After being left for dead near Belizean Beach with a gunshot wound to the head administered by a man he thought was one of his best friends, it’s amazing that Joel Waight is alive today. What is equally amazing, in this age where everyone seems to be too afraid to share information they have about […]
When George Street residents got up this morning, a number of them could not go to work in their vehicles. No, there was not a traffic jam in the area and the cars were not experiencing any mechanical problems, instead, someone had taken a sharp object and slashed the vehicles’ tyres. When News 5 arrived […]
A Santa Elena man is dead after being beaten several times in the head with a steel bar. He is twenty-seven year old Jose Nelson Hernandez. Around 2:30 this morning, Byron Castellanos and Hernandez were at home in Caye Caulker sleeping, when two other apparently drunken men came to the house. Castellanos told police that […]
This afternoon the business community was saddened to hear about the sudden and tragic death of thirty-eight year old Mark Gallaty. Gallaty, a partner in his family’s business, Nemwil Insurance on Freetown Road, was found dead in the company warehouse. The police say their investigations have revealed that Gallaty committed suicide by shooting himself in […]
The Belize Advisory Council, the court of last appeal in Belize, this morning swore in its new members for the year 2002. News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams was on hand at the Chateau Caribbean Hotel for the ceremony. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting All seven members, five men and two women, took their oath of allegiance, which was […]
Police are on the lookout for two prisoners who escaped from the Hattieville Prison. They are twenty-three year old Peter Augustine a convicted rapist and burglar, and twenty-seven year old Ernesto Cevera who was doing five years for robbery. Around 1:00 p.m. today the men were working on the compound, and no one noticed when […]
Last year a section of the Port Loyola Division was flooded when water overflowed into people’s land due to dredging in the area. This time around, it’s not water that has area representative, Dolores Balderamos Garcia up in arms, but garbage. A number of persons have been illegally dumping garbage in the area and the […]
