The Belize Police Department may be pursuing a criminal investigation and the Prime Minister is said to be considering his political options, but events continue to unfold that give the immigration scandal a life of its own. News 5 has confirmed that arriving at the Philip Goldson International Airport this morning via El Salvador was […]
Is it murder? Suicide? A drug overdose? Or simply a death by natural causes? That’s what police are trying to figure out following the discovery of a body in a Belize City hotel room. According to police, forty-seven year old Joanna Josephine Aranda, a resident of Dangriga’s back-a-town area, was discovered naked in one of […]
Tonight Belize City police are looking for two suspects in separate robberies: one of them a brazen gunman, the other a smooth talker. According to the cops, back in early May, Dorothy Gideon-Castillo of Belize City bought eighteen hundred dollars worth of goods from businesswoman Marie Fuller, on the premise that the bill would be […]
A search party continues to look for the body of a man believed to have drowned in the Rio Hondo over the weekend. According to police, Felipe Rodriguez, a Mexican from the village of Obregon in Quintana Roo and B.D.F. soldier Orlando Navarette of Douglas Village, were swimming across the river when Rodriguez went under […]
His name is synonymous with the media, and tonight veteran broadcaster Brian Mossiah has a new job; head of the government Press Office. Forty-one year old Mossiah was picked for the job after a five month stint at Love Productions and a longer four year run as the creator and manager of the Opposition’s Wave […]
Determined to change its reputation in the eyes of the public, the Police Department has been actively working with the community to prevent and solve crimes. One part of that effort is the Zone Beat Liaison Officer programme, an initiative that today received a helping hand from two local businessmen. This morning Tony Leslie of […]
While at Racoon Street this morning, News 5 took the opportunity to speak to the department’s public relations officer, G. Michael Reid, about concerns that the police officers charged with investigating the latest immigration scandal might be influenced by the fact that the subjects of the inquiry may include their bosses and colleagues. G. Michael […]
Last month it was a sister city mission; this time it will be a trade mission that hopes to foster friendlier ties between Belize and Guatemala. A release from BELTRAIDE today announced that a delegation of government officials and business people will travel to Guatemala City from the twenty-seventh to thirty-first of August to promote […]
There is no shortage of stories on this newscast that cover the activities of various service and charitable organisations. Many times the coverage seems trite or needless, as it usually consists of some trivial donation for some meaningless purpose. But the family profiled in this next story will tell you that the help they received […]
