Murders in Belize come in many varieties and under differing circumstances, but the killing that occurred over the long holiday weekend in Belize City still has investigators shaking their heads. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was on the scene this morning and stayed with the story as it grew stranger over the course of the day. […]
A Belize City man is in custody following a shootout with police. Twenty-four year old Moses Gonguez of Yorke Street in Belize City was riding on a bicycle when he approached three police officers. One of the officers noticed that Gonguez was armed with a thirty-eight-calibre handgun and tried to take it away. A struggle […]
A police officer has been arrested for beating up his ex-girlfriend. Twenty-eight year old Wilhelm Young was charged with aggravated assault and harm following a complaint by thirty-year-old Janice Jacobs of Louise Bevans Street in Belize City. Jacobs told police that on Sunday evening around six she was awakened by the presence of Young, her […]
Meanwhile, what appeared to be a cold case in the files of Belmopan police has apparently been solved. Over the weekend three people in the Stann Creek District were arrested following the recovery of an M-16 rifle and twenty-eight rounds of ammunition stolen two years ago from the Police Training Academy. A pair of nineteen […]
It was a bad weekend for weed farmers as on Sunday police raided a major plantation in the Orange Walk District. When the last tree was chopped, the tally totalled over twenty-five thousand plants, located near the village of Gallon Jug. Four men were sighted in the area, but three managed to escape. The one […]
Big time rumours of the imminent privatisation of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital have turned out to be much ado about nothing. A release from Cabinet indicates that at its meeting today a privatisation proposal submitted by Doctor Francis Smith was rejected. Private management, as opposed to a full buyout, was also ruled out for […]
The latest Courts Megabucks promotion travelled to Orange Walk Town on Saturday. This month’s winner, Adrian Chi of August Pine Ridge, spun his way to three thousand dollars in cash. Chi will keep all his winnings, as Courts takes care of the income tax bill. The next draw will be held on November third in […]
Today was nomination day in the Cayo South constituency, where the P.U.P.’s Joaquin Cawich will seek to take over the seat formerly held by his father, the late Pino Cawich. Seeking to thwart those plans is the U.D.P.’s John Saldivar. Over the weekend News 5’s Patrick Jones spent some time with Saldivar and his team […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is yet another fresh edition of Sports Monday. In its final regular season appearance in Regent’s Cup play in the B.P.F.L., Builder’s Hardware Bandits of Belmopan found itself the number four seed going into the post season. So they decide to do something about it Saturday night at […]
