The initial police report said, “foul play is suspected.” Today that verdict was confirmed by a post-mortem, and an eighteen-year-old resident of the Orange Walk District has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Heidi Itza, in Benque Viejo del Carmen. News 5’s Patrick Jones travelled west to find out how what appeared to […]
He’s only been on the force a year and seven months, but today Police Constable Horace Portillo walked away with a newly instituted “Officer of the Month” award. Commissioner of Police Jose Carmen Zetina says it’s the desire of the department that Portillo’s zeal and attitude towards his job will rub off on the rest […]
Less than a month ago consumers took a hit when the price of butane gas rose by four dollars per hundred pound cylinder. Tonight we learn that your next tank will cost six dollars more. That’s right, the new control price has risen to seventy-seven dollars in Belize City, seventy-nine in Belmopan and San Ignacio, […]
This weekend, Orange Walk will be invaded by hundreds of players, teachers, parents, fans, and education officials; all there to witness the battle for the national championship in primary school basketball. The People’s Stadium will host a male and female team from each district, and this morning the Most Valuable Players from those teams showed […]
It’s a situation that has dragged on for so long that it should come as no surprise that football in Belize seems destined to remain between the rock of stupidity and the hard place of egos and agendas. As we reported on Tuesday, meetings between the Belize Premier Football League, the Football Federation of Belize […]
