It’s official… the go-slow at the port is over, the workers are getting a Christmas bonus and there won’t be a strike early in the New Year. A settlement in the labour dispute that severely interrupted movement of goods through the Belize City port for almost a week was reached this morning when the workers […]
After two nights as a guest at the Punta Gorda police station, a U.S. nurse was finally released from custody this evening. In the end, fifty-four year old Donna Reishus was charged with the crime of “committing a mischievous act” when police and prosecutors could not find a more specific charge. A police press release […]
In another case of sexual exploitation, a suspect has been detained pending charges of carnal knowledge. A fifteen year old girl, accompanied by her father, told police on Tuesday that for the past five months she has regularly engaged in sexual intercourse with the man in question, who has been paying her a stipend of […]
Four days after armed robbers hit the Radisson Fort George Hotel, police have charged a trio of Belize City youths they believe were the perpetrators. Twenty-two year old Chadrick DeBride, twenty-year-old William Vasquez, and twenty year old Shane Budran appeared in Belize City Magistrate’s court this afternoon to answer to joint charges of robbery and […]
A tragic accident on Wednesday morning that killed a young Orange Walk man has resulted in charges being filed against the two drivers involved in the incident. After a second day of investigation by police, twenty-one year old Francisco Sabido, driver of the Saturn that hit a white Honda Accord on the Northern Highway, has […]
The opening of the forty-third session of the Caribbean Meteorological Council was the occasion for Minister of Natural Resources Johnny Briceño to sign on the dotted line for a European Union financed project under which Belize and three other countries will receive advanced weather radar systems. According to Chief Meteorologist, Carlos Fuller, while satellite imagery […]
If you tried to drive anywhere near downtown during lunch hour today, you discovered that traffic was even more congested than usual. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods explains why. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting A steady stream of smoke was slowly rising out of the second floor of the three storey concrete building at the corner of Queen […]
If that 2003 calendar on your wall is looking kind of tattered, don’t worry, help is on the way. News 5’s Patrick Jones drew the short straw last night and his assignment took him across the street to the Bellevue Hotel. Patrick Jones, Reporting It was the place every red-blooded Belizean man wanted to be […]
