On Sunday the Belize Police Department lost a good cop, not in the line fire, but to the death trap our nation’s highways have become. Just before eight on Sunday night, twenty-six year old Lincoln Kellyman was driving his silver Isuzu pickup from Corozal towards Orange Walk town when between miles fifty-one and fifty-two he […]
Police have arrested and charged three young Belize City men for the brutal murder of Boledo vendor Reynaldo Smith. Nineteen year old Ricky Valencia of Queen Charlotte Street, twenty year old Emilio Rivera of Waight Street, and twenty-four year old Sean Robinson of Allan Pitts Crescent, will all appear in Magistrate’s Court later this week […]
A street side gambling session turned into a shooting spree in Belize City over the weekend, leaving two men charged with several crimes. According to police, twenty-four year old Jason Williams was hanging out with friends on Kraal Road when something triggered the young man to start hitting a parked car with his fists and […]
In Belize, the Mennonite community is respected as a group of hardworking men and women, deeply religious with no inclination towards violence. Sadly, it is perhaps that very attitude towards life that makes them easy targets to those who would prey on the vulnerable. So it is even more shocking then to report on one […]
In news from the south, tonight residents of the villages of Jalacte and Bella Vista in the Toledo District are feeling a little safer, thanks to their new police stations. The buildings were officially declared open over the weekend by Commissioner of Police Carmen Zetina. According to Zetina, the increased police presence in the area […]
Since the start of the gambling game, it’s been a tradition here at News 5 to interview the men and women on the now lengthy list of lucky Lotto winners. But since January second of this year, we’ve been patiently waiting to meet the holder of one of two tickets that claims half of a […]
There’s a popular saying in the academic community that goes, “if you educate a woman you educate an entire nation.” According to the experts, seventy percent of those charged with the task of developing the minds of Belize’s youngest citizens are women…yet there has always been the perception that female teachers do not get the […]
Crime and the causes of crime continue to be a hot topic up for discussion, with obvious reason. And while everyone has an opinion on how to effectively deal with the situation, one organisation is putting its money where its mouth is, literally. Since, November of last year the Belize Chamber of Commerce has been […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into the show we call Sports Monday. Yesterday the Belize Cycling Association staged the Junior Cross Country Cycle Classic, an eighty-eight mile ride that left capital city Belmopan and headed west to San Ignacio then swung back to finish here inside Belize City at the Marion Jones […]
