With hot button issues like the impeachment of a Supreme Court Justice and the imposition of burdensome new telephone rates dominating the nightly news, the perennial headline grabber–Guatemala’s claim to Belize–has virtually disappeared from journalistic radar screens. Today it reappeared like F-15’s over Kandahar. It seems that with the end of the latest chapter in […]
A motorcyclist is dead tonight after a traffic accident in the Toledo District. Police reports are that thirty year old Fidel Coc, a salesman from San Antonio Village, was driving his motorcycle around seven o’clock Tuesday night on the Southern Highway just outside of Punta Gorda, when he collided with a bus travelling in the […]
It seems it’s open season on Cayo businesses as yet another armed hold-up has been reported to police. According to forty-five year old Chen Weibin, around nine on Tuesday night, three masked men, one of them armed with a shotgun, entered his restaurant– First Stop in Santa Elena–and demanded money. They searched the place and […]
Meanwhile police say they have arrested and charged four young men for their involvement in a bar fight in San Ignacio that left another man in a coma. Nineteen year old Darwin Mendez, twenty-three year old Calvin Welch, twenty year old Willy Aguirre and a sixteen year old have all been charged with dangerous harm […]
While a police committee is looking for ways to improve the working relationship between cops and the community, people in the twin towns of Cayo have been taking some concrete action. On Monday, the Citizens Committee of San Ignacio and Santa Elena presented four bicycles and one motorcycle to the local police detachment to help […]
The arguments may have ceased in the Meerabux case, but downstairs in the courtroom of John Gonzales, a major criminal trial was still going on. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams has been following the case since it started. Ann-Marie Williams The trial of James Pelayo, Melvin Guzman, Ricardo Alamilla and Amir Sutherland charged with the attempted […]
Middle income families who have traditionally turned to the Development Finance Corporation for reasonably priced housing loans will soon be asked to look elsewhere. That’s the word from Cabinet, which has directed the D.F.C. to turn its attention to low income customers. The government owned corporation will now accept housing loan applications for a maximum […]
Since Hurricane Iris ravaged parts of the Stann Creek and Toledo Districts in October, News 5’s teams have headed south on numerous occasions, first to assess the damage and later to monitor the recovery. on Tuesday, Reporter Jacqueline Woods and cameraman George Tillett once again headed south…and have returned with the following report. Jacqueline Woods, […]
