Not since those long ago days when Jorge Espat was Minister of National Security, was the public made privy to the vital statistics on crime in Belize. And while for years the conventional wisdom has been that serious crime is running ever more rampant, figures produced today by the Police Department at the request of […]
Three men have been arrested and charged in connection with Sunday’s attack on two tourists at the ancient Maya site of Xunantunich. Twenty-year old Angel Mejia, Jose Teul, also twenty, and a seventeen year old minor, have been charged with aggravated assault, attempted robbery, grievous harm, and various firearm offences. The three are all Guatemalans […]
The body of a Dangriga man was discovered Monday floating in the Havana Creek in that southern town. The corpse has been identified as thirty-six year old Eddy Sebastian. According to Sebastian’s family, he was last seen around three p.m. on the previous day. Sebastian was known to have mental problems and thus far police […]
Police continue to investigate Monday’s armed robbery of two employees of Novelo’s Bus Line. The pair were on their way to the bank with the company’s deposit totalling over ten thousand dollars. At this point authorities have not identified a suspect, but they are asking one Anever Palacio to please contact them, as police believe […]
In other police news, U.S. citizen Donna Reishus today appeared in Punta Gorda Magistrate’s Court to answer charges of committing a mischievous act. The case was adjourned until March second and Reishus, a volunteer nurse, posted the required five hundred dollars bail plus a surety for the same amount. Magistrate Eric Fairweather ordered the police […]
If there is strength in numbers then the latest musical release is as strong as they come. The contributors number a baker’s dozen, all from the Cayo District, who have joined together to bring their talent to the public. News 5’s Jacqueline Woods asked the producer to explain what’s behind the new CD. Nadir Leal, […]
In our twelve plus years on the air there has been no shortage of crocodile stories, as when man continuously builds houses in the swamp he is bound to meet that environment’s fiercest resident. Today one two-legged inhabitant of the mile eight area on the Western Highway told News 5 that she’s had enough of […]
