It has all the elements of a made for TV murder mystery. But the bloody corpse discovered on Sunday outside Belize City, was grim reality, not Hollywood make believe. Today News 5’s Jacqueline Woods joined the victim’s bereaved family to try to make sense out of an act that defied reason. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Forty-one […]
Separate shooting incidents on Sunday in Belize City have left two young men recovering from gunshots and the police with more questions than answers. According to the cops, around three-thirty that morning, twenty-five year old Marlon Budd was standing in the vicinity of B.T.L. Park on Newtown Barracks when a gunman walked up to him […]
A family from Dangriga is in mourning tonight, following a tragic accident over the weekend. According to police, seven-year-old Akeem Davis was swimming with friends at the mouth of the North Stann Creek on Saturday afternoon when sometime after three he disappeared beneath the waves. An intensive search was immediately launched, but just after dawn […]
Rumours and gossip are the daily bread of the news business and over the last week a very load whisper making the rounds in the business community was the alleged sale of the Bowen and Bowen group of companies: that’s right, according to the rumour mill, the brewery, soft drink plant and Crystal water operation […]
The shock at the gasoline pump that Belizeans have been expecting since last week will have to wait a few days more as we are informed that the Esso tanker first scheduled for Friday, then predicted for today, has been further delayed until Wednesday. Officials at the petroleum distribution companies tell News 5 that while […]
One hundred and ten miles of feeder roads will be improved and maintained thanks to a set of contracts signed today in Belmopan. The three point six million dollars in road works is divided between four local contractors and will cover selected rural roads from Corozal to Toledo. Signing on behalf of the Ministry of […]
Several years ago when a small number of tilapia infiltrated the Crooked Tree Lagoon from nearby fish farms, there were fears of ecological disaster; that the hardy and aggressive foreigners would displace the native species and put an end to the small, but crucial local fishing industry. But those fears never materialised and today instead […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re inside Sports Monday. The National Senior Road Championship was staged by the Belize Cycle Association yesterday with some forty riders making a bid in this hundred and ten mile ride. It’s the only major event on the cycling calendar limited to nationals only as we go to the […]
