Today, as four men were charged in the kidnapping of Percival Flowers, speculation increased that what went down at St. Paul’s Bank on Monday night did not take place in a vacuum. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has been working the case and finds that some widely spread dots are beginning to form a recognizable picture. […]
San Pedro police are looking for two suspects who held up an American couple inside their home and killed one of their local friends. The drama unfolded around eleven on Tuesday night. Two men wearing nylon stockings over their faces went through a window and entered the home of Daniel and Sarah Lekas, located three […]
A traffic accident on the Northern Highway has claimed the life of a Corozal man. According to police, thirty-two year old Albert Gentle was driving his Toyota Camry south from the Mexican border around ten on Tuesday morning when, between miles eighty-five and eighty-six, he ran into a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction. Gentle […]
Meanwhile, in another investigation, Cayo police have charged twenty-year-old Patrick Gordon of Belize City with the crime of robbery. Gordon was the man chased down by alert citizens after he allegedly jacked a truck driver, who had just made a delivery of chicken in Santa Elena.
Today a group of health professionals graduated from a series of classes that will hopefully leave residents of the Belize District with an improved level of care. The eighteen community nurse’s aides, who hail from fifteen different villages, completed a thirty-hour certification course in home nursing, which was conducted by the Belize Red Cross in […]
Dressed in black and white, they are probably the most visible symbols of law enforcement in Belize City…and while they don’t carry guns, the sight of a traffic officer getting ready to write a ticket has been known to induce fear–not to mention anger–in even the toughest driver. This morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods saw […]
Watching the television news, listening to the radio and reading the newspapers, we often get the feeling that the negative forces facing our society are formidable, if not invincible. But fortunately, not everyone is ready to give up. Today I travelled to the village of Lord’s Bank where an enthusiastic group of teenaged girls were […]
