This afternoon, twenty-three year old Police Constable Martin Castillo, and two BDF soldiers: thirty-two year old Juan Jimenez and Urbanos Teck, twenty-one, were escorted to Magistrate’s Court where they were arraigned on charges of kidnapping. It is alleged that the cop, the two soldiers and civilians Emerson Wade of Belize City and Wallington Russell of […]
If Sunday’s kidnapping and subsequent arrests were all there was to the bizarre incident it would still be a big story. But believe it or not, there’s more. Apparently, whoever wanted information from Juan Mendoza, wanted it so badly that on Tuesday they tried to kidnap him a second time. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline […]
While most of the nation took advantage of Tuesday’s holiday to either party or catch up on some rest, one Belize City family will always remember the tenth of September as the day their house burned down. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting By the time fire fighters arrived on the scene, the two bedroom […]
In police news a Belize City man has been hospitalized after he was shot on Monday night. Twenty-two year old Herman Morris told police that he was riding his bike on Amara Avenue around seven o’clock when a green pickup stopped and its two occupants opened fire on him. A wounded Morris was taken to […]
No foul play is suspected, but a U.S. tourist has been found dead in his hotel room. On Tuesday police were called to the Biltmore Plaza on the Northern Highway where they were shown the body of thirty-seven year old Roy Self. Self, who had checked in the night before, was found fully clothed with […]
Police say their investigation into the death of six-month-old Amber Brittaney Camal continues. On Monday evening a post-mortem examination conducted on the baby’s body proved inconclusive. According to authorities, tissue samples have been taken and further tests will need to be conducted in order to determine the exact cause of death. Baby Camal died several […]
With Belize’s rapidly expanding population, those responsible for our educational system must run hard just to keep pace with the increasing demand. Today in Belize City News 5’s Janelle Chanona visited two secondary schools to check on their progress. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning, Wesley College officially inaugurated their new classrooms. Like many secondary institutions […]
On Thursday, San Ignacio residents will bid farewell to a man who was a pillar in that community for more than sixty years. Pedro Otero Leal passed away on Sunday at the age of one hundred and one. Leal came to Belize from Mexico in the 1940’s and spent the next four decades working as […]
No Belizean who happened to turn on the television on the morning of September eleventh, 2001 will ever forget the images on the screen. A year later, residents of the United States stopped to remember the death and destruction that ravaged New York City, Washington, D.C. and rural Pennsylvania. As News 5’s Janelle Chanona discovered, […]
