He’s been a wanted man for over eight months. But this afternoon the man at the centre of the biggest passport scandal in the history of Belize, fifty-seven year old businessman Jabor “Gabby” Affif, was marched up to Magistrate Court number one. As Affif sat stoically beside his attorneys, Senior Counsel Simeon Samson and Michel […]
Belmopan police are investigating a disturbing report made by a sixteen year old high school student who says she was raped by a gang of nine young men yesterday. Initial reports reaching News 5 are that the second form student was allegedly attacked on a field during a sports day. However, when we contacted the […]
A Belize City shopkeeper has been charged with carnal knowledge and aggravated assault after reports that he had sex with a twelve-year-old girl. Tereso Hernandez, age seventy-five, was picked up after the girl’s mother told police that she became concerned when her daughter started coming home late from school and had money she could not […]
Police are asking for the public’s assistance in apprehending a man who escaped from their custody. Twenty-six year old Michael Arnold of Michelle Estate in Ladyville was to appear in Magistrate Court on Thursday, but police say he somehow managed to get out of the cellblock at the Queen’s Street police station. He was on […]
It didn’t appear on the daily police press briefing, but reports to News 5 this afternoon are that three Belizeans including a police officer was detained in Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala on Thursday because they were intoxicated and acting in a disorderly manner. Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid confirmed the detention of the officer […]
On Thursday it was a suspected drug plane that landed in the Orange Walk District, this afternoon, police in Caye Caulker discovered another suspected narcotics vessel, this time a Colombian boat. Responding to information received, officers were dispatched to an area in front of Caye Caulker village where they found the thirty-six to forty-foot boat […]
Most Belizeans slept through it, but the entire nation was plunged into an electrical blackout around four-thirty this morning. According to B.E.L.’s public relations department, the total system collapse was caused by a failure at the Xul Ha substation in Mexico. B.E.L. scrambled to get its mile eight gas turbine going and the nationwide grid […]
When it comes to nature based tourism, a number of Belizean villages have begun to capitalize on either their beautiful surroundings or their wildlife, or both. Perhaps the most recent entry into this segment of the tourism market is Rancho Dolores. But unlike Bermudian Landing, which made a name for itself with its howler monkeys, […]
