We’re not sure what a convicted murderer was doing on a work detail miles away from his cell at Hattieville, and until prison officials decide to talk, we may never know. But what is important tonight is that a dangerous convict is on the loose. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting […]
In other crime news a Belize City grocer was robbed at gunpoint on Thursday afternoon. Twenty-nine year old Zhi Xin Li told police that around one p.m. two dark skinned man entered his shop on Teacher’s Street, pointed a small gun in his direction and relieved him of three hundred and fifty dollars along with […]
Some ambitious farmers in the Corozal District are having major headaches this weekend following the total destruction of their valuable cash crop. Their problem, of course, stems from the fact that what they were growing was marijuana. On Wednesday morning police swooped down on six weed plantations located near the settlement of Little Belize and […]
Also detained, this time in the Orange Walk District, were three men suspected of involvement in Wednesday’s fatal shooting of Lazaro Martinez. Under law, by Monday they will either be charged or released.
At news time there is no official word on the outcome of a meeting held this evening between union and government representatives on the subject of Social Security. News 5’s Patrick Jones spoke to union leaders as they emerged from the Central Bank building around five this evening, but none of them would comment on […]
A Belize City family is without their home tonight as a simple act of carelessness appears to have started a fire. Patrick Jones was on the scene this afternoon. Patrick Jones, Reporting The Griffith residence on Bachelor Avenue erupted in flames around midday today. By the time fire officials extinguished the fire, the upstairs of […]
A settlement of the Guatemalan claim may still be elusive, but that hasn’t stopped Belize’s business community from exploring opportunities across the border. Patrick Jones reports on the latest efforts at regional integration. Arturo Vasquez, Vice President, B.C.C.I. “What the Chamber plans to do with this really, is because we are now affiliated and associated […]
We have shrimp trawlers and shrimp farms…but many of us are only now realizing–like Jacqueline Woods did this morning–that there is another method of putting fresh shrimp on the table. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It’s not normally known as one of Belize’s fishing hot spots, but this morning after word had gotten out that shrimp were […]
