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Child dies after Hattieville accident

Tonight we regret to announce that a five-year-old victim of a traffic accident, Tyra Gillett, died early this morning at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Tyra never regained consciousness and doctors had told the family her head and body injuries were so massive it would take a miracle for her to recover. On Friday, Gillett […]

Lord’s bank taxi man murdered

In other police news, three days after he was stabbed by an unidentified man, thirty-six year old Lloyd Anderson died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. On Saturday night Anderson, a taxi driver who operates from the international airport, was at his home in Lord’s Bank Village when a man came looking for him. Reports […]

Carnal knowledge laws under review

Police report two incidents of mothers taking their underage daughters into police after discovering they had sexual intercourse. In the first instance, the fifteen-year-old girl is now pregnant, and police are looking for the suspect. In the other case the girl was fourteen, and although her partner was only sixteen himself, he has been charged […]

Neighbours accuse each other of arson

The flames from a fire on Rivero Street, which destroyed a one-bedroom house on Monday, may be out but there is still a heated exchange going on between the man who lived in it and the man who owns the property. News 5 was on the scene of the fire, and the dispute, this afternoon. […]

NICH says cave had to be protected

In last night’s newscast the former landowner of the area surrounding the Barton Creek cave, Mike Bogaert, claimed that his land was appropriated by government without compensation, and that government workers had threatened him with guns. Today, the Director for the Institute of Archaeology, Dr. Jaime Awe, spoke to News 5 about the attempts of […]

Irish provide funds for NGOs

As anyone involved with a non-governmental organisation will tell you, accessing funds to support their programmes is as much fun as a beach party on a rainy day. But for four N.G.O.s, the next three years will be less stressful financially. The government of Ireland, through its Agency for Personal Service Overseas, today entered into […]