Tonight a husband is behind bars after he viciously stabbed his wife in front of several eyewitnesses and then left her to die on the floor. The couple, both employees of the Belize Defence Force, were known to have a stormy relationship, but many had hoped the marriage would not end in violence. News 5’s […]
An intensive manhunt is underway tonight as officials search for an escaped convict on the run. Details of how the prisoner managed to escape the confines of his cell in the maximum-security section of the facility are being withheld. But News 5 understands that sometime during bed check at approximately 9:30 on Saturday night and […]
A Belize City taxidriver is without his car tonight after armed bandits held him up on Monday night. According to police, around 9:00 p.m. on Monday, taxidriver Eston Young was driving on Vernon Street when two men flagged him down and asked to be taken to an address near Gwen Lizarraga High School. One man […]
The trial involving the Corozal bakery at odds with one of its neighbours continued this morning in the Supreme Court with a doctor presenting medical evidence. This morning, attorneys for the Ek family called Dr. Cardo Martinez to the stand to testify as to the health problems affecting the family, conditions the family alleges were […]
A teenager attacked by three men armed with a metal bat is at home tonight recuperating from head trauma and not a fractured skull as originally reported by police. Family members declined to be interviewed by News 5 today about the incident involving thirteen year old Jose Ayala, fearing retaliation. However, we understand that the […]
Traffic on the Northern Highway came to a standstill this afternoon after an accident near the Haulover Bridge blocked the road for approximately an hour. Details are still sketchy as to how the vehicles collided, but reports are that around 2:30 p.m., a crane and this small car crashed on the bridge. According to police, […]
A woman from the Cayo District is dead tonight as a result of a boating accident on the Mopan River. According to Edward Tut, a businessman from Cristo Rey, around three on Monday afternoon, he, his girlfriend, thirty-seven year Lisa Hopkin, and a friend, Amy Pierre had decided it would be fun to kayak down […]
Meanwhile, the search for a man missing since last week Friday in the waters off the Glover’s Reef Atoll continued today, but without success. According to police, around 10:00 a.m. on Friday, June twenty-eight, Rene Barahona and Hakeem Flores, both caretakers working on the southwest Caye of the atoll, went fishing in a canoe. When […]
Given the fact that most teachers spend approximately eight hours, five days a week in a classroom managing as many as forty children for about nine months out of the year, we thought that the educators would avoid the classroom every chance they get. But as News 5’s Ann Marie Williams found out today, some […]
