Tonight, a police officer is behind bars at the Hattieville Correctional Facility, charged with murder. Twenty-six year old Police Constable Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez and his two brothers: eighteen year old Jason Allen Hernandez and twenty-one year old Apolonio Anthony Hernandez appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers to answer to charges of murder and conspiracy to commit […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed the life of one man and left another in the hospital, after their vehicle crashed into a house. Police say that just before 9:00 p.m. on January first, twenty year old Manuel Sosa was driving from San Ignacio to Benque Viejo when he lost control of […]
A vicious attack on an elderly couple has left a husband in the hospital and a family in shock. According to police, the attack happened at the home of Norman and Ethel Young, ages eighty-seven and eight-four respectively, at number ten King Street in Belize City. Reports are that sometime around 1:00 p.m. on New […]
A baby has died, this time in the village of Burrell Boom in the Belize district. Details are still sketchy, but according to the cops, sixteen month old Myrna Burgess was at home, ostensibly in the care of a fourteen year old relative. The baby’s body was later found in a pool of water in […]
Tonight we regret to announce the death of AIDS patient Delmi. News 5 understands that just after ten this morning, Delmi died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital from complications due to her illness. Delmi leaves behind her five-year-old son and eleven year old daughter. We understand that the children will temporarily be staying with […]
Refusing to give up hope, search parties were back on the sea today looking for any sign of the vessel “The Demonstrator” and her passengers. News 5 understands that efforts are being made to bring in special equipment from the United States to scan the sea floor for the wreckage. On Friday, December twenty-seventh, Johnston […]
On Wednesday, the staff of the K.H.M.H. held its annual handing over ceremony to celebrate the birth of the first baby of the year. Six pound, eleven ounce Shemar Alexander Williams was born at one fifty-eight on the morning of January first, the second child of Nicole Cruz and Wendell Williams of Belize City. The […]
They are conceived in the mind and solemnly pledged, but New Year’s resolutions may be simple romantic notions because no one ever seems to stick to them. But every year, Belizeans join thousands around the world in making them anyway. Today, News 5’s Marion Ali took to the streets to find out what you are […]
In news from the office of the Governor General, this year seven Belizeans have been chosen to be honoured by the Queen with appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. To be an Ordinary Officer of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order, Chief Meteorologist Carlos Fuller and Chief Magistrate […]
Believe it or not, not everyone was sleeping in late on New Year’s Day. In fact, some sixty cyclists left Corozal town just after 9:00 a.m. as part of the thirteenth annual Krem Cycling Classic. Despite the heat, cramps and flat tires, these pedal pushers made it to Belize City in record time: three hours, […]
Belize might not be inundated with a steady stream of art shows like galleries abroad, but we definitely get the strange, the colourful and the unique. This Friday night, the Image Factory is hosting an exhibition that’s sure to blend into the Belizean art scene. Kim Baranowski, Artist “The title of the show comes from […]
