Tonight, most Belizeans are still coming to terms with the graphic images captured on video depicting over a hundred Benqueños clashing violently with police on Wednesday. Two people remain hospitalised after they were shot during the riot. While Amalio Gamez is being treated in a Guatemalan medical centre, according to doctors at the Belmopan Hospital, […]
While the police officers on the ground in Benque maintain that they made every effort to end the confrontation peacefully, exercised extreme patience and only took action when it was absolutely necessary, the department has come under fire for their response to the rioters in Benque. This morning, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods spoke with Police […]
A man from Ladyville is tonight bemoaning the loss of several of his personal items after his home was burglarised on Wednesday. Jim Duncan, a resident of Vista del Mar, says that sometime between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., a thief or thieves broke into his house and stole clothes, jewelry and other articles valued […]
Attention Belize City shoppers: if you were planning to pick up a few groceries at the Romac’s supermarket today, you might have noticed that the doors were inexplicably closed. It turns out that over the weekend, the store hired a fumigator to relieve their warehouse of unwanted tenants and something went very wrong. On Tuesday, […]
On Wednesday, the Holy Redeemer Credit Union held its fifty-eighth annual general meeting…and as usual, the nation’s most widely owned financial institution is doing remarkably well. H.R.C.U. reports a seventeen percent increase in assets, eighteen percent increase in savings and a net profit of twelve point six million dollars. The result for shareholders is that […]
Tomorrow, Belize will join one hundred and twenty countries in celebrating Global Youth Service Day under the theme: Develop a Youth. The day is a first for Belize and has the support of the Youth Department, National Committee for Families and Children and the YMCA According to executive director of the YMCA, Carolyn Genitty, the […]
It seems like only yesterday that the first Miss Y strutted across the stage and into the hearts of Belizeans. In fact, it was ten years ago…and as this year’s contestants make their final preparations for stardom, News 5’s Ann-Marie Williams checked them out. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting What started out as a fundraising effort in […]
