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Dead body: murder or “natural causes?”

Police have another mystery on their hands tonight as family members insist that a corpse removed this morning from a Belize City home is a victim of murder and did not die of natural causes. News 5’s Patrick Jones has more. Patrick Jones, Reporting The body of thirty-eight year old Ernesto Garbutt was found under […]

Assailant shot after beating woman

Around the same time Patrick Jones was investigating the report of that dead body, News 5’s Jacqueline Woods was responding to a call about a violent incident not far away. In this case, while the motive may be cloudy, there is no mystery over who was responsible. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting The police wasted no time […]

B.E.L. takes heat for massive blackout

It was another one of those massive blackouts that wasn’t supposed to happen under the efficient management of a well financed and privatised electric company. But last night around eight-thirty Belize was plunged into darkness…and while power was restored to some segments of the grid at various times, it was not until this afternoon that […]

Post office issues Christmas stamps

With the common use of the internet and email, a whole generation of Belizeans has perhaps grown up without the experience of dropping a letter in the post box and hoping for a rapid reply. Today, with the release of a new issue, the post office reminds the public that there’s more to stamps than […]

Taxi driver returns blue note

All those viewers who have been trying to find a way to convince taxi driver Prince Nyathi that they are the person who mistakenly gave him a hundred dollar bill can forget about that whap; the real passenger has shown up to claim her money. Sherilyn Jacobs of Ladyville was distraught after she realized she […]

G.O.B. subsidy is $1,666, not $60

Last night we ran a news story on the plight of Belize’s World War Two veterans and efforts of the Ex-Services League to provide for their needs. Today, we were called by the League to correct a statement they made in an interview in that story. The amount of assistance the Belize Ex-Services League receives […]