There was good news and bad news today from flooded areas in the west and south of the country. The good news is that in many areas the waters are receding; the bad is that what the sunshine has revealed is that a number of roads, bridges, and buildings took a serious beating. In the […]
For the hundreds of people lined up on the Western Highway, their biggest problem of the day was how to get from point A to point B with a broken bridge in between. But residents of villages in low lying areas along a dozen rivers in the southern half of the country had more serious […]
For many people uprooted from their homes by yesterday’s flash floods, today was the time to survey the damage. Jacqueline Woods joined residents of one hard hit village on the Western Highway. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today as the water started to go down in St. Matthew’s Village, many residents who have been affected by the […]
Again, there is no good news to report tonight on the manhunt for Patrick Robateau and Leslie Pipersburg, the men who gunned down four victims on Tuesday night in Belize City. In fact, not only have the fugitives managed to elude police, but it appears that the latest effort to promote their capture could backfire […]
Mark Vega, believed to be the leader of a gang that went on a depraved spree of murder, rape and robbery last Thursday, has been hit with additional charges. The new counts for robbery, forcible abduction and kidnapping come in connection with the assault on Jacob Rancharan and a female companion which occurred near the […]
While moving around the country to chronicle this week’s disaster, News 5 reporters heard dozens of opinions which sought to explain the severity of the flooding. Theories ranged all the way from the political–that is blaming the government–to the diabolical–which meant blaming the Chalillo dam, even though the project has yet to get underway. This […]
