Tonight police are hoping that a post mortem examination will help them discover exactly what caused the demise of a Belize City man. While foul play is not apparent, the location of the body indicates that this was not your everyday death by natural causes. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting This evening Belize City police had the […]
An early morning hit and run in Belize City has left a cyclist in the hospital and a driver under arrest. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from a busy, troublesome intersection. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting “I did not know I knocked down someone.” That is what police say eighteen-year-old Michael Heusner told them after he hit […]
A suspected gang of burglars in Orange Walk has been busted. The five youths arrested over the weekend are Luis Sosa, Marcelino Martinez and Greg August, all seventeen, along with eighteen year old Abram Perez and twenty-six year old Mark Cadle. All inhabit a Keyhole Alley residence in Orange Walk Town. Their arrest followed a […]
In other crime news, the would be chain snatcher run down by two off-duty police constables last week has pleaded guilty in Magistrate’s Court. Twenty-three year old Kevin Staine, caught in the act of ripping off a woman’s chain near the Swing Bridge, has pleaded guilty to the crime of theft. Cadle received a fine […]
In an update to a story aired on Friday’s newscast, we are happy to report that tonight a little boy found wandering the streets has been reunited with his family. According to the boy’s mother, Edelie Lord, four-year-old Ahijah Manzanarez was spending the afternoon with his grandfather, when the boy just took off. Edelie Lord, […]
For many Belizeans, the widespread electrical blackouts that occurred over the weekend made for an irritating Mother’s Day. But according to B.E.L., the load shedding became necessary in order to prepare a key substation for a major expansion. In order to accommodate a new twenty-megawatt gas turbine generator at mile eight, the substation there had […]
On Saturday, Courts held it’s fourth Megabucks draw where one lucky customer spins the big wheel to win as much as five thousand tax-free dollars. Gladys Baeza of Hummingbird Street in Orange Walk was this week’s spinner and her luck was good for a three thousand dollar prize. Courts customers enter by receiving raffle tickets […]
It’s the latest high-tech gimmick in the world of science education: a chance for students around the world not just to visit new places and learn new things via satellite and the internet, but to do so in real time. And beginning Tuesday, Belize’s mangrove and sea turtles will be the stars of the latest […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this latest posting of Sports Monday. Mother’s Day, May eleventh brought the top eight female cyclist of the nation together for the thirteenth edition of the Female Cross Country Classic, and we must say it was the grandest ever after attracting, the biggest participation of […]
