He was injured during a shootout with bandits on the Bullet Tree Road outside San Ignacio last Thursday night, but this morning, Kevin Jacobs was flown to Mexico for additional treatment. Today his family invited News 5 to be present when he was moved from the K.H.M.H. to Ladyville and put aboard a plane. Jacqueline […]
A programme to help prevent AIDS, particularly among vulnerable young people, was officially launched this morning. An agreement between the Organization of Petroleum Producing Countries, OPEC fund/the U.N.F.P.A., and the Government of Belize was signed in Belmopan at the George Price Centre. The government press office spoke with Hetty Sarjeant of the United Nations Population […]
An American woman was killed in a traffic accident near the Santa Elena border on Sunday. Sixty-six year old Lucy Moss was a passenger in a Geo Tracker that ran off the road and into a parked Toyota Prado. The driver of the Tracker, sixty-eight year old American Dale Marshall, told police another vehicle overtook […]
Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a body taken from the Mopan River on Sunday. The corpse was in an advanced stage of decomposition when it was discovered, but police say it is a Hispanic male. There were no outward signs of violence on the body, which was taken to the San […]
A Saturday afternoon swim ended tragically when a teenager drowned in the Macal River. Fourteen-year-old Victor Rendon of Santa Elena told police he and his uncle, Edgar Rendon, aged fifteen, went swimming around three p.m. About an hour later, Edgar went down, but did not resurface. His lifeless body was later found near the Hawkesworth […]
The police are asking for the public’s help in locating a missing teen. Seventeen-year-old Julie Burke left her home on Plues Street in Belize City on February fourteenth around eleven-thirty saying she was going to a friend’s house, but she never arrived. This evening police brought this photo to News 5. According to a report […]
If you live in the Belize District and need a new pair of glasses, some dental work, or a check-up, then some free medical attention is headed your way. That’s right, FREE! The clinics come courtesy of the U.S. Army. Patrick Jones was in Crooked Tree today where the residents turned out to take advantage […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re certainly welcome to this edition of Sports Monday. Besides new love, colourful flowers, and sweet things Valentine’s Day brings with it the prestigious eighty-eight mile cycle race that takes centre stage on the Western Highway. We take you to the nine a.m. start inside San Ignacio and we […]
