. Some two hundred individuals have been invited to the inaugural meeting of the Social Work Association of Belize, which is taking place this evening at the Chateau Caribbean Hotel. […]
For all those people holding their breath as the ping-pong balls reached their final resting place on last night’s Lotto draw, there is good news and bad news. The bad news is that you didn’t win the hundred thousand dollar jackpot. The good news is that nobody else did either…so you’ll get another chance this […]
Along with the Image factory, the Mexican Cultural Centre on the Newtown Barracks is one of the few places in Belize with a near constant stream of art exhibitions. The latest show to open at the centre features the works of a Mexican painter and News 5’s Jacqueline Woods dropped by to check out his […]
