He’s been a well-known member of the business community for over forty-five years. Tonight sixty-four year old Innis Leal is dead, the victim of a robbery and murder this morning that has stunned his Belize City neighbourhood. According to family members who were upstairs at the time, Leal was alone in Blankie’s Store at number […]
For the family of a Belize City man murdered on Friday night, the death was a double tragedy. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods has the story. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Thirty-year-old Jimmy Williams was a taxi man for only five months when he was robbed of ten dollars and then shot in the back of the neck. […]
Belize City police were not the only cops with their hands full. In Cayo authorities were also busy trying to solve a pair of murders in that district. The first occurred on Saturday in San Ignacio in which thirty-one year old security guard Abelino Choc was shot in the chest. Choc died while undergoing treatment […]
Jealous lover? Mistaken identity? Or none of the above. Orange Walk police are tonight trying to figure out the motive for the late night execution style murder of a Crooked Tree man on Sunday. According to reports, eighteen-year-old electrician Russell Tillett and his girlfriend from Orange Walk were hanging out in the couple’s car around […]
Four prisoners at Hattieville used the Independence Day weekend to make a run for their own freedom…but only one succeeded. Twenty year old Pablo Martinez was one of four inmates in the remand section who, at around two-thirty Saturday morning, broke through a window of their cell, overpowered a guard and relieved him of his […]
And just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, they did. A police officer, already on interdiction for fatally shooting a Caye Caulker resident earlier this year, has shot and wounded another man, this time in Independence Village. According to police reports, twenty-year-old Robert Young told cops that around two on the morning of […]
The news item missed our deadline for Friday, but the story of how the AIDS epidemic is affecting our nation, the Caribbean, and the world is not going to go away any time soon. Patrick Jones has the roundup of decisions taken at last week’s regional forum. Patrick Jones, Reporting The participants worked right up […]
On Wednesday night the University of Belize will hold the first of a six part forum under the theme, “Making the hope real: The role of U.B. in National Development–Perspectives from the Belizean Society.” According to senior lecturer and organiser, Sylvia Cattouse, the idea is get members of the public to come forward with suggestions […]
The Belize City Carnival may grab all the media coverage, but over the course of the September celebrations, virtually every community in Belize does something to mark the patriotic spirit of the season. On Sunday, while most city folks were recovering from the road march through the old capital, News 5’s Patrick Jones and Rick […]
And in an unfortunate aside to the Carnival, News 5’s camera captured these dramatic pictures of an emergency vehicle, which burst into flames during the parade. The driver of the vehicle quickly evacuated the people who were riding in the back of the ambulance and tried to extinguish the blaze. When his efforts failed, a […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley presenting you with yet another fresh edition of Sports Monday. Week eleven of the Regent’s Cup Tournament took Juventus of Orange Walk into the Norman Broaster Stadium Saturday night for its scheduled match with Real Verdes of San Ignacio. For certain the home field advantage propels Verdes to fast start, […]
