When Astrid Perera, thirty-eight year old co-owner of the technology store U.S. COM, went missing in the middle of last month and her employee, twenty-two year old Luis Valdez, disappeared a week later, most people concluded that the two lovers had run off together. But nearly a month later, with no word from either, Perera’s […]
The crime shocked the resort town of San Pedro last November, when five men were accused of involvement in the bludgeoning death of sixty-three year old Justo Jairo Perez during a burglary. Kevin Gonzalez Junior, Lincoln Polonio, Francis Eiley, Ernest Savery and Frank Vasquez were jointly charged with murder. But nine months after those charges […]
To the countries of Central America, the phenomenon of human trafficking is something that the region is still trying to fully understand. And ministers who make up the region’s Social Integration Council spent the last two days discussing the issue with a view to tackling it head on. After fully ventilating a Belize sponsored motion, […]
They defend our threatened borders and patrol Belize City’s mean streets. Never before in this young nation’s history have we needed the Belize Defence Force more than today…and this evening the B.D.F. welcomed its newest members into the family. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods reports from Ladyville. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The eighty-eight members of recruit intake […]
Every summer seems to bring increased opportunities for kids in the old capital to trade the squalor of the city for the fresh vistas of the Belizean countryside. But what about the children who live in rural areas? This morning News 5’s Jacqueline Woods found out. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It was the first time that […]
